For those who are interested in Sun HPC software, this might be an interesting news.
Sun HPC Software Solaris Edition Developer Edition Beta 1 is now available at sun download center. http://www.sun.com/download/index.jsp?cat=High%20Performance%20Computing&tab=3&subcat=Solaris%20HPC%20Developer%20Preview There is no way to install it on the real hardware yet. However, the team is so sweet to offer pre-configured vmware and virtual box images. Download it, fire up virtual machine and try your HPC applications with Sun Studio and Sun Grid Engine. Note from my experience: 1. Download sun-hpc-sol-dev-virtualbox-beta1.iso 2. unachieve the ISO and get HPC-Distro-VirtualBox-32bit.vdi.tar.bz2 3. Unachieve HPC-Distro-VirtualBox-32bit.vdi.tar.bz2 and get HPC-Distro-VirtualBox-32bit.vdi 4. Create a new virtual machine on VirtualBox and select HPC-Distro-VirtualBox-32bit.vdi as the hard disk. 5. Start the new virtual machine and you are ready to go! Please send your comments to hpc stack team! http://opensolaris.org/os/project/hpc-stack/devkitpreview/ Enjoy! Zhiqi
