The Sun M9000

Introduction
HPC Architecture
  1. Shared-memory SIMD machines
  2. Distributed-memory SIMD machines
  3. Shared-memory MIMD machines
  4. Distributed-memory MIMD machines
  5. ccNUMA machines
  6. Clusters
  7. Processors
    1. AMD Opteron
    2. IBM POWER5+
    3. IBM BlueGene processors
    4. Intel Itanium 2
    5. Intel Xeon
    6. The MIPS processor
    7. The SPARC processors
  8. Networks
    1. Infiniband
    2. InfiniPath
    3. Myrinet
    4. QsNet
    5. SCI
Available systems
  1. The Bull NovaScale
  2. The C-DAC PARAM Padma
  3. The Cray X1E
  4. The Cray XT3
  5. The Cray XT4
  6. The Cray XMT
  7. The Fujitsu/Siemens M9000
  8. The Fujitsu/Siemens PRIMEQUEST
  9. The Hitachi BladeSymphony
  10. The Hitachi SR11000
  11. The HP Integrity Superdome
  12. The IBM eServer p575
  13. The IBM BlueGene/L&P
  14. The Liquid Computing LiquidIQ
  15. The NEC Express5800/1000
  16. The NEC SX-8
  17. The SGI Altix 4000
  18. The SiCortex SC series
  19. The Sun M9000
Systems disappeared from the list
Systems under development
Glossary
Acknowledgments
References

Machine type RISC-based shared-memory multi-processor
Models M9000-32, M9000-64
Operating system Solaris (Sun's Unix variant)
Connection structure Crossbar
Compilers Parallel Fortran 90, OpenMP, C, C++
Vendors information web page: http://www.sun.com/servers/highend/m9000/
Year of introduction 2007

System parameters:

Model M9000-32 M9000-64
Clock cycle 2.4 GHz 2.4 GHz
Theor. peak performance    
Per core (64-bits) 9.6 Gflop/s 9.6 Gflop/s
Maximal 614 Gflop/s 1229 Gflop/s
Main memory    
Memory/node ≤ 128 GB ≤ 128 GB
Memory/maximal ≤ 1 TB ≤ 2 TB
No. of processor cores 8—64 8—128
Communication bandwidth    
Point-to-point --- ---
Aggregate 367.5 GB/s 737 GB/s

Remarks

The systems are identical to those of Fujitsu-Siemens. For a description see the Fujitsu-Siemens M9000.