Sun Memory Travels To In-Hospitable Places
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    • Sun Memory Travels to in-hospitable places

    Michelle William

    Asset Conversion Services - ACS
    Sun Modular Datacenter (Sun MD, known in the prototype phase as Project Blackbox ) is a portable data center built into a standard 20-foot intermodal container (shipping container) manufactured and marketed by Sun Microsystems (which is now owned by Oracle Corporation ). An external chiller and power are required for the operation of a Sun MD. A data center of up to 280 servers can be rapidly deployed by shipping the container in a regular way to locations that might not be suitable for a building or another structure, and connecting it to the required infrastructure. [1] Sun Microsystems states that the system can made operational for 1% of the cost of building a traditional data center. [2]

    Asset Conversion Services updates and replaces Sun Blackbox memory modules upon request. We have service contracts in place for BlackBox memory in Dubai, Israel, Arizona, Utah, Ireland, UK and Egypt. Sun deploys a combination of T6320/T6340 Sunblade servers, as well as the MK3, Mk4 and M5000 Sun servers. These MK4 and M5000 servers use the 8 x 8GB DIMM's. Since Sun no longer lists this memory configuration on their website, Asset Conversion Services bought a good supply of the modules so they could service Sun customers at home and also in remote regions around the world.

    Asset Conversion Services (ACS) has also located and acquired T6320 and T6340 Sun Blade servers. These servers are not currently in stock at Sun and ACS is one of the few sources in the world that has stock on these machines. These servers are quite good at fully utilizing their memory:

    • The Sun Blade T6340, which can support two of Sun's UltraSPARC T2 Plus processors, which offer clock speeds of 1.2GHz or 1.4GHz, eight processing cores, along with 64 instructional threads with each chip. This blade also support 32 DIMM (dual in-line memory modules) and up to 256GB of main system memory.

    • The Sun Blade X6240, which supports two quad-core AMD Opteron 2300 processors and can be refitted to support AMD's 45-nanometer chip called “Shanghai.” This blade also supports up to 16 DIMM slots and can be outfitted to support 32GB or 64GB of main system memory

    Asset Conversion Services (ACS) started to tackle Sun Memory back in 1987. At that time there was no alternative to paying $5,000 dollars for a 512MB Sun memory modules. What ACS did was work with local engineers to come up a third party solution to Sun original memory, so other companies could afford to have the best computing systems (Sun Microsystems) in the world at that time. ACS helped level the playing field and soon after companies like Dataram and Kingston Technologies followed suit.

    The first challenge to using Sun third party memory is that Sun Service people would flag any machines using it as not being in compliance. Some buyers of Sun third party memory gave in, but a good majority turned to other service organization as an alternative to combat paying inflated memory prices from Sun.

    Today ACS offers customers a choice between Sun original memory or third party alternatives. The good news is that Sun/Oracle realizing that they were not in-line with current memory pricing, have adjusted their prices accordingly. For more information about Sun Memory contact ACS at 408-288-7300.
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