Sun Fire X4500

Thumper was developed by Palo Alto, California based company Kealia inc. Kealia was founded in 2001 by Stanford University professor David Cheriton and Sun co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim. When Sun bought Kealia in 2004, Thumper became the basis for the X4500 model.{{cite web|url=https://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/09/14/bechtolsheim_hpc_wall_street/ |title=Bechtolsheim: The server is not the network |publisher=The Register |date=14 September 2009}}

The Sun Fire X4500 supports two dual-core AMD Opteron processors and up to 64 GB RAM. With forty-eight 500/1000/2000 GB SATA drives, it provides up to 96 TB of raw storage in four rack units.

The Sun Fire X4540 supports two quad- or six-core AMD K10 (Barcelona) processors and up to 128 GB RAM. The new model also uses PCI Express IO technology, and added a compact flash disk slot for booting the operating system.

A significant feature of both systems is that the I/O framework was designed to handle high throughput on all disks simultaneously. These were the first systems designed specifically with ZFS in mind, so no hardware RAID is included.

• Solaris 10
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10
• Rocks Cluster Distribution{{cite web

| url = https://lists.sdsc.edu/pipermail/npaci-rocks-discussion/2007-June/025487.html

| title = on an X4500: ROCKS:searching for USB key on device ... and reboots

| accessdate = 2007-06-14

}}

• Microsoft Windows Server 2003 (Standard and Enterprise){{cite web

| url = http://research.microsoft.com/~Gray/papers/JHU_thumper.pdf

| title = Performance of a Sun X4500 under Windows, NTFS and SQLserver 2005

| accessdate = 2007-04-28

| publisher = Jim Gray, Microsoft

}}

• Microsoft Windows Server 2008{{cite web

| url = http://www.sun.com/blueprints/1107/820-3781.html

| title = Installing Microsoft Windows Server 2008 on Sun x64 Servers

| accessdate = 2007-12-02

| publisher = Sun Microsystems

| archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20080209034832/http://www.sun.com/blueprints/1107/820-3781.html

| archivedate = 2008-02-09

}}

• FreeNAS 9.3 - newer do not work

• Sun Streaming System{{cite web

| url = http://www.sun.com/servers/networking/streamingsystem/

| title = Sun Streaming System - Overview

| accessdate = 2007-04-28

| publisher = Sun Microsystems

| archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20070428050131/http://www.sun.com/servers/networking/streamingsystem/

| archivedate = 2007-04-28

}}

• Sun Visualization System{{cite web

| url = http://www.sun.com/servers/cr/visualization/index.xml

| title = Sun Visualization System - Overview

| accessdate = 2007-04-28

| publisher = Sun Microsystems

|archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20070514105826/http://www.sun.com/servers/cr/visualization/index.xml |archivedate = 2007-05-14}}

• Sun Secure Data Retrieval Server (SDRS){{cite web

| url = http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/pr/2007-06/sunflash.20070607.1.xml

| title = Sun Microsystems Launches Unique Data Management Appliance for Communication Service Providers

| accessdate = 2007-06-07

| publisher = Sun Microsystems

}}

• Sun Constellation System{{cite web

| url = http://www.sun.com/servers/hpc/SunConstellation_start.jsp

| title = Sun Constellation System

| accessdate = 2007-06-26

| publisher = Sun Microsystems

}}

• Sun StorageTek Virtual Tape Library Value ("VTL Value") System{{cite web

| url = http://www.sun.com/storagetek/tape_storage/tape_virtualization/vtl_value/

| title = Sun StorageTek Virtual Tape Library Value

| accessdate = 2007-08-09

| publisher = Sun Microsystems

}}

• Sun Scalable Storage Cluster{{cite web

| url = http://www.sun.com/servers/cr/scalablestorage/

| title = Sun Scalable Storage Cluster - Lustre on Thumper

| accessdate = 2007-08-01

| publisher = Sun Microsystems

|archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20070821105809/http://www.sun.com/servers/cr/scalablestorage/ |archivedate = 2007-08-21}}

• Luminex Virtual Tape Solution for IBM zSeries mainframes via FICON{{cite web

| url = http://www.luminex.com/products/channel_gateway/firex4500.htm

| title = Universal Storage Networking featuring FICON and ESCON mainframe channel gateways, connectivity and data storage products

| accessdate = 2007-04-28

| publisher = Luminex

}}

• SAS Intelligence Storage{{cite web

| title = The Simplicity of Achieving High-End Performance at a Low Cost

| publisher = SAS Institute Inc.

}}

• Greenplum's Sun Data Warehouse Appliance{{cite web|url=http://www.greenplum.com/partners/data_warehouse_appliance/ |title=Greenplum Data Warehouse Appliance |accessdate=2007-05-28 |publisher=Greenplum |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080812144942/http://www.greenplum.com/partners/data_warehouse_appliance/ |archivedate=12 August 2008 }}
• IPConfigure - Enterprise Surveillance Manager{{cite web

| url = http://www.ipconfigure.com

| title = ipConfigure Home Page

| accessdate = 2008-08-28

| publisher = IPConfigure

}}

• G10 Enterprise Video Manager{{cite web

| url = http://www.sun.com/servers/x64/x4500/videosurveillance/g10_evm_v2.pdf

| title = EVM Highlights

| accessdate = 2009-11-14

| publisher = Sun Microsystems

}}

• Media Server for Symantec Veritas NetBackup{{cite web

| url = http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/sundocs/articles/sfx4500_mediaserver.jsp

| title = Sun Fire X4500 as a Media Server for Symantec Veritas NetBackup 6.5

| accessdate = 2008-04-22

| publisher = Sun Microsystems

}}

• Cypress Storage Appliance{{cite web

| url = http://www.green-bytes.com/

| title = Cypress: SUN X4540 and ZFS+

| accessdate = 2008-09-15

| publisher = Greenbytes

}}

• Internet Archive{{cite web

| url = http://www.sun.com/featured-articles/2009-0325/feature/index.jsp

| title = The Internet In A Box

| accessdate = 2009-03-25

| publisher = Sun Microsystems

| archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20091027041639/http://www.sun.com/featured-articles/2009-0325/feature/index.jsp

| archivedate = 2009-10-27

}}

Forty-two Sun Fire X4500 data servers are used to provide Lustre cluster filesystem storage in the TSUBAME supercomputer,{{cite web

| url = http://www.sun.com/blueprints/0507/820-2187.html

| title = Tokyo Tech Tsubame Grid Storage Implementation

| accessdate = 2007-06-21

| publisher = Sun Microsystems

}} which was number 7 in June 2006 TOP500 list.

In October 2007, Sun submitted TPC-H result with an X4500 running Sybase IQ. At US $8.11/QphH, it achieved the best price/performance among the 1,000 GB results.{{cite web

| url = http://www.tpc.org/tpch/results/tpch_result_detail.asp?id=107101502

| title = TPC-H Details

| accessdate = 2007-11-07

| publisher = Transaction Processing Performance Council

}}

{{reflist}}

• [https://web.archive.org/web/20090311021619/http://www.sun.com/servers/x64/x4500/index.xml Sun Fire X4500 Server]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20090228143237/http://www.sun.com/servers/x64/x4540/index.xml Sun Fire X4540 Server]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20100104104236/http://www.sun.com/servers/x64/x4640/index.xml Sun Fire X4640 Server]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwT3Hrk4BSo Sun Fire X4500 System Walkthrough] and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPzQOXTDrzo Part 2] (YouTube Video)
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zQ5RLAyA7w Sun Fire x4500 demonstration] - Andy Bechtolsheim demonstrating the 4500 hardware, Menlo Park Ca, 11 July 2006
• [http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/sundocs/articles/enterprise_vault_x4500_naas.jsp Configuring the Sun Fire X4500 Server as Network Attached Archival Storage for Symantec Enterprise Vault]

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