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Sun Ranked Fourth in Top 500 Supercomputers
Sun now holds the number four spot on the Top 500 Supercomputers list with its Sun Constellation System-powered supercomputer at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC), which boasts a compute capacity of 326 TFlops and a peak performance of 504 TFlops.
The Ranger supercomputer at TACC is based on the Sun Constellation System which combines the Sun Blade 6048 Modular System and the Sun Datacenter Switch 3456.
“Working with TACC, we’ve delivered the highest ranking system built on an open architecture and open platforms and made it possible for customers the world over to take advantage of the power of superscale technologies in their own departments,” said John Fowler, executive vice president, Sun Systems. “With Sun’s Constellation System, customers don’t have to dream about a supercomputing Ferrari, they can drive their own.”
Sun HPC software and storage also made the list with Sun’s Lustre file system managing data on six of the list’s top 10 sites as well as nearly half of the top 50 supercomputers. Additionally, half of the list’s top 10 sites and nearly half of the top 50 systems archive their data on Sun storage.
