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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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