Amid rumours of Sun Microsystems being snapped up by IBM, the company has announced a whopping $30 million deal with Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) to build one of the largest high-performance computing environments in the southern hemisphere. The four-year deal, in conjunction with the Australian National University, will see two Sun Constellation systems installed running an open source software stack, a first for a weather forcasting site, according to Sun.
BOM, Sun to Build $30M Supercomputer
March 19, 2009