Sun Constellation System

Sun Constellation System is an open petascale computing environment introduced by Sun Microsystems in 2007.

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Main hardware components

Software stack

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. [1] [2] Ranger is currently the 15th most powerful TOP500 supercomputer. [3]

A number of smaller Constellation systems are deployed at other supercomputer centers, including the University of Oslo. [4]

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