The latest installment for Sun Radio HPC Podcast (Episode 3) provides highlights on the most current happenings and products related to Sun HPC; an examination of Sun partner Force10 Networks, its relationship with Sun and value-add for customers; and product information on Sun xVM Ops Center.
HPC News Segment
In the HPC News segment, Rich Brueckner touches on Sun's new AMD quad-core Opteron servers 4140, 4240 and 4440 servers; Sun Grid Engine 6.2 beta binaries; videos and presentation from the recent Lustre User Group; Sun HPC Consortium set for June 15-17 in Dresden, Germany; the new Sun HPC Community on Facebook; and the HPC Developer Community available at the OpenSolaris Website.
Sun Partner News
Debbie Montano, director of Research, Education and Alliances for Force 10 Networks, talks with host Tony Warner about the company's extreme innovation for ethernet connectivity; the value-add for Sun customers, namely networking, and how its technology fits in Sun solutions. Sun and Force 10's role in the Green Grid initiative is also discussed.
Product News
Prasad Pai in Sun's HPC management for xVM Organization provides an overview of the Sun xVM Ops Center for system and cluster management.
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