According to IDC's Q2CY03 (quarter two, calendar year 2003) Technical Server report, Sun was the only vendor in the high performance and technical computing (HPTC) market to outgrow the overall HPTC market in year-over-year unit shipments. Sun was able to grow shipments by 43 percent, as opposed to the overall market's 30 percent growth.

Sun has been able to achieve significant customer wins in the HPTC market segment over the last year, including wins in the government, education, life sciences, manufacturing, oil and gas, and the financial services sectors.

Other highlights from the IDC Technical Server report include:

• Sun outpaced the overall market in quarter-to-quarter unit shipments with a growth rate of 30 percent versus 20 percent for the overall market.

• Sun experienced quarter-over-quarter unit market share growth of 9.7 percent in the technical enterprise segment (through-put oriented servers with average prices above $1M).

• Sun outgrew the technical department segment (through-put oriented servers with average selling prices below $250K) in both revenues and shipments, year-over-year. Shipments grew 51 percent for Sun versus 32 percent for the market.

"With our extensive relationship and collaborative model backed by thought leadership and a deep set of HPTC offerings for computation, storage, graphics, software and services, Sun has re-emerged as a strong force in the HPTC space," said Shahin Khan, vice president of Sun's High Performance and Technical Computing business unit. "Innovative technologies that lead to wins such as the recent $49.7 million contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) help enable that Sun customers will continue to have access to leading edge technologies and solutions."

Other Sun wins in the last year include: supercluster deployments with the Cambridge Cranfield university consortium in the UK, RWTH Aachen in Germany, Purdue University in the US, and the HPCVL facility in Canada. Other wins include the United Kingdom's White Rose Grid infrastructure and over 8000 sites for SunTM Grid Engine software, and high-end visualization with Iowa State University, and Berlin's ZIB supercomputing center. In addition, the recent introduction of Sun Fire V60x and V65x servers has fueled strong growth in large x86 cluster deployments. [...read more...]

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