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SHAHIN KHAN LEAVES SUN, HPTC RE-ORGS

Shahin Khan, the recently appointed VP, High Performance Technical Computing and long time industry veteran has left Sun. Last week, Kahn and 8 other department members either left the company entirely or were reassigned to other departments within Sun. According to sources, Khan had several senior assignment options within the company, but choose to pursue other outside opportunities.

Sun officials confirmed that Sun was still very much focused on HPC and the changes within Kahn's group were part of an internal re-org.

Early last year, Sun Microsystems announced the creation of a new, expanded High Performance and Technical Computing (HPTC) business unit. The move was intended to bring into a single view Sun's HPTC products, programs, and investments across all of its divisions, including software, services, sales, storage and computer systems products.

At that time, Sun also announced Shahin Khan as vice president of the new High Performance and Technical Computing business unit. Highly respected throughout the industry and considered among Sun's top luminaries since joining the systems company in 1996, Khan was chartered with integrating product development plans and spearheading HPTC marketing and strategy initiatives into the future.

HPCwire will feature more in-depth coverage of Sun's HPC activity in upcoming articles and interviews.