Simon See

Over the last months Sun HPC team has made more inroad into HPC

Some of Top Sun-HPC News

Sun Breaks Into Top 5 on Top 500 Supercomputers List!
http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/pr/2008-06/sunflash.20080618.3.xml

Sun Powers Largest Compute Cluster In Latin America
http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/pr/2008-06/sunflash.20080619.1.xml

Sun Supercomputer Created For 'Flight and Flow' Simulation In Germany
http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/pr/2008-06/sunflash.20080619.2.xml

Sun's Network.com Makes To BBC's Best Cloud Apps!
http://www.bbcworld.com/Pages/ProgrammeFeature.aspx?id=18&FeatureID=811

DKRZ Harnesses Sun Servers to Research Global Climate Change
http://www.sun.com/emrkt/educonnection/newsletter/0608eduinaction.html?cid=e6115

Visual Effects Company Boosts Performance and Increases Flexibility with Lustre
http://www.sun.com/customers/software/framestore.xml

As most of us will have already know that Niagara take on the school that we should have simple pipeline and with multicore and multithread. The first Niagara processor has only one float-point unit shared among all the cores and threads. In Niagara 2, the number of floating units is increased to 1 per core which make is attractive and interesting for some of the floating point computation intensive application. While the chip’s peak floating point performance of 11,2 GFlop/s quite moderate, the high potential of the Niagara 2 is revealed, when many threads are active and the high memory bandwidth of some 60 GB/s (theoretically) can be exploited - a frequent bottleneck of standard architectures when executing technical applications.

Take at look at the result at http://www.rz.rwth-aachen.de/ca/k/raw/?lang=en