The four-socket Sun Blade X8450 server module, based on Intel Xeon processors, is an enterprise-class engine with the highest performance and the largest memory footprint in a blade form factor. It provides up to double the memory capacity and I/O throughput of comparable blade servers, with modularity and efficiency superior to the best rackmount four-socket servers. The Sun Blade X8450 server module offers plenty of headroom for future growth and extreme flexibility, making it the ideal platform to support the broadest range of applications and usages - such as server consolidation, virtualization, database, and other enterprise applications, in addition to high-performance computing.