Companies/Sun Microsystems
Santa Clara, CA, USA · acquired
Sun Microsystems
Built the Constellation line of blade-based HPC clusters, including Ranger's SunBlade x6420 nodes and its own Magnum InfiniBand switch fabric sold as the Sun Datacenter Switch 3456. Acquired by Oracle in January 2010, which ended the Constellation product line.
Systems this company appears in
- Systems
- 10
- Aggregate Rmax
- 1.43 PFlop/s
- Aggregate power
- 9.91 MW
- First appearance
- 2000
- Most recent
- 2010
- Concentration
- 30%
Aggregate Rmax is the sum of the systems this company supplies any part of. It is not revenue and not attributable share: an integrator and a memory vendor in the same machine both count its full FLOPS here. Attribution weighted by role is Phase 4.
Role breakdown
| Role | Systems | Rmax in those systems |
|---|---|---|
| Integrator | 10 | 1.43 PFlop/s |
| CPU | 1 | 137.1 GFlop/s |
| Interconnect | 2 | 759.50 TFlop/s |
Appearances
| System | Supplied as | Shipped under | Rmax | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Red Sky USA · 2010 | Integrator, Interconnect | Sun Microsystems | 433.50 TFlop/s | #14 November 2010 → |
| Vayu (NCI) Australia · 2009-11 | Integrator | Sun Microsystems | 126.40 TFlop/s | #51 November 2010 → |
| VSC-1 Austria · 2009-11 | Integrator | Sun Microsystems | 35.48 TFlop/s | #157 November 2009 → |
| Tachyon II South Korea · 2009 | Integrator | Sun Microsystems | 274.80 TFlop/s | #24 November 2010 → |
| Galileu Brazil · 2009 | Integrator | Sun Microsystems | 64.63 TFlop/s | #76 November 2009 → |
| Colosse Canada · 2009 | Integrator | Sun Microsystems | 77.17 TFlop/s | #63 November 2009 → |
| Ranger USA · 2008-06 | Integrator, Interconnect | Sun Microsystems | 326.00 TFlop/s | #5 June 2008 → |
| Brutus Switzerland · 2008-05 | Integrator | Sun Microsystems | 51.88 TFlop/s | #88 November 2009 → |
| TSUBAME1.0 Japan · 2006-04 | Integrator | Sun Microsystems | 38.18 TFlop/s | #7 June 2006 → |
| Ford HPC 10000 Cluster USA · 2000 | Integrator, CPU | Sun Microsystems | 137.1 GFlop/s | #136 November 2000 → |
Parts supplied
| Part | Category | Generation | Released |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sun Magnum InfiniBand DDR Switch | Interconnect | - | 2007 |
Further reading
Operating a supercomputer
Acceptance testing, why "installed" and "in production" are six months apart, and the machine lifecycle.
The interconnect
Topologies, why latency and tail behaviour matter more than bandwidth, and how the fabric market consolidated.
Inside a node
Latency-optimised versus throughput-optimised processors, NUMA, and the end of the host-to-device copy.