Project Honeycomb
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Project Honeycomb is a Sun Microsystems research and development project turned product. The project was originally started in early 2002. In 2005 Sun announced a release plan for the product and it is slated to be generally available in mid 2006.
The Honeycomb product is a Content-addressable storage system designed for fixed or read only storage assets, such as video, medical images and corporate records. It uses a novel architecture based on a clustered design. It consists of cells holding 8 (half cell) or 16 (full cell) 1U Nodes with 4 SATA drives each, one 1U Management Server and up to two Multilayer switches per cell. The nodes and the management server are running an embedded version of the Solaris Operating System and are based on an AMD processor.
