Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq:JAVA) today announced the addition of 14 new applications in the Network.com Application Catalog, a collection of online grid-enabled applications that are available from Network.com's Sun(TM) Grid compute utility service on a pay-per-use basis with "Click and Run" ease. Sun also announced a new partner program, "Sun(SM) Network.com Connection," for independent software vendors (ISVs) to create and expand lucrative on-demand service offerings to end-users at a lower risk and cost with access to new channels. Additionally, Sun has expanded Network.com's international availability with the Netherlands being the latest of the 25 countries worldwide from where its services can be utilized.
SANTA CLARA, Calif. (Business Wire EON) February 14, 2008 --
Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq:JAVA) today announced the addition of 14
new applications in the Network.com Application Catalog, a collection of
online grid-enabled applications that are available from Network.com's
Sun(TM) Grid compute utility service on a pay-per-use basis with “Click
and Run” ease. Sun also announced a new
partner program, “Sun(SM) Network.com
Connection,” for independent software vendors
(ISVs) to create and expand lucrative on-demand service offerings to
end-users at a lower risk and cost with access to new channels.
Additionally, Sun has expanded Network.com's international availability
with the Netherlands being the latest of the 25 countries worldwide from
where its services can be utilized.
“An expanded catalog of over 40 applications
from ISVs and open source communities covering a wide range of industry
segments is not only increasing the diversity of the Network.com's
portfolio of pay-per-use services but also attracting more developers
and end-users to use, build and share new services,”
said Mark Herring, Senior Director of Software Marketing. “Network.com
is providing developers and ISVs with both flexible IT infrastructure
resources and a robust portal for creating, publishing and accessing
open source-based as well as ISV applications. With a growing collection
of applications, a host of new developer tools and worldwide
availability, Network.com is evolving into a virtual on-demand data
center that allows businesses of any size to leverage compute
infrastructure without the cost of ownership and with the flexibility of
scaling up or down compute resources in real time as business demands
change.”
The newly added applications in the catalog include open source
application Blender, an integrated suite of tools for modeling,
rendering, animation, post-production, creation and playback of
interactive 3D content. Sun is sponsoring Blender Foundation's open
movie “Peach,” a
short 3D animation by artists and developers in the Blender community,
with grants of CPU-hours in Network.com. Other notable new open source
applications are Zeus (a life sciences application), GAP (a
computational mathematics application) and OOFEM (a computer aided
engineering application). In addition to the powerful Solaris(TM) 10
Operating System (OS)-based grid platform, Network.com is providing
developers and open source communities with tools, resources and an
active grid developer community that helps them easily build and test
on-demand applications. The complete list of Network.com's open source
as well as ISV applications in computational mathematics, engineering,
design, financial services, rendering and animation, life sciences and
other specialties can be found at http://www.network.com/application.html.
Network.com offers ISVs the application catalog to quickly and securely
offer their applications to end-users and a Digital Entitlement Token
system that gives ISVs the option of a new and flexible software
licensing mechanism. Sun has launched a new “Sun
Network.com Connection” partner program that
allows ISVs to gain competitive advantage by publishing their on-demand
applications to Network.com customers and jointly going to market with
Sun, thereby shortening their sales cycles and enabling end-users with
limited IT resources to gain immediate access to these applications. The
details of this partner program are at http://www.sun.com/partners/ondemand.
Network.com customers of GAMS Development Corporation (http://www.gams.com)
have immediate access to the intensive computational power needed for
mathematical programming using GAMS, an application specifically
designed for modeling linear, nonlinear and mixed integer optimization
problems. "For us, Network.com is a secure and scalable compute
infrastructure that our customers can easily use for lots of processing
power without the burden of building and maintaining a data center,"
said Alexander Meeraus, CEO of GAMS Development Corporation.
Scientists from many universities and leading research institutes are
relying on Network.com for their compute infrastructure as they work on
solving complex problems with massive computational needs. "Our research
requires the use of large matrix computations involving huge data sets.
Using Network.com and FreeMat, an interpreted matrix-oriented
development environment available in Network.com Application Catalog, we
are able to scale these intricate computations across large number of
CPUs with significant reduction of the computation time," said Dr. Amir
Assadi, Professor of Mathematics at University of Wisconsin-Madison. "We
are also doing research on the algorithms used in these computations and
are inviting participation in our project in the Sun Grid Developer
Community." Dr. Bruno Sanso, Associate Professor at the University of
California Santa Cruz, and his team of researchers are using Network.com
to run statistical applications for climate and environmental research.
About Network.com
Sun's Network.com provides access to compute infrastructure on a
pay-per-use basis via its Sun Grid compute utility at $1/CPU-hr. It is
powered by the Solaris 10 OS and Sun(TM) Grid Engine running on Sun's
x64 hardware. CPU-hr is defined as the aggregate time spent across all
CPUs and rounded up to the next hour. For more information, please see http://www.network.com.
About Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Sun Microsystems develops the technologies that power the global
marketplace. Guided by a singular vision -- "The Network is The
Computer"(TM) -- Sun drives network participation through shared
innovation, community development and open source leadership. Sun can be
found in more than 100 countries and on the Web at http://sun.com.
Sun, Sun Microsystems, the Sun logo, Solaris, and The Network Is The
Computer are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems,
Inc. in the United States and other countries.
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