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Sun at Supercomputing 2009

Sun is featuring a range of its own HPC technologies at its booth (#435), including servers, unified storage, flash, networking and software, as well as third-party solutions like UniCluster by Univa, ideal for HPC applications. For more information on the innovative HPC technologies Sun is showcasing at Supercomputing 2009, visit: http://www.sun.com/hpc or the Sun booth (#435) for live demonstrations. Sun's Supercomputing 2009 online press kit can be found at: http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/media/presskits/2009-1117/.

New products and solutions announced today include:

-- Sun Lustre(TM) Storage System Update: Doubles capacity and density with new 2 TB drives, with improved performance on the latest Open Storage platforms

-- Sun Blade(TM) X6275 Server Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) Version: Extends GbE interconnect to ultra dense blades; provides up to 70 percent more compute density (per rack) than competing blade servers, with up to 9 TeraFLOPS (TFLOPS) of peak performance per fully populated Sun Blade(TM) 6048 server chassis

-- Sun(TM) Storage 7000 Family Update: Doubles density and capacity, from 288 TB to 576 TB in a 4RU space; now with InfiniBand and Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA)

-- Sun(TM) Datacenter InfiniBand Switch 72: Provides ultra-slim, ultra-dense switch fabric solution in 1RU for Sun server clusters up to 72 quad data rate (QDR) InfiniBand nodes; seamlessly integrates with the Sun Blade(TM) 6048 Modular System and the Sun Blade 6048 QDR NEM to scale up to 576 servers and storage systems

-- Sun(TM) Datacenter InfiniBand Switch 36: Offers customers a self-contained, multi-purpose 1RU 36-node QDR IB switch fabric solution for enterprise applications

-- Sun HPC ClusterTools (TM) 8.2.1: Incorporates highly optimized Message Passing Interface (MPI) supporting multiple interconnects including InfiniBand QDR, which can provide improved performance for many HPC applications

Sun Storage 7410 Delivers Outstanding Performance with Increased Efficiency and Capacity

Sun has doubled the performance of the Sun Storage 7410 Unified Storage system by upgrading up to four six-core AMD Opteron(TM) CPU processors and adding new 2 TB drives. With more processing cores, twice the DRAM cache -- up to 512 gigabytes (GB) and double the storage capacity -- 576 TB/s, the Sun Storage 7410 Unified Storage system delivers increased performance and system bandwidth. With Sun's innovative flash technologies such as Sun(TM) Storage F5100 Flash Array and Solid State disk (SSDs) recent benchmark results have demonstrated performance increases up to 107 percent running common MCAE applications such as MSC-Nastran and Ansys(1).

Sun Doubles Presence on Top500 List

Sun technologies are powering some of the largest HPC systems in the world, with nearly 2 PetaFLOPS of performance represented on the latest Top500 list released today. Sun doubled its overall presence on the list, including CLUMEQ (Canada), ETH (Federal Institute of Technology Zurich), Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI), Sandia National Laboratories and University of Zurich.

Sun is also announcing new HPC customers today, including:

National Cheng Kung University (NCKU)

National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) is deploying Sun HPC systems to meet its increasing computing capacity needs for scientific research and study. Its systems are based on a variety of Sun hardware and software platforms, including Sun StorageTek(TM) 6140 arrays, Sun Fire(TM) X2200 M2 servers and X4200 M2 servers, a Sun SPARC Enterprise(R) M9000 server, Sun Fire(TM) X4500 data servers, the Lustre file system and Solaris(TM) 10 Operating System (OS).

CLUMEQ

The Consortium Laval, Universite du Quebec, McGill and Eastern Quebec (CLUMEQ) selected Sun's Constellation System to build a world-class high performance computing and energy efficient datacenter providing over 77 TeraFLOPS. Sun technology includes 10 Sun Blade 6048 modular systems with Sun Blade X6275 server modules, a Sun Lustre Storage System based on the high performance Sun(TM) Storage J4400 array with 1 petabyte (PB) of storage capacity, as well as HPC-related software. CLUMEQ utilizes the Sun Constellation System to conduct complex research studies ranging from climate and ecosystem modeling, high energy particle physics, cosmology and data mining.

German High Performance Computing Centre for Climate and Earth System Research

Sun has supplied Europe's largest storage installation with a Sun Constellation System based on a Sun StorageTek(TM) SL8500 Modular Library System, to the German High Performance Computing Centre for Climate and Earth System Research (Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum, DKRZ), one of the centers performing simulations for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Assessment Report. The DKRZ also utilizes a range of Sun software including Lustre, Sun(TM) Storage Archive Manager (SAM), Sun(TM) QFS and Sun Grid Engine (SGE). The DKRZ provides top-end computing and storage capacity for complex simulation models. The new system provides a total of 65,000 media slots enabling over 65 PB to be stored on T10000B magnetic tape cassettes.

Sun Systems Shine with New Records on HPC Benchmarks

Ranging from desktop to some of the world's largest installed systems, Sun Constellation Systems deliver outstanding performance results while demonstrating near-linear scalability and efficiency on various HPC workloads. Today, Sun announced the following benchmark results:

NAMD: The Sun Blade 6048 chassis with 48 Sun Fire X6275 blade servers (768 cores) and QDR InfiniBand, delivered the best published result on the molecular modeling NAMD benchmark, with up to 95 percent better performance than double data rate (DDR) IB and a scalability efficiency of nearly 80 percent(2).

FLUENT and RADIOSS: Sixteen Sun Fire X6275 blade servers (256 cores) outpaced a competing SGI Altix ICE system with the same number of cores, on one of the most popular MCAE applications -- FLUENT. FLUENT software solves fluid flow problems and is based on a numerical technique called computational fluid dynamics (CFD) which is heavily used in the automotive, aerospace and consumer products industries(3). In addition, Sun's cluster beat the SGI Altix ICE system using the prominent MCAE 'crash' code, RADIOSS from Altair, by over 40 percent(4).

Reverse Time Migration (RTM): The Sun Blade 6048 chassis with 12 Sun Fire X6275 blade servers, interconnected via integrated InfiniBand QDR Host Channel Adapters (HCA) and Quad Data Rate Switched Network Express Modules (QNEM) and using Lustre file system delivered up to 20x performance improvement over traditional Gigabit Ethernet/Network File System configurations. RTM is the most popular seismic processing algorithm often used in geophysical studies to produce quality images of complex substructures. Sun's Constellation System offers a unique platform for customers looking to reduce their seismic processing time by a factor of two(5).

SPECviewperf 10 and SPECfp2006: The Sun Ultra(TM)27 workstation delivers best performance in its class on SPECviewperf 10 3D graphics rendering benchmark. Running OpenGL on Windows Vista OS, Sun's workstation surpassed similar HP and Dell products on six out of eight tests(6). The Sun workstation, with OpenSolaris(TM) and Sun(TM) Studio software, continues to hold a single chip world record on the SPECfp2006 benchmark, making it an ideal platform for floating point intensive applications used by CAD/CAM designers and MCAE engineers alike(7).

To see all HPC benchmark results on Sun's Open Network Systems, please visit: http://www.sun.com/hpc/benchmarks

About Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Sun Microsystems develops the technologies that power the global marketplace. Guided by a singular vision -- "The Network Is The Computer(TM)" -- Sun drives network participation through shared innovation, community development and open source leadership. Sun can be found in more than 100 countries and on the Web at http://sun.com.

Sun, Sun Microsystems, the Sun logo, Java, Solaris, Lustre, Sun HPC ClusterTools, StorageTek, Sun Fire, Sun Blade, Sun Ultra, OpenSolaris and The Network Is The Computer are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. or its subsidiaries in the United States and other countries.

All SPARC trademarks are used under license and are trademarks or registered trademarks of SPARC International, Inc. in the US and other countries. Products bearing SPARC trademarks are based upon an architecture developed by Sun Microsystems, Inc.

AMD, Opteron, the AMD logo and the AMD Opteron logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Advanced Micro Devices.

1) Based on internal testing. For more details visit http://blogs.sun.com/BestPerf/entry/mcae_mcs_nastran_faster_on

2) NAMD/ApoA1 214.1 steps/sec. For more information visit http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/namd/performance.html, results as of November 16, 2009.

3) Fluent 12.0/truck_111m; 256 ranks; Rating 240.0. All information on the Fluent website is Copyrighted 1995-2009 by Fluent Inc. Results from http://www.fluent.com/software/fluent/fl6bench/ as of November 16, 2009 and this announcement.

4) RADIOSS/Taurus_frontal; 256 cores; 2505 seconds. All information on the RADIOSS website is copyrighted by Altair Engineering, Inc. Results from http://www.altairhyperworks.com/Benchmark.aspx as of November 16, 2009.

5) Reverse Time Migration. More info http://www.caam.rice.edu/tech_reports/2006/TR06-18.pdf, Results as of November 16, 2009.

6) SPEC and the benchmark name SPECviewperf are registered trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Results from this announcement and www.spec.org, as of 11/16/09. Comparison excludes workstations running in SLI mode.

7) SPEC and the benchmark name SPECfp are registered trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Results from this announcement and www.spec.org, as of 11/16/09. Sun Ultra 27 (1 chip / 4 cores / 8 threads, OpenSolaris 2008.11, Studio 12 update 1) - 45.4 SPECfp2006.

SOURCE: Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Sun Microsystems, Inc. 
Candice van der Laan, 650-786-4756 
candice.vanderlaan@sun.com

A major benefit for new and existing customers of Sun Ray Software is the new Sun(TM) Desktop Access Client. This new software client provides end-users the flexibility to utilize their existing Windows laptops or desktop PCs, as an alternative to Sun Ray thin clients, to easily access data and applications in a centralized virtual desktop environment. With the Sun Desktop Access Client customers now have a simplified, user-friendly means of accessing the Sun Ray infrastructure, which can help to extend the life of current PC assets and reduce the environmental impact of frequent desktop refreshes.

"There are a lot of benefits to preserving the equipment you already have, especially in these economic times where there might not be the capital available to spend on new equipment," said Malcolm Fraser, service delivery manager from Computer Concepts Ltd, a Sun partner and systems integrator. "The Sun Desktop Access Client makes a lot of sense from a manageability standpoint and a cost perspective. It's essentially a migration tool to get groups of end users switched over to Sun Ray clients in phases. Not only will our customers save money as they move to a server-hosted architecture, but also gain increased security with Sun Ray Software 5."

An additional enhancement in Sun Ray Software 5 is improved Adobe Flash performance, which enables customers to experience accelerated Adobe Flash content with synchronized audio and video on Sun Ray thin clients and Sun Desktop Access Client enabled PCs. The new release also includes greater peripheral device support to virtual desktops through USB redirection to Windows, allowing users to deploy a significantly expanded set of USB peripheral devices with Sun Ray technology, including scanners, printers, and more. In addition, Sun Ray Software 5 allows customers to display Windows Server 2008 applications in 32 bit color and includes support for Windows Server 2008 TS Session Broker.

As a Senior Enterprise Architect for Oracle IT, Frank C. Martin was one of the participants in the early access program for Sun Ray Software 5 and is evaluating the software for potential use as part of the company's extensive internal IT infrastructure. "As an early access customer, I found Sun Ray Software 5 surprisingly easy to install. The software is highly flexible and, with the addition of Windows Server 2008, was also simple to integrate into our environment," said Martin. "Most importantly, I was able to give our employees the high quality desktop experience they expect when watching Adobe Flash media with a Sun Ray client or with the Sun Desktop Access Client on a PC."

Pricing and Availability

Sun Ray Software 5 is available now for $100 (USD) per concurrent user for the perpetual license. Download and try Sun Ray Software at http://www.sun.com/software/sunray/getit.jsp

About Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Sun Microsystems develops the technologies that power the global marketplace. Guided by a singular vision -- "The Network Is The Computer(TM)" -- Sun drives network participation through shared innovation, community development and open source leadership. Sun can be found in more than 100 countries and on the Web at http://sun.com.

Sun, Sun Microsystems, the Sun logo, Java, Solaris, Sun Ray and The Network Is The Computer are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. or its subsidiaries in the United States and other countries.

* U.S. list price. All prices quoted are in U.S. Dollars

SOURCE: Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Sun Microsystems, Inc. 
Jacki DeCoster, 415-294-4482 
jacki.decoster@sun.com