Sun Announces Largest Sun Grid Customer Deployment to Date: Virtual Compute Corporation Purchases Over One Million CPU Hours
SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- November 9, 2005 -- Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW) today announced that Virtual Compute Corporation (VCC), a high performance computing service provider, has signed an agreement to use over a million hours of central processing units (CPUs) on the Sun Grid Compute Utility. VCC is currently using Sun Grid to serve its customers in the oil and gas industry, including Paradigm, a company who specializes in software solutions for geosciences. Sun Grid helps customers and partners derive immediate benefits from an open, grid-based computing infrastructure on a utility basis by giving them more choice and control over how they purchase and leverage IT.
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Paradigm signed an agreement with VCC to supplement compute resources and gain quick access to thousands of CPUs. VCC's deployment on the Sun Grid, based on Sun Fire V20z servers powered by AMD Opteron processor-based systems, marks a new era for energy companies' use of true utility compute services.
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"Sun Grid and VCC have been instrumental in providing us quick, easy access to additional CPU cycles to meet our growing cyclical business demands," said Bob Nielsen, director of information technology, Paradigm. "We've demonstrated companies can use grid-based computing on a utility basis to increase service whilst driving down cost, fueling the overall market acceptance for compute on demand."
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"With Sun Grid, we have opened the doors to a new era of utility computing that will usher in a fundamental change in how our customers in all industries manage their datacenters," said Edward Hawes, chief executive officer of VCC. "This alliance allows VCC to expand the Utility Computing industry and provide more sophisticated resources to the end users of our high performance computing."
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"This major Sun Grid deal--with VCC--underscores the growing demand for flexible compute resources as a service to customers in a wide of range of industries, from financial services to oil and gas companies," said Stuart Wells, executive vice president, utility computing, Sun Microsystems. "VCC's deployment on Sun Grid marks a turning point in the computing resource-strapped energy industry, as the company frees up capital and labor that can be refocused on innovation and competitive advantage -- leading the way for others to reexamine their IT spending. With Sun Grid, our entire global customer base now has the ability to get a competitive edge from a true computing utility."
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About Sun Grid
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Sun Grid helps customers and partners to derive immediate benefits from an open, grid-based computing infrastructure on a utility basis by giving them more choice and control over how they purchase and leverage IT. The Sun Grid offerings include the Sun Grid Compute Utility, a $1 (USD) per CPU per hour pay-per-use offering ($1/cpu-hr), and the Sun Grid Storage Utility.
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About Virtual Compute Corporation
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A Houston-based global provider of "On-Demand" High-Performance Computing and IT Infrastructure Management for commercial and government entities. For more information, visit http://www.vcompute.com or call (281) 256-6135.
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About Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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A singular vision -- "The Network Is The Computer" -- guides Sun in the development of technologies that power the world's most important markets. Sun's philosophy of sharing innovation and building communities is at the forefront of the next wave of computing: the Participation Age. Sun can be found in more than 100 countries and on the Web at http://sun.com.
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Source: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
