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SilverStorm Technologies, the leader in high performance interconnect solutions for clustered computing, announced today that Sun Microsystems has installed SilverStorm's 9000 series switch gateways as the InfiniBand interconnect backbone at Sun's new high performance computing solutions center located in Hillsboro, Oregon. The new center is being announced today during a ribbon cutting ceremony that will include executives from Sun, AMD and SilverStorm, the mayor of Hillsboro and members of the Oregon governor's office. Sun's new supercomputer facility will offer customers access to large-scale HPC solutions to help them build and achieve Terascale clusters, as well as offer benefits and insight for experimenting, benchmarking, testing and optimizing scalable grid-based applications in industries such as energy, manufacturing, life sciences and education and research. The Sun Solution Center for HPC runs more than 600 high-performance and energy-efficient Sun Fire x64 multi-core available servers powered by AMD Opteron processors with over 100TB of SunStorEdge Arrays. "The Sun Solution Center for HPC demonstrates how SilverStorm InfiniBand solutions provide industry-leading performance for grid supercomputing interconnects," said Russ Hawkins, CEO, SilverStorm Technologies. "By matching SilverStorm's solutions with leading price/performance technology offerings from Sun and AMD, enterprise customers can manage and deploy HPC applications to accelerate time-to-market, design superior products and create competitive advantage." SilverStorm's 9000 series platform is an extremely flexible, modular switch and virtual I/O gateway product designed to meet the most demanding clustered supercomputing interconnect requirements. The 9000 supports up to 432 InfiniBand and virtual I/O gateway ports in a single chassis, making the 9000 the industry's highest density InfiniBand switch gateway solution. Gateway ports on the 9000 enable hosts on InfiniBand fabrics to transparently access Fibre Channel or Ethernet networks, or both.