The Sun BestPerf blog "WRF Benchmark: X6275 Beats Power6" written by Paul Kinney reports that, on both the 12 km CONUS data set and the 2.5 km CONUS data set, the Sun Blade X6275 cluster beat the IBM POWER6 cluster.
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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.
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The Sun Blade X6420 and Sun Constellation placed Sun in the top 10 of the Top500 Supercomputer List, which lists the world’s most powerful supercomputers biannually. Announced at the 2009 International Supercomputing Conference, the Sun Blade X6420 is part of the Ranger supercomputer at the Texas Advanced Computing Center which landed at number 8 on the list by achieving 433.20 teraflop/s on Linpack benchmarks. The Sun Constellation System is part of supercomputer JUROPA, which earned the number 10 spot with 274.8 Tflop/s. JUROPA is installed at the Forschungszentrum Juelich (FZJ) in Germany.
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The Lustre Storage System, a clustered file system can remove high performance computing I/O bottlenecks created by increasing load. The Lustre Storage System takes front stage of the methods used for traditional CPU performance because of growing computing requirements by HPC clusters.
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