The emerging services-focused and Web-centric approach to HPTC is bringing increased competitive pressure for a more collaborative model of technical computing. This evolution of HPTC brings important trends:
- Increasing numbers of users of HPTC applications, who are not necessarily technically savvy
- The systems and resources these users are tapping are increasingly shared — and there are increasing numbers of computing resources within each organization.
The desktop is becoming the "thin client" access tool into these systems and resources. Organizations with high-performance computing requirements require simplified and more efficient ways to run and monitor jobs and results. They also need to simplify the process of sharing resources and opening up access to broader segments of the end user community. Specifically, customers are telling Sun that their key requirements in the access/share arena are:
- Improve and simplify the user access experience
- Simplify delivery of technical applications and services
- Enable resource sharing and more efficient resource management
- Create a truly collaborative development environment.
Sun has focused on a full set of technologies and solutions to meet these needs:
- Sun's Grid Engine Portal (GEP), which provides a simplified, Web-based point of access to users across the organization. With Sun's Grid Engine Portal solution, end users can accomplish their tasks without requiring specialized UNIX knowledge for locating or gaining entry to HPTC resources
- Sun's Collaborative Development Environment, featuring the Forte tools for building portal applications, and HPC ClusterTools that aggregate computing power to run the technical computing application or problem
- Sun's Grid Engine integrated resource management tool, which efficiently manages access to computing resources wherever they are, based on their ability to run the job when it is needed
- Sun's iPlanet software, for deploying high performance computing resources as services across the Web.
With Sun's solutions, your organization can achieve significant cost savings through greater return on IT assets and technical computing resources, through higher utilization, and more efficient utilization of applications, infrastructure investments, and engineers' and adminstrators' time (no need to write scripts). In short, you can create a more effective technical computing environment that is more efficient, more productive, and therefore more competitive.
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