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November 13, 2008

Sun Powers HPC Clusters at KISTI and OCBN

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Lustre file system, storage, Sun servers, Solaris 10 OS and Sun xVM Ops Center boost science and research applications with global impact

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Nov. 13 -- Sun Microsystems, Inc. today announced the Korean Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI) and the Ontario Cancer Biomarker Network (OCBN) are powering their HPC compute clusters with a range of Sun technologies, including the Sun Constellation System, Solaris 10 Operating System (OS) and Sun CoolThreads servers.

"Sun's broad HPC portfolio provides customers like KISTI and OCBN a range of powerful solutions for building HPC clusters," said John Fowler, executive vice president of the Systems Group at Sun Microsystems. "With the Sun Constellation System, our CMT servers running Solaris, and our scalable storage technologies, Sun's leadership and innovation in HPC is helping researchers tackle some of the biggest challenges in science faster than ever before."

Korean Institute of Science and Technology Information

KISTI's fourth supercomputer "Tachyon" is the first open petascale computing environment combining ultra-dense high performance computing clusters, networking, storage and software into an integrated system to deliver highly available computational power to the Korean research community. Leveraging a range of Sun HPC technologies -- including the Sun Blade 6048 chassis with Sun Blade server modules powered by AMD Opteron processors, Sun Storage, the Solaris 10 OS and the Lustre file system -- Tachyon is helping researchers to study large-scale molecular dynamics on membrane proteins, collision simulation on black-holes, and multi-physics problems on solid surfaces. Sun xVM Ops Center is also providing KISTI with the ability to manage both its Linux and Solaris OS environments within a single unified solution.

KISTI, one of the leading supercomputing centers in Asia, is a government-funded institute promoting national competitiveness and provides cutting-edge research in a variety of disciplines. KISTI was established in 2001 and supports advanced research conducted at 173 institutes around Korea. For more information on KISTI's deployment of Tachyon, visit http://www.sun.com/customers/servers/kisti.xml.

Ontario Cancer Biomarker Network (OCBN)

The Ontario Cancer Biomarker Network (OCBN) and the High Performance Computing Virtual Laboratory (HPCVL) at Queen's University have established a high performance bioinformatics capability based on HPCVL's compute cluster, consisting of Sun SPARC Enterprise T5140 servers equipped with multi-core UltraSPARC T2 processors and running the Solaris 10 OS. These servers together with Sun's CoolTools suite of HPC resources provide the OCBN with a unique and powerful combination of speed, memory bandwidth and scalability to optimize its compute-intensive, distributed, and multi-threaded cancer bioinformatics applications.

OCBN is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to the discovery and development of cancer biomarkers -- biological molecules such as genes and proteins that serve as indicators for the diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment of disease -- to ultimately deliver personalized therapy that is safer and more effective than current approaches. To grapple with the large, multidimensional datasets from genomic, proteomic, and clinical research studies, specialized bioinformatics algorithms must be applied for signal processing, gene and protein quantification, biological function prediction, and data mining.

For more information about Sun's HPC technologies and solutions, visit http://www.sun.com/hpc.

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