As part of an effort to advance grid performance for its customers, Sun is including several new companies in its Sun High Performance and Technical Computing (HPTC) Alliance Partner Program. Sun has also received the 2004 Award for Excellence in Technology for its SunTM Grid Engine Software from Frost & Sullivan.

The 20 recently announced grid computing HPTC Alliance partners include: Avaki ClearSpeed Critical Software, DataDirect Networks, DataSynapse, Dothill, Engineous, Enigmatec, Exludus, GridIron, GridXper, Level 5 Networks, Meiosys, Paremus, Pathscale, PGI, Scali, StorageTek, Streamline Computing and United Devices.

"Sun's 20 new HPTC alliance partners represent some of the hottest technologies in the industry and can contribute to building a complete Grid solution," said Shahin Khan, vice president of the HPTC Business Unit at Sun. "Customers need to show real business results with their Grid deployments and Sun can help pull it all together to optimize grid technology for data centers worldwide because of the breadth of our alliances and depth of our expertise."

The HPTC Alliance Partner Program was launched in January 2004 as part of the Sun iForceSM partner network. Through a network of interconnect technology partners, the program is designed to provide customers with an array of technologies covering data, compute, visualization and access to grid computing solutions.

"Our customer research shows our Sun grid deployments are about half in academic/research and half in enterprise environments, and is well established in both domains today. This is why grid technology is a core component of our systems-based approach for datacenter automation," said David Nelson-Gal, vice president of N1TM Grid systems at Sun. "The N1 Grid System provides the core services to efficiently establish, partition, provision and manage enterprise grids, and enables customers to get the most out of existing resources while automating previously costly and error prone activities."

"Continuous innovation and improvement in existing technologies characterize Sun and makes the company a leader in grid computing technology," said Amreetha Vijayakumar, research analyst at Frost & Sullivan. "Building on the strength of its grid solutions and strategies, Sun has been driving the growth of this new technology paradigm. The company's growing installed base and enduring market acceptance are testimony to the edge Sun has over its competitors." [...read more...]

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