Slow at work or hectic? Maybe some support and training will help in either case. Two promotions expire by the end of the month: one provides discounted support for NetBeans [17101] and the other for the Solaris 10 OS [17098].
Sun offers a course designed to introduce Sun Studio software to Solaris OS developers [17022]. Another course explains how Solaris 10 OS differs from version 8 and 9 [17086]. Sun Fire X4500 server maintenance details are covered in [17083].
The Netra CP3060 UltraSPARC T1 ATCA blade was part of the September product launch, and this week we cover its features such as its partitioning abilities and how it delivers extreme performance - learn more in article [17045].
Sun Fire servers continue to demonstrate their performance power in the recent selection by the NSF to fund an HPC center at UT Austin [17094].
Don't have time to fly to a trade show to learn about AMD and Sun? Not to worry: The new AMD Virtual IT Experience solves that -- an online tradeshow that makes you feel like you are there. See [17081].
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at The University of Texas at Austin $59 million over five years to acquire, operate and support a high-performance computing (HPC) system made of Sun Fire x64 (x86, 64-bit) servers and Sun StorageTek disk and tape storage technologies that will use over 13,000 of AMD’s forthcoming quad-core processors.
An independent advisory board has been created for the OpenSPARC Community to help shape the evolution of the initiative. The board will help direct the creation of tools and derivative chip designs based on the Sun UltraSPARC T1 processor.
The 2006 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing event held in California was sponsored by Sun and featured women employees from Sun who participated in panel discussions on how a diverse workforce advances technology. Sun was a Gold sponsor and sent 30 employees to the event.
What are the typical challenges associated with hardware upgrades in a datacenter? For advice on simplifying the process, watch the on demand Sun Net Talk featuring Craig Churchill. Churchill is the global director of the Installed Base Marketing at Sun. He explains the process and how the Sun Upgrade Advantage Program can help.
Given the widespread use of the virtual machine in commercially significant systems and the complication the VM brings with it -- presenting an extra abstraction layer between the application and the observed hardware effects, Greg Wright, Phil McGachey, Erika Gunadi and Mario Wolczko have chosen to address the issue in a Sun Labs paper entitled "Introspection of a Java Virtual Machine under Simulation."
Greg Papadopoulos has resumed his blog, tackling most recently what he refers to as the "...environmental and sociological consequences of computing something." The full text of "The Ecology of Computing" is online. He foresees a future that would include, by 2050, Google's entire CPU grid in a user's mobile phone.
Bob Worrall is the new CIO at Sun Microsystems, coming to the post from his earlier assignment as VP for IT at Sun. He spoke with Computerworld's Eric Lai about the company's three-year Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) consolidation plans and about how Sun plans to use flex-time to combat the anticipated effects of a flu season or other disruptive influence.
Henkel KGaA, a Fortune Global 500 company headquartered in Dusseldorf, Germany, employs some 51,000 people in its world wide markets for home care, personal care and adhesives, sealants and surface treatment. Henkel sought to replace its mainframe-based system for administering employee identities that was developed in the early 1990s and turned to Sun Java System Identity Manager as the solution.
The Netra CP3060 UltraSPARC T1 ATCA Blade is the first blade to incorporate Sun's Chip Multithreading Technology (CMT) to meet the needs of telecommunications and other applications that require different types of processors when using an ATCA. The UltraSPARC T1 processor has partitioning capabilities and is a low-power processor, delivering extreme performance and performance per watt, especially when running the Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS).
Need some documentation for your new Sun Fire X4500 server, the world's first hybrid data server? Sun provides PDFs and HTML versions online of many how-to guides for installation of the OS, product notes, an ILOM guide and more.
Learn the Sun Fire X4600 server architecture inside and out with this web-based course, Sun Fire X4600 Server Maintenance and Troubleshooting. The course covers installation of the server and configuring the server processor. The training also covers troubleshooting and replacing internal components.
Each week, we determine which articles have been most frequently referenced by logged-in subscribers to provide you with a list of the most popular articles for each of the last three issues. The Web version of this article lists the top 10 articles for each of the last four issues. The top articles from the last issue - Vol 103, Issue 4 - were:
Looking for advice about the NetBeans 5.0 IDE from experts who have worked with it for years? Try the "NetBeans IDE Field Guide." This second edition has added how to build applications with the Matisse GUI Builder, how to use the NetBeans Collaboration Modules and more.
One of the projects on the java.net page is Project Hudson, which monitors executions of repeated jobs, such as building a software project or jobs run by cron. Hudson creates an automated, continuous build and checks to see if the build works. It will notify you if it does not work, but while it is working, you can be working.
Sun began using a new Verisign certificate for digitally signed patches for the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS) on September 24, 2006. This means that a signing certificate will be used for all three Solaris OS releases, Solaris 8, 9 and 10 OS. Customers using signed patches will be required to update their patch tools to continue to install these patches. Failure to do so will result in patch installation installation errors.
Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS) developers have a new course available to introduce them to the capabilities of Sun Studio software. Course WP-100-S10 (available only in the U.S.) provides developers with an overview of how to compile, edit, debug and analyze performance with Sun Studio.
Check out the new downloads available from Sun that include Sun Firmware Flash Update Tool (fwflash), Solaris SRP Driver 1.0 and Tuning Tool for CoolThreads Technology (CoolTuner) 1.0.1.
The course "Make the Transition to the Solaris 10 Operating System" (course ID number VC-SA-210-S10) presents the essential differences between the Solaris 8, Solaris 9 and Solaris 10 Operating Systems. The course covers skills and tasks that are new or are changed in Solaris 10.
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