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Sun Constellation System is an open petascale computing environment introduced by Sun Microsystems in 2007.

• Main hardware components

• Software stack

• Services

• Production systems

• References

• External links

• Sun Blade 6048 Modular System

• Sun Blade X6275

• Sun Blade X6270

• Sun Blade 6000 System

• Sun Datacenter Switch 3456

• Sun Fire X4540

• Sun Cooling Doors (5200,5600)

• OpenSolaris or Linux

• Sun Grid Engine

• Sun Studio Compiler Suite

• Fortress (programming language)

• Sun HPC ClusterTools (based on Open MPI)

• Sun Ops Center

• Sun Datacenter Express Services

Ranger at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) was the largest production Constellation system. Ranger had 62,976 processor cores in 3,936 nodes and a peak performance of 580 TFlops.cite-ref-1[1]cite-ref-2[2] Ranger was the 7th most powerful TOP500 supercomputer in the world at the time of its introduction.cite-ref-3[3] After 5 years of service at TACC, it was dismantled and shipped to South Africa, Tanzania, and Botswana to help foster HPC development in Africa.cite-ref-4[4]

A number of smaller Constellation systems are deployed at other supercomputer centers, including the University of Oslo.cite-ref-5[5]

cite-note-11. ↑ "TACC > HPC Systems". The University of Texas at Austin. Archived from the original on 2009-08-01. Retrieved 2007-12-13.

cite-note-22. ↑ "More Ranger Facts and Figures". Sun Microsystems. Retrieved 2016-06-18.

cite-note-33. ↑ "TOP500 List - November 2008". TOP500.Org. 2010-08-11.

cite-note-44. ↑ citerefsalazar2014Salazar, Jorge (2014-07-14). "Ranger Supercomputer Begins New Life". The University of Texas at Austin. Retrieved 2016-05-04.

cite-note-55. ↑ "HPC Consortium: University of Oslo". Sun Microsystems. 2008-06-17. Retrieved 2016-06-18.

• Sun Constellation System at Sun.com

• Sun Constellation System at SC07 (YouTube Video)