Photos: Sun servers on stage

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  • John Fowler

    John Fowler

    John Fowler, executive vice president of Sun Microsystems' systems group, shows the company's new Sun Blade 8000 server chassis at a launch event Tuesday in San Francisco. The system can accommodate as many as 10 four-processor blade servers.

    Caption by: Bill Detwiler

  • Fowler and Sun Blade 8000

    Fowler and Sun Blade 8000

    Fowler removes a communications module from the back of the new Sun Blade 8000 server. All the server's components are hot-swappable, meaning that they can be removed or replaced without shutting the machine down.

    Caption by: Bill Detwiler

  • Sun Blade 8000

    Sun Blade 8000

    The Sun Blade 8000, code-named Andromeda, is 33.25-inch-tall blade server chassis that accommodates as many as 10 four-processor blade servers. It accepts Opteron blades now, and later it will accommodate blades with two models of Sun's Sparc processors: the lower-end Niagara II and the higher-end Rock. Sun plans smaller blade-server chassis models in coming months.

    Caption by: Bill Detwiler

  • Andy Bechtolsheim

    Andy Bechtolsheim

    Andy Bechtolsheim, a Sun cofounder and top designer of its x86-based server line, discusses Sun's new X4500 "Thumper" storage-server hybrid with Fowler. The system, called StreamServe when it was under development at Bechtolsheim's start-up, Kealiea, was originally intended as a media server. Sun canceled the system after acquiring Kealia in 2004, but Fowler resurrected the design, which accommodates 48 hard drives and 500 terabytes of capacity.

    Caption by: Bill Detwiler

  • Sun Fire X4500

    Sun Fire X4500

    The Sun Fire X4500, code-named Thumper, has dual Opteron processors and accommodates as many as 48 hard drives, for a total storage capacity of 24 terabytes.

    Caption by: Bill Detwiler

  • Jonathan Schwartz

    Jonathan Schwartz

    Sun Chief Executive Jonathan Schwartz makes the case that general-purpose servers, such as the array of Sun "Galaxy" models behind him, are ultimately more cost-effective than special-purpose models.

    Caption by: Bill Detwiler

  • Sun Fire X4600

    Sun Fire X4600

    The Sun Fire X4600, code-named Galaxy4, accommodates as many as eight of AMD's Opteron processors. It's designed to support not just today's dual-core chips, but quad-core Opterons due in 2007.

    Caption by: Bill Detwiler

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Execs show off new Sun Fires and its tower of blade power, the Sun Blade 8000, code-named Andromeda.

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John Fowler

John Fowler, executive vice president of Sun Microsystems' systems group, shows the company's new Sun Blade 8000 server chassis at a launch event Tuesday in San Francisco. The system can accommodate as many as 10 four-processor blade servers.

Caption by: Bill Detwiler

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