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Sun Blade 6000 Family

Overview

Here's history in the making: Solaris, Linux, Windows, and VMware running on single and multi-core processors by Sun, AMD, and Intel, in one chassis. Make that one data center-quality, 10-blade, 10RU Sun Blade 6000 Modular System chassis. You've never had so many choices in one blade system. Extreme I/O throughput--as in 142Gbps--puts it in a league by itself all over again.

At A Glance

Up to double the memory and I/O capacity of competing blades and rackmounts
Shared power and cooling, save 15% more energy than equivalent rackmount servers
Maximum flexibility – SPARC, AMD Opteron, and Intel Xeon processor-based server modules, as well as the Solaris, Linux, and Windows operating systems
Most open blade platform with industry standard PCIe ExpressModule

Key Applications

Virtualization & Consolidation
Web Infrastructure
High Performance Computing
Back Office (CRM, ERP, DIDW)
Database

Product Line

Chassis

Sun Blade 6000 Chassis

Server Modules

World Record Performance

The Sun Blade 6000 family has already achieved an impressive collection of test results and records. For instance, the Sun Blade X6250 server module demonstrates World Record x86 integer performance on the SPEC CPU2006 benchmark. [1]

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[1] SPEC, SPECcpu are TM of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Results as of 06/04/2007. For the latest, visit http://www.spec.org .

Sun Blade 6000 Modular System Gallery

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