Sun Shows Its Open Petascale Computing and Storage

By DE Editors

Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Santa Clara, CA) announced availability of its Constellation System at Supercomputing 2007 in Reno, NV, as well as availability of the StorageTek 5800 system. The two new systems address today’s extreme computation, scale and storage requirements.

The Sun Constellation System, called “the world’s first open petascale computing environment” by the company, integrates ultra-dense, high performance compute, networking, storage and software into one system. Running the Solaris OS, Linux and Windows, it is capable of scaling from departmental clusters to the largest supercomputer configurations to help customers to solve complex computational problems. The Sun StorageTek 5800 System is designed to help ensure long-term preservation, protection, and integrity of large data stores with extensive metadata facilities.

The Sun Constellation System features ultra-dense compute nodes, ultra-dense Infiniband switching and high performance storage. It comprises components that bring production-ready capabilities to petascale computing, such as the Sun Blade 6048 Modular System, which is an ultra dense blade server platform that supports SPARC, AMD Opteron, and Intel Xeon processors; the Sun Datacenter Switch 3456, which is a single chassis switch designed for petascale that delivers 12x the capacity of the largest Infiniband switch available; and a high-throughput, high-density storage and high capacity tape archive in an end-to-end hierarchical storage solution that offers automated and seamless transfer supporting optimal placement of data.

Sun Datacenter Express Services for HPC that can be combined with factory integration services and design through Sun’s Customer Ready program provide a comprehensive, all-in-one systems and services solution that takes the cost and complexity out of HPC infrastructure procurement and management.

The Sun StorageTek 5800 System is a new category of storage system designed for large-scale storage of fixed data that helps ensure long-term accessibility to data and delivers simpler deployment and management capabilities than traditional file/block-based storage. It allows customers to scale seamlessly, and is designed for long-term preservation and protection of data assets with advanced data integrity functionality and assurances.

Learn more about the Sun StorageTek 5800 System or the Sun Constellation System from Sun Microsystems.

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.