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Sun HPC Recent Developments New HPC Solutions, Benchmarks, Customers and Positioning on Top500 List
The latest Top500 list published in November shows three of the top five supercomputers based on Intel Nehalem CPUs were Sun Constellation Systems. Sun also doubled its number of entries since the June 2009 list with a total of 11 deployments providing nearly 2 PetaFLOPS (PFLOPS). Additionally, Sun announced new products and technologies for high performance computing (HPC), an upgrade to the Sun Storage 7410 Unified Storage System, new HPC benchmarks and new HPC customers. New Sun Products and Solutions
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Top500 List
Sun technologies are powering some of the largest HPC systems in the world, with nearly 2 PetaFLOPS of performance represented on the most recent Top500 list. Sandia National Labs Red Sky supercomputer becomes a new system on the Top 10, entering the list at number 10 and edging out last June's number 10 entry the Juelich Juropa supercomputer which moves to the 13th position. The TACC's Ranger supercomputer, which first appeared on the Top500 list in June 2008 at position 5, finds itself number 9 on the current Top500 list. Other Sun entries in the Top100 include TiTech's TSUBAME system at position 56. Originally, TSUBAME entered the Top500 in June 2006 at position 7. CLUMEQ enters the list at position 63, and with an entire empty floor of their unique silo data center available for expansion, CLUMEQ is one site Top500 watchers should keep close watch on in the future, writes Marc Hamilton, vice president, Americas Systems Practice, Sun. USC positioned itself at number 71. "While Sun Constellation Systems have a much briefer history on the Top500 than many other vendors' systems, we are proud to have more than doubled the number of Sun systems on the current list," Hamilton said, "including an amazing 3 of the top 5 Intel Nehalem based systems." Upgraded Sun Storage 7410 Unified Storage System
Sun has doubled the performance of the Sun Storage 7410 Unified Storage system by upgrading up to four six-core AMD Opteron CPU processors and adding new 2 TB drives. With more processing cores, twice the DRAM cache – up to 512 gigabytes (GB) and double the storage capacity – 576 TB/s, the Sun Storage 7410 Unified Storage system delivers increased performance and system bandwidth. Sun also noted that its flash technologies, such as Sun Storage F5100 Flash Array and Solid State disk (SSDs), have recorded recent benchmark results to demonstrate performance increases up to 107 percent running common MCAE applications such as MSC-Nastran and Ansys (Based on internal testing.) Sun Systems' New Records on HPC Benchmarks
New Sun HPC Customers
These include National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), the Consortium Laval, Universite du Quebec, McGill and Eastern Quebec (CLUMEQ) and German High Performance Computing Centre for Climate and Earth System Research (Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum, DKRZ). Commenting on these announcements, Sun Systems Group Executive Vice President John Fowler said, "Corporations and scientists alike are using Sun server and storage innovation to gain competitive advantage and tackle the world's most complex problems." More Information
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