High Performance Computing (HPC)

Welcome to the High Performance Computing Community of Interest

Join the High Performance Computing Consortium and explore the resources and solutions which Sun has to offer your university.

Technology Solutions for High Performance Computing

Sun's vision for Scientific and Engineering computing is to provide a seamless, integrated environment from desktop to TeraFLOPS for both floating point and data intensive computing. Sun's emphasis is on providing the highest level of sustained performance, not just the biggest "peak theoretical" GFLOPS-TFLOPS. This is accomplished by a combination of hardware and software reliability, availability, and serviceability (RAS), and providing high quality tools and software.

Sun's complete end-to-end HPC architecture and integratable solutions fully leverage the Internet to enable efficient management of the entire enterprise with all its growth and complexity - not just technical computing services. The best HPC Solutions bring customers to the networked technical world by optimizing data center efficiency and business productivity of people, processes, and architectures. » More

Partnership Programs

Centers of Excellence

-	University of New Brunswick
-	Technical University of Aachen (RTWH)
-	University of Ulm (Computational Chemistry)
-	Queens University of Kingston (Canada) HPCVL

External Research Office

Resources

Presentations and White Papers

-	Understanding Data-Grid Architecture for Higher Education
-	Web Services for High Performance Technical Computing
-	Sun Blueprint - A New Open Resource Management Architecture in the Sun HPC ClusterTools Environment
-	Sun Blueprint - Resource Management in the Solaris 9 Operating Environment
-	Blueprint - Introduction to the cluster grid Part 1 - Part 2

Data Sheets

-	Solaris 10 for HPC datasheet

Success Stories

-	Aachen University of Technology
-	Stanford Linear Accelerator Center Studies the Mysteries of the Universe Using Sun Servers and 100+ TB of Sun StorEdge Arrays