Open Q) Have been told that options cannot be priced at a discount to the market? Does that mean that BRCD's options issued to early members are worth a ton, but they have 26 openings for new people. How will they become rich now?
And if new empoloyees cannot become rich from their options, who will want to work there( Is this right?)......ANCR on the other hand.............has filled one more of its openings......
Senior Customer Support Engineer
Since SUNW sounds ready to unveil some things I thought a reeview would be timely.....
sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW - news), today announced that it has acquired MAXSTRAT Corporation, a leading supplier of High Performance Computing (HPC) RAID storage systems to augment its position as a leader in the High Performance Computing market. Sun provides fast, reliable and scalable server and storage solutions to HPC customers.
Sun's HPC solutions provide cost-effective supercomputing performance with the flexibility demanded by high-end technical applications. MAXSTRAT's customers run data-intensive applications in a wide range of industries, including entertainment, petroleum geophysics, automotive engineering, earth sciences, and scientific research. The company will work with Sun Network Storage to develop next generation HPC storage solutions.
So Maxstrat was an HPC expert....SUNW took this HPC technology and turned it into the .COM strategy.......
sun.com
06.18.99
HPCwire
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This week, Sun Microsystems, Inc., announced initiatives to integrate products, services and technologies to address the broadening market for Web-centric supercomputing, a model for providing universal access to high performance computing over the Internet. This infrastructure model is a natural evolution and convergence of several factors in high performance computing.
Sun TM is essentially providing the necessary components to ".COM" high performance computing initiatives, while continuing to provide the underlying tools for HPC production environments. This will provide HPC users the same levels of performance in addition to broader access to resources that have historically been very expensive, restricted or limited in terms of geography or time constraints. By implementing this type of environment, users will benefit from the following:
Ubiquitous heterogeneous environments
Collaborative computing environments
Web-centric (portal supercomputing)
Anyone, Anything, Anywhere, Anytime access
A NEW APPROACH FOR A NEW WORLD OF HPC - SUN ".COM's" HPC
Sun's ".COM" approach, also called "portal supercomputing", enables HPC user access to broadly distributed systems (anywhere systems are available, either direct through a service provider model or to shared resources on the Internet) and provides heterogeneity (meaning that any job can be run on any platform regardless of the hardware architecture or what "language" the job or application was developed on originally). By enabling these types of environments, Sun will enable richer collaborative environments and universal accessibility.
Sun's Java TM and Jini TM technologies provide the infrastructure to create robust, Web-centric applications in a ".COM" paradigm of HPC.. The Java and Jini technology combination provides seamless, continuous access on the network. The combination is a departure from OS-controlled networks, as it completely bypasses the complex OS infrastructure and allows for direct access to all resources using intelligent interfaces. Thus enabling Anyone, Anything, Anywhere, Anytime access, or the ".COM" model.
MAINTAINING OUR LEGACY - New Tools for Traditional Supercomputing
Sun also announced this week the release of its newest HPC software to address the more traditional needs of the supercomputing market. The Sun HPC ClusterToolsTM 3.0 software provides a complete environment for creating applications that solve compute intensive problems.
The new Sun HPC ClusterTools 3.0 software supports four times more processors -- up to 1,024 -- than previous releases and includes a highly optimized version of the Message Passing Interface (MPI) communication library, for parallel application development. Sun's new software offerings will enable easier porting of HPC applications to Sun systems.
Sun MPI library includes performance enhancements for single and cluster system environments and supports both single and multi-threaded, 32 and 64-bit applications. Within a single system, users can see a more than two-fold improvement in latency and significant increases in bandwidth. In clustered environments, Sun MPI library can now take advantage of a very low-latency network protocol, with latencies under 10 microseconds.
Along with the high-performance, multi-protocol implementation of MPI, which includes full MPI I/O, the software includes tools for executing, debugging, and performance analysis of MPI applications. Tools available in this release of the software include:
SunTM Cluster RunTime Environment (CRE)
Prism graphical programming environment
SunTM Parallel File system (PFS)
SunTM Scalable Scientific Subroutine Library (S3L)
Basic cluster management tools
Cluster Console Manager (CCM)
Switch Management Agent (SMA) Is this a FC switch or a LAN switch/
The entire Sun HPC ClusterTools software suite is integrated with Load Sharing Facility (LSF) from Platform Computing Corporation, providing the robust resource management features required in HPC environments.
As the worlds of commercial and technical computing converge, and the nature and practice of traditional HPC continues to change and evolve, there is a growing need for scalable, available supercomputing resources in addition to new approaches to enable on-going success. Sun Microsystems is dedicated to meeting the demands of this new high performance computing
SUNW has BIG plans for Maxstrat HPC storage......
sun.com
SUN MICROSYSTEMS EXTENDS SERVER AND STORAGE CAPABILITIES FOR THE HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING MARKET
Solidifies Agreement With IBM to Offer High Performance Storage System (HPSS)
Software for the SolarisTM (SPARCTM Platform Edition) Operating Environment Software
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Palo Alto, Calif. - March 2, 1999 - Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW), the industry leader in UNIX© storage, server and workstations, today announced it is furthering its commitment to the high performance computing (HPC) market through two key initiatives. Sun has entered into a contractual agreement with IBM Global Government Industry to offer the High Performance Storage System (HPSS*) software for Sun's Solaris Operating EnvironmentTM. In addition, Sun recently announced the acquisition of MAXSTRAT Corporation, a leader in high performance storage systems in the HPC market. The acquisition of MAXSTRAT, along with the HPSS offering, will further Sun's HPC solutions by providing cost-effective, flexible supercomputing performance that is demanded by high-end technical and commercial applications.
"Matching storage and software to the application is fundamental to achieving maximum results. The current one-box-does-all mind-set forces customers to play to the lowest common denominator," said Jeff Allen, vice president of marketing, Sun Network Storage. "These steps will allow customers to customize their solution and enable Sun to take a leadership position in the high-growth HPC marketplace." Sun's current HPC products are helping to drive down the costs and increase the performance of products in the supercomputing market. These solutions are designed to meet the growing needs of HPC customers in applications such as climate modeling, scientific research and medical simulations.
High Performance Storage System was developed jointly by leading U.S. government supercomputer research and development laboratories and IBM, which offers it commercially. HPSS was developed in response to urgent requirements of the data-intensive computing community. HPSS provides open, scalable hierarchical storage management and services for large-scale storage environments, allowing customers to manage a variety of storage devices as a single system. HPSS is designed to move very large data objects between high performance computers, workstation clusters and storage libraries at speeds many times faster than previously possible. With HPSS, Sun users can now manage tens to hundreds of terabytes of information in a heterogeneous environment of disks, high performance disk arrays and automated tape libraries. HPSS on the Solaris Operating Environment software is scheduled to be available in stages starting in May, 1999.
Harry Sundberg, executive manager for IBM Global Government Industry Solutions, welcomed the new license agreement, saying, "IBM is pleased to make HPSS available for Sun's Solaris environment as we are committed to a multi-vendor High Performance Storage System and we are pleased that all HPSS customers will have the added assurance of multiple sources for their HPSS server platforms. HPSS was designed to be easily portable, and Sun Solaris provides the necessary prerequisites of DCE and Encina."
MAXSTRAT Recently Acquired by Sun
MAXSTRAT is a leading supplier of HPC RAID storage systems favored for data-intensive applications in a wide range of industries, including entertainment, government, education, petroleum geophysics, automotive engineering, earth sciences and scientific research.
"This is another significant step in our storage strategy and consistent with our commitment to HPC," said Allen. "This acquisition addresses critical customer needs in high performance storage management, complements existing offerings and developments, and extends our ability to provide solutions for customers' data-intensive applications."
Sun Network Storage will continue to work with MAXSTRAT's business partners, such as NEC/HNSX and Fujitsu Ltd., to provide HPC storage solutions on a worldwide scale. Could these be future customers for ANCR? Existing customers such as DreamWorks SKG and Walt Disney (entertainment), Ford and BMW (automotive engineering), Veritas DGC and Western Geophysical (petroleum geophysics), AES and ECMWF (earth sciences) and Lawrence Livermore, ONERA, and CSCS (scientific research) will continue to benefit from MAXSTRAT's high-performance RAID storage servers. Additionally, existing products and technology will be leveraged into next generation HPC storage solutions.
About Sun Network Storage
Any guesses as to the NEW name for the product.....
Since they moved the HPC to .COM perhaps the Noble bricks will get a . in their name. Now if ANCRs new switch should have a . in its name will we add 10 points to the price....
any thoughts, any help out there? These FC seats are great, nobody is going to get mine for a few years! Wonder what they will go for then?
Stor.com? SAN.stone? FC.switch? San.box? HPC.com? |
