Sun buffs InfiniBand for Constellation supers

June 26, 2009 Leave a comment

The Register takes a look at the recent enhancements to the Sun Constellation System:

“To be fair, the Constellation boxes have been a bright spot for Sun, which is finally getting some play on the Top 500 list of supercomputers. About a quarter of the petaflops that Sun has shipped or that are on order for Constellation boxes come from one machine, the “Ranger” Constellation box at the University of Texas, with a few other big deals contributing tens of teraflops on top of that. Constellation needs a lot more sales, as do Sun’s generic rack and blade servers for customers who don’t want to adopt InfiniBand and who might prefer cheap Gigabit Ethernet or alternative 10 Gigabit Ethernet switching.” Full Story

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