Sun Solution Center: Hillsboro, Oregon

 
Hillsboro, Oregon
Sun Microsystems
3295 NW 211th Terrace
Hillsboro, OR 97124-7110


 
 

The Sun Solution Center in Hillsboro, Oregon provides over 10 teraflops of computer capacity to allow Sun partners and customers to test and tune demanding applications. In addition, some of Sun's leading algorithm experts are available worldwide to help with adapting applications. In this center designed for testing high performance computing (HPC), Sun lowers partner and customer risk, shortens product development cycles, and requires no up front investment.

Sun Solution Center: Hillsboro

The Sun Solution Center in Hillsboro specializes in testing high performance computing (HPC). The team in Hillsboro has significant experience working with many third party HPC applications, Sun platforms, and Sun software.

Overview

Hillsboro's Sun Solution Center was opened in 2005. The Hillsboro Center draws on the expertise of functions across Sun--from engineering teams in the Systems Group for early hardware to software development teams for HPC ClusterTools software, Solaris, and the Sun Studio compilers.

The HPC benchmarking group runs numerically intense scientific or technical applications in fields such as MCAE, seismic processing, financial modeling, signal processing, oil reservoir simulation, and computational fluid dynamics. Over time the HPC group has developed significant experience with many common third party HPC applications, Sun platforms, and Sun software including development tools, compilers, OpenMP, MPI, and libraries.

The Sun Solution Center in Hillsboro provides many services, among them:

  • Access to Sun computing resources
  • Access to development tools and ISV applications
  • System configuration, administration support
  • Optimization and parallelization expertise
  • System tuning
  • Full service benchmarking
  • Host customer visits while benchmarking
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