University of Nottingham and Sun Microsystems Streamline Computing and Allinea Software; Unveil Second Largest Academic Computer System in Europe

Overview

The University of Nottingham selected Sun Microsystems and Streamline Computing to build a multi-million pound 500+ node central compute grid which will provide the University with three teraflops of peak computational performance. The new grid built using AMD Opteron processor-based Sun Fire V20z servers ranks as the second largest academic computer system in Europe to date, and the eighth largest worldwide. Application development and deployment tools from Allinea Software, the new spin-out of Streamline, complements established tools such as Sun Grid Engine to provide the University of Nottingham with a complete and fully integrated hardware and software solution.