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A Community of HPC Practitioners Gathers 'Round the Watercooler
Thirsty for news and insights into the latest trends and technologies in the world of High Performance Computing? The Web-based Sun HPC Watercooler community is just the place to collaborate with other HPC practitioners and stay ahead of the HPC curve.
The Sun HPC Watercooler community shares information, ideas, and best practices, and offers a wealth of industry-wide and Sun-specific HPC resources. It's a great place to learn about the products, technologies, and personalities that make Sun an HPC powerhouse.
A recent visit to the HPC Watercooler found information on Sun at the Supercomputing 2006 conference, the Sun HPC Consortium, the Sun HPC Solution Center, and links to engaging blogs, on-demand Net Talk Webinars, and Sun publications. Some highlights:
Sun at Supercomputing 2006
Sun showcased its HPC technologies in mid-November at Supercomputing 2006, the world's largest HPC convention. On display at the Tampa, Florida, conference were Sun x64 clusters featuring AMD Opteron processors, advanced visualization, HPC storage, technologies using the open source Open MPI standard, and the Solaris 10 Operating System.
Sun hosted demonstrations by Tokyo Tech, which runs Japan's largest supercomputer on a cluster of 655 Sun Fire X4600 x64 servers, as well as partner demos from EnginFrame, eXludus, NVIDIA, Open iT, Qlogic, ProE, Synopsis, and Wolfram Research.
As a special feature at the Sun booth, the Department of Computer Science at the University of Houston displayed a set of futuristic visualization technologies for healthcare. The presentation combined non-invasive imaging technologies with computational resources to simultaneously collect an array of health information from a patient, analyzing and giving results in real time.
HPC Consortium
In conjunction with Supercomputing 2006, Sun hosted the HPC Consortium Meeting. The Sun HPC Consortium is an independent, volunteer-organized, international group of member organizations that own or use Sun computer systems with emphasis on HPC, technical computing, and visualization.
The Consortium provides the HPC community with leadership and provides a forum for information exchange to enable the development and effective use of Sun computational tools in achieving the business and research objectives of member organizations. All Sun scientific, engineering, or research computing customers or anyone interested in HPC on Sun technologies are encouraged to join.
Each meeting agenda is designed to address a wide range of interests from application developers to CIOs and VPs of Research. Note that the SHPCC agenda includes Sun-confidential information and all attendees must sign a confidential information disclosure agreement, or have an existing agreement on file with their local Sun sales office.
Sun HPC Solution Center
The Sun HPC Solution Center, located in Hillsboro, Oregon, provides an efficient datacenter and experienced operations staff to run numerically intense codes, usually for scientific or technical applications in fields such as MCAE, seismic processing, financial modeling, or signal processing.
The Hillsboro Benchmark Center's operations staff ensures that large, complex configurations can be built efficiently. The Benchmark Center staff features seven benchmark engineers and two operations support engineers with over 200 years combined experience, plus fluency in English, Dutch, French, Japanese, and Spanish.
HPC benchmarks include most non-database applications, and can be run for homegrown FORTRAN, C++ and C codes or for ISV applications such as Gaussian98. Over time the HPC group has developed significant experience with many common third-party HPC applications, and the center is continually refreshed with the latest processing, software, and interconnect technology.
More HPC Watercooler Resources
You'll also find opportunities to learn and share the latest in HPC technologies and trends with a collection of on-demand Webinars, blogs, and Sun's HPC newsletter.
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Sun Grid Rack System Net Talk:
Learn about the challenges and the benefits of grid computing in this on-demand Webinar hosted by Renato Ribeiro, product marketing manager, Grid and HPC Systems. Dr. Ribeiro explains how the Sun Grid Rack System gives you a ready-to-deploy integrated system with Sun x64 servers, networking options and grid-ready software, delivered in a Sun rack.
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HPC: Accelerating the Competitive Edge:
In this Net Talk on Demand, Sun HPC Director Bjorn Andersson walks through what HPC is, who is using it, industry trends, and why it is important today, You'll also learn about Sun's commitment to HPC, the Sun Grid Rack System for HPC, and Sun's HPC Solution Center for HPC in Oregon. |
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HPC Quarterly Newsletter:
An email newsletter designed to keep you up to date on High Performance Computing activities at Sun. Each issue is packed with feature articles, Sun product news, third-party media coverage, upcoming online and in-person events, and more.
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Marc Hamilton's Blog: Join the director of Sun's HPC Global Systems Practice on his jet-setting adventures to bring HPC expertise to customers around the globe.
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