Kuldip Oberoi's Blog

The growing popularity of High Performance Computing (HPC) environments, which are based on supercomputers and computer clusters, is being driven not only by (P)erformance, but also by the (P)roductivity in using these environments. In addition to the expansion in traditional scientific and engineering market segments, HPC is being adopted in Enterprise IT segments, such as Finance and Business Intelligence.

With its AMD x86, Intel x86, and Sun UltraSPARC-based servers, Sun continues to be a leader on the hardware side. However, as a systems company, we are also investing into software and now offer complete HPC software stacks on both Solaris and Linux OSs. For developers, the freely available Sun Studio compilers and tools offers up record-setting C, C++, and Fortran compilers, support for MPI and OpenMP development, performance analysis tools, and optimized math routines (e.g. LAPACK, BLAS, etc.). Central to this HPC stack is a high-performance, scalable, MPI (Message Passing Interface) runtime. MPI is the dominant communication paradigm for parallel applications written for clusters.

Today we are announcing the availability of Sun HPC ClusterTools 8.0, which now supports Linux distributions as well as Solaris and OpenSolaris OSs, and has the following highlights:

• Based on the open source Open MPI project, version 1.3
• For the first time, available and supported on Linux (RHEL 4&5, SLES 9&10) as well as Solaris 10 OS
• Available with the next OpenSolaris OS release
• Supported with Sun Studio compilers and tools and GNU/gcc toolchains on both Solaris and Linux OSs
• MPI profiling support with Sun Studio Analyzer, plus support for VampirTrace and MPI PERUSE
• Infiniband multi-rail support
• Mellanox ConnectX Inifiniband support
• DTrace provider support on Solaris
• Enhanced performance and scalability, including processor affinity support
• Support for InifiBand, GbE, 10GbE, and Myrinet interconnect

With available Sun support options, download a free, and unrestricted, copy of Sun HPC ClusterTools 8.0 today!

Hi, I’m Kuldip- nice to meet you.

I am retiring my first go at blogging and starting this one up, with renewed energy and my very own domain. I’m passionate about technology, including software development, as well as sports and my family.

My father worked in the computer field at companies like Singer/Link, Sun Microsystems, and now at Apple, Inc. From when he first brought home an Apple II Plus and I started to see what I could do with Logo and Basic, I became interested in computer technology. I’ve gone from systems programming at Apple and creating web applications during the Web 1.0 build-out to where I am today- product marketing of developer tools (NetBeans, Sun Studio software) and Linux community relations at Sun Microsystems. More here and at my Sun bio.

The infinite power of our imaginations are only limited by the technologies we have to implement them. This is what makes the progress of technology so interesting.