Who benefits from Network.com?
Thorleifsson: The whole ecosystem benefits — both the end users, as well as the publishers of the software. Clearly the scientific community and researchers in academia and business, benefit from Network.com as they now have instant access to a suite of HPC applications and the compute resources in a pay-per-use model without having to invest in expensive IT infrastructure. But Network.com also presents a great opportunity for software vendors looking to deliver their HPC applications as an on-demand service to their users. IC: How are you enabling ISVs to publish HPC applications to Network.com? Thorleifsson: We make this really easy for them. Sun provides its ISV partners with toolkits, training, white papers, documentation, and access to Sun grid experts to get their applications up and running on Network.com powered by the Solaris 10 OS. We are really lowering the barrier for ISVs to enter the on-demand market and start delivering their HPC applications as a service. Sun is taking
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