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DAILY NEWS AND INFORMATION
FOR THE GLOBAL GRID COMMUNITY /
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Systems/Enterprise:
SUN INSTITUTES HPTC ALLIANCE
PARTNER PROGRAM
Increasing its momentum and recent growth in the high performance and
technical computing (HPTC) market, Sun Microsystems Inc added an array of
interconnect technology companies as part of the newly established Sun HPTC
Alliance Partner Program geared to advance Grid performance for Sun customers.
This alliance program aims to provide customers with a wide range of
technologies covering data, compute, visualization and access to Grid
computing solutions. HPTC Alliance partners introduced by Sun today include
Infinicon, Force10 Networks, Mellanox, Myrinet, Quadrics, Topspin
Communications and Voltaire.
"Sun's HPTC Alliance Partner Program provides Sun customers with a wide
range
of advanced technologies and allows us to tailor solutions to specific
customer needs," said Shahin Khan, vice president of the HPTC business unit at
Sun. "We're leading the HPTC market with our UltraSPARC and Solaris-based
servers and HPTC solutions, and through a spike in deployments of Sun
x86-based, Linux clusters. With next generation Opteron-based systems on the
horizon, Sun HPTC Alliance partners can reach and serve an even larger segment
of the market."
These new industry alliances can immediately benefit many
performance-hungry
HPTC customers using clusters and Grids to support large-scale scientific and
exploratory projects. These include many NSF-funded projects as well as global
efforts like the TeraGrid and the current Mars rover explorations which use
Sun systems including the Solaris platform and Java technology.
The HPTC business unit at Sun has attracted major customer wins in market
segments including education, as customers look to maximize their existing
resources through Grid and cluster computing. To foster innovative learning,
Sun is committed to bringing collaboration in the academic environment for
both research and development, as well as high performance computing across
the enterprise for intensive compute environments within academia. Many
universities make extensive use of Sun and its partner's technologies
advantageously to achieve their computing goals.
At Pennsylvania State University, Sun's systems are part of the Pleiades
Cluster which analyzes data from the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave
Observatory (LIGO). Pleiades is one component of the LIGO Scientific
Collaboration Data Grid and a member of the International Virtual Data Grid
Laboratory (iVDGL), an international computational laboratory that supports
experimentation in Grid-enabled, data-intensive scientific computing.
"A combination of clustered Sun Fire V60x servers and an InfiniBand
interconnect from a Sun partner demonstrates how Sun and its HPTC partners
create a total solution that gives us the performance we need in our HPC
environment," said Vijay Agarwala, director of High Performance Computing and
Visualization at Pennsylvania State University.
The new HPTC Alliance partners announced includes the following
interconnect
technology companies: Force10 Networks, Infinicon, Mellanox, Myricom,
Quadrics, Topspin Communications and Voltaire.
About Sun Microsystems Inc
Since its inception in 1982, a singular vision -- "The Network Is The
Computer" -- has propelled Sun Microsystems Inc to its position as a leading
provider of industrial-strength hardware, software and services that make the
Net work. Sun can be found in more than 100 countries and on the World Wide
Web at sun.com/.
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