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 X4540
- Sun Cooling Doors (5200,5600)
Software stack
- OpenSolaris or Linux
- Sun Grid Engine
- Sun Studio Compiler Suite
- Fortress (programming language)
- Sun HPC ClusterTools (based on Open MPI)
- Sun Ops Center
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]
References
- ↑ "TACC > HPC Systems". The University of Texas at Austin. Retrieved 2007-12-13.
- ↑ "More Ranger Facts and Figures". Sun Microsystems. Retrieved 2008-02-12.
- ↑ "TOP500 List - November 2010". TOP500.Org. 2010-10-11.
- ↑ "HPC Consortium: University of Oslo". Sun Microsystems. 2008-06-17. Retrieved 2008-06-26.
External links
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