Sun Blade X6450 Module, 768 Cores within one Rack!
We have unleashed yesterday our powerful new Sun Blade X6450 server module at the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) in Dresden, Germany. This new blade provides industry-leading memory capacity and high-performance Intel Xeon multicore processors, which make it ideal for server consolidation, virtualization applications and high performance computing (HPC).
At A Glance
- Two or four dual-core or quad-core Intel Xeon Processors
- Up to 16 Intel Xeon 7000 series (Tigerton) processor cores
- 50% more memory than competing 4-socket blade servers: excels at virtualization and memory intensive applications
- 24 DIMM slots per server module
- Supported in both the Sun Blade 6000, Sun Blade 6048 and Sun Constellation Systems
- With Sun Blade 6048 up to 71% more compute power than any competing blade system
Now imagine, one Blade Chassis 6000 with a size of 10u holds 10 blades with four quad core CPU's each! This are 160 Cores within 10u Rack Space! Incredible isn't it?
In combination with a Sun Blade 6048 Constellation Chassis (Rack), you will get 768 Cores within one Rack!
You probably have seen that there are no Disks in the Blade, This is correct. In a Cluster configuration you normaly boot the Blades from the Net. In case you would like to boot localy, the Blade is equiped with a IDE ComactFlash Module Interface or you can attach external SAS Disks to each blade.
