System News for Sun Users - The Blog

Short Items of Interest on Sun Systems Performance

• Sun Fire X4640 Sets Record on SPECompL2001
• Outstanding Performance of Sun Blade X6275 on FLUENT
• Sun Blades Running NAMD Molecular Dynamics Benchmark Beat IBM
• Sun and Oracle Demonstrate World’s Fastest Database Performance
• Sun Ultra 27 With nVidia Graphics Card on SPECviewperf 10 Benchmark
• Sun Storage 6780 Array 51% Better Price/Performance than IBM DS5300

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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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July 2009

Each month Sun Marketing publishes the “Good News” about Sun. This month there are 12 items and 3 groups:

• Leading Market Conversations: ComputerWorld’s “100 Best Places to Work in IT 2009,” Open Work Program, Sun Constellation System, Sun Blade Systems, Julich, Sun Blade X6275, NetBeans 6.7
• Product Reviews Underscore Innovation: VirtualBox, OpenSolaris, JavaFX
• Customers Choose Sun: MySQL, Sun Servers, Storage, Software, Virtualization, Solaris Containers, Workstations, Management Tools

A two-page PDF of the “Good News” from Sun is available in English and several other languages.

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