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I was a little surprised and saddened to read that DARPA has decided to pump US$250m into Cray and US$244m in IBM for them to work on DARPA's next high performance computing initiative - their "Petascale" program.There was a lot of bidding and vying for the investment and it came down to 3 final contenders - IBM, Cray and Sun. Now being a Sunny, you can understand my disappointment - had Sun got some of this cash, I may have got a pay rise. That aside, I'm surprised DARPA made their decision based on the idea's pitched.  Continue reading ►

Sun has always been in the supercomputers list, but never particularily high up. I think this is mainly due to the historical cost of Sun kit, and because those that did have Sun powered supercomputers, didn't want to advertise the fact (I certainly wouldn't want my easily swappable and expensive CPU and memory boards knicked in the middle of the night).Well, that's all about to change - the National Science Foundation has awarded the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) $59 million for a new supercomputer.  Continue reading ►

Woohooo!!! Sun has finally made it into the top 10 of the Top 500 Supercomputers.