Sun Grid Goes International

Sun today announced expanded, international access to the Sun Grid Compute Utility, bringing the flexibility, scalability, economy and convenience of Network.com to 24 countries in Europe, Asia, Asia-Pacific, the U.K. and North America. The Sun Grid Compute Utility at Network.com delivers enterprise computing power and resources over the Internet, enabling developers researchers, scientists and businesses to optimize performance, speed time to results, and accelerate innovation without investment in IT infrastructure.

The countries now able to access Sun Grid include: the United States, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Poland, Portugal, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.

Developers, ISVs and end-users from these countries will now have access to the Sun Grid on-demand, $1/CPU-hr, pay-per-use computing infrastructure, as well as to the open source and ISV applications published in the Network.com application catalog.

Network.com Internet Access, also unveiled on May 3rd, enables applications running on the Sun Grid computing environment to access external data and services over the Internet. This opens the possibility for Network.com to offer mashups of data and services from multiple sources.

And, in what might be the most interesting news for HPC users, the Sun Grid Application Program Interface is a new Java API for access to many feature of the Sun Grid Compute Utility such as creating and submitting jobs to the Sun Grid Compute Utility. Full Story