Sun showcased its latest HPC technologies and services at Supercomputing 2007. To learn more about the benefits and rationale behind some of these innovations, listen to a podcast featuring Solaris Engineering's Distinguished Engineer Josh Simons, who discussed these new technologies with Sun Vice President of Global Systems Engineering Hal Stern on an edition of Innovating@Sun.

Topics discussed include:

• Sun\'s Constellation System
• Components that allow customers to build petascale systems at the high end of the HPC market and scale them downwards: Sun Blade 6048 system and Data Center Switch 3456.
• Support for SPARC, Intel and AMD processors
• A shift from big iron to a clustered approach
• InfiniBand as the technology of choice for high-bandwidth, low-latency solutions
• Customer pain points including power, switch complexity, cable complexity, fatter nodes and driving down node count
• The design point of modular computing as a prototype for building future datacenters
• Appealing to a wide variety of developers
• Getting software to scale to appropriate levels for system management, programming, etc.
• The importance of storage in HPC
• Why Sun is hitting HPC with a vengeance
• The rationale of pushing the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS) if the vast majority of the HPC market is Linux-focused.

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