Sun has doubled its presence on the TOP500 list of supercomputers according to the November 2006 list released at SC 06, the conference for high performance computing, networking, storage and analysis.

Sun has five new entries on the list:

• Mississippi State University (MSU) High Performance Computing Collaboratory (covered in article number [17279])

• Sun Solution Center for HPC (high performance computing)

• Sun Grid Compute Utility

Also on the list is the supercomputer at Tokyo Tech's TSUBAME and the University of Southern California (USC). The TSUBAME supercomputer increased its compute power with a performance of 47.38 trillion floating point operations per second (teraFLOPS) as compared to the June 2006 TOP500 list. The Center for High-Performance Computing and Communications at USC added 512 dual-core Sun Fire servers. TSUBAME is ranked 9th in the TOP500 list, and the USC server cluster is ranked 41st. Others in the top 10 include IBM, Dell and Cray, many located at government and research institutes. IBM and Cray received funds for a supercomputer project at DARPA while Sun did not. Sun has been making its way into the HPC market, says Bjorn Andersson, Sun's director of HPC and Integrated Systems, in an HPC Wire article. Sun has previously done work for DARPA and will continue to "integrate the technology it had been developing into its product lines," according to ComputerWorld.

Commenting on Sun's increased presence in the list, John Fowler, EVP of the Sun Systems Group, said, "Sun offers the highest performing x64 systems and industry-leading multi-core technology, which is accelerating its impact in the demanding HPC market. In conjunction with our partners, AMD and NEC, Sun is able to provide the critical processing power required for the world's most compute-intense applications while keeping total cost of ownership at a minimum."

Sun and NEC expanded their relationship (as reported last week in [17281]) to sell Sun FireTM servers. [...read more...]

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