Ever wonder what happened after Sun and Microsoft agreed to get along? The on-demand net talk features the progress of that agreement [18356]. Sun successes with its software strategy are gathered all in one report; see article [18361].
Cluster File Systems, Inc. (CFS) is planning to use ZFS in their Lustre filesystem, which is very popular in HPC environments. [18355]
Randy Chalfant, (CTO Marketing, Sun Storage) asserts that 70% of disk space
is wasted on average. Take a closer look [18355].
A Try & Buy success story reveals how the Sun Fire T2000 server improved performance of customer service applications at a public utility [18391].
There is an online tool to see how much in power and cooling savings can come your way with the use of a Sun SPARC Enterprise M4000 server or M5000 server [18375]. And there is a blog that can help you assess your disk allocation [18355].
If you have time this summer for some training and are in Monrovia, CA, or planning a vacation with the family nearby, get some Java or Solaris training under your belt and get an iPod Nano; it can be a great gift if you already have one or can get you out of the dog house if someone important is mad at you [18364].
If you are planning on getting some training in Java technology or the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS), go to the Sun Training Center in Monrovia, California, and receive a free iPod Nano.
Evaluate VMware VI3 and Solaris 10 Appliance for VMware risk free on the Enterprise Class Sun Fire X64 system of your choice: A Sun Fire X4600 M2 server, Sun Fire X4100 or a Sun Fire X4200 M2 server.
Servers, software and services from Sun will be used to improve the infrastructure of the humanitarian online news network AlertNet. They will consolidate from 13 servers to 11 Sun Fire T2000 servers with the Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS) to help manage spikes in traffic to the web site.
The open source Lustre network file system from the scalable cluster file system technology company, Cluster File Systems, Inc. (CFS), of Boulder, Colorado, will now use the OpenSolaris ZFS disk file system on Lustre servers running Linux operating systems.
Oracle has certified RAC 9.2/10gR1/10gR2 64-bit on Solaris 9 and Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS) SPARC platform running Sun Cluster 3.2 software. An installation guide is available online.
A recent Sun blog posted a presentation about how to install SAP systems to get the benefits of Solaris 10 Operating Systems (Solaris OS) zones. Also find a script that automates the creation of a zone.
Project Blackbox has been touring the country and the world to show off what it can do. Now, the first customer will be getting their own. Stanford University just got the first black box shipping container for their Linear Accelerator Center.
Josh Simons gathered links to many HPC Consortium talks and posted them on his blog. Talks he links to cover topics such as TSUBAME, the Sun Visualization System, and two talks on the Niagara 2 processor performance.
Hear from Sun CTO Greg Papadopoulos and others in a new Sun Net Talk On Demand about the three-year Sun/Microsoft interoperability partnership. Discussion centers around customer successes from the joint use of Microsoft and Sun servers, thin clients and storage; and Project Tango; and Java technology and .NET compatibility.
The newest version of Sun Management Center software, version 3.6.1, expands monitoring and management into the realm of x86/x64 systems through the x86 config reader, which allows you to deploy the Sun Management Center server within a non-global zone. Learn about this and other new features in a new white paper.
Quickly profile and peer into the runtime behavior of your systems with Project D-Light, a free download from the Sun site. Project D-Light is a new feature added to Sun Studio Express. This plug-in uses an intuitive drag and drop interface.
The Spring 2007 Sun Software Quarterly News report lists milestones achieved, business case studies showing successful adoption and implementation of Sun software, and other facts about the state of Sun's software strategy.
Robert Worrall, Sun CIO and senior VP, asserts that the IT shop of the future will focus more on business than technology. Worrall recently talked with Paul Krill of InfoWorld.com about this trend and how this will affect Sun's business model.
Three recently posted benchmark results for the Sun Blade X6250 module are available on the BM Seer blog. The first is for a Sun Blade X6250 cluster with Infiniband interconnects on the Fluent 6 benchmark; the second is a single-node Sun Blade X6250 with Intel Xeon 3 GHz DC 5160; and a third is a result from ANSYS "Standard" benchmark test suite for the Sun Blade X6250.
Use the "Power Calculator" to estimate and calculate the power consumption and cooling requirements of a planned configuration of SPARC Enterprise M4000/M5000 servers.
When the Benton Public Utility in Washington state needed to improve the speed of the computers and applications that customer service staff used, the utility took advantage of Sun's Try & Buy program and discovered a 50 percent improvement in key customer service processing times.
Sun Servers Integration 1.0 for IBM Tivoli Enterprise Console provides the tools and utilities needed to completely integrate Sun servers into a Tivoli Enterprise Console (TEC) environment.
Thinking about adding capacity to your IT infrastructure? See this blog for insight on assessing what space you have and how it is being used (or not used). Randy Chalfant of Sun asserts that on average 40 percent of space is used for inert data that has not been accessed in six months.
If you are a SAN architect who needs to adjust certain values to optimize failover times or array performance, this guide explains what to adjust and how. The paper presents three general matrices describing the various types of tunables and/or default values related to performance, failover times, and error recovery and logging.
New drivers are available for download for Sun StorageTek L-Series libraries and for the Sun StorageTek Tape Drive T9840 family. See the Sun Download Center for details and links.
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 113 Issue 2, were:
Benchmark Result: 1.4 GHz UltraSPARC T1 Chip Ten Percent Faster than IBM POWER6 Chip [18308]
With so many APIs of the mobile Java platform available now, it's hard to sort out which to use. Bruce Hopkins has listed graphical APIs of the Java ME platform that are currently available and under specification. He covers the profiles built on Java ME configurations and optional packages. The API's covered include MIDP 1.0, 2.0 and 3.0; Personal Basis Profile 1.0 and 1.1; Scalable 2D and 3D Vector Graphics and more.
The java.net article "Scalable Vector Graphics on Java ME" by Biswajit Sarkar presents a demo application that illustrates how to create a Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) image with inline code. How to use JSR 226 in combination is also explained.
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