Cray to use Sun Fire servers for data management of MTA-2 and Cray SV2 computersSeattle 28 March 2001 Sun and Cray inked an OEM agreement that gives Cray the ability to rebrand, directly market and sell Sun's new Sun Fire servers as data management (input/output) nodes within Cray's next-generation Cray MTA-2 and Cray SV2 systems.
Sun Microsystems' new Sun Fire 6800 server, one of a full line of recently
introduced servers, will be fully integrated into the Cray supercomputers and
is designed to manage massive data traffic in and out of the systems. The Sun
Fire 6800 server is also designed to manage extensive disk farms, ranging from
hundreds of gigabytes to petabytes. Extending Sun's current family of
industry-leading systems, the new Sun Fire servers are designed to deliver
unprecedented levels of system availability, manageability, high performance
across a wide range of real-world applications, flexibility and investment
protection in a server line.
The Cray MTA-2 multithreaded supercomputer, due out later this year,
employs a hardware design with large scalable shared memory,
extremely fast I/O and unprecedented programming ease. It is designed to
support up to 128 RISC-like hardware streams per processor. The Cray SV2
system, scheduled for availability in the second half of 2002, will offer
performance from tens of Gflop/s to multiple tens of Tflop/s) .
The Sun Fire servers aim to greatly enhance system productivity by
providing the data management functions within the system. The Sun Fire
platform currently holds up to 24 CPUs, 192 GB memory, 4 Dynamic System
Domains, 9.6 GB/s sustained I/O bandwidth, and is fully hardware redundant.
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