Company Highlights Innovative HPTC Solutions and New Business Partners -- Live Build of Top 500 Caliber Supercomputer on Opening Night -- At the Supercomputing 2003 conference in Phoenix, Sun Microsystems, Inc. will continue to demonstrate its leadership in high performance technical computing (HPTC), highlighting new industry partnerships, innovative technologies, and a bold new grid computing strategy. Additionally, Sun and the San Diego Supercomputing Center (SDSC) will provide a unique demonstration of a Top 500-ranked Sun supercomputer that shatters the myth of complexity in supercomputing. Demonstrating the rich partnership available to Sun customers, the Sun booth features an array of solutions from the company's innovative business partners including: -- Interconnect technologies: From Force 10 Networks, Infinicon, Mellanox, Myrinet, Topspin Communications and Voltaire. -- Software technologies: From Engineered Intelligence, Engineous Software, iSpheres, Meiosys, Red Hat, SDSC and Visual Numerics. -- Storage technologies: From Dothill, Precision IO and Qlogic. -- Systems intergration: Business partners including Instrumental. Sun will feature presentations and exhibits of the latest technological developments in fields such as reference architectures, data storage, analysis and visualization, optical networking, scalable computing, scientific applications and distributed systems. Highlights at Sun's booth this year include: -- Linux Supercomputer Built in Hours: Phil Papadopolous from SDSC and Shahin Khan, vice president of HPTC from Sun Microsystems will oversee the live construction of the RockStar -- a 128-node, 700 gigaflop Linux platform-based Sun Fire(TM) V60x Compute Grid Rack System powered by National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (NPACI) Rocks software at the Sun booth on Monday, November 17 at 7:00 p.m. -- Innovative Compute Grids: Sun Grid Engine software (formerly, Sun(TM) ONE Grid Engine Software) powers compute grids including the Linux platform-based Sun Fire V60x server compute grid supercluster running NPACI Rocks software, a Sun Fire Link Supercluster Grid solution scalable to two Teraflops and a compute grid powered by x86-based Sun Fire V60x server and SPARC(R) processor-based Sun Fire V440 server nodes. -- Visual Grids: Sun will spotlight its high performance visualization solutions with a Sun Visualization Grid system cluster offering visualization power supporting up to 64 displays simultaneously. Sun will also demonstrate new SunForum(TM) 3D Software, which enables real-time conferencing enabling sharing and collaborating of 3D (OpenGL) applications for workgroups in multiple locations. -- Data Grids: Sun is also showcasing its HPC SAN solution which combines the advantages of shared data management and access, cross-platform connectivity and data management control with the performance levels associated with conventional, server-attached storage. Sun business partner Qlogic will demonstrate the Sun StorEdge(TM) Array 2GB Network FC Switch-64 fabric switch. -- High Bandwidth Interconnects: Interconnect technologies on display include the Sun Fire Link 3.6 Gigabyte per second optical interconnect used in the Sun Fire Link Supercluster, an interconnect solution enabled by Sun business partner Myrinet. InfiniBand demonstrations will be provided by Sun business partners including Mellanox and Voltaire. Sun Makes the Grid Work for You Grid computing is a key focus for Sun at Supercomputing 2003 with the company's new strategy, Grid Everywhere. The Grid Everywhere strategy creates a holistic customer engagement model for grid computing, enabling customers to tailor grids to their specific needs. The strategy elements of Grid Everywhere include a three-pronged approach to grid deployment based on building block components, extensive partnerships and alliances. Business partners and customers participating with Sun at Supercomputing 2003 include Dothill, Engineous Software, Engineered Intelligence, Force 10 Networks, Infinicon, Instrumental, iSpheres, Meiosys, Myrinet, PrecisionIO, Red Hat, Topspin Communications, Visual Numerics and Voltaire.