1. Sun FIRE Jani Raitavuo Niko Ronkainen

2. Sun FIRE 15K Most powerful and scalable Up to 106 processors, 576 GB memory and 250 TB online disk storage Fireplane Interconnect SPARC architecture Solaris Operating Environment

3. Sun and TOP 500 list 88 systems manufactured by Sun Microsystems Fastest system at place 145 (cluster) 81 Fire K15/144 systems (places 379-460) Users include Cambrige University (4), Commerzbank (3), DaimlerChrysler (5), Deutch Bank (4)

4. Universitaet Aachen / RWTH 16 nodes of Fire 6800 (24GB memory / 24 CPUs per node ) 4 nodes of Fire 15K (144GB memory / 72 CPUs per node) 15K nodes (288 CPUs) is listed in TOP500 at place 173, 357.10 Rmax and 518.40 Rpeak

5. The UltraSPARC III processor Sun’s third generation 64-bit processor Clock frequencies 750 and 900 MHz (900 and 1050 MHz UltraSPARC III Cu) 4-way Superscalar 6 execution pipelines Capable of addressing 16GB of main memory at 2,4GB/s

6. The UltraSPARC III processor

7. Nodes A typical node contains up to 72 processors Nodes connected to each other with Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, Myrinet 2000 or the recently announced Fire Link technology

8. Interconnect The up to 72 processors in a node form up to 18 snooping coherency domains. Each snooping coherency domain contains a CPU/memory board with 4 CPU’s, an I/O assembly board with 2 I/O controllers and an expander board. Sun uses the Sun Fireplane two-level cache- coherency protocol.

9. Fireplane First Sun’s interconnect protocol to use point- to-point (directory) coherency.

11. Software Can be divided into 4 categories: -Solaris Operating Environment -Sun One Studio -Sun HPC ClusterTools -Sun Cluster

12. Solaris Operating Environment 64-bit Operating system Multithreaded Latest version is Solaris 9

13. Sun One Studio Collection of software development tools Compiler Collection package contains - Sun Fortran - C and C++ - Debuggers OpenMP support

14. Sun HPC ClusterTools Full environment for parallel computing - Parallel program development - Resource management - System Administration - Cluster management

15. S3L library Sun MPI Prism debugger Sun Cluster Runtime Environment (CRE) Remote Shared Memory (RSM) Loadable Protocol Module Cluster Console Management (CCM) Features

17. Sun Cluster Parallel support limited (RSM supported) High Availability All Sun servers can be used, up to eight nodes