Sultan Qaboos University in Muscat, Oman, needed an IT solution that would allow its researchers working on a range of computationally-challenging science and engineering applications more computing power than they were getting from the institution's PC-based computing facilities. The university decided to incorporate an HPC system from Sun based on the Sun Blade 6000 HPC Blade Cluster.

"This particular solution will pave the way for a new generation of computationally intensive applications to be utilized at SQU," said Peter Avakian, HPC technical lead, Sun. "It will help run more sophisticated simulation in parallel, enabling SQU in the pursuit of progress in science and engineering to advance their educational initiatives."

The Sun HPC Blade Cluster is configured using Intel Xeon processors, low latency and high throughput DDR InfiniBand fabric. The workload resources are managed by the Sun Grid Engine resource manager. The system includes Sun HPC ClusterTools, Sun Studio 12 Compilers and other development tools.

Delivered by Sun in a pre-integrated form built to suit the university's specific requirements, the HPC system needed minimal assembly work upon arrival. The system is being used for research such as modeling, simulation and scientific calculations, and teaching.

On its selection of Sun, Dr. Muataz Al-Barwani, HPC facility coordinator, Sultan Qaboos University, explained, "Many factors contributed to our choice of vendor, including a specification that met our needs, total cost of ownership and more importantly; the high level of support for the product. Sun met all these requirements and the offering was the best in terms of overall performance it was going to provide. It exceeded what any other vendors had offered."

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