Cooling doors

Sun provides two types of cooling doors, which attach directly to the Sun Blade 6048 Chassis

Quite WoW :)

SAS vs SSD with vdbench

Server	SAS vs SSD
	HP DL360 G6 8x146GB SAS 15k RAID 10	HP DL360 G6 8x146GB SAS 15k RAID 50	DELL M600 2x146GB SAS 15K RAID1	Sun X4450 4x32GB SSD	Sun X4140/X4440 4x32GB SSD	Sun T5240 4x32GB SSD
Random Read (4K)	2.1K IOPS	1.9K IOPS	0.6K IOPS	98.4K IOPS	33.8K IOPS	71.5K IOPS
Random Write (4K)	1.9K IOPS	1.1K IOPS	0.25K IOPS	31.8K IOPS	16.6K IOPS	14.4K IOPS
50-50 Read/Write (4K)	2.0K IOPS	1.4K IOPS	0.3K IOPS	14.9K IOPS	13.3K IOPS	15.7K IOPS
Sequential Read (MB/sec)	383 MB/sec	245 MB/sec	71 MB/sec	764 MB/sec	463 MB/sec	1012 MB/sec
Sequential Write (MB/sec)	219 MB/sec	597 MB/sec	70 MB/sec	376 MB/sec	470 MB/sec	531 MB/sec

SSD results get from here
Test file was:

sd=sd1,lun=/dev/cciss/c0d0p5,openflags=o_direct
*wd=wd1,sd=sd1,xfersize=4096,rdpct=100
*rd=run1,wd=wd1,iorate=100,elapsed=10,interval=1

wd=wm_80dr,sd=sd*,readpct=0,rhpct=0,seekpct=100
wd=ws_80dr,sd=sd*,readpct=0,rhpct=0,seekpct=0
wd=rm_80dr,sd=(sd1-sd80),readpct=100,rhpct=0,seekpct=100
wd=rs_80dr,sd=(sd1-sd80),readpct=100,rhpct=0,seekpct=0
wd=rwm_80dr,sd=sd*,readpct=50,rhpct=0,seekpct=100
rd=default
###Random Read and writes tests varying transfer size
rd=default,el=30m,in=6,forx=(4K),forth=(32),io=max,pause=20
rd=run1_rm_80dr,wd=rm_80dr
rd=run2_wm_80dr,wd=wm_80dr
rd=run3_rwm_80dr,wd=rwm_80dr
###Sequential read and Write tests varying transfer size
rd=default,el=30m,in=6,forx=(512k),forth=(32),io=max,pause=20
rd=run4_rs_80dr,wd=rs_80dr
rd=run5_ws_80dr,wd=ws_80dr

Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs - Sun movie ?

Blue Sky Studios, a wholly-owned unit of Fox Filmed Entertainment, deployed Sun Blade servers and Sun Ultra workstations for the rendering of its new animated feature Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, giving them four times better performance than their previous solution.

Blue Sky deployed a Sun Constellation System consisting of 10 Sun Blade 6048 chassis with a total of 480 Sun Blade X6250 server modules, each powered by two Intel Xeon processor 5400 series; 120 Sun Ultra 24 workstations powered by the Intel Core 2 processor; and Sun's Enterprise Installation Services. After full implementation, Blue Sky reaped performance that was four times faster than their previous solution, allowing them to render digital frames faster and create more frames in less time.

http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/pr/2009-07/sunflash.20090706.1.xml