Welcome to the Sun Grid Developer Community!

The Sun Grid Developer Community is a catalyst for the emergence of standards, infrastructure, architecture and partnerships for the Sun Grid pay-as-you-go, utility computing ecosystem. There are many tools and resources available in our community to help you get started using Sun Grid technology. Check out in our Community projects for useful utilities and examples.

Sun is changing the very nature of computing by delivering access to enterprise compute power over the Internet with its Sun Grid Compute Utility. Sun Grid provides an easy and affordable access to an enormous computing resource for the predictable and all-inclusive price of $1/CPU-hr. Sun Grid provides zero barriers to entry and exit. You can access the computing power you need, when you need it, with no hidden costs, without a long-term contractual obligation, and increase or decrease your usage as your demand requires.

Sun Grid provides developers with access to runtime / execution environment for load / scale testing across a large number of horizontally-clustered, integrated systems and partner architectures without having to acquire and maintain hardware and software.

Cool Apps Developer Challenge - $50,000 Total Prizes! Winners Announced!

The winners have been announced for the Cool Apps Contest. Come take a look! See who the winners are and what they did to win!

Looking for Sun Grid documentation?

• For the absolute minimum to get started: Sun Grid Quickstart guide
• For the most detailed reference: Compute Utility reference guide
• For the latest and most detailed documentation: The Sun Grid Developers Guide

Grid technology hightlights

Features

Cool Apps Spotlight: Sean Fitzgerald Sean's Ganet project recently won a grand prize of $15,000 for the Sun Grid Cool Apps contest focusing on development for the Sun Grid Compute Utility. Ganet is a highly distributed application that uses genetic algorithms running on the Sun Grid to discover Neural Networks. Read More. Cool Apps Spotlight: Ivar Chan Ivar's DistributedIndex project recently won a grand prize of $15,000 for the Sun Grid Cool Apps contest focusing on development using the Compute Server NetBeansTM IDE plugin. And yes, the check he's holding in his picture above is his contest prize! The DistributedIndex project is a wrapper around the Lucene Java search engine to index large datasets on Sun Grid. Read More. Cool Apps Spotlight: Don Casteel Don's Fractal3D project recently won a prize of $5,000 for the Sun Grid Cool Apps contest focusing on development using the Compute Server NetBeansTM IDE plugin. The Fractal3D project focused on creating, rendering, and animating IFS fractals in full 3D as volumetric density fields. Read More. SuperComputing Gridathon 2006: There is an upcoming Gridathon at the SuperComputing conference November 15th and 16th in Tampa, Florida. If you're going to be at SuperComputing, stop by the Sun Microsystems booth #605 on the Exhibit Floor to register and learn about the Sun Grid first hand. See you there! Read More.

Not just for Newbies

• ABOUT Sun Grid Compute Utility
• JOIN Pilot Project and get 100 Free CPU-Hours on the Sun Grid
• WHY join the Sun Grid Developer Community FAQ

Contact us

• Dave Dorfman, Community Lead
• Helen Chen, Community Manager
  
• Jonathan Simon, Technical Editor