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November 17, 2009

Sun Announces New Products and Technologies

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TOP500 list shows 39 out of Top 50 supercomputers choose Sun storage

PORTLAND, Ore., Nov. 17 -- Sun Microsystems, Inc. today announced new products and technologies that extend its HPC leadership, maximize application performance and throughput, and provide superior building blocks for HPC systems. In addition, Sun is announcing new HPC customers, world-record performance and TOP500 List results that demonstrate its relentless system innovation. Sun doubled its number of entries since the June 2009 list with a total of 11 deployments providing nearly 2 PetaFLOPS (PFLOPS). For more information on Sun's HPC solutions, visit http://www.sun.com/hpc.

"Sun servers, storage and networking continue to fuel world record HPC performance and provide the building blocks for dozens of new Sun Constellation System deployments around the globe," said John Fowler, executive vice president of Systems Group at Sun Microsystems. "Corporations and scientists alike are using Sun server and storage innovation to gain competitive advantage and tackle the world's most complex problems."

Sun at Supercomputing 2009

Sun is featuring a range of its own HPC technologies at its booth (#435), including servers, unified storage, flash, networking and software, as well as third-party solutions like UniCluster by Univa, ideal for HPC applications. For more information on the innovative HPC technologies Sun is showcasing at Supercomputing 2009, visit http://www.sun.com/hpc or the Sun booth (#435) for live demonstrations. Sun's Supercomputing 2009 online press kit can be found at http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/media/presskits/2009-1117/.

New products and solutions announced today include:

Sun Lustre Storage System Update: Doubles capacity and density with new 2 TB drives, with improved performance on the latest Open Storage platforms.
Sun Blade X6275 Server Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) Version: Extends GbE interconnect to ultra dense blades; provides up to 70 percent more compute density (per rack) than competing blade servers, with up to 9 TeraFLOPS (TFLOPS) of peak performance per fully populated Sun Blade 6048 server chassis.
Sun Storage 7000 Family Update: Doubles density and capacity, from 288 TB to 576 TB in a 4RU space; now with InfiniBand and Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA).
Sun Datacenter InfiniBand Switch 72: Provides ultra-slim, ultra-dense switch fabric solution in 1RU for Sun server clusters up to 72 quad data rate (QDR) InfiniBand nodes; seamlessly integrates with the Sun Blade 6048 Modular System and the Sun Blade 6048 QDR NEM to scale up to 576 servers and storage systems.
Sun Datacenter InfiniBand Switch 36: Offers customers a self-contained, multi-purpose 1RU 36-node QDR IB switch fabric solution for enterprise applications.
Sun HPC ClusterTools 8.2.1: Incorporates highly optimized Message Passing Interface (MPI) supporting multiple interconnects including InfiniBand QDR, which can provide improved performance for many HPC applications.

Sun Storage 7410 Delivers Outstanding Performance with Increased Efficiency and Capacity

Sun has doubled the performance of the Sun Storage 7410 Unified Storage system by upgrading up to four six-core AMD Opteron CPU processors and adding new 2 TB drives. With more processing cores, twice the DRAM cache -- up to 512 gigabytes (GB) and double the storage capacity -- 576 TB/s, the Sun Storage 7410 Unified Storage system delivers increased performance and system bandwidth. With Sun's innovative flash technologies such as Sun Storage F5100 Flash Array and Solid State disk (SSDs) recent benchmark results have demonstrated performance increases up to 107 percent running common MCAE applications such as MSC-Nastran and Ansys.

Sun Doubles Presence on TOP500 List

Sun technologies are powering some of the largest HPC systems in the world, with nearly 2 PetaFLOPS of performance represented on the latest Top500 list released today. Sun doubled its overall presence on the list, including CLUMEQ (Canada), ETH (Federal Institute of Technology Zurich), Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI), Sandia National Laboratories and University of Zurich.

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