It’s days like these that make it fun working for Sun. The new server’s official name is the T5440; they call it a “mid-range” box, but to me it looks like a monster; count the numbers for cores, threads, RAM, and so on. It’s astounding what you can fit into a 4U box these days.
· · ·
There’s an
official launch
event, but if you want the real poop, you need to start at
Allan
Packer’s blog, where he’s aggregating technical contributions from a bunch
of the engineers who actually, you know, built this thing.
[Update: Oops, removed misleading RAM claim. Sorry.]
Contributions
October 13, 2008
· Technology (90 fragments)
· · Concurrency (75 more)
· · Servers (14 more)
· Business (126 fragments)
· · Sun (63 more)
· Technology (90 fragments)
· · Concurrency (75 more)
· · Servers (14 more)
· Business (126 fragments)
· · Sun (63 more)
Comment feed for ongoing:
From: John Hart (Oct 13 2008, at 09:52)
Looks like this maxes out a 512GB of RAM per box - maybe you were looking at the "4TB of RAM per rack" stat?
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From: David Smith (Oct 14 2008, at 06:14)
Even if the "T" is 0.5 T, that's an awesome piece of machinery!
Now, how can I create a need for one, right away!
I'll have to get back to you on that...
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