The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at The University of Texas at Austin $59 million over five years to acquire, operate and support a high-performance computing (HPC) system made of Sun Fire x64 (x86, 64-bit) servers and Sun StorageTek disk and tape storage technologies that will use over 13,000 of AMD’s forthcoming quad-core processors.
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An independent advisory board has been created for the OpenSPARC Community to help shape the evolution of the initiative. The board will help direct the creation of tools and derivative chip designs based on the Sun UltraSPARC T1 processor.
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The 2006 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing event held in California was sponsored by Sun and featured women employees from Sun who participated in panel discussions on how a diverse workforce advances technology. Sun was a Gold sponsor and sent 30 employees to the event.
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