Sun Microsystems has added some interconnect technology companies to its partnership programme. The lucky companies are Infinicon, Force10 Networks, Mellanox, Myrinet, Quadrics, Topspin Communications and Voltaire.
As part of the newly established Sun HPTC Alliance Partner Program, they will help Sun deliver technologies covering data, computing, visualisation and access to grid computing solutions.
“Sun’s HPTC Alliance Partner Program provides Sun customers with a wide range of advanced technologies and allows us to tailor solutions to specific customer needs,” says Shahin Khan, vice president of the HPTC business unit at Sun. “We’re leading the HPTC market with our UltraSPARC and Solaris-based servers and HPTC solutions, and through a spike in deployments of Sun x86-based, Linux clusters. With next generation Opteron-based systems on the horizon, Sun HPTC Alliance partners can reach and serve an even larger segment of the market.”