Scientific & Engineering
Our Focus Areas in Scientific EngineeringChemistryComputational ChemistrySun is making great strides in providing computationalchemistry solutions. Up until recently this market was dominated by SGI,but with the growing network economy, more software vendors and chemistsare realizing the advantages of Sun's vision. Hundredsof applications run under Solaris and every application which runs on Solariswill run on any Sun product from the desktop to the largest servers; andSun is the leading partner for companies seeking to become ApplicationService Providers or who wish to deliver services over the Net. Life SciencesSun now enables a full range of life science applicationsincluding AMBER, CHARMM, CNX, and MACROMODEL, as well as being one ofthe leading providers of bioinformatics software.Through a recent agreement with Molecular Simulations, Inc. their entirelife sciences suite including WebLab will soon be available on Solaris. Materials SciencesSun continues our commitment to a wide variety ofab initio software packages including GAUSSIAN, Jaguar, GAMESS, Q-CHEM,MolPro, and NW Chem. Chemical InformaticsSun is well known for it's leadership in informationand database hosting. Daylight ChemicalInformation Systems supports Solaris on their entire software productline. The leading vendor of chemical informatics software, MDL, now fullysupports Solaris, including their core applications ISIS/Host, ChemscapeServer, and ISIS/Direct. (PressRelease) Presentation at the HPC Meeting in Dallas GeosciencesGeoscience can range from understanding the complete Earth system - Earth Science, Atmospheric Science, Ocean Science - to state of the art usage of GIS data in applications for our most modern wireless devices. Historically much resource has been put into pure research in numerous disciplines relating to Geoscience. During the 21st Century much of the focus of scientists and researchers will be concentrated on how to leverage the knowledge we have gained and continue to gain insight into applications benefiting our international society. Whether it be better storm prediction or more optimal use of wireless technology, international governments are investing in the practical application of our scientific knowledge. Sun's products fit into each area of current research as well as becoming the integral component driving the solutions of the next generation problems. Sun is putting increasing investment into the ISV relationships that are central suppliers of tools and software to the Geoscience community. Some of the more relevant areas for future Geoscience growth and development include:
Oil and Gas Sun is developing a consortium of leading researchers worldwide who can expand the existing applications base as well as identifying new applications technologies. This consortium will be closely tied to industry and will be aggressively facilitating new deployment opportunities. EngineeringSuccess Stories
Industrial Applications Weather & Climate ModelingThe weather and climate modeling market is an internationalmarket that acquires in excess of $100M/year of computing technology.The technologies are spread throughout both academic and research institutionschartered with refining existing simulation techniques as well asapplying state of the art hardware and software technology to define thenew paradigm of simulations. The key software applications used in thisindustry include HIRLAM, MM5, and CCM. These applications utilize routinesfrom vendors such as NAG to enhance their simulations. As advancesare made in visualization techniques, they will be employed more widelyon desktop and server systems to increase the productivity of researchteams. Customer Story Computational BiologyComputational Biology techniques enables life scienceresearchers to capture, organize and analyze vast amounts of data and toconvert this data into information and knowledge useful for designing improvedmedical and agricultural products and processes. The Computational Biology segment consists ofbioinformatics (genomic (sequence) and post-genomics (gene expression,proteomics, pharmacogenomics, etc.)) data, molecular modeling/computationalchemistry applied to peptides/proteins, biological networks and simulations,and certain aspects of medical bioinformatics (clinical trial design, simulation,experimentation, from a research perspective as opposed to a "production"perspective). Computational Biology Literature Success Stories in Computational Biology
In a joint venture between Sydney University, Sun Microsystems andlocal Internet-based company eBioinformatics, the supercomputer will beused by both the academic and commercial sectors. It will be housed byeBioinformatics at the Australian Technology Park, Sydney. CB-SIG Presentations at the CCPGA2 Meeting in Durham Presentations at the HPC Meeting in Denver Presentations at the HPC Meeting in Heidelberg
Presentations at the HPC Meeting in Dallas
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Computational Biology Special Interest Group Computational FinanceThe world's economy has become a matrix of interdependentinfluences that now affect even the simplest of financial transactionsand events. Sun is deploying its' broad product line into the hands ofresearchers worldwide who are experimenting and discovering new and moderntechniques for financial modeling, risk analysis, equity trading methods,as well as new, untested methods of simulation. Sun's goal is the developmentof a worldwide consortium of leading research institutions working closelywith the industrial community to enhance existing financial models anddevelop new, state of the art models that will allow industry to betterrun their businesses towards profitable goals. Researchers will be using Sun hardware and softwaretechnologies in concert with applications technologies from ISV's suchas Informix and NAG to develop and implement the new simulation techniques.Use of current and future hardware with newly developed applicationstechnologies will allow the researchers to simulate phenomena heretoforethought untouchable as well as analyze ongoing financial transactions inthe most timely manner ever conceived. Stay tuned to our computational finance website aswe continue to build our worldwide research team of partners. Let us knowyour thoughts and desires for enhancements. Sun'sIndustrial Applications: HPC Environments (Grid Computing)Computing Infrastructure and High Performance ComputingEnvironments (HPCE) Sun's vision for Scientific and Engineering computingis to provide a seamless, integrated environment from desktop to TeraFLOPSfor both floating point and data intensive computing. Sun's emphasis ison providing the highest level of sustained performance, not just the biggest"peak theoretical" GFLOPS-TFLOPS. This is accomplished by a combinationof hardware and software reliability, availability, and serviceability (RAS),and providing high quality tools and software. Scientific and Engineering computing and HPC rely heavilyon programming and performance tools and work load and storage managementsystems. The complete HPCE can include all the following:
Sun has strategic investments and partnershipsin all these areas such as:
Grid Computing at Sun Microsystems, Inc. Grid ComputingHomepage with Grid Engine 5.3 Software (free download) SunTREC: HPC Grid Presentations at the HPC Meeting in Dallas
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Sun' s HPC Initiative Computer ScienceComputer Science is the discipline that underlies muchof the information technology revolution, from computer languages (e.g.JAVA), Operating Systems (e.g., SOLARIS), Hardware Components and SystemsDesign (e.g., SPARC, E10000), and Networks (e.g., Sun GigabitEthernet). Presentations at the last two HPC Meetings 2000
Storage presentations at the HPC Meeting in Mannheim
Sun moves to DOTCOM-HighPerformance Computing
Presentation: Visualization of a Complex CFD Simulationwith JAVA3, Innovation Partner Frank Eulitz - DLR Success Stories
MathematicsMathematics is a basic enabling discipline that underliesmuch of science and engineering (as well as business). Sun isparticularly interested in the applications of IntervalArithmetic, which is now supported by Sun in several FORTEcompilers and is starting to be supported in hardware,as well.
Presentations at the HPC Meeting in Dallas
Partner & Solutions PhysicsPhysics encompasses a wide variety of computationalsciences. The most high-profile national research projects are in high-energyphysics (HEP), with other disciplinessuch as astronomy being smaller. HEP can be divided into two branches: HEP is highly concentrated in countries which can affordlarge HEP facilities such as CERN, SLAC, and Fermilab. Sun's role in the physics market is in network computing(grid computing), providing servers for large memory simulations, and large-scalefile services. Sun's Solutions Catalog: Power Systems (Fossil,Hydro,Nuclear)
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