Since Andy Bechtolsheim's return to Sun in 2004, his contributions just keep getting better. This week at the ISC show, Sun introduced the new Sun Constellation System (see article [18274]) for complex applications such as climate modeling, and we have a link to a video of Bechtolsheim talking about the system.
In other news, Sun has contributed more code to the OpenSolaris project, this time adding source code for the Solaris Cluster [18281].
Time is running out to take advantage of the free Sun Enterprise Installation Services when you buy a Sun SPARC Enterprise M4000 or M5000 server; see article [18283]] for details.
Another server benchmark to report this week: Sun Blade X6220 and the Sun Blade X6250 modules reached new records. See article [18288].
There is also a review of the Sun Fire X4600 server as tested by ServerWatch concluded that the server is not only fast and efficient but "beautiful" [18290].
Sun demonstrated innovative High Performance Computing (HPC) solutions at the
International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) 2007, especially the new Sun Constellation System, which is designed for complex applications such as climate, weather and ocean modeling.
Sun has contributed source code of Solaris Cluster application modules (agents) to the High Availability Clusters community portion of the OpenSolaris.org Web site. The release of agents is the first part in a phased release. Twenty-four HA agents that ship with Solaris Cluster were released, including Samba, DNS, DHCP, Kerberos and more.
Network.com has a new application available for financial risk simulation. The new CDOSheet application from CDO2, a company that provides pricing and risk technology, allows a single risk analysis to be performed.
To help customers accomplish their business intelligence goals, a new web analytics solution combines open-source technologies and general-purpose systems from Sun, Greenplum, Unica and Kinetic Networks. These technologies have been combined to create the Sun Web Analytics Solution.
For his contributions to ZFS and other work, Sun engineer Jeff Bonwick has been appointed as the newest Sun Fellow. This ranking is the most senior rank that can be attained within Sun's engineering organization.
Documentation on Sun Java System Directory Server Enterprise Edition 6.1 is now available online from Sun. This includes guides on administration, deployment planning, development, installation, migration and troubleshooting along with man pages, release notes and more.
Manage and audit access to accounts and resources with the Sun Java System Identity Manager. Tasks this software handles include allowing access to applications for people inside and outside your company so they can do their jobs. Learn about the Administrator Interface and how to configure resources in this article.
An in-depth guide for x86 and SPARC based systems to configuring the Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.3 with Sun Cluster 3.1 software is available from the Sun Web site by author Durga Deep Tirunagari. Detailed steps are included in the guide to install and configure (and uninstall) a two-node, asymmetric, high availability (HA) cluster for Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.3 with Sun Cluster 3.1 software.
The testing crew at ServerWatch.com were excited to get a Sun Fire X4600 server to test, and they discovered that the system "pack more power than we knew what to do with". The review by Charlie Schluting dissects the server inside and out.
Recent Sun Blade news includes some world record results of benchmark tests for the Sun Blade X6220 and the Sun Blade X6250 modules. There is also a podcast from InfoWorld that discusses blade servers and virtualization.
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 the last 4 issues. The top 10 articles for last week, Vol 112 Issue 3, were:
Top Ten Articles for Vol 112 Issue 3
Sun ODF Plug-in for Microsoft Office Download Free of Charge [18208]
Sun Named to Leaders Quadrant in Gartner Report [18263]
Documentation for the Sun Blade 6000 Modular System [18262]
Financial Benchmark Testing Shows Sun Fire x4600 Server Very Fast Processing Speeds [18267]
Sun's Project Blackbox Tested in Earthquake Lab [18249]
Real-time Capabilities of the Solaris Operating System [18184]
Easy Bulk Registration of Systems with Sun Connection Inventory Channel [18211]
New Language Extensions in the Sun Studio 12 C Compiler [18215]
Project GlassFish - V3 Technology Preview Available [18247]
PBX Solution from Sun and Mitel for Multi-Tenant Customers [18265]
Learn how to use the Sun Java EE Engine in a Java Business Integration (JBI) composite application. A technical article on the Sun Developer Network (SDN) explains the concepts and features of the Sun Java EE Engine, transaction support, security and cluster support and GUI and CLI interfaces.
With the Sun Grid Module Suite for NetBeans IDE, you can access the Sun Grid Compute Utility at Network.com directly from within NetBeans IDE. It enables the development of Java applications for the Sun Grid Compute Utility.
If you want to set up a blog using Ruby and NetBeans IDE 6.0 Preview (M9), then see the new tech tip on the NetBeans site. The tip walks you through creating the Ruby on Rails project, configuring the database and more.
A Sun white paper examines performance characteristics of and differences between Solaris ZFS and the ext3 file system used in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Enterprise Server environment. Results show the Solaris ZFS does better in storage and data requests, and also reveal ext3 file system mount options require a choice between data integrity and performance.
Lynne Thompson's June BigAdmin tip explains a new patch installation utilities that have been changed to handle large patches being installed on Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS). These are "deferred-activation" patches.
The Sun Explorer Data Collector 5.9 diagnostic collection tool is available for download from the Sun Download Center. It is made of shell scripts and a few binary executables, running on the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS) for SPARC and x86 Platforms.
If you need to install or to upgrade to the Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS), some "cheat sheets" are available on the Sun BigAdmin site to help you. The cheat sheet instructions are organized based on what you need to do.
A Sun Developer Network article can help you start using JRuby scripts with Java applications and the NetBeans IDE. Monica Pawlan outlines the basics in this article beginning with setting up JRuby along with examples, figures and links for even more information.
Project OpenJFX is a new java.net community focused on JavaFX Script - a highly productive scripting language for creating rich media and content for deployment on Java environments. This community will be sharing early versions of the JavaFX Script language and collaborating on its development. Plans are for JavaFX Script code to eventually be open sourced.
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