Faster flow from Sun and Boeing

Boeing and Sun Microsystems Federal plan to launch an open architecture that will enable organisations to collect, process and store massive amounts of data at extremely high speed.

Capable of processing more than 10 gigabits of data per second, the joint solution is designed to foster data analysis, sharing and decision making for a variety of markets, including life science, energy, and aerospace. Ten gigabits per second is equivalent to processing 250 copies of the complete works of Shakespeare or 125 chest x-rays in one second.

‘More and more organisations need a computing architecture that enables real-time access to data at speeds of 10 gigabits per second,’ said Evan Harrigan, principal engineer at Sun Microsystems. ‘Sun and Boeing have designed an architecture that provides both real-time access and redundancy, eliminating a single point of failure.’

The architecture is said to address the computing demands of several data-intensive tasks, including: operational intelligence and surveillance, epidemic trend analysis and prediction, failure analysis of aircraft and ships, predictive traffic management, weather and ocean forecasting, and virtual design.