It's a new age of supercomputing, and Sun is leading the way with a powerful family of high-performance computing solutions on the industry's broadest line of binary-compatible and the most scalable symmetric multiprocessing systems available anywhere. Sun Microsystems' strategy for High Performance Computing (HPC) is to provide superior solutions to a market that demands both performance and innovative technology. Sun is one of the few vendors in the industry that can address these complexities with highly reliable, integrated and innovative software tools, programming languages and hardware. Sun offers highly robust solutions that will allow you to implement seamless and balanced production environments while maintaining leading performance with the lowest total cost of ownership.Sun's systems strategy is to architect fat SMPs and clusters of fat SMPs. The SMP architecture, extending from workstations to high-end servers, is the most widely used model for developing and running parallel applications. It is a proven, easy to deploy architecture that ensures that the thousands of applications developed and optimized for these systems will provide the optimum performance available without modification. This model also provides the largest selection of binary-compatible, technical applications from key software vendors. HPC solutions include high performance computing software tools that perform workload and resource management, and support the development and execution of high-performance, parallel applications. Sun HPC ClusterTools Software brings supercomputing-class power with easy-to-manage, commercially available Sun systems, all of which run standard Solaris Operating Environment and maintain binary compatibility across the entire Sun product line, from single and dual CPU systems to 64-CPU SMP systems as well as both single system environments and clusters of SMP systems.