Table of Contents Overview Feature Stories HPC News New Products Price Reductions and Promotions Events     1. Feature Stories AMD and Sun Microsystems to Build Japan's Largest Supercomputer for Tokyo Institute of Technology Opteron-based Sun Fire Servers and Sun Storage Solutions Provide Best Price/Performance and Ease-of-Use for Planned 100 TeraFLOPS Scale Computing Environment AMD and Sun Microsystems announced that the Tokyo Institute of Technology is creating Japan's largest supercomputer on a foundation of Sun. The system is based on Sun Fire x64 servers with 10,480 AMD Opteron processor cores [totaling more than 50 trillion floating point operations per second (teraFLOPS)], Sun and NEC storage technologies and NEC's integration expertise as well as ClearSpeed's Advance accelerator boards. Using Sun's N1 System Manager and N1 Grid Engine, the system will be provisioned to support the Solaris 10 Operating System (OS) as well as the Linux operating environment. The Tokyo Tech system marks Sun's largest high performance computing (HPC) win to date. The grid-based supercomputer plans to expand to more than 100 teraFLOPS by its operation in Spring 2006 and is expected to be one of the five largest supercomputers in the world as ranked by Top 500 in Summer 2006. Coverage: Press Release Red Herring Reed Electronics Supercomputing Online Q&A: Sun's Bjorn Andersson Gives Insight into Big Wins By Derrick Harris, HPCwire/GRIDtoday GRIDtoday editor Derrick Harris spoke with Bjorn Andersson, Sun Microsystems' director of HPC and Grid computing, about what's going on with the company in terms of its Grid and HPC initiatives. Andersson discusses Sun's big customer win for its Sun Grid and the state of the Grid market, the company's HPC activities including its largest HPC win to-date with the Tokyo Institute of Technology. Oracle Selects the Solaris 10 Operating System as Its Preferred Open Source 64-bit Development and Deployment Environment Oracle and Sun Microsystems announced that Oracle has chosen Solaris 10 as its preferred development and deployment platform for most x64 architectures, including x64 AMD Opteron and Intel Xeon processor-based systems and Sun's UltraSPARC(R)-based systems. The Solaris 10 OS will be used throughout Oracle's development organization. Oracle also plans to release and ship 64-bit versions of all Oracle products on the Solaris OS prior to or simultaneous with the release of its products on other operating systems. Supercomputing 2005 Coverage At Supercomputing 2005, Sun Microsystems announced significant performance upgrades to its Sun Fire x64 servers powered by the high-performance AMD Opteron processor, new high performance computing (HPC) tools and applications for x64 and SPARC processor-based Sun Fire servers running the Solaris 10 Operating System, alliances with HPC industry leaders, and breakthrough storage technologies to enable rapid deployment of power-efficient Terascale compute clusters. Coverage: Press Release Seattle Times Cluster Monkey Supercomputing Online Sun Microsystems Blows Away Industry Standards for Performance with World Record-Setting New Sun Fire T1000, T2000 Servers and CoolThreads Technology Air France and Other Customers Choose Sun for 5X Performance Increase 1/5 the Power Consumption Versus IBM, Dell and HP Sun Microsystems announced the availability of the Sun Fire T1000 and T2000 servers featuring patented CoolThreads technology, the industry's first eight-core, 32-thread processor that packs the performance of a rack of servers onto a single chip. Based on the 9.6 GHz UltraSPARC(R) T1 processor, code named Niagara, the new server family has achieved eight world-record benchmarks and is setting a new industry standard for performance, energy and space efficiency with as little as half the power and space of competing systems. Back to top   2. HPTC News Sun: Back to High Performance Business Week interviews Sun co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim and Sun VP John Fowler on Sun's High Performance Computing. Sun Microsystems Delivers Leading-Edge Technologies and Tools for Production-Ready High Performance Computing "TeraFLOP to Go" Solution, Sun's Fastest-Ever Sun Fire x64 Servers as well as Advanced HPC Tools and Alliances Pave the Way for Petascale Computing of Tomorrow At Supercomputing 2005, Sun Microsystems announced significant performance upgrades to its Sun Fire x64 servers, new high performance computing (HPC) tools and applications for x64 and SPARC(R) processor-based Sun Fire servers running Solaris 10 Operating System, alliances with HPC industry leaders, and breakthrough storage technologies to enable rapid deployment of power-efficient Terascale compute clusters. Sun Microsystems Opens World-Class Solution Center For High Performance Computing Testing and Benchmarking Facility to Help Customers and Partners Deploy Large-Scale HPC Clusters Fast, Simple and Virtually Hassle-Free Sun Microsystems announced the opening of its Sun Solution Center for High Performance Computing (HPC) in Hillsboro, OR. The center is designed to make HPC practical and attainable for a wide array of customers and partners. The facility offers customers access to world-class scientists and algorithm experts who specialize in developing and deploying large-scale HPC solutions and also provides them access to some of the highest-performance storage, x64 and SPARC(R) processor-based systems on the planet. Customers and partners have an option of deploying and running their applications on a variety of environments, including the Solaris 10 OS, and standard distributions of Linux and Windows. The facility and HPC experts can help customers build and achieve large-scale HPC clusters and data centers as they experiment, benchmark, test and optimize scalable grid-based applications. Back to top   3. New Products Sun Microsystems Marks New Era in Network Computing with Breakthrough CoolThreads Technology - Unveils High-Performance, Eco-Responsible Server Line Major Launch of Sun Fire Servers Powered by CoolThreads; Powerful 9.6 GHz, Eight-Core Microprocessor Design to Leave Competitors in Dual-Core Dust; New Purchase Programs and Plans to Open Source Processor Technology to Developer Communities Sun Microsystems made several game-changing announcements, including the early arrival of its revolutionary 9.6 GHz-based, high-performance systems, led by the Sun Fire T1000 and T2000 servers with CoolThreads technology. Sun also announced its intent to open source the company's massively-threaded processor technology to further lower the barriers to innovation and application development. Sun Adds Two Sun Grid Storage Services; Largest Sun Grid Customer Deployment Extends Agreement to Two Million CPU Hours Sun Microsystems in partnership with InTechnology Plc, unveiled two new services for the upcoming Sun Grid Storage Utility: Sun Grid Remote Backup and Restore Service (RBR) and Sun Grid Remote File Vault (RFV) for U.K.-based customers. Sun Grid RBR provides secure, centralized, and remote data backup, offered through usage-based monthly billing. The complementary service, Sun Grid RFV, runs on the Solaris 10 Operating System and enables long-term remote archiving without a formal backup process. Sun Introduces Breakthrough UltraSPARC T1 Processor with CoolThreads Technology World's First Eco-Responsible Processor Uses Less than 70 Watts, Designed to Deliver Millions of Dollars in Energy Savings for Customers Sun announced the UltraSPARC(R) T1 - formerly known as "Niagara". The world's first high-performance, energy efficient processor will debut in a new line of Sun Fire servers before the end of 2005. Using patented CoolThreads technology that leverages the threaded nature of Solaris 10, the breakthrough chip is the world's first Eco-responsible processor: research shows that UltraSPARC T1 processor performance could eliminate half the Web servers in the world, slashing power requirements and having the same effect in reducing carbon dioxide emissions as planting one million acres of trees. Back to top   4. Price Reductions and Promotions Seeing is Believing Take an incredibly fast, cool-running, power-saving Sun Fire T2000 Server for a 60-day trial. Qualify for a 60-day trial of the Sun Fire T2000 Server and discover the breakthrough performance and efficiency of the world's first eco-responsible server. Powered by Chip Multithreading Technology (CMT) UltraSPARC T1 processors with CoolThreadsô technology, Sun Fire T2000 Servers are the industry's fastest, most space and energy efficient servers, ideal for all web-tier and app-tier environments. Sun Microsystems Eliminates Development and Pricing Barriers with Sun Studio 11; Offers Latest Version Free to Developers Sun Microsystems announced its latest development tool, Sun Studio 11, and eliminated pricing barriers by offering the product free of charge to all developers. Integrated into a fully-featured IDE, the latest enhancements made to Sun Studio 11 software include an advanced graphical debugger and a suite of performance analysis tools that simplifies the development process for C, C++, and Fortran programming. Sun Pioneers Shift to Free and Open Source Software; Announcing Java Enterprise System, Developer Tools and N1 Software are Available at No Cost Sun Microsystems announced two landmark moves in the battle to create the software platform of choice for the next-generation of the Internet. First, Sun is making the Java Enterprise System, Sun N1 Management software, and Sun developer tools available at no cost for both development and deployment. Second, Sun is announcing that it is integrating all of this software along with the Solaris OS into the Solaris Enterprise System, the only comprehensive and open infrastructure software platform available today. Trade-in HP, IBM or Dell Server for 15% off Sun Fire T2000 Server Trade in any qualified HP, IBM or Dell server and get a 15% trade-up allowance off the list price of an eligible Sun Fire T2000 Server with 3-year support services. 40% Trade-up Values Toward Sun Fire 20K and 25K Chassis Sun customers currently using Sun Fire UltraSPARC III based 12K and 15K chassis are now eligible for up to a 40% trade-in allowance towards replacement Sun Fire 20K and 25K chassis as part of the Sun Upgrade Advantage Program. 50% Better Performance than Dell Trade up your Dell servers and get 20% off a new Sun Fire X4100 or X4200 Server Trade in any qualified Dell server and get a 20% trade-up allowance off the list price on eligible new Sun Fire X4100 and X4200 servers with 3-year support services. Double and Triple Trade-in Value by Trading-up to a Sun StorEdge 3310 or 3510 Array Trade-in one for one Sun A/D1000s, A3000s, A3500s, A3500FC, A5X00s, T3s, StorageTek 9176, D220, B220s, Non Sun systems such as an EMC CX200, CX300, HP MSA 1000 & 1500, IBM FastT400 and 600 - Engenio based products and receive up to 15% off a Sun StorEdge 3310 or 3510 array. Back to top   5. Events US Events O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference San Diego, California March 6-9, 2006 Alpha geeks--hackers and other lead users--are a great early warning system for anyone who's watching the future of technology. The O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference frames the ideas, projects, and technologies that the alpha geeks are thinking about, hacking on, and inventing right now into a coherent picture from which to extrapolate and upon which to start building. JavaOne 2006 San Francisco, California May 16-19, 2006 The premier conference for Java developers. The Twelfth International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems Minneapolis, Minnesota> July 12-15, 2006 ICPADS 2006 provides an international forum to exchange and share experiences, new ideas, and latest research results on all aspects of parallel and distributed systems. International Conference on Parallel Processing Columbus, Ohio August 14-18, 2006 The conference provides a forum to present the latest research findings in any aspects of parallel and distributed computing. GridWorld Boston, Massachusetts October 3-6, 2006 GridWorld is designed for business and technology professionals responsible for shaping directions and deploying grid solutions within research, industry and government enterprises. International Events Australasian Symposium on Grid Computing and e-Research Hobart, Australia January 16-19, 2006 The symposium is primarily targeted at researchers from Australia and New Zealand, however in the spirit of grid computing, the organizers encourage papers and participation from international researchers. Sun HPC Consortium Meeting, University of Aachen, Germany, March 13-17 SAC 2006, Special Track on Distributed Systems and Grid Computing Dijon, France April 23-27, 2006 This track aims to be a forum for scientists, engineers, and practitioners to share technical ideas, experience and results, and to present their latest findings in any aspects of distributed and grid computing. First International Conference on Grid and Pervasive Computing Tunghai Unviersity, Taiwan May 3-5, 2006 Grid and Pervasive Computing (GPC) is an annual international conference on the emerging areas of merging grid computing and pervasive computing, aimed at providing an exciting platform and paradigm for all the time, everywhere services. Sun HPC Consortium Meeting, SINGAPORE, May 14-15, 2006 in conjunction with GridAsia Grid Asia 2006 IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid, Singapore, May 16-19, 2006 CCGrid 2006 provides researchers and practitioners with an opportunity to share their research and experience at the cross-roads of Grid Technology. IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing Paris, France, June 19-23, 2006 The Fifteenth IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC) will be a forum for presenting the latest research findings on the design and use of parallel and distributed systems for high end computing, collaboration, data analysis, and other innovative applications. International Supercomputing Conference Dresden, Germany June 27-30, 2006 The ISC is a premier venue for gaining an international perspective on the field of HPC. Combining a strong lineup of technical experts with exhibits from vendors, ISC presents state-of-the-art applications, architectures and trends in supercomputing. Back to top   How to contact us If you have questions or comments about this newsletter, please send us an email. Back to top

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