Thursday, September 17, 2009

Sun High Performance Computing




Sun is gearing up big on High Performance Computing (HPC) from my own observation on the ground. 

It now offers Business Ready HPC:

Industry solutions optimized for maximum application performance, efficiency, and scale with reliability built-in. Shorten your product development cycles. Enable you to make better decisions, faster. Boost your ROI, giving you a major competitive advantage.

The solution is compelling. It has readily-deployable solution for the industries that require high-performance and great reliability. Read more here

Besides storage, the central piece of Sun HPC solution its software - Sun HPC Software, Linux Edition.

Sun HPC Software, Linux Edition is an integrated, open-source software solution for Sun HPC clusters. It simplifies the deployment of HPC clusters by providing a ready-made framework of software components to use to turn a bare-metal system into a running HPC cluster. It provides software to provision, manage, and operate large scale Linux HPC clusters and serves as a foundation for optional add-ons such as schedulers, like Sun's Sun Grid Engine, and other components not included with the solution.

As usual, the Linux Edition is open-source and thus FOC. If you do not feel comfortable without support, you can run Solaris Cluster (formerly known as Sun Cluster). 


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