As part of the ongoing effort to provide a Business Ready Infrastructure that will enable IT managers to readily and efficiently scale their IT infrastructure both horizontally and vertically, Sun datacenters are now offering two new products:

• Sun FireTM Link interconnect, which introduces simplified management and terascale improved cluster performance across clusters of Sun FireTM 6800 servers through the Sun FireTM 15K servers

• Capacity On Demand (COD) 2.0, which provides instant scalability and optimal resource utilization within Sun FireTM 3800 servers through Sun Fire 15K servers

The Sun Fire Link interconnect allows clustering of up to eight Sun Fire 15K, 12K or 6800 servers for a peak performance that approaches two teraflops. Sun Fire Link extends the exceptional scaling that High Performance Technical Computing (HPTC) applications have achieved on Sun Fire 6800, 12K and 15K servers across multiple servers. With Sun Fire Link, customers now have an external interconnect that complements the internal power of the SunTM Fireplane interconnect and provides scalability to a large number of processors for a faster time-to-solution and the ability to handle larger problems.

Sun also recently announced Sun's new GALAXY program that offers terascale (trillions of floating-point operations per second) computing capabilities for HPTC customers. With GALAXY, customers can do more with their current investments. Until now, terascale computing was confined to custom, single-purpose clusters with low computational efficiency and meager availability levels. Sun's approach is to combine industrial-strength "fat" nodes with the Sun Fire Link's high-bandwidth and low-latency.

For more information, visit the Sun Fire Link site:

http://www.sun.com/servers/cluster_interconnects/sun_fire_link

COD 2.0 is designed to enhance and simplify system scalability, reduce hardware acquisition costs and increase system availability in Sun Fire 3800-15K servers. By providing instant access to additional system capacity and the ability to activate those resources with no disruption to operations, COD 2.0 allows IT organizations to instantly scale to meet peak demands.

All Sun Fire 3800 servers - Sun Fire 15K servers are "COD ready" and employ common COD Uniboard CPU/Memory boards, resulting in simplified and flexible provisioning of hardware resources. COD 2.0 simplifies on-demand hardware acquisition by employing self-monitoring of system resources; COD customers are not required to install remote system monitoring or generate system usage reports.

COD 2.0 allows organizations to purchase larger system configurations at lower up-front costs by acquiring Right to Use (RTU) licenses only when those resources are needed. This helps better match system usage with asset acquisition. For increased availability, datacenters can have preinstalled "on demand" COD resources that can be activated instantly without having to add hardware options to a production environment. COD provides a cost-effective method for adding reserve or growth capacity, since COD options have lower up-front costs, there is no premium price for COD options over standard options and there is no time requirement to purchase RTU licenses.

For more information visit the COD 2.0 Web site:

http://www.sun.com/datacenter/cod [...read more...]

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