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Sun Constellation System
Computing system
Computing system
Sun Constellation System is an open petascale computing environment introduced by Sun Microsystems in 2007.
Main hardware components
- Sun Blade 6048 Modular System
- Sun Blade 6000 System
- Sun Datacenter Switch 3456
- Sun Fire X4540
- Sun Cooling Doors (5200,5600)
Software stack
- OpenSolaris or Linux
- Sun Grid Engine
- Sun Studio Compiler Suite
- Fortress (programming language)
- Sun HPC ClusterTools (based on Open MPI)
- Sun Ops Center
Services
Production systems
Ranger at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) was the largest production Constellation system. Ranger had 62,976 processor cores in 3,936 nodes and a peak performance of 580 TFlops.{{cite web |url-status = dead After 5 years of service at TACC, it was dismantled and shipped to South Africa, Tanzania, and Botswana to help foster HPC development in Africa.{{cite web
A number of smaller Constellation systems are deployed at other supercomputer centers, including the University of Oslo.{{cite web
References
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