NEC Corporation (NEC) has announced that Sun Microsystems (Sun) has agreed to expand its alliance with NEC regarding HPC solution business in Europe and North America, enabling provision of NEC's SX series vector supercomputers with Sun Fire scalar servers. NEC will continue to provide a broad range of HPC solutions including NEC's own scalar solutions. Sun's HPC components will provide more variety for our end users.
The agreement involves NEC sharing its extensive experience and knowledge in the HPC solution business, in particular in terms of high-end supercomputer system integration and ISV application tuning, with Sun, in order to leverage NEC's market recognition in large-scale HPC solutions.
Outline of the collaboration between NEC and Sun
NEC will provide an optimized "hybrid" supercomputing environment to end users by integrating NEC's SX series vector supercomputer and Sun Fire scalar servers.
"Hybrid" supercomputing solutions provide a superior benefit for customers who wish to utilize both vector and scalar computing environments based on the suitability of customer codes. This solution also provides the capability to share data between vector and scalar computing environments.
NEC will provide expertise regarding ISV application tuning and optimization on Sun Fire servers for the specified target segment such as crash analysis in the automotive industry. NEC will also provide total solutions to the end user as a system integrator.
NEC and Sun will share the system environment for application tuning, system evaluation and benchmarking between NEC's ATCC (Advanced Technical Computing Center, Houston, Texas) and Sun's Solution Center for HPC
(Hillsboro, Oregon) and cooperate in various ISV application-related activities.
NEC and Sun are sharing market information in each region, and aggressively developing a new customer base for optimized HPC solutions.
In April, 2005, NEC and Sun announced an agreement to expand the strategic alliance between the two firms in the area of new system solutions and technology development. This strategic alliance in the HPC area is a part of the above agreement.
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