Sun Extends Community Source Licensing to HPC ClusterTools

Portland 16 Nov 99 Sun's HPC ClusterTools software is now available to be downloaded from the Web via the Sun Community Source Licensing (SCSL) program. "Sun's Community Source Licensing program matches extremely well with our mission to accelerate the exploitation of parallel computing throughout academia and industry," said Dr. David Henty, Project Manager for Training and Research, Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre, University of Edinburgh.

"We have a long history of developing parallel tools, and we are sure we can provide innovative contributions that will benefit not only EPCC, but all users of Sun's ClusterTools. This is an exciting opportunity to work with Sun's ClusterTools and contribute to its development, particularly now that EPCC is upgrading its existing Sun systems to be the major HPC resource for the university."

"The San Diego Supercomputer Center is pleased to see Sun extend its Community Source Licensing to the HPC ClusterTools," said Mike Vildibill, SDSC Deputy Director for Resources. "We are looking forward to collaborating with Sun on the HPC project and giving back to the user community the tools for better and faster innovation."

For HPC software, interested parties can register and download source files at

In June, Sun announced that its HPC ClusterTools would be offered through SCSL. Since the initial announcement, response to Sun's offering of its HPC ClusterTools software has been overwhelmingly positive. More than 400 registrations for the Community Source Licensing of the HPC ClusterTools software core have come in from third-party vendors, software developers, HPC software vendors, commercial OEMs, universities and research organizations worldwide.

"We are excited about the global response that we have received regarding Sun's HPC ClusterTools Software sources," said Greg Papadopoulos, Chief Technology Officer, Sun Microsystems. "Developers in the HPC market want the flexibility to fine tune software to suit their specific needs. The broad interest in making sun HPC ClusterTools available over the Web reflects the HPC community's desire to share and advance technology." Sun will provide the source files and conformance test suites. For support, Sun will create an online community forum of licensees. By adopting this model, Sun is enabling resulting products to be used by a wide range of users.

The SCSL model allows access to HPC ClusterTools software source files without fees during the initial evaluation and development phases. Via the Web, Sun provides the key source files including the Sun MPI (Message Passing Interface) Library, the Prism(TM) parallel programming environment, the Sun PFS (Sun Parallel File System), the Scalable Scientific Subroutine Library (S3L), as well as the Cluster Runtime Environment (CRE).

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