New x86 Intel Xeon Systems
Sun and Intel’s alliance was formed more than two years ago and has lead to some of the most innovative x86 systems on the market. The latest systems, based on the Intel Xeon Processor 5500 Series, were launched last month. The products deliver huge gains in application performance, with massive efficiency and scalability to maximise the economics of computing for data centres and clouds.
The new offerings span the data centre and include new advanced blades architecture, new networking technologies and seven systems based on the Intel Xeon Processor 5500 series.
Optimised for Virtualisation
Sun Fire X4270 server - A best value for consolidation and virtualisation in a dense 2RU form factor for branch office and departmental settings as well as for horizontally scaled data centre consolidation needs.
Sun Blade X6270 server module - Provides up to 2 x more I/O throughput than competing blade servers and provides an all-in-one virtualisation solution.
Optimised for Enterprise and Web
Sun Fire X4170 server - Delivers the performance of a 4RU system in a compact 1RU form factor with savings of up to 75 per cent in rack space, while consuming 60 per cent less energy at half the price of competing 4 socket, 4 RU systems.
Sun Fire X2270 server - Offers 3 x the performance at 66 percent the energy consumption of current generation systems. The most compact server in its class, the Sun Fire X2270 server delivers savings of up to 50 per cent in data centre real estate.
Sun Fire X4275 server - An ideal server for demanding streaming multimedia applications, delivering 12TB of raw storage at less than $1/GB of storage, with significant space and energy savings.
Sun Ultra 27 workstation - The only workstation in its class to support the NVIDIA FX5800, the Ultra 27 workstation offers virtually unmatched visualisation performance in its class with up to 12GB of main memory and 4GB of graphics memory.
Optimised for High Performance Computing (HPC)
Sun Blade X6275 server module - The first blade server to support onboard quad data rate InfiniBand for extreme performance and power efficiency for HPC applications. The Sun Blade X6275 server modules provide up to nine TeraFLOPS of peak performance in a fully populated Sun Blade 6048 chassis. Optional Sun Flash Modules provide 24GB of high performance, efficient and reliable storage per node.
The Bureau of Meteorology and The Australian National University have selected more than 2,500 Sun Blade X6275 server modules on which to base the Southern Hemisphere’s largest supercomputer, which will enable advanced weather forecasting and climate change modeling on a global scale.
"The new supercomputer, which has 12 times the capability of the present system, will ensure ongoing international competitiveness and provide a facility that will allow Australian researchers to increase the scope, ambition and impact of their research," said Director of National Computational Infrastructure, Professor Lindsay Botten.
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Unparalleled performance
In addition to the launch of new systems, Sun also announced platform advancements to the Solaris Operating System.
Solaris 10 Operating System and OpenSolaris have been extended to provide performance, energy efficiency and reliability enhancements for the new Intel Xeon processor 5500 series.
The combination of the Solaris OS and the Intel Xeon Processor 5500 series allows customers to take advantage of scalability, performance, power efficiency and reliability found in no other x86 combination.
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