There is an interesting parallel between building Ferraris and building computers. Both require elements to make them very fast and very complex. Like computers, Ferraris have a lot of commodity components such as tires. But the way these components are put together and the resulting end system is what makes them unique. The high performance computing space is no different.
Sun's Director of Technology in the Global Systems Practice, Marc Hamiltons's Blog, meets with Hal Stern, vice president of global systems engineering, in this edition of Innovating@Sun to discuss the art of tying together commodity components to get the most compute, networking, and storage in the smallest space.
Hamilton and Stern discuss what the high-performance computing (HPC) market looks like today with a focus on how technical problems today needs more capacity than you can deliver on a single desktop. Highlights of the interview include:
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Marc Hamiltons's Blog
Open MPI
X4500 storage server
Andy Bechtolsheim
Fortress
Guy Steele
Posted at 12:27PM Jan 30, 2007 by Laura Ventura in Sun [permalink]
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