Sun beefs up Constellation System | | 2008-06-19 | | Sun Microsystems has announced a range of new products for mainstream HPC customers including the Sun Constellation System which runs the Solaris Operating System and Linux.
Additions to the Constellation System allow customers to scale from a single rack at approximately 7 TFlops to over 2 PFlops within the same, compatible architecture, allowing customers to deploy a scalable high-performance cluster in any datacentre.
Sun also announced a new Storage and Archive solution for HPC and updated software and development tools that simplify HPC cluster installation and management.
New products announced for the Sun Constellation System family are the Sun Blade X6450 server module which features 2 or 4 quad core Intel Xeon processors, providing up to 7.37 TFlops in a single Sun Constellation System Rack, and the Sun Datacenter Switch 3x24 (a smaller version of the Sun Datacenter Switch 3456), which features 72 DDR 4X Infiniband ports.
These new additions allow customers to build mid-size clusters using the same architecture as that deployed at the Texas Advanced Computing Center.
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