Sun Constellation System is an open petascale computing environment introduced by

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in 2007.

Main hardware components

* Sun Blade 6048 Modular System *
Sun Blade X6275
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Sun Blade X6270

Sun Blade 6000 System

Sun Datacenter Switch 3456

Sun Fire X4540

Sun Cooling Doors (5200,5600)

Software stack

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* Sun Grid Engine *

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* Sun HPC ClusterTools (based on Open MPI) * Sun Ops Center

Services

Sun Datacenter Express Services

Production systems

''Ranger'' at the

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(TACC) was the largest production Constellation system. Ranger had 62,976 processor cores in 3,936 nodes and a peak performance of 580 TFlops. Ranger was the 7th most powerful

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supercomputer in the world at the time of its introduction. After 5 years of service at TACC, it was dismantled and shipped to

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, and

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to help foster HPC development in Africa. A number of smaller Constellation systems are deployed at other supercomputer centers, including the

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References

External links

Sun Constellation System at Sun.com

Sun Constellation System at SC07 (YouTube Video)
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