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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.

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x64 Systems with Integrated Networking Technologies, Advanced Thermal Management, Open Software and Open Storage Enhancements

Seven new Sun x64 servers and blade systems powered by the Intel Xeon processor 5500 series and flash-ready were revealed as part of the company’s Open Network Systems strategy that promises huge gains in application performance, efficiency, and scalability for today’s and tomorrow’s data centers and clouds. Embedded in its new Sun Fire x64 servers and Sun Blades are low-latency, high performance networking technologies in the form of the Sun Virtual Network Express Module and Sun Quad Data Rate IB that Sun reports will dramatically reduce cost, complexity, and simplify large scale blade server deployments into existing network fabrics.

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