UltraSPARC T2 Plus processors made their debut this week in the multi-socket Sun SPARC Enterprise T5140 and T5240 servers which feature a total of 128 instructional threads and up to 16 processing cores within each server [19764].
Also released this week - Sun StorageTek VTL Prime with data deduplication features [19762] and Java SE for Business which extends platform support up to 15 years [19757].
Sun is sending out free DVDs of the Solaris Express Developer Edition for x86 Platforms [19750].
Download the Solaris Cluster 3.2 2/08 [19724], which Sun has announced now supports even more servers as does version 3.1 [19740]. Learn more about deploying MySQL on Solaris Cluster [19749].
Did you know the Solaris 10 OS can provide an ROI of 127% over five years with an additional 335% ROI potential? So reports a Crimson Group survey [19692].
Sun is introducing the third-generation CMT SPARC Enterprise T5140 and T5240 servers based on the UltraSPARC T2 Plus processor, which offers up to eight-cores and 64 threads like previous releases, but is compatible with multi-socket servers such as the two-socket T5140 and T5240 servers. The two UltraSPARC chips means users can access a total of 128 instructional threads and up to 16 processing cores within each machine.
The Sun Modular Datacenter S20 (Project Blackbox) was awarded a 2008 Government Computer News (GCN) Best of FOSE Award during the annual FOSE Conference and Exposition held April 1-3 in Washington, DC. Potential winners were selected from FOSE 2008 exhibiting companies that were showcasing a new product to be used in the public sector.
Sun filed patent infringement charges on March 26th in another lawsuit against Network Appliance (NetApp) with claims that the storage vendor's newly acquired Onaro SANscreen and NAS Insight storage management software violates Sun's patents for device discovery, remote monitoring, event filtering and remote rebuilding of computer, noted court papers filed in U.S. District Court for Northern Calif.
The newly available Java Platform Standard Edition (Java SE) for Business is designed for large enterprise customers looking for longer, more predictable support for the platform with up to 15 years per family. It is available via a company wide license with three levels of support - standard, premium and premium plus - and is priced per employee per year, ranging from $10 to $12.50.
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 3D Visualization Tool WireFusion 5 for Solaris, Third-Generation CMT SPARC Enterprise T5140 and T5240 Servers with UltraSPARC T2 Plus Processors; Performance Improvements Cited in Newly Released JRuby 1.1; Java SE for Business Extends Support for the Platform; and New Sun StorageTek VTL Prime with Data De-Duplication.
Sun's "Hot Topics" site is designed to keep customers updated on the latest developments involving Sun technologies. Some of this training site's latest featured video topics include xVM Ops Center, virtualization at Sun, multi-thread coding, Solaris Trusted Extensions and the Java Desktop System, Identity Federation, among others.
To buy or not to buy. That is the subject G. Pascal Zachary muses over in his New York Times piece "Thinking Outside the Company's Box," which concerns the virtues of innovation within the company walls versus innovation as something available in the marketplace.
France's number one radio station RTL relies on the open source application server for Java EE 5, better known as GlassFish, for internal and external applications. Fabrice Aneche of RTL answered a brief questionnaire regarding the station's real-world deployment.
Under a limited-time special offer, Sun is offering a Solaris Express Developer Edition DVD for x86 platforms that will be sent directly to requesters absolutely free.
Solaris Cluster 3.1 and 3.2 support Sun Fire X4140, X4240 and X4440 servers as well as the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5140 and T5240 servers, allowing these servers to be deployed in a Solaris Cluster environment so customers can manage service levels and bring increased availability to deployments.
The latest version of Sun's multi-system, multi-site disaster recovery solution - the Solaris Cluster 3.2 2/08 - is now available, bringing with it increased flexibility, ease of use benefits and virtualization support to customers. Solaris Cluster can help deliver disaster recovery and best-in-class HA to business services. The download is currently available, while the physical media version is expected April 14.
Sun will be hosting a Startup Camp event May 4-5, 2008, in conjunction with the second annual CommunityOne conference scheduled for May 5, at the Moscone Center in San Francisco.
The Sun Pavilion in Second Life will be the site for an author talk featuring Darryl Gove, a senior engineer in Sun’s Compiler Performance Engineering group, who will discuss his book "Solaris Application Programming." The talk is scheduled for April 17th at 9 am (PT) at the Cygnus Theatre in the Developer Playground on the Sun SIMS.
The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 server was put to the test by InfoWorld's Paul Venezia, who attributes the performance of this server to the UltraSPARC T2 processor, a single CPU running four, six or eight cores. Among the improvements in the UltraSPARC T2 are increased bandwidth to mainline I/O, decreased latency, core-specific memory controllers, FPU, cryptographic accelerator, and 4MB L2 cache, plus x8 PCle and two 10G Ethernet controllers, all of which reside on a single CPU die.
The Sun Netra T5220 (DC version) is now available. This high-efficiency, ruggedized rack server platform is based on the second generation of the Chip Multi-threaded Technology (CMT) UltraSPARC T2 processor. The Netra T5220 server offers extreme reliability and high throughput, at the same time offering processor core, memory and I/O densities to enable expansion and flexibility with a compact 2U form factor. The Netra T5220 will be the ideal platform for virtualization. The Sun Netra T5220 (AC version) is coming in April 2008.
There's a good more than meets the eye in the claims IBM is making for its new z10 mainframe, for which Big Blue claims a 30 to 1 ability to consolidate software licenses, among other things. Sun blogger Jeff Savit asserts further that this claim is based on 760 X2100 cores to 26 z10. The 760 to 26 is based on 3845 RPEs at 10 percent = 384.5 RPEs, which is approximately equivalent to the number of z10 RPEs at 90 percent when you use 20 RPEs equal to 1 MIP where MIPS are based on the LSPR curve for the z10. Got that? Well, read on, in the Sun blog, which points out that these measures were not taken under load, the only true measure of system performance.
There's something new in the wind for the Sun Netra T2000 eight core (8 GB) RoHS compliant server, which is being retired from the Sun product list and replaced by a new standard configuration based on a 1 GB DIMM rather than the 512MB DIMM, which is slated for EOL on September 5, 2008. Users of the Sun Netra product line will find in the newly configured Sun Netra T2000 server increased throughput with both footprint and power savings in a solution that meets the increasing demands of the network infrastructure using Sun's Chip Multithreaded (CMT) processor architecture.
You can now get Sun SPARC Enterprise M4000 and M5000 servers with 8GB total memory which includes two half populated memory boards using 1GB DIMMs. Customers also have the flexibility of purchasing a 4GB memory module (4 x 1GB DIMMs) and 4GB memory expansion kit (4 x 1GB DIMMs) as options for a lower priced system configuration.
Sun has added data de-duplication into its new virtual tape library solution, the Sun StorageTek VTL Prime, which can be used as a stand alone VTL or may be implemented with Sun StorageTek VTL Plus.
Forget about relying on traditional file system technology to deal with the demands of the burgeoning fixed content data issue. The answer is the Sun StorageTek 5800 System (a.k.a. Project Honeycomb), which was architected for just such an application. What's more, Project Honeycomb meets the needs of this situation with open source software technology, which is a first in storage.
Three Sun White Papers on the Brocade Data Center Fabric have been published for readers interested in a general overview of the solution, a more detailed examination of its architecture, and its adaptive networking.
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There is a new Ruby Developer Center on the Sun Website designed to assist developers in obtaining basic and advanced resource information on Ruby, Ruby on Rails, JRuby, RubyGems, the NetBeans IDE, the Cool Stack Solaris AMP, the GlassFish application server, Java DB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, as well as others.
The Enterprise Tech Tips blog has an interesting entry by Mahesh Kannan on extended persistence context in stateful session beans. In his tip, Kannan presents an application that uses a stateful session bean and an entity manager with an extended persistence context.
Find out how to use the Sun Studio tool dbx to debug a JVM crash on a Solaris x86 system in a recent SDN article. Poonam Bajaj explains how to work past the lack of product build information from the JVM by utilizing a dbx feature that allows you to 'load' and 'use' an alternate shared object rather than the one that was used in the process run.
Blastwave.org is an organization which prepares and packages open source software for the Sun Microsystems' Solaris operating system.
Blastwave is the home of multiple Solaris-oriented projects, including CSW or "Community Software for Solaris". The objective of the CSW project is to allow Solaris users to freely have pre-packaged open source software in accordance with specified standards. Software is in SVR4 compliant package format and ready to run via the simple pkg-get tool. This process includes a testing stage, open evaluation and bug reporting and final release to a "unstable" and "stable" tree
The Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS) has shown itself to be a source of extraordinary savings in a test conducted by the Crimson Consulting Group whose white paper on the OS reports ROI of 127% over five years for servers upgraded to the Solaris 10 OS. Crimson reports further that the potential exists for an additional 335% ROI if the upgrade was completed for all servers.
Sun engineer Krish Shankar has posted a detailed paper on how to deploy HA MySQL on a Solaris Cluster. Shankar also considered regression and failover testing of HA MySQL, and describes the tests performed. He found that the Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS) fully supports MySQL and the HA cluster application agent for MySQL. The multi-threaded MySQL Open Source database consists of an SQL server, client programs and libraries, administrative tools, and APIs.
"Enterprise Data Center Design and Methodology," Rod Snevely's 220 page book, is now available as a free download. The book attempts to walk readers through the design process, offering a method for creating a design that meets the requirements of your data center. But rather than being a simple book of designs, the book is rather a tool to work through data center requirements and to discover solutions to create the best design for those requirements.
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