Marc Hamilton's WeblogMarc Hamilton's WeblogTACC Ranger Dedication Video- February 24, 2008http://blogs.sun.com/marchamilton/entry/tacc_ranger_dedication_video New Sun Blade x8450- February 20, 2008 Sun today announced our newest 4-socket Sun Blade x8450, a no compromises 4-socket blade with 4 quad core Intel Xeon processors and 32 DIMM memory slots. Besides the official product pages, you should also check out the unofficial Sun Blade Blog. This 16 core powerhouse provides all of the performance you would expect from an industry leading 4-socket rack mount server like our 2RU x4450, only in a blade form factor. Sun is the only vendor to provide a 4 socket Intel Xeon quad core server...http://blogs.sun.com/marchamilton/entry/new_sun_blade_x8450 More Ranger Facts and Figures- February 7, 2008 There are more details on TACC's Ranger system here, but some of the highlights worth sharing: The system occupies six rows of racks in54x38 feet of space, about 2,052 square feet or for those in the US, about half a basketball court There are 3936 blades in 82 Sun Blade 6048 chassis, each blade with four quad core Opteron processors, for a total of 62,976 CPU cores delivering a peak of over 500 TFlops capacity. The system has completed a full Linpack benchmark, but you will probably have to..http://blogs.sun.com/marchamilton/entry/more_ranger_facts_and_figures Ranger Goes Live- February 6, 2008 Ranger, the first Sun Constellation System to go into full user production, is now fully up and running at the Texas Advanced Computing Center. Take a look at the NSF TeraGrid User Portal and click on the "Resources" tab to view a live system monitor of the NSF Teragrid resources. With 62976 CPU cores, 504 peak TFlops, 123 TBytes memory, and 1730 TBytes disk, Ranger provides more CPU, memory, and disk resources to NSF TeraGrid users than all other 18 TeraGrid systems!http://blogs.sun.com/marchamilton/entry/ranger_goes_live |