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OK, one more quick post from HPC Consortium. Sun's HPC group has been working with Scali for a while on this one, so worth spending a few minutes to get the news out.

Scali Extends Support for the Sun Solaris 10 Operating System on Sun Fire X64 Servers

Combination of Solaris 10 on x64 and Scali MPI Connect Creates Industry Leading Performance Solution for Clustered Computing Environments

Marlborough, Massachusetts – June 27, 2006 – Scali today announced that Scali MPI Connect™ now supports the Solaris™ 10 Operating System (OS) on Sun Fire™ x64 (x86, 64-bit) servers. Organizations running Solaris 10 OS-based clusters can now use Scali MPI Connect to maximize effectiveness and performance. In addition to multi-platform support for leading interconnects such as GbE and Myrinet, Scali MPI Connect is the only professionally developed message passing interface available for InfiniBand running with Solaris 10 on the Sun Fire x64 platform.

I'm in the middle of two weeks vacation in Greece, well almost. I did break away for a day and a half to kickoff our HPC Consortium user group meeting in Dresden yesterday. For a week before that, however, I was traveling through small towns, visiting just a few of Greece's many historic sites, and getting totally into the Southern European lifestyle of late evening dinners with plenty of exceptionally good local wine, lots of fresh fish, and Greek salads. We ate at one terrible taverna (unfortunately on my birthday) and many great ones. I'll try to post some of my favorites next month, but for now I'm still on vacation and limiting myself to one 6 Euro, two hour WiFi access card per day and syncing 1075 messages took up most of today! Tomorrow at 11 am CET, however, the Top500 list gets announced and I'll be back to say a few things then. Now back to the beach, where my biggest decision will be if I should have a Mythos beer or a glass of the wonderful local wine :).