Sun Microsystems unveiled new products that enhance the Sun Constellation System, including a new InfiniBand (IB) Quad Data Rate (QDR) switch for optimal cluster interconnect performance, new Sun HPC Software Linux Edition 2.0 for cluster deployment, Sun Grid Engine 6.2 Update 3, and new enhancements to the Lustre file system.
The new InfiniBand QDR Switch 648 is expected to offer enhanced performance and reduced deployment complexity with up to three times more ports per rack, four and a half times more system bandwidth, and up to 3:1 cable reduction than other Double Data Rate (DDR) switch systems.
The new Sun HPC Software, Linux Edition 2.0 enables users to install Linux-based environments by providing an integrated Linux software stack for HPC offerings, and provides customers a choice of running SUSE 10, CentOS and Red Hat Linux.
The new Lustre 1.8.0 offers new features to enhance system performance and functionality, including the adaptive timeouts feature, client interoperability feature, OSS read cache feature and Version-based Recovery (VBR).
The company said that it is also introducing an array of open source software applications and upgrades for HPC deployments which include, Sun Studio 12 Update 1 with new features to enhance performance of high-performance parallel applications for the latest multicore x86 and SPARC-based systems running on Linux platforms, the Solaris Operating System (OS) or OpenSolaris.
The upgrades also includes, Sun HPC ClusterTools 8.2 which provides MPI libraries and Runtime environment based on Open MPI, tested and supported by Sun on both Solaris and Linux; and Sun Grid Engine 6.2 Update 3 which enhances support for both private and public (Amazon EC2) clouds and adds monitoring of compute clusters and the Service Domain Manager (SDM) from one place.
Other upgrades includes, Sun xVM Ops Center 2.1 which enhances Sun xVM Ops Center by providing bug fixes and integrating patches; Sun Storage Archive Manager 5.0 and Sun QFS (SAM-QFS) which offer new shared file system and archive software features that enhances shared file system services and archive management; and Sun HPC Software, Developer Edition 1.0 for OpenSolaris which combines the Sun HPC developer software and tools with OpenSolaris in a virtual machine.
