Community Source Licensing

Welcome to Sun's HPC ClusterTools Software community source code access site. Sun HPC ClusterTools technology source code is now freely available through the Sun Community Source Code License (SCSL) model. Our Community Source Licensing Model is the result of Sun's continued commitment to the open development of key technologies. The SCSL model is a license model designed for distributing source code among the developer community. The model is based on a set of principles outlined in our newly released "Community Source License Principles". The goal of this program is to spur innovation and foster a broader relationship with the HPC community.

Making intellectual property readily available for evaluation and early-stage development will increase the rate of innovation, allowing new products to be developed more quickly. We believe our licensees will realize increased competitiveness and profitability. Community members can help each other refine, extend, and improve HPC ClusterTools technologies by sharing information and test-driving the technologies without the barrier of up-front fees.

Benefits of Community Source Licensing

• Encourages innovation and invention
• Combines the best of Open Source and Proprietary licenses
• Enables fast, widespread adoption of Sun HPC ClusterTools technology

In the past, organizations developing High Performance Computing solutions had to make substantial financial investments up front before exploring and innovating with an underlying architecture. The Sun Community Source Licensing model changes all that, for it enables software developers, commercial OEMs, universities and research organizations to "test drive" the software without paying any fees during the initial evaluation and development phases.

By gaining easy access to the Sun HPC ClusterTools software core with no initial investment, organizations are now able to:

• Explore and develop pilot programs for new types of High Performance Computing solutions.
• Exploit lower risk benefits to expand product development programs, which allows for more innovation.
• Improve time-to-market because easy access to licensable intellectual property means shorter development cycles.
• Build more competitive products for the High Performance Computing market taking advantage of Sun's well-known technologies.

Questions or comments on these licenses? SCSL-comments@sun.com