Community Development Comes to Hardware

We just introduced the first fruits of our collaboration with Fujitsu at a big launch event in New York - and I want to start by offering my congratulations to a unique group of people: those individuals and teams responsible for joint development at Sun, Fujitsu and in the OpenSolaris community. If you believe, as I, that community development is the future of Sun (and our industry), you can point to our announcement as proof - two companies, and a broad open community, worked together to produce a singular product set that presents opportunity for us all. Together, we're building a line of SPARC/Solaris machines targeting very high scale computing environments. The machines are general purpose, run Solaris without modification, but offer features and scale that were historically the stuff only mainframe customers could love (because no other computers offered them). The high end of the new family (called M-class, where the M means Mainframe, not Monster, the latter's appealing propensity to eat dinosaurs aside), delivers the industry's most powerful, general purpose computer in a single cabinet, a one teraflop machine (one capable of performing a trillion instructions per second). It looks like the picture at the left (and before you ask, it's targeted at folks who care about the kinds of high performance computational problems that aren't divisible into fleets of smaller machines - although most social networking sites are easily s...

Date: April, 21 2007
Url: http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/i_love_mainframes

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