Compared to Intel or AMD, Sun Microsystems has traditionally focused more on high-end, high-power servers and supercomputers than on desktop computers at home. It should come as no surprise, then, that Sun produces some of the most advanced high-performance computing (HPC) systems. In fact, they offer not one but several different types of HPC solutions for a variety of PC needs.

High Performance Computing using either supercomputers or computer clusterssolve advanced problems requiring millions of calculations. Although it is most often associated with scientific research, was the recent high performance computing increasingly used in business applications such as data warehousing, transaction processing and line-of-business (LOB).