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Sun HPC Software

New, powerful open source software and development tools enable users to simplify installation, create and optimize applications, and easily manage their HPC clusters. Learn more and download now.


Integrated Stack and Management Software


Sun HPC Software, Linux Edition 1.0
This integrated, open-source software solution simplifies the deployment of HPC clusters by providing a ready-made framework of software components to use to turn a bare-metal system into a running HPC cluster. An extensive verification suite provides tools to verify interoperability of software and hardware and help ensure a stable environment.

Sun Grid Engine 6.2
The recognized industry leader in compute workload management, Sun Grid Engine provides policy-based workload management and dynamic provisioning of application workloads. Planned for release in August 2008, Sun Grid Engine 6.2 features enhanced scalability, new multi-clustering resource management, advance reservation and new subscription offerings. Multi-platform support includes the Solaris OS, Linux, Windows and Mac OS.

Sun xVM Ops Center
Sun xVM Ops Center is part of the Sun xVM family, which is Sun's approach to simplifying and optimizing very large scale datacenter operations with products and technologies that address both the virtualization of individual servers as well as management of large groups of mission-critical physical systems. It is a complete, highly scalable datacenter automation platform designed to scale for demanding HPC environments as well as distributed global IT environments to manage dense physical server farms and large virtual server pools.

Built-in to xVM Ops Center is an easy-to-use interface with simplified workflows and powerful grouping mechanisms to discover, bare-metal provision, update and monitor hundreds of simultaneous operations at a time for thousands of systems. The xVM Ops Center management platform supports a multitude of RedHat and SuSE Linux variants along with Solaris in one single unified solution so operators can quickly provision, update and monitor different OS environments using one system.

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Development Tools


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Solaris HPC Developer Preview
Solaris HPC Developer Preview enables developers to quickly install a complete set of HPC development tools on an existing system running the Solaris 10 OS or OpenSolaris. This software integrates Sun HPC ClusterTools, Sun Grid Engine and Sun Studio. It offers rapid development and optimization of HPC applications and seamlessly allows the software to be deployed in a parallel environment.

Sun HPC ClusterTools 8.0
This integrated toolkit allows developers to create and tune Message-passing Interface (MPI) applications that run on high performance clusters and SMPs. Sun HPC ClusterTools supports both the Solaris OS and Linux and features enhanced parallel application performance analysis and optimization as well as VampirTrace and MPI PERUSE capabilities.

Sun Studio 12
Sun Studio 12 software is available on the Solaris OS and Linux and delivers outstanding performance for single and multithreaded application development. With it's optimizing C, C++ and Fortran compilers, the world-class, Netbeans-based IDE, autoparallelization, thread analyzer, thread-aware debugger and performance analysis tools, developers can more easily migrate and optimize their applications.

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Operating Systems

The Solaris ecosystem consists of the Solaris OS release plus the open source OpenSolaris OS release.

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Solaris
The Solaris OS offers the performance, flexibility and massive scalability to support your most compute-intense applications while also improving overall system productivity and ease of use. Fast, free and easy to download, deploy and use, the Solaris OS grants early access to the latest technologies -- including DTrace, ZFS, Predictive Self Healing (FMA) and IPS -- that can be deployed risk-free today.

OpenSolaris
The new OpenSolaris release offers next-generation innovation and the opportunity to use, contribute and share open source solutions and integrate and customize for your environment.

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HPC Storage Software

Sun offers a wide variety of file systems that can be used individually or integrated into cohesive solutions.

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Sun StorageTek Storage Archive Manager (SAM)
Sun StorageTek Storage Archive Manager software provides data classification, policy based data placement, protection, migration, long-term retention, and recovery capabilities for organizations to effectively manage and utilize data according to their business requirements.

Sun StorageTek QFS shared file system software
Sun StorageTek QFS software delivers significant scalability, data management, and throughput for the most data-intensive applications. This fully clustered SAN aware file system lets multiple file servers access the same data at the same time providing great scalability and increased bandwidth.

Lustre File System
Lustre File System is open sourced and allows easy aggregation of tens of thousands of cluster nodes  and petabytes of storage into one file system. Lustre File System can achieve >90%  of raw I/O bandwidth and can help customers save at least 20% in  hardware costs while achieving the same I/O goal.

Solaris ZFS
The world's most advanced file system delivers data integrity and reliability, tremendous performance, and integration of file-system and volume-management capabilities. With Solaris ZFS snapshots, you can test your ideas and then roll back to an earlier development point if a problem is discovered.

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Visualization Software


Sun Visualization System
Key for analyzing complex data rapidly, the Sun Visualization System combines both Sun Scalable Visualization software and Sun Shared Visualization software, as well as powerful NVIDIA graphics solutions with Sun systems, networking and interconnect. Sun Scalable Visualization software scales across a cluster of Sun systems with graphics accelerators to support immersive environments and parallel rendering. Sun Shared Visualization software provides users remote visualization and collaboration regardless of viewing device or operating environment.

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