This week, the company put its money where its mouth is, plugging its own information technology department into the new Sun Grid.

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Sun itself hosts Network.com, a pay-per-use online service offering mathematical and engineering applications launched last March and hosted on what the company calls the Sun Grid.

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Twice yearly, an accident of solstice, orientation and geometry sends golden shafts of setting sun straight through the grid from river to river, west to east, an occasion that would be celebrated by people less in a hurry.

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Despite the consolidation of hardware that grid computing could represent, Sun's Dutra isn't worried about the company's sales.

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Future packages for a year's computing power might have the customer pay up front, pay later, pay now and run down an account, or draw computing power from a general-purpose "grid" of computers run by Sun.

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Heat from the sun boils water to run a steam turbine generator, which delivers power to the grid.

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More recently, a somewhat overlapping group of tech heavyweights called the Green Grid, including Intel, HP, Dell, Microsoft, IBM, Sun and AMD, announced a "roadmap" for the IT industry's adoption of more efficient data center hardware.

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Sun's announcement marks the information technology industry's latest step toward "utility computing, " a grid system in which companies pipe in data processing and storage from faraway server farms, says Nicholas Carr, author of The Big Switch, a book on utility computing published earlier this week.

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