Sun Blade 6048 Chassis

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Overview

Take a closer look at the industry's most scalable, powerful, and efficient blade system, designed to scale from a Departmental Cluster to PetaScale Computing, packaged as an integrated product. Its radical new unibody chassis/rack design saves space and weight (~500 lbs less per rack when compared to conventional chassis and rack combinations). Its Sun Blade Independent I/O provides the highest I/O throughput per chassis at 30.72Tbps and is the first blade based on an open PCI-E Industry standard I/O architecture.

Sun Blade 6048 Chassis Gallery

Key Applications

High performance computing (HPC)
Server consolidation and virtualization
Databases and enterprise applications

At A Glance

The compute foundation of the Sun Constellation System offering up to 7 TFLOPS of peak performance per rack
Unibody chassis/rack design
Runs up to 48 Sun Blade server modules, up to 768 processing cores, per rack
Minimized power and cooling needs with up to 17 percent greater power efficiency
50 percent more compute performance than the HP c-Class platform per rack
71 percent more compute performance than IBM BladeCenter H platform per rack
Works with all Sun Blade 6000 server modules
Installation services that help you fully utilize the industry's most open platform, built on open source technologies and open standards