- Sun Constellation System
Sun Constellation System is an open petascale computing environment introduced by
Sun Microsystems in 2007.Main hardware components
* Sun Blade 6048 Modular System
* Sun Blade 6000 System
* Sun Datacenter Switch 3456
*Sun Fire X4500
*Sun StorageTek 5800 System Software Stack
*
OpenSolaris orLinux
*Sun Grid Engine
*Sun Studio Compiler Suite
*Fortress (programming language)
* Sun HPC ClusterTools (based onOpen MPI )
* Sun N1 System ManagerServices
* Sun Datacenter Express Services
Production systems
"Ranger" at the
Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) is currently the largest production Constellation system. Ranger has 62,976 processor cores in 3,936 nodes and a peak performance of 580 TFlops. [cite web
url = http://www.tacc.utexas.edu/resources/hpcsystems/#ranger
title = TACC > HPC Systems
accessdate = 2007-12-13
publisher = The University of Texas at Austin] [cite web
url = http://blogs.sun.com/marchamilton/entry/more_ranger_facts_and_figures
title = More Ranger Facts and Figures
accessdate = 2008-02-12
publisher = Sun Microsystems] Ranger is currently the 4th most powerfulTOP500 supercomputer. [cite web|url=http://top500.org/list/2008/06/100|title=TOP500 List - June 2008|date=2006-06-18|publisher=TOP500.Org]A number of smaller Constellation systems are deployed at other supercomputer centers, including the
University of Oslo . [cite web
url = http://blogs.sun.com/simons/entry/hpc_consortium_university_of_oslo
title = HPC Consortium: University of Oslo
date = 2008-06-17
accessdate = 2008-06-26
publisher = Sun Microsystems]References
External links
* [http://www.sun.com/servers/hpc/sunconstellationsystem/ Sun Constellation System at Sun.com]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyaPIxmXWPs Sun Constellation System at SC07 (YouTube Video)]
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