Sun Microsystems' is a leader in networked computing as well as mainstream parallel computing -- Sun has the largest installed base of SMP workstations and servers. The convergence of these two technologies, along with Sun's soon to be announced UltraSPARC based systems and its highly regarded presence in the technical and scientific marketplace, position Sun a major provider of high performance parallel computing platforms for performance oriented users.

Charles will give an overview of Sun's current family of products for compute intensive applications and then will present some of Sun's near term plans for providing HPC systems, software and tools to today's performance hungry marketplace.