Sun Microsystems has announced the addition of 14 new applications in the Network.com Application Catalog. It is a collection of online grid enabled applications that are available from Network.com’s Sun Grid compute utility service on a pay peruse basis.
Sun also announced a new partner program, “Sun Network.com Connection,” for independent software vendors (ISVs) to create and expand on demand service offerings to end users at a lower risk and cost with access to new channels.
Mark Herring, Senior Director of Software Marketing said, “Network.com is providing developers and ISVs with IT infrastructure resources and a portal for creating, publishing and accessing open source based as well as ISV applications. Network.com is evolving into a virtual on demand data center that allows businesses to leverage compute infrastructure without the cost of ownership.”
The added applications in the catalog include open source application Blender, an integrated suite of tools for modeling, rendering, animation, postproduction, creation and playback of interactive 3D content.
Other new open source applications are Zeus (a life sciences application), GAP (a computational mathematics application) and OOFEM (a computer aided engineering application). In addition to the Solaris10 Operating System (OS) based grid platform, Network.com provides developers and open source communities with tools, resources and an active grid developer community to help them build and test on demand applications.
Network.com provides access to compute infrastructure on a pay peruse basis via its Grid compute utility at USD1/CPU hour, the aggregate time spent across all CPUs and rounded up to the next hour.
Network.com offers ISVs the application catalog to offer their applications to end users and a Digital Entitlement Token system that gives ISVs the option of a software licensing mechanism.
Network.com customers of GAMS Development Corporation have access to the intensive computational power needed for mathematical programming using GAMS, an application designed for modeling linear, nonlinear and mixed integer optimization problems.