Sun Computational Biology SIG Newsletter - 20 August 2004
Interesting Sun V20z (Solaris x86 on Opteron) Installation SUN SOLARIS COMPUTE GRID POWERS NEXT GENERATION NUCLEAR REACTOR DESIGN FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY Sun Solution Provides Sevenfold Boost in Computing Power for the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory Why should you be interested in this? This is a great win for Sun with both V20z's and Solaris x86. They chose Solaris because of Zones, which they will be using to securely allocate shared resources, which they couldn't do with any other OS. They are also using the entirety of the rest of Sun's software stack - Studio compilers for performance (Fortran, some C) and Sun Java ES system for setting up collaboration across the world. The solution includes more than 230 Sun Fire V20z servers powered by AMD Opteron processors, and more than 12 Terabytes of Sun StorEdge 6320 storage, the Solaris 9 Operating System, Sun Java Enterprise System and Java development software, Sun Grid Engine Enterprise Edition, Sun's StarOffice 7.0 office productivity platform, as well as advanced on-site training and support from Sun's Services division. The cluster's full-throttle computing power ranks the INEEL datacenter as one of the world's top 150 supercomputing sites. ISMB News: Sun News
This handout was distributed at ISMB Glasgow and contains some interesting information and product news. Call for Papers for CB-SIG in Association with "Bridging the Gaps in Computational Biology", RTP, NC October 28-29, 2004 Please send, as soon as possible, a short proposal for a 30 minute presentation to stefan.unger@sun.com This should be a scientific/technical presentation based on work performed with Sun technology, but it does not, and should not, need to be an "advertisement"! This CB-SIG meeting will be held in conjunction with the "Bridging the Gaps in Computational Biology" meeting being planned with our RTP COE. It is a separate, half-day, free, event, however. Next HPC Consortium will be 5-7 November 2004 in Pittsburgh
Our Next HPC Consortium will be 5-7 November 2004 in Pittsburgh, right before the Supercomputer 04 conference.
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