Not only is Sun providing the technology platform to NBC Universal for the Olympics, it is also making available a Facebook application to allow fans to predict winners.

Sun's xVM server 1.0 is now available for early access.

Sun's X4600 now holds the world record for x86 servers using the SPECjbb2005 benchmark.

Interested in 8x more storage throughput at 1/8th the latency? See the article on L2ARC.

Learn how Deal Nelson has improved the efficiency and flexibility of Sun' s data centers and how SVLG evaluated cooling products for data centers.

As of April 2009, Solaris 8 will enter phase 2 of EOSL after which customers whose systems are running the Solaris 8 OS will no longer be able to receive patches.

In the next fee weeks, there will be web events on JavaFX and Mitel.

In the HPC section, see how xVM can be used to automate the Lifecycle Management of HPC Clusters and watch Dr. Thomas Stering talk on HPC Achievement and Impact.

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Sun has extended its server line with new Intel Xeon-based servers: Sun Fire X2250 and Sun Fire X4250. Sun Rays are becoming more in part because of Sun Virtual Desktop Infrastructure.

Open Storage and Open Solaris continue to grow and Sun has increased its commitment to Partners.

learn more about xVM as Steve Wilson chats with RedMonk analyst Michael Cote and see a demo of xVM server.

Hear how the new Sun Fire X2250, a 1RU, Intel Processor Base Server, fits into HPC in the latest Radio HPC podcast with host Tony Warner.

Read about the broader HPC market from Tabor Research who belies "that new technologies, methodologies, and applications are emerging outside of the traditional HPC markets that have the essential characteristics of high productivity computing".

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Sun wins 3 BOSSIEs (Best of Open Source Software Awards 2008) for MySQL, VirtualBox and OpenOffice. Several companies are now OEMing VirtualBox and a leading online advertising representation, firm Gorilla Nation Media, has selected MySQL. Sun is now selling support subscriptions for OpenOffice.

See Tim Foster's update on OpenSolaris and consider attending the OpenSolaris Storage Summit on September 21st in San Jose.

Diagram your Sun hardware configurations with the Sun Configuration Diagram Templates.

Watch the Gartner/Sun/Altair webcast for an update on the HPC marketplace and how HPC s being used to bring products to market faster. OpenMP and MPI programmers should look at Sun's compiler and tools suite for C, C++, and FORTRAN for Solaris and Linux.

Learn about Parallel NFS (pNFS) as NSF has had a profound overhaul, delivering higher than ever levels of performance and security, particularly in enterprise data centers.

See the list of the 25 most popular articles from this newsletter for Volume 125, July 2008.

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The Sun Fire X4600 M2 X86 delivered record setting SPECjbb2005 results.

Both Sun and Fujitsu shared their plans for next-generation SPARC at the recent "Hot Chips" conference. Fujitsu is working on an eight-core SPARC64 Chip and Sun is working on the 16-core ROCK CMT Processor.

Check out two MySQL papers: "MySQL Workbench: A Data Modeling Guide for Developers and DBAs" and "MySQL Enterprise Monitor: Technical Overview."

Check out the podcast, "Towards Cloud Computing with Sun Grid Engine 6.2" and the story about TACC and Facial Recognition in the HPC section.

Some of this week's features include, Sun\'s GNU/Linux Offerings, Eco Innovation in the Datacenter and Sun\'s Rich Green on Open Source

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