More than 100 leading IT professionals, scientists, engineers and luminaries from around the world met at the Sun High Performance Computing Consortium (SHPCC) event to discuss high-end scientific and engineering computing issues and trends. The bi-annual SHPCC is a premier conference for attendees to gain knowledge about Sun's products and plans in high performance and technical computing, as well as build community ties within the industry. The event was held July 18-20, 2002 in Glasgow, Scotland.

Planned speakers at the SHPCC included Wolfgang Gentzch, director of grid computing, Sun; Marc Tremblay, chief architect, product processor group, Sun; Malcolm Atkinson, director, UK National Science Center, along with several industry visionaries. Dr. Steven Newhouse of Imperial College has been named a Sun Lecturer in e-science, honoring his extraordinary contributions to the global grid and e-science community, and also played a prominent role at SHPCC.

As Sun continues to bring together the academic research community, its commitment to high performance computing is further demonstrated by expansive collaborative efforts in the UK. Sun has selected the University College London as a Sun Center of Excellence (COE) in Grid Management Technologies. Alongside other Sun COEs, including London's Imperial College, Oxford University and the Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre, the expansion of Sun's Center of Excellence program in grid-related technologies and applications has built a strong foundation for the high performance computing research community.

The White Rose initiative in Yorkshire, a consortium of the Universities of Leeds, York and Sheffield, recently engaged Sun's expertise in grid computing to build the joint infrastructure for scientific computing. While different types of Sun servers are installed in these three locations, researchers will be able to access applications through Sun's technical computing portal at any given time and run compute jobs in either location, based on the intelligence of Sun's policy-based scheduling management software, SunTM Grid Engine, Enterprise Edition, software which is integrated with the toolkit from the Globus project. Sun Grid Engine software has been integrated with Globus since 1999.

The SHPCC is an independent, volunteer-organized, international group of member organizations that own or use Sun computer systems with an emphasis on high-performance, technical computing and visualization. The SHPCC was organized to provide the high performance computing community with leadership and provide a forum for information exchange to enable the development and effective use of Sun computational tools in achieving business and research objectives of member organizations. [...read more...]

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