Sun has a whole range of computer systems, ranging from workstations to high-end servers. The former high-end family, the Starfire Enterprise 10000 Server was well represented in the TOP500 for a number of years. Sun never tried to bring out a machine that could challenge the first place, however. The current top-offering is the Sun Fire 15K Server.

Sun Grid Engine finds a pool of idle resources and harnesses it productively, so an organisation gets as much as five to ten times the usable power out of systems on the network. That can increase utilisation to as much as 98%. Sun Grid Engine software aggregates available compute resources and delivers compute power as a network service.

SUN high end systems are also used in industry as the first examples show.

1. MobilCom in Germany has two PC 10000 400 MHz systems.
2. Sun Fire 15K servers, introduced September 2001, have been shipped to organizations such as Clearstream Services, Mid-Sweden University, Ocwen Technology Xchange, Tai Fook Securities Group, and Uppsala University.
3. Nortel Networks NITEC Monkstown is using the Sun Grid Engine software to control the access of simulation jobs to the hardware accelerator.
4. The CFD Group at SAAB has relied on the cluster computing capabilities of 100 networked Sun workstations to perform compute-intensive external aerodynamics and other computational fluid dynamics simulations with GridEngine.
5. debis Systemhaus in Germany is using a Sun Enterprise 10000 for application service providing.