Sun Microsystems increases share of HPC market

According to analyst firm IDC, Sun Microsystems is the leading provider of servers, in revenue terms, for the high performance technical computing (HPC) market for the nine month period ending 30th September, 2001.

With 22% of the $3.6bn market, Sun beat rivals Compaq, Hewlett Packard and IBM and grew its share of the total HPC market by nearly 2% over the same nine-month period in 2000.