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Sun's Fortran replacement goes open-source

January 12, 2007 Good-bye Fortran, hello Fortress? Server maker seeks open-source help building alternative to decades-old programming language. TAGS: Fortran, Sun Microsystems Inc., programming language, workload, high-performance computing, programming, multi-core, open source, replacement, high-performance, server

Sun Grid to launch this week

March 21, 2006 After struggling to release public version of computing infrastructure, Sun says it's ironed out the wrinkles. TAGS: Jonathan Schwartz, Sun Microsystems Inc., high-performance computing, grid, blog, high-performance, AMD, U.S.

Sun releases smaller blade chassis

November 14, 2006 New Blade 8000 P is a smaller model than its predecessor and is geared for high-performance technical computing.Photo: Sun's latest blade TAGS: Sun Microsystems Inc., Silicon Graphics Inc., business computing, four-processor server, blade, Sun Blade, AMD Opteron, high-performance, AMD, server, Intel

Sun hopes for growth from Project Redshift

March 26, 2007 Sun orients sales, research toward the customers with the strongest appetite for new technology. TAGS: Jonathan Schwartz, Sun Microsystems Inc., high-performance computing, dot-com, high-performance, CEO

Sun frowns on HyperTransport expansion

February 27, 2006 A leading AMD proponent rejects technology that could increase the importance of communication tech built into AMD chips. TAGS: HyperTransport, Sun Microsystems Inc., AMD Opteron, x86 server, AMD, PCI, high-performance, PCI Express, motherboard, adapter, server

HP and Microsoft eye supercomputer market

June 26, 2007 Tech giants want to give high-performance computers more "mass market" appeal by making them easier to deploy, support and manage. TAGS: supercomputer, high-performance computing, high-performance, Sun Microsystems Inc., conference, IBM Corp., HP, Microsoft Corp., server

Sun sells second low-end 'Niagara' server

April 12, 2006 Company begins selling lower-end UltraSparc T1-based servers and completes design of T2 successor. TAGS: Sun UltraSPARC, T2, T1, Sun Fire, Sun Microsystems Inc., high-performance computing, multiprocessor, Sun Sparc, server, high-performance, design, AMD, hard drive, Intel

Sun eyes supercomputing glory

June 26, 2007 The linchpin is a piece of hardware that conducts traffic between the servers, memory and data storage.Image: Sun's Constellation System TAGS: teraflop, supercomputing, supercomputer, Sun Microsystems Inc., InfiniBand, Blue Gene/L, switch, high-performance computing, blade, storage system, data storage, high-performance, port, IBM Corp., operation, networking

AMD gains, Intel fights back on supercomputer list

November 13, 2006 Some joy for both chipmakers in the latest Top500 supercomputer list, which rates high-performance computing systems. TAGS: supercomputer, supercomputing, teraflop, AMD Opteron, high-performance computing, two-processor, Sun Sparc, x86 processor, AMD, chip company, Sun Microsystems Inc., Intel, high-performance, IBM Corp.

IBM brings Unix, faster chip to Power blades

October 8, 2004 Big Blue says it has improved the processor of its JS20 blade servers and now sells them with its AIX version of Unix. TAGS: blade, IBM AIX, IBM PowerPC 970, blade server, IBM eServer BladeCenter, IBM Corp., Unix, high-performance computing, IBM PowerPC, chassis, SCSI, Intel Xeon, high-performance, Intel, Sun Microsystems Inc., server
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