Sun will be heading a research project on microchip interconnectivity funded by the Department of Defense to the tune of $44.29 million. The 5 1/2 year project will begin with $8.1 million provided to Sun Microsystems' Microelectronics and Laboratories divisions which will be focusing on microchip interconnectivity via on-chip optical networks enabled by Silicon photonics and proximity communication.
The United States Navy will only be adopting open source technologies and standards from now on, Vice Adm. Mark Edwards, deputy chief of naval operations for communications, announced earlier this month, and the naval services are looking forward to lower costs, rapid technological upgrades and greater scalability with this move.
Sun announced new customers who are relying on its open technologies to scale their growing Internet-based business. New Web 2.0 companies are looking for more compute power, longer archive periods and ways to deal with rising power and cooling costs, and Sun is ideally suited to meet these needs as Flexilis, Gracenote, LinkedIn, RealTime Matrix, Siteworx and SuccessFactors have found.
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. A quick recap of posts for the last week includes Sun's Enterprise Class Data Storage Solutions Support New IBM System z10 Server, GlassFish & MySQL Software Bundle, Sun Wins $44.29 Million DoD Research Contract and HA xVM Agent Available for Download.
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