At the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) held this past week in Dresden, Germany, Sun announced it is expanding its Sun Blade and Sun Constellation System families for the HPC market as well as adding a new Storage and Archive solution for HPC and updated software and development tools that simplify HPC cluster installation and management. Sun's HPC portfolio of products and solutions is aimed at enabling mainstream HPC customers across all industries.
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High Performance Computing Virtual Laboratory (HPCVL) in Canada has selected Sun infrastructure to power Victoria Falls, its new compute cluster based on 78 Sun SPARC Enterprise T5140 servers and the Solaris 10 OS. HPC codes well suited for the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5140 include applications that require high levels of parallelization and/or very high memory bandwidth. Running at full capacity, the Sun-powered Victoria Falls HPC cluster is designed to process nearly 10,000 threads simultaneously.
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Sun is making a motion towards a more efficient workday for 19,000 of its employees around the world. In an in-depth study recently conducted on 100 participants of Sun's Open Work program, Sun workers' savings in time, money and their individual carbon output were reported.
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Ethisphere Magazine has chosen its list of the World's Most Ethical Companies for 2008. Sun is one of three computer hardware manufacturers named, along with Cisco Systems and Xerox. Candidates were assessed on the basis of their corporate citizenship and responsibility; corporate governance; internal systems and ethics/compliance program; legal regulatory and reputation track record; innovation that contributes to public well-being; executive leadership and tone from the top; and industry leadership.
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System News posts items of interest for Sun users on a regular basis on the System News For Sun Users blog. A quick recap of posts for the last week includes:
Sun at the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) 2008
Sun Ranked Fourth in Top 500 Supercomputers
Qualifying Applications for Solaris Zones
Managing Third Party Integration with Sun Systems
Sun Incorporating Symantec Storage Virtualization Software
Download Cool Stack 1.3
Oracle Maximum Availability Architecture (MAA) on Solaris OS
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