Sun Microsystems company representative in Serbia Mr. Marko Radovic organized, in close collaboration with SCL, a one-day HPC workshop at the Institute of Physics Belgrade on 8 October 2009. Sun was represented by HPC expert Dr. Torben Kling-Petersen and Mr. Lefteris Papakostas, sales manager for Southeastern Europe.

During the morning session, Dr. Kling-Petersen presented various topics concerning Sun HPC hardware: rackmount and blade-based solutions, advanced cooling techniques, interconnect technologies (Infiniband and 10G ethernet), storage solutions. The afternoon session was oriented towards Sun's HPC software stack with the accent on Grid software (Sun Grid Engine) and cluster management tools. In the discussion with SCL members, Sun representatives also introduced Sun Academic Initiative, and further collaboration in assessing HPC technologies for the Blue Danube National Supercomputing and Data Storage Center was agreed.