The Sun Blade X8440 Server Modules feature as many as four third-generation AMD Opteron quad-core processors with integrated DDR2 memory controller and HyperTransport links, creating breakthrough modular server architecture, making them the fastest AMD Opteron quad core blade servers on the market. These blades are also the only ones offering four-socket quad-core processors with 32 DIMM slots (four per populated CPU socket). Sun Blade X8440 Server Modules are for use with the Sun Blade 8000 and 8000 P chassis and may coexist with, or replace, Sun Blade X8400, X8420, X8440 (dual-core) or X8450 server modules.
For the Sun Fire X4100, and X4200, M2 Rack Servers there are new AMD Quad Core Processors now available from Sun. Available through X-Option and ATO configurations, the 75W ACP quad core processor option is the fastest quad core processor available for the X4100 and X4200 M2 Rack Servers, running with 2.3GHz and 2MB L3.
To manage some real life problems that a customer may encounter while building a database, Sun users should consider looking into the blog of Ryan Arneson. In one of his potentially helpful blogs, he mentions how the Sun Fire X4500 can be used as a large disk cache for disk-based back ups. This can be done by using Sun StorageTek Enterprise backup software.
Sun has introduced a new four-socket Sun Blade X6450 server module with Intel Xeon 7000 series (Tigerton) processors and up to 192 GB of memory (24 DIMM slots per server module for 50% more memory capacity than competing blade servers). As compute nodes for the Sun Constellation system, Sun Blade X6450 server modules push the limits of performance, providing up to 7.37TFLOPS of peak performance per fully populated Sun Blade 6048 chassis, offering 768 cores per rack for up to 71% more compute power than competing blade servers. The Sun Blade X6450 is also available with the Sun Blade 6000 modular system, making it an ideal fit for virtualization and server consolidation, HPC, database and enterprise applications.
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