Sun Microsystems announce new Open Storage solutions

Sun’s Open Storage solutions include; the new Sun Storage 7000 ‘Amber Road’ family, the Lustre parallel file system as well as the next-generation Sun Constellation System.

Sun is also announcing the Sun Storage Cluster, Sun Compute Cluster and HPC software solutions, to accelerate divisional and departmental HPC deployments.

"Sun has been challenging the HPC status quo for more than two decades," said John Fowler, executive vice president, Systems Platforms Group, Sun Microsystems.

"The Sun Constellation System reinvented the HPC cluster and is now deployed by customers across the globe."

"Today we're applying that trademark innovation to new segments of the HPC market with new Open Storage and compute clusters. These solutions are just the beginning - look for our Open Storage products to radically change the economics of the HPC market," added Fowler.

The Sun Storage 7000 ‘Amber Road’ family claims to offer breakthrough analytic capabilities, significant performance increases, one-quarter of the energy consumption, installation in under five minutes and up to 75 percent cost savings.

Sun Constellation System has double the storage capacity, double the cores and double the compute nodes of the original Sun Constellation System, the 'Genesis' storage array, new 'Magnum' switch solutions, the 'Glacier' cooling door and storage flash arrays.

It's latest blade server will be available by the end of the year - the Sun Blade X6440 server module powered by Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors code-named 'Shanghai'.

The Sun Storage Cluster combines Sun Fire servers and data servers with the Lustre file system and a high-speed interconnect to maximize performance, scalability and productivity.

The solution will enable customers to scale capacity from 48 terabytes to multiple petabytes, and scale performance I/O rates from 1 GB per second to more than 100 GB per second.