SUN EXPANDS LEADERSHIP IN HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING; ACQUIRES DAKOTA SCIENTIFIC SOFTWARE INC.SUN EXPANDS LEADERSHIP IN HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING; ACQUIRES DAKOTA SCIENTIFIC SOFTWARE INC.PALO ALTO, Calif., June 24, 1998 -- Sun Microsystems, Inc. today advanced the high-performance leadership of the Solaris™ operating environment with the acquisition of Dakota Scientific Software Inc. (DSS), a leading supplier of high-performance software components for scientific and engineering applications. DSS has been an important partner to Sun for years, providing the Sun™ Performance Library™, a component of the Sun™ Performance WorkShop™ Fortran product line. The acquisition reinforces Sun's strategy to provide the finest software development tools for the scientific and engineering community. It will also focus the outstanding technical talents of the DSS staff on improving the Solaris operating environment for high-performance computing applications. "Sun has clearly come of age in high-performance computing and become one of the industry leaders in the high-performance computing market," said Jack Dongarra of the University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory. "Second only to SGI/Cray, Sun systems running the Solaris operating environment have the largest installed base worldwide at the top 500 supercomputing sites." In addition, Sun also announced today that the most recent Top 500 list of the world's most powerful supercomputer sites identified Sun™ HPC 10000 (also known as the Starfire™) server as the leading installed system. "In order to continue driving success in the high-performance computing space, we felt it was time to increase our staffing for this important area. Our first choice was to bring Dakota's great people in-house to continue development of Sun's leading numerical library," said Joe Keller, Director of Marketing and Support for Sun's Developer Tools Products. "The expertise that DSS brings to Sun in the development of scientific and numerically-intensive software for the Solaris operating environment will be invaluable as we move forward with our high-performance computing product line." The DSS numerical libraries are collections of computer code that provide highly-tuned versions of popular subroutines which are used in the development of application software. For example, the Sun Performance Library includes tuned versions of routines in the very popular "BLAS" (Basic Linear Algebra Subroutines) library, which are used in a wide variety of numerical applications for engineering, petroleum exploration and financial portfolio analysis. These highly-tuned routines can enable application developers to attain maximum floating-point performance for the crucial parts of their applications under the Solaris operating environment. "We are very happy to be the newest members of the Sun family," said Diane Boucher, President of DSS. "This acquisition gives us a critical role in the ongoing success of Sun's high-performance computing products, as well as its market-leading Solaris operating environment."
About Sun Performance WorkShopSun™ Performance WorkShop™ software provides an integrated environment designed to speed software development of high-performance Fortran 90, Fortran 77 and C applications, while taking maximum advantage of multi-processing systems. Specifically designed for the needs of high-performance computing, Sun Performance WorkShop allows developers to see and debug complex data arrays or algorithms. Also, with Sun™ WorkShop™ TeamWare software, teams of developers can increase their productivity by collaborating on large-scale development projects.
Other Sun WorkShop ProductsIn addition to Sun Performance WorkShop, the Sun™ WorkShop™ product line also includes the award-winning Java™ WorkShop™ and Sun™ Visual WorkShop™ C++ development tools. For more information on Sun WorkShop products, visit http://www.sun.com/workshop.Pursuant to the terms of the acquisition, Sun acquired all of the outstanding stock of DSS.
About Dakota Scientific SoftwareFormed in 1992, Dakota Scientific Software, Inc. focuses on the application of advanced supercomputer technology to the development of the fastest math software available for desktop machines. Since its inception, Dakota Scientific has been successful in delivering the fastest math library available for Sun's Solaris operating environment for both SPARC™ and Intel, as well as support for Microsoft Windows 95 and Windows NT. Today Dakota has a balanced offering of products, consulting, and contract programming serving the demanding needs of users in the high-performance computing market. Additional information on Dakota Scientific Software is located at www.scisoft.com.About Sun Microsystems Since its inception in 1982, a singular vision, "The Network Is The Computer™," has propelled Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: SUNW), to its position as a leading provider of high quality hardware, software and services for establishing enterprise-wide intranets and expanding the power of the Internet. With more than $9 billion in annual revenues, Sun can be found in more than 150 countries and on the World Wide Web at http://www.sun.com.
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