The HPC Consortium is a Sun Global Education and Research worldwide customer forum which meets to research and discuss high-end scientific and engineering computing issues and trends. While the Consortium is primarily a technical computing user group meeting for Sun's academic and research customers, customers and interested parties from industry and government are welcome. Attendance is by invitation only and availability is limited. Although attendance is not restricted to Sun customers, non-customer participation must be approved by the organizers. Please contact your Sun sales representative for an invitation or one of the contacts below.
Participants represent a broad range of computing applications and environments.
The meeting format is designed to give participants the opportunity to present recent developments, discuss applications and needs with their peers, and to hear and provide feedback on Sun's engineering plans. Meetings are held biannually in conjunction with the US and European supercomputing conferences. The SIGs meet as breakout sessions within the Consortium meeting. The purpose of this group is to aid the development of pilot projects to implement integrated solutions for distributed computing. We are inviting innovators and implementors of grid and portal computing solutions.