Schwartz on commercial adoption of HPC

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eWeek.com has an article on Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz’s comments last week at the Web 2.0 Expo. From the article

Sun logoThe CEO, charged with driving Sun forward in an increasingly competitive market where systems vendors are turning their attention to Internet-based—or cloud—computing, cast aside the idea that companies just want several one-way “pizza box” servers.

…To that end, Schwartz said that while the perception is that Internet-focused companies use those one-socket servers, their average node is a four-way platform, which carries a lot of computing power when running Sun’s eight-core UltraSPARC T1 and T2 chips.