At the recent Supercomputing 2002 conference in Baltimore, Sun demonstrated cluster, enterprise and global grids accessed via SunTM ONE Grid Engine software (formerly SunTM Grid Engine) and showed how the software is helping to enable HPTC users to maximize and more efficiently allocate their compute resources. Wolfgang Gentzsch, Sun's Director of Grid Computing, addressed the attendees.

Sun ONE Grid Engine software continues to be vastly successful in technical computing environments and today powers more than 6,000 grids worldwide, with 70 new grid deployments each week.

At the conference Sun demonstrated:

• Sun ONE Grid Engine software: Sun's flagship distributed resource management platform providing robust resource management and scalability to maximize compute resource utilization and access

• Global grid computing: Secure collaboration over the Internet using Sun ONE Grid Engine software and Avaki technologies

• Sun Grid Community: Enterprise and global grid demonstrations leveraging Sun ONE Grid Engine software, from Advanced Institute for Science and Technology Japan, Nanyang Technological University and Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center. (See the related story on the Poznan center in article number 8310.)

• Sun Technical Compute Portal: Web-based application delivery, simplified secure access and low-cost implementation

Other news and technologies Sun announced:

• The Sun FireTM Link interconnect. Designed to deliver blazing throughput rates and terascale superclustering capabilities in the data center, the Sun Fire Link technology accelerates cluster communication among up to eight high-end Sun systems -- from the Sun FireTM 6800 servers to the Sun FireTM 15K server -- powering up to 800 processors.

• Sun HPC ClusterToolsTM software (See article number 8278 in this issue for information on the early access program for this software.)

Sun also showcased technology demonstrations of the SunTM XVR-4000 graphics accelerator, its MAJCTM technology-based graphics technology currently in development release. Additional partners and customers who participated with Sun at Supercomputing 2002 included: Ansys, Avaki, Fluent, Qlogic, TeraBurst Networks, Visual Numerics, Wolfram Research, Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center (PSNC) and Stanford Linear Accelerator (SLAC). [...read more...]

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