Sun Gunning for Top, MS for the Masses in Supercomputing
Sun Microsystems on revealed the Constellation System, a high-performance computing platform that
could hit a peak performance of 2 petaflops while HP and Microsoft gang up to give High-Performance computers a mass appeal by making it easier to deploy, support and manage. Customers can 'realistically expect to have a 64-node cluster deployed and running within two hours', HP said in a statement.