Sun Microsystems Inc. announced new products and technologies that extend its HPC leadership, maximize application performance and throughput, and provide superior building blocks for HPC systems. In addition, Sun is announcing new HPC customers, world-record performance and Top500 List results that demonstrate its relentless system innovation. Sun doubled its number of entries since the June 2009 list with a total of 11 deployments providing nearly 2 PetaFLOPS (PFLOPS). New products and solutions announced include: Sun Lustre(TM) Storage System Update: Doubles capacity and density with new 2 TB drives, with improved performance on the latest Open Storage platforms; Sun Blade(TM) X6275 Server Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) Version: Extends GbE interconnect to ultra dense blades; provides up to 70% more compute density (per rack) than competing blade servers, with up to 9 TeraFLOPS (TFLOPS) of peak performance per fully populated Sun Blade(TM) 6048 server chassis; Sun(TM) Storage 7000 Family Update: Doubles density and capacity, from 288 TB to 576 TB in a 4RU space; now with InfiniBand and Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA; Sun(TM) Datacenter InfiniBand Switch 72: Provides ultra-slim, ultra-dense switch fabric solution in 1RU for Sun server clusters up to 72 quad data rate (QDR) InfiniBand nodes; seamlessly integrates with the Sun Blade(TM) 6048 Modular System and the Sun Blade 6048 QDR NEM to scale up to 576 servers and storage systems; Sun(TM) Datacenter InfiniBand Switch 36: Offers customers a self-contained, multi-purpose 1RU 36-node QDR IB switch fabric solution for enterprise applications; Sun HPC ClusterTools (TM) 8.2.1: Incorporates highly optimized Message Passing Interface (MPI) supporting multiple interconnects including InfiniBand QDR, which can provide improved performance for many HPC applications. Sun Storage 7410 Delivers Outstanding Performance with Increased Efficiency and Capacity.

AT&T, Inc. upped its cloud portfolio Monday when announced it was working with VMware and Sun to develop its own cloud computing service. Much like other cloud computing offerings, AT&T's Synaptic Compute as a Service aims to give users scalable on demand computing capacity that they can increase or decrease depending on their immediate needs and without the need to invest heavily in on-site infrastructure. The service's key features include a Web portal for ordering and managing service capacity; disk capacity for every virtual server's operating system; and 24-hour network monitoring and management by AT&T's support staff. The service utilizes VMware's vSphere virtualization platform and its vCloud API to help AT&T connect and integrate its own cloud with the public Web. AT&T also says that it is also using Sun's hardware software and reference architecture to 'create an environment to make it easy for developers to build and deploy value-added services.

Sun Microsystems Inc. expected to Report Q2 2010 Results on January 27, 2010. This event was calculated by Capital IQ (Created on November 11, 2009).