This new approach to blade switching gives you virtualized 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) I/O to the network and between Sun Blade modules in the chassis. It reduces cabling by 10:1, eliminates switch management and interoperability problems, and comes with a distinct cost advantage over traditional blade switches.

• Designed for Sun Blade 6000 Modular Systems
• Four external x4 mini-SAS ports
• Ten 10/100/1000 BASE-T Ethernet (RJ-45) ports
• Two SFP+ ports

Ideal for High Performance Computing (HPC), the Sun Blade 6048 QDR InfiniBand Switched Network Express Module (NEM) offers 30 ports of 4x QDR and 24 ports of Gigabit Ethernet - for unparalleled scalability, resiliency, and throughput in a highly cost-effective form factor. This NEM minimizes cabling as well as costs, while easing management, enhancing reliability, and speeding time to solutions.

• 30 ports of 4x QDR InfiniBand and 24 ports of GbE
• 3:1 cable reduction as compared to competitive systems
• Scalability up to 5,184 node clusters

The revolutionary Sun Blade 6000 modular system is designed to support highly capable blades that deliver more compute, memory and I/O capacity than traditional blades and rackmount servers. This platform provides maximal performance with optimal cooling, space and power efficiency. In combination with the Sun Blade Virtualized NEM, it is ideal for consolidation and virtualizing a wide variety applications from the web to the back office on blades based on UltraSPARC, AMD Opteron and Intel Xeon processors.

• 10RU Sun Blade 6000 Chassis
• Accommodates 10 server modules supporting up to; 1280 Sun UltraSPARC T2 Plus threads, 160 AMD Opteron cores, 240 Intel Xeon cores, PCI Express Midplane, 2.56TB memory
• Large I/O capacity: 2.7Tb/s per Chassis
• Forty PCI Express interfaces per chassis

Take a closer look at the industry's most scalable, powerful, and efficient blade system. It's designed to scale from a departmental cluster to PetaScale Computing, and it's packaged as an integrated product. Its radical unibody chassis/rack design saves space and weight (~500 lbs less per rack when compared to conventional chassis and rack combinations). Its Sun Blade Independent I/O provides the highest I/O throughput per chassis at 30.72Tbps and is the first blade based on an open PCI-e Industry standard I/O architecture. Support for PCIe 1.1 and 2.0 enables this chassis to support leading networking technologies such as Quad Data Rate (QDR) InfiniBand.

• Up to 48 Sun Blade 6000 family server modules: AMD Opteron, Intel Xeon, and Sun UltraSPARC
• Passive midplane for ultra high-speed interconnects such as Quad Data Rate InfiniBand
• Eight 5600 - 8400W power supply modules
• 96 PCIe (1.1 and 2.0) ExpressModule (EM) slots and 32 redundant rear fan modules