High Performance Computing

Aachen University of Technology

Sun helped Aachen migrate to an open, flexible, cost-effective clustered symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) system to handle resource-hungry applications.

ACEnet

"Teraflop to Go" Solution, Sun's Fastest-Ever Sun Fire x64 Servers as well as Advanced HPC Tools and Alliances Pave the Way for Petascale Computing of Tomorrow

Altair Engineering

Altair Engineering - a Michigan-headquartered, global PLM and grid technology developer - selected the Sun Fire x4500, an integrated x64 server and storage system, in order to improve Altair's software development productivity and speed delivery to its customers.

AMD Saxony LLC & Co. KG

"The Sun Systems-based compute farm has really speeded up regression runs. Individual tests were as much as ten times faster."

Arctic Region Supercomputing Center (ARSC)

Sun Paves Path to Petaflops with HPC Solutions and Services

Baden-Württemberg CAD/CAM Centers

Sun Workstations Improve Instruction in Baden-Württemberg's Universities

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Deploys Sun Compute Grid to Uncover New Ways to Treat Diseases

CERN

Sun StorageTek Tape Drive Technology Cost-Effectively Handles Huge Data Volume for Major Scientific Undertaking

CDO2

Software Provider Gains Competitive Edge by Using Sun Grid Compute Utility to Strengthen Customers' Negotiating Power

Clemson University

Sun Microsystems Opens World-Class Solution Center For High Performance Computing

DESY

"Given the unique and clear design of the Thumper machine together with the unmatched new features of Solaris/ZFS, DESY will rapidly expand the LHC/Tier-2 storage infrastructure faster and far more effective than before."

High Performance Computing Virtual Laboratory (HPCVL)

HPCVL Advances Work in Stem-Cell Research, Economics, Physics and Psychology Using Sun Technology

Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR)

Sun Consolidates Servers With a 5:1 Ratio, Reducing Energy Consumption by 70 Percent and Helping TIGR Meet Demanding Research Requirements and Publishing Deadlines

Magna Steyr

Performing Complex Calculations Faster to Reduce Testing Costs

Metaldyne

Metaldyne's Designers Serve Automotive Manufacturers Faster

Mississippi

Mississippi State University Selects Sun Fire Servers for High Performance Computing Collaboratory

NEC

NEC Electronics's Development Support Center looks forward to Mentor Graphics products running on the Solaris 10 OS.

Oregon State University

"The new Sun Fire X4600 server from Sun Microsystems will transform our College's scientific enterprise by providing high performance computing in a space not much bigger than a bread box..."

Paramount Pictures

Sun support and services help movie studio cut costs and speed animated movie release

Princeton University

Sun Grid: Delivering Utility Computing (PDF)

Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

The Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory recently installed a cluster of Sun x2100 servers to study fusion energy, which mimics the Sun by fusing hydrogen atoms to create neutron energy.

Rising Sun Pictures (RSP)

Rising Sun Pictures (RSP) - which has worked on animations for films such as 2006's Charlotte's Web and Harry Potter uses Sun N1 Grid Engine for rednering movies.

Rutherford Appleton Laboratory

"Our Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) operates world-class, large-scale research facilities and provides strategic advice to the UK government and other international research partners. STFC users require efficient access to geographically distributed storage, compute and network resources in order to manage and analyse these data in a timely and cost-effective manner. We are testing the Sun Blade 8000 P system in a strategic role in our computational infrastructure and it augments our previously deployed servers. The system provides a high performance power efficient platform, combined with ease of management and Infiniband capability which is imperative to meeting our needs for scalability and hence productivity of scientific applications." -- Dr. Peter Oliver, High Performance Computing Services Group (e-Science Centre), Rutherford Appleton Laboratory

Sonac

Sonac, a Japanese vendor providing simulation and verification solutions for integrated circuit design in the semiconductor and electronics manufacturing industry, reduced verification time from 17 hours to 30 minutes with a combination of Sun Fire servers running Solaris 10 and Sun Grid Engine software.

St. Francis Xavier University

When Nova Scotia's St. Francis Xavier University set out to reinforce its role as a regional hub for academic research and enhance partnership opportunities with private industry, such as oil and gas companies, the university turned to Sun.

Stanford Linear Accelerator

Our first Purchase Order in Q3 for Project Blackbox, the world's first virtualized data storage center, was for the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), which plans to use Project Blackbox to rapidly expand its HPC and data center capabilities for its physics and astrophysics research.

Synopsys

Synopsys Dramatically Improves Utilization of Grid Computing

Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC)

"Sun's new supercomputer and storage technologies create a powerful combination that will allow TACC to build and operate a supercomputer delivering more than 400 teraflops," said Marc Hamilton, director of HPC Solutions, Sun Microsystems.

The Scripps Research Institute

Scripps Florida selected Sun for a stable, scalable and cost-effective compute cluster solution to support bio-research initiatives

Tokyo Institute of Technology

Sun builds Japan's most powerful supercomputer for Japanese "MIT"

"Not only is the performance of the Sun Grid HPC environment extremely impressive today, but the ability of the architecture to scale rapidly is really phenomenal..."

UCLA's Laboratory of Neuro Imaging (LONI)

LONI deployed a 306-node cluster of Sun Fire V20z servers running Sun N1 Grid Engine software, which manages the lab's servers as a computing service.

Grid Powered by Solaris 10 Operating System, Sun N1 Grid Engine, Sun Fire x64 Servers and Sun StorEdge L8500 Delivers High Performance Computing (HPC) Environment With Lowest Total Cost of Ownership

Universidad de Granada/Junta de Andalucía

Seeking to implement an HPC infrastructure, the Junta de Andalucía selected a complete Sun solution, including more than 250 x64 and UltraSPARC Sun Fire servers, Sun StorageTek solutions, the Solaris OS, as well as Sun N1 software and Sun Services programs for the main supercomputer located in the Universidad de Granada.

University of Calgary

The University of Calgary has implemented technology from Sun Microsystems as the basis for its unique and powerful bioinformatics research environment

University of California, San Diego

Cutting-Edge Research Organizations Advance Scientific Goals with Sun Fire X4500 Data Server Technology

University College London

University College London and Imperial College London Use Sun Visualization System Software to Further Nanotechnology Research

University of Leicester

Leading Governmental Agencies, Financial Services Firms and Universities Select Sun's Range of Sun Fire V20z and Sun Fire V40z Servers for HPTC

University of Michigan College of Engineering

The UM-Ann Arbor College of Engineering (CoE) has deployed Sun Ultra 20 workstations in CoE labs for student use

University of Nevada, Reno

Sun helped the University of Nevada, Reno, to upgrade its data warehouse servers to support business intelligence needs

University of Notre Dame

The factory-integrated Sun servers give Notre Dame's Center for Research Computing a low-cost and ready-to-deploy solution, enabling Notre Dame to add capacity quickly with minimal demands on staff

University of Nottingham

The Protein-powered Grid

University of Oslo

The University of Oslo, Norway's oldest and largest institution of higher education, was seeking an HPC infrastructure to support academic research across a wide variety of disciplines.

University of Queensland, Australia

A new, 66-node Sun Grid System increased throughput by 20 percent, while taking up about half the physical space

University of Southern California

USC's Advanced Supercomputing Cluster with Dual-Core Technology Boasts Nearly a 50 Percent Increase In Compute Speed with Plans to Deploy Enterprise-class Sun Fire X4200 Servers

Virtual Compute Corporation

Virtual Compute Corporation uses the Sun Grid Compute Utility to handle work from its energy industry customers that exceeds the capacity of its own IT infrastructure

Wolfram Research, Inc.

Wolfram Research migrated Mathematica to Solaris 10 and Sun x64 workstations and servers as an ideal 64-bit platform for modeling