Sun Blade X6450 available through Workgroup

The dedicated Sun division at Workgroup, Horizon, has announced the local availability of Sun’s new four-socket blade server for HPC and Enterprise Applications- the Sun Blade X6450.
The Sun Blade X6450 Server Model, powered by four high-performance dual-or-quad core Intel Xeon processor 7300 series, enables 50 percent more memory capacity than competitive blade servers, making it a highly energy efficient platform for virtualisation and applications in vertical industries such as manufacturing, energy and financial services.

“Running a choice of operating systems, including Solaris 10 OS, Linux, Windows and VMware, the X6450 Server Module gives customers the flexibility to run existing 32-bit applications as they migrate
to 64-bit applications,” says Bertus Hanekom, Sun product manager
at Horizon.

The new server module takes Sun’s blade platform to the next level in performance, he says, packing 768 cores into one rack with increased memory capacity that provides four socket computing in a
blade form factor.

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