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Texas Advanced Computing Center
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Royal Dutch Meteorological Institute (KNMI)
San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC)
University of Calgary
Aachen University of Technology
Caprion Pharmaceuticals
HPC Virtual Labs (HPCVL)
University of Durham
Physiome Sciences, Inc.
Texas Advanced Computing Center
"The Texas Advanced Computing Center at the University of Texas at Austin is using a Sun Fire V880z visualization system in its ACES Visualization Laboratory to do visualization for a range of applications including computational fluid dynamics, bioinformatics, and geophysical modeling. We'll be using the Sun Fire V880z visualization system to perform complex rendering and multi-processing of graphics and images for researchers in a diverse range of fields. The speed of graphics and superior image quality of the Sun Fire V880z visualization system will play a significant role in these key areas of technology and research."
Dr. Kelly Gaither
Associate Director
Texas Advanced Computing Center
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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
"High-quality high-resolution interactive graphics are essential for understanding the complex dynamics in biomolecular simulations. Stereoscopic display and high-quality anti-aliasing are two of the key XVR-4000 features exploited by VMD."
Gila Budescu
NIH Resource for Macromolecular Modeling and Bioinformatics
Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Royal Dutch Meteorological Institute (KNMI)
"After an extensive analysis of possible vendors we chose Sun Microsystems, Inc., and specifically the Sun Fire 15K server to replace the old computers...It was crucial to us to have a server run applications simultaneously even though we had a different set of performance goals for each of the applications."
Dr. Rene van Lier
Coordinator of the Computer Center
Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute
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San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC)
"Sun is not only providing the platform architecture, but the vision and the
roadmap for our server and storage infrastructure, thereby allowing SDSC to manage
the exponential increases in data growth."
Phil Andrews
Program Director for High End Computing
SDSC
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University of Calgary
"Sun's system architects worked diligently with us on planning our system for over
a year, providing support that was way beyond anything we paid for. Without their help,
the lab wouldn't be what it is today. If another institution were to start now, it would take
them two years to duplicate what we've put together with Sun's help. This
has given us a distinct competitive advantage."
Dr. Christoph Sensen
Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
University of Calgary
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Aachen University of Technology [See Feature Story]
"We chose Sun over IBM, HP, SGI, Compaq, and NEC. The main reasons were Sun's scalability, its extensive third party application availability, the very favorable price Sun offered, binary compatibility throughout a broad range of computer sizes, computational power, and Sun's interest in working closely with university personnel to make Aachen a center of HPC excellence."
Dr. Klaus Bruehl
Head of Group Data and Computing Services
Communications and Computing Center
Aachen University of Technology
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Caprion Pharmaceuticals
"We were extremely fortunate that the company with the highest performance technology
today is the same company that has the ability, willingness, and scalability to help us feel
comfortable about tomorrow - Sun Microsystems."
Paul Kearney
Director of Bioinformatics
Caprion Pharmaceuticals
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HPC Virtual Labs (HPCVL)
"Why did we select Sun? In a word, innovativeness. Sun proposed highly innovative
technology, which was very important of course, but what really distinguished Sun was
the innovative partnering proposal they made."
Dr. Kenneth Edgecombe
Executive Director
HPCVL
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University of Durham
"I'm very happy with the decisions we made. 456 billion arithmetic operations per second
sounds like a lot, but our performance demands are growing roughly in accordance with
Moore's Law. That means Sun's scalability is crucial to us in maintaining our lead. The
unique functionality that Sun engineered will help us change the profile of cosmological
research. Sun is a great company to be working with."
Professor Carlos Frenk
Director of the Institute for Computational Cosmology and Ogden Professor of Astrophysics
University of Durham,
and
Principal Investigator
of the Virgo Consortium
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Physiome Sciences, Inc.
"Physiome Sciences can take advantage of all the information coming from the
Human Genome Project without delay, and Sun is an important part of this success.
We've had great, great technical synergy with Sun."
Dr. Jeremy Levin
President and CEO
Physiome Sciences, Inc.
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