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The Sun Cloud Compute Utility provided access to a substantial computing resource over the Internet for <a href="/wiki/United_States_dollar" title="United States dollar">US$</a>1 per CPU-hour. It was launched as <b>Sun Grid</b> in March 2006—the same month <a href="/wiki/Amazon_Web_Services" title="Amazon Web Services">Amazon Web Services</a> began offering their first IT infrastructure services.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-amazon_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-amazon-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was based on and supported <a href="/wiki/Open-source_license" title="Open-source license">open source</a> technologies such as <a href="/wiki/Solaris_10" class="mw-redirect" title="Solaris 10">Solaris 10</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sun_Grid_Engine" class="mw-redirect" title="Sun Grid Engine">Sun Grid Engine</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Java_(Sun)" class="mw-redirect" title="Java (Sun)">Java</a> platform. </p><p>Sun Cloud delivered enterprise computing power and resources over the Internet, enabling developers, researchers, scientists and businesses to optimize performance, speed time to results, and accelerate innovation without investment in <a href="/wiki/IT_infrastructure" title="IT infrastructure">IT infrastructure</a>. </p><p>In early 2010 Oracle announced it was discontinuing the Sun Cloud project. Since Sunday, March 7, 2010, the network.com web site has been inaccessible.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Suitable_applications">Suitable applications</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sun_Cloud&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Suitable applications"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A typical application that could run on the Compute Utility fit the following parameters: </p> <ul><li>self-contained</li> <li>runs on the Solaris 10 Operating System (OS)</li> <li>is implemented with standard object libraries included with the Solaris 10 OS or user libraries packaged with the executable <ul><li>all executable code must be available on the Compute Utility at time of execution</li></ul></li> <li>runs to completion under control of <a href="/wiki/Shell_script" title="Shell script">shell scripts</a> (no requirement for interactive access)</li> <li>has a total maximum size of applications and data that does not exceed 10 <a href="/wiki/Gigabyte" title="Gigabyte">gigabytes</a></li> <li>can be packaged for upload to Sun Cloud as one or more <a href="/wiki/ZIP_(file_format)" title="ZIP (file format)">ZIP</a> files of 300 <a href="/wiki/Megabyte" title="Megabyte">megabytes</a> or smaller</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Resources,_jobs,_and_runs"><span id="Resources.2C_jobs.2C_and_runs"></span>Resources, jobs, and runs</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sun_Cloud&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Resources, jobs, and runs"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Resources are collections of files that contain the user's data and executable. </p><p>A <i>job</i> is a Compute Utility concept that defines the elements of the unit of work that is submitted to the Sun Cloud Compute Utility. The major elements of a job include the name of the <a href="/wiki/Shell_script" title="Shell script">shell script</a> controlling program execution, required arguments to the shell script, and a list of resources that must be in place for the job to run. </p><p>A <i>run</i> is a specific instantiation of a Job description submitted to the Sun Cloud Compute Utility. Runs occur when the job is submitted to the Compute Utility for execution. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="CPU-hour">CPU-hour</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sun_Cloud&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: CPU-hour"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>For each job one submitted and ran on the Cloud, the Sun Cloud CPU usage was aggregated and then rounded up to the nearest whole hour. For example, if a job used 1,000 CPUs for one minute, it would be aggregated as 1,000 CPU minutes, or 16.67 CPU hours, then rounded up to 17 hours; the job would then be billed as US$17. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Application_catalog">Application catalog</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sun_Cloud&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Application catalog"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On March 13, 2007, Sun announced the launch of Application Catalog, an online service that allowed developers and <a href="/wiki/Independent_software_vendor" title="Independent software vendor">ISVs</a> to develop and publish their applications, enabling communities of scientists and academics in life sciences, education, engineering, and other fields to accelerate innovation and complete research projects quickly and less expensively.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (August 2007)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>The <i>Network.com Application Catalog</i> gave users immediate online access to popular ISV and <a href="/wiki/Open-source_software" title="Open-source software">open-source applications</a> through an easy-to-use Web portal with no contractual obligation. Users could upload and run their own applications and create a personal library of favorites or take advantage of the pre-installed and configured applications, giving them instant productivity. The portal gave users everything they needed to conduct analysis and complete complex computational tasks to help speed scientific discovery and shorten the time to market for new products. Users would select the application, upload their data, and get results quickly. </p><p>Network.com enabled anyone to publish applications to the Application Catalog and take advantage of the <a href="/wiki/Solaris_(operating_system)" class="mw-redirect" title="Solaris (operating system)">Solaris</a> 10-based cloud platform. 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class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Processors</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/SPARC" title="SPARC">SPARC</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/MB86900" title="MB86900">MB86900</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/MicroSPARC" title="MicroSPARC">microSPARC</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/SuperSPARC" title="SuperSPARC">SuperSPARC</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/UltraSPARC" title="UltraSPARC">UltraSPARC</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/UltraSPARC_II" title="UltraSPARC II">UltraSPARC II</a> <ul><li>UltraSPARC IIe</li> <li>UltraSPARC IIi</li> <li>Gemini</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/UltraSPARC_III" title="UltraSPARC III">UltraSPARC III</a> <ul><li>UltraSPARC III Cu</li> <li>UltraSPARC IIIi</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/UltraSPARC_IV" title="UltraSPARC IV">UltraSPARC IV</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/UltraSPARC_T1" title="UltraSPARC T1">UltraSPARC T1</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/UltraSPARC_T2" title="UltraSPARC T2">UltraSPARC T2</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/SPARC_T3" title="SPARC T3">SPARC T3</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/SPARC_T4" title="SPARC T4">SPARC T4</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/SPARC_T5" title="SPARC T5">SPARC T5</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rock_(processor)" title="Rock (processor)">Rock</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/MAJC" title="MAJC">MAJC</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sun4d" title="Sun4d">Sun4d</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/SBus" title="SBus">SBus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fireplane" title="Fireplane">Fireplane</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/LOM_port" title="LOM port">LOM port</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/MBus_(SPARC)" title="MBus (SPARC)">MBus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sun_Modular_Datacenter" title="Sun Modular Datacenter">Modular Datacenter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sun_Neptune" title="Sun Neptune">Neptune</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/System_Service_Processor" title="System Service Processor">System Service Processor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/SPARC_T_series" title="SPARC T series">SPARC T series</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sun_SPOT" title="Sun SPOT">SPOT</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ultra_Port_Architecture" title="Ultra Port Architecture">Ultra Port Architecture</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Visual_Instruction_Set" title="Visual Instruction Set">Visual Instruction Set</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td><td class="noviewer navbox-image" rowspan="9" style="width:1px;padding:0 0 0 2px"><div><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Sun-Logo.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Sun Microsystems logo"><img alt="Sun Microsystems logo" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/Sun-Logo.svg/110px-Sun-Logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="110" height="48" 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