14 DAY TRIAL // Santa Clara, California-based Sun Microsystems has announced today the expansion of its Open Network System architecture with the availability of the new 1.6GHz processors for its chip multi-threaded (CMT) Sun SPARC Enterprise systems, running the Solaris Operating System (OS). In addition, the company has also announced the new Sun Logical Domains (Ldoms) virtualization software and the new Open Network Systems-based solutions, designed to increase application performance and return on investment (ROI). It also announced the launch of the new AMD Opteron-based blades and rackmount x64 servers.
“Sun's Solaris-based CMT servers blazed a trail with massive multi-threading, and virtualization and crypto at no extra cost,” said John Fowler, executive vice president, Systems Group, Sun Microsystems, Inc. “Sun's Open Network Systems provide an ideal combination of performance, efficiency and cost savings for the most critical applications in the enterprise.”
According to the company, the combination of the new 1.6GHz UltraSPARC T2 and T2 Plus processors with the new Sun Ldoms 1.2 software will enable customers to take advantage of increased virtualization and compute performance with simplified management, reduced I/O bottlenecks and accelerated application response time. The company's new x64 blade systems and servers have been designed with AMD's latest six-core Opteron processors and are to support virtualization, enterprise workloads, datacenter consolidation and high performance computing (HPC).
The new Opteron-powered servers include the Sun Blade X6440 and X6240 server modules, the Sun Fire X4440 server and the Sun Fire X4540 storage server. The company is also announcing the Sun Fire X4640 server, designed as a modular 48-core, 4RU rackmount x64 server for virtualization.
As far as pricing goes, the new CMT systems featuring the 1.6GHz processors start at US$23,925 for blade server modules, and US$33,339 for rack servers. The new Opteron-based, six-core x64 solutions start at US$2,794.