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Sun provides a full, end-to-end software infrastructure that supports both HPTC applications and Web applications today. At the core is our integrated software stack for technical computing, Sun ONE for HPTC. Sun Open Network Environment is our standards-based software vision, architecture, platform, and expertise for building and deploying Services on Demand. We've extended this Internet infrastructure software suite to include HPTC requirements that address Cluster and Grid Computing.
Sun HPC ClusterTools 4 software brings high-performance, development, production, and environment management capabilities to the entire range of Sun platforms running Solaris Operating Environment — from desktop systems and workgroup servers to Sun high-end servers. With Sun HPC ClusterTools 4 Software, you can now use up to 2048 processes for a single application running across a cluster of Sun hardware. This new level of scalability enables users to draw upon more processors to solve even larger and more complex problems.
Sun provides full back-end and front-end solutions that deliver your organization's HPTC applications. For instance, the Sun ONE for HPTC integrated software stack offers the building blocks for developing and implementing high performance computing applications that can be deployed as Web services. It includes a front end, based on a portal for simplifying end user access to technical computing services, plus the back end tools that enable cluster and Grid Computing.
The Sun ONE for HPTC stack includes our core production and development software technologies, plus the infrastructure to deliver Web-based collaboration tools that scientists, engineers, and business people can use to conduct their jobs anywhere, anytime, on any device.
Built on open standards, the Sun ONE for HPTC integrated software stack streamlines development time because applications can be developed once, then reused. And, because Sun ONE establishes a uniform development environment, it offers better cross-business integration and improved cost efficiencies, driving higher ROI and closer customer relationships that can maximize revenue.
The Sun ONE for HPTC integrated software stack is built on a multi-tier architecture that is deployed as follows:
- Front End — Our integrated HPTC software stack begins with a web interface designed to simplify access. Built on the Sun Grid Engine Portal (GEP), scientists, researchers, and engineers gain an easy-to-use gateway to technical computing resources.
- Back End — Our integrated stack extends the Forte for High Performance Computing tool set (a comprehensive environment for developing C, C++, and Fortran applications) to enable cluster computing. The production environment is built on Sun HPC Cluster Tools software, which is interoperable with Forte tools. Additionally, the Sun Grid Engine aggregates resources on the network, making compute power available as a network service. To govern the HPTC environment, the Sun Management Center eases systems and application administration.
Built on the Robust Solaris Operating Environment
The Sun ONE for HPTC integrated software stack runs on the Solaris Operating Environment, Sun's single, scalable, UNIX 64-bit platform. It provides one common set of applications, tools, and processes, and leverages the same skillsets, enabling your organization to lower the costs of ownership.
The Solaris Operating Environment provides significant advantages for technical computing applications. Supporting configurations up to 106 CPUs, 576GB of memory, and hundreds of terabytes of data storage within a single SMP system, the Solaris Operating Environment is scalable enough to meet your organization's technical computing demands, today and tomorrow. Furthermore, with clustering, the Solaris Operating Environment scales even further, supporting up to 1024 CPUs within a single SMP node.
The result is that your technical computing infrastructure can horizontally scale Web or application servers to serve large end-user bases, or vertically scale for data management and compute servers to handle large data sets and complex problems. And if demand suddenly changes, the Dynamic Reconfiguration capabilities supported by the Solaris Operating Environment enable system administrators to scale system resources on the fly, without taking the system down.
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