System News posts items of interest for Sun users on a regular basis on the System News For Sun Users blog. Some of those items will become detailed articles in this newsletter. Here's a quick recap of posts for the last week:

TACC's Ranger Set to Go into Full Production

The Texas Advanced Computing Center's (TACC) "Ranger" housed at the University of Texas at Austin's J.J. Pickle Research Center will go into full production this month, running up to an expected 504 trillion operations per second which makes it one of the most powerful computers in the world. Read more.

A Review of the News from 2007

By accessing the web logs, we have determined that the following list of 270 articles were the most popular with subscribers. Read more.

Solaris Application Programming by Darryl Gove

Darryl Gove, a senior engineer in Sun's Compiler Performance Engineering group, has written a new book called. "Solaris Application Programming". The publisher describes the book as "...a comprehensive guide to optimizing the performance of applications running in your Solaris environment. From the fundamentals of system performance to using analysis and optimization tools to their fullest, this wide-ranging resource shows developers and software architects how to get the most from Solaris systems and applications." Read more.

Sun's Comeback One of the Most Underreported Stories of 2007

Labeled number 2 of 2007's most underreported tech stories, InfoWorld's Bill Snyder highlights Sun's comeback from the dot-com bubble burst to its "...four profitable quarters in a row plus record margins — as well as a growing list of wins, point to a company on the upswing." he reports. Read more.

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From the latest issue:

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