[nflug] HOT OFF THE PRESS:Sun to Offer Most Complete and Open Solution for Solaris and Linux HPC Clusters

[Robert Wolfe]

For those of you on the list who are SUN fans <G> like myself.

 


Sun Microsystems Expands High Performance Computing Portfolio with
Definitive Agreement to Acquire Assets of Cluster File Systems, Including
the Lustre File System


Sun to Offer Most Complete and Open Solution for Solaris and Linux HPC
Clusters

SANTA CLARA, Calif. September 12, 2007 Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA)
today announced a definitive agreement pursuant to which Sun will acquire
the majority of Cluster File Systems, Inc.'s intellectual property and
business assets, including the Lustre File System. By acquiring Cluster File
Systems, Inc., the leading parallel file system provider, Sun intends to add
support for Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS) on Lustre and plans to
continue enhancing Lustre on Linux and Solaris OS across multi vendor
hardware platforms. As previously announced in July 2007, Sun also plans to
deliver Lustre servers on top of Sun's industry-leading open source Solaris
ZFS solution, which is one of the fastest growing storage virtualization
technology in the marketplace.

 

Robert Wolfe [MCP/Linux+] rwolfe at shatterit.com

Shatter IT Global Services, LLC

http://www.shatterit.com

 

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