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Sun HPC Quick Start Services

Overview

Offerings

Your fast track to implementing and optimizing High Performance Computing environments

Sun HPC Quick Start Services - Implement

Sun Quick Start Services - Optimize

If you're considering HPC solutions, Sun offers you a choice of operating environments and heterogeneous support. Unlike other HPC vendors who take a "lock-in" approach, Sun bases our HPC solutions on proven, open industry-standard technologies. Our expertise, best practices, and partner relationships can help you prepare for, implement and optimize your HPC infrastructure fast.

Key Benefits:

Sun expertise helps you architect, implement and manage your HPC infrastructure easily and confidently—no guesswork involved
Accelerates you to the strategic advantages of HPC sooner
Reduces risk and keeps implementation costs under control
Boosts your infrastructure's readiness to compete at the speed of HPC

HPC - now a strategic business tool

High Performance Computing used to be for the research laboratory—but now its users are just as likely to be wearing a business suit as a lab coat.

HPC can help with complex analysis and decision-making and get products to market faster—and corporate enterprises are beginning to use HPC as a strategic tool. More and more, the corporate world is turning to HPC as a way to increase flexibility and agility and maintain a competitive edge.

Get it right, right away

In the global IT community, the race is on to achieve petaflops, a quadrillion mathematical computations per second—the new "gold standard" for high performance. Sun is expanding and strengthening our HPC offerings. Sun HPC Quick Start Services offer you the support you need to get it right, right away. It's your fastest path to petaflops.

Sun HPC Quick Start Services - Implement

Smoothly accelerate the design and implementation of your HPC solution. Reduce your deployment time by up to 80 percent, reduce risk and cost of implementation with Quick Start Services - Implement.

Key included services:

Application readiness services - prepares your HPC infrastructure for application and business readiness
Installation services for the Sun Grid Rack System with CRS Architected solutions - gives you a solid foundation for enhanced stability and improved performance
Integrated services for x4500, x4600, 8000, and 8000p servers
Professional services - for your specific implementation, configuration and migration needs

Sun HPC Quick Start Services - Optimize

Once your HPC solution is in place, get the most out of it by quickly optimizing and managing it. Mitigate risk and resolve issues proactively. Sustain desired performance levels, and tune performance to your business demands.

Key included services:

Managed services to support HPC clusters and 3rd party components
Proactive and continued monitoring of infrastructure to mitigate risk, proactively resolve issues and sustain desired performance levels
Performance analysis and fine-tuning to meet your business demands
Control Tower Appliance included with every Sun Grid Rack facilitates installation and monitoring.
Professional services designed to help you meet your business objectives and service level agreements
Incident response services

Get Started

Ready to accelerate to higher performance and infrastructure improvement? To learn how Sun's HPC Quick Start Services can get you going in High Performance Computing, contact your local Sun sales representative .

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