Sun has introduced the world's largest InfiniBand core switch, the Sun Datacenter Switch 3456. The total data throughput for the switch is 110,100 Gbps with a port-to-port latency of 700 nanosecond.
Sun showcased its latest HPC technologies and services at Supercomputing 2007. To learn more about the benefits and rationale behind some of these innovations, listen to a podcast featuring Solaris Engineering's Distinguished Engineer Josh Simons, who discussed these new technologies with Sun Vice President of Global Systems Engineering Hal Stern on an edition of Innovating@Sun.
Join a live web chat with Sun engineers on Sun/Microsoft Interoperability on November 28, 2007, at 10:30 a.m. EST, 15:30 London, 16:30 Paris, 17:30 Athens times. Explore results from three years of engineering partnership between Sun and Microsoft. Plus learn about Sun/Intel collaboration and new Sun x64 systems with Intel Xeon CPUs.
Sun and 11 other entities are collaborating in the construction of an underground data center in a worked-out coal mine in the Chubu region on Japan's Honshu island. Sun will contribute its signature Project Blackbox, which can typically provide 250 servers mounted in seven racks inside a standard 20-foot shipping container, as Chris Mellor, of Techworld reports. With T-series processors, Sun claims a single Blackbox can hold up to 2,000 cores, providing 8,000 simultaneous processing threads.
SNI Editor-in-Chief/CTO John J. McLaughlin posts items of interest to Sun Users on a
regular basis on his blog. A quick recap of John's posts for the last week, include Sun HPC ClusterTools 7.1, Sun at Supercomputing 2007, Java SE 6 u2 Performance - 75% Better SPECjbb2005, COMSTAR - Solaris as a SCSI (not iSCSI, SCSI) Target, Sun Datacenter Switch 3456, Open xVM Website and Deconstructing the Security Capabilities of the Solaris 10 OS.
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