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The Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is a “storage for the Internet”.  A web services interface can be used to store and retrieve any amount of data, at any time, from anywhere on the web. The S3 feature set includes:

Write, read, and delete objects containing from 1 byte to 5 gigabytes of data each. […]

Owners of Sun SPARC Enterprise M4000/M5000/M8000/M9000 servers whose systems need to be updated with the latest XCP Firmware or possibly just need a reinstall of the firmware, should visit the Sun Download Center, which recently released XCP 1071.
Fixes incorporated within this release as described by Bruce Hill, Sr. Manager, SPARC Platform Software Release […]

IDC has made a “multi-media whitepaper”, sponsored by Sun, on HPC available at:

http://idc.cycloneinteractive.net/sun_iview/sun_iview_v03.html

Earl Joseph, from IDC, delivers an interesting overview of the HPC marketplace.
IDC is estimating that the HPC market will grow about $B/year - from $11B in 2007 to about $15.5B in 2011
“In IDC’s view, Sun Microsystems is one […]