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Nice to be home after my eight day round the world trip. I had a chance to interview some of our Asia Pacific Science and Technology Center staff while in Singapore, so for those that don't want to earn 25,000 frequent flyer miles flying around the world to catch up with APSTC's research, enjoy.

No research review would be complete without food, and Singapore is a great town for foodies.

Deepak has been an APSTC researcher nearly since the center's start 5 years ago and recently joined Sun's Global HPC Solutions Team to work full time with our HPC customers.

Rita is one of APSTC's student intern members, but you would never tell by her presentations and HPC skills. She is currently earning her master's degree in China and looks forward to joining Sun full time when she graduates.

Linda, APSTC member and Sun HPC expert from China talks about the HPC business there.

Chi Hung, APSTC partner member from Frontline talks about the Singapore Discovery Grid where any researcher in Singapore can have no cost access to a 16 processor core Solaris container running on a Sun Fire x4600 along with Frontline's media utility grid being used commercialy for grid based rendering services.

Well, Project Darkstar, aka Sun Gaming Server is only in early access release, but that hasn't stopped APSTC student members from developing several innovative games based on Darkstar technology. This video shows two players, one on a PC and one on a Java-enabled cell phone playing against each other in a game. Players can also seemlessly transition from playing on their PC or laptop to playing on their cell phone. If only World of Warcraft could do this!

Darkstar game video quality note. Sorry, both iMovie HD and Quicktime on my Mac played this video just fine, but after uploading to YouTube it plays pretty rough with scan lines showing up, if I have time I will try saving and uploading at a different frame rate to see if I can resolve this.