Data from the
Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is being stored on Sun products. The OpenSPARC Community Innovation Award Winners were announced this week. The Sun Fire x4500 is a key component of the
Fox, Sun and Greenplum Enterprise Data Warehouse announce this week.
High-performance network switches from Force 10 Networks paired with Sun HPC servers, storage, software and services, create the solutions organizations need to move ahead of the competition.
Hear Scott McNealy talk some more about applying open source and sharing models to improve education on a global level. Read how Sun earned a place in the 2009 Guiness Book of World.
On September the 10th, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) began
experiments with its Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world's most powerful particle accelerator. Physicists will use the LHC to recreate the conditions just after the Big Bang, by colliding two beams of subatomic particles head-on, at very high energy. Teams of physicists from around the world will then analyze the particles created in the collision to gain a better understanding of some of the fundamental laws of nature.
The French Physics organization, IN2P3/CNRS, which is responsible for collecting data from the experiments on the new Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, has chosen to use Sun servers, Solaris and Sun StorageTek tape libraries to house the data that they collect.
"Sun developed the Open Source Community Innovation Awards Program to foster innovation on a global level and recognize the most interesting initiatives within open source communities worldwide," said Shrenik Mehta, Senior Director of Frontend Technologies and OpenSPARC program for Sun Microsystems. "The winners ranged from professors and students in the academia to developers working in the industry, all of whom demonstrated extraordinary creativity and collaboration leading to some outstanding innovations that will have a very real impact on the OpenSPARC community."
Fox Interactive Media (FIM), Sun Microsystems, and Greenplum have developed and deployed a new data warehouse designed to support monetization efforts for FIM's portfolio of leading Web properties. The data warehouse solution is built upon the Sun Fire x4500 storage server and Solaris, and provides complex, real-time analysis in support of FIM's advanced targeted advertising systems.
"Sun and Greenplum will be invaluable collaborators as we continue to put our data to work in new ways that will improve both the user and advertiser experience on our network of sites," said Arnie Gullov-Singh, EVP of Product, Technology and Operations for the FIM Audience Network.
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A High Performance Computing (HPC) system needs to be flexible, powerful
and efficient, in order to provide timely, accurate and high-quality results for
commercial and scientific ventures. The right Ethernet architecture can
enhance the performance and reliability of an HPC system and provide the foundation on
which to grow for the future.
Force10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) and 10 GbE switches paired
with Sun HPC servers, storage, software and services, create the solutions organizations
need to move ahead of the competition.
Scott McNealy and Chip Heath, Stanford Professor and Co-Author of bestselling book Made to Stick, discuss Sun’s Curricki, a new free virtual website, and their attempt to apply open source and sharing models to improve education on a global level. Hear why video games and instant messaging might be better teaching tools than textbooks and tests.
In a recent "Inner Circle" feature Peter Ryan, executive VP of Global Sales and Services for Sun, outlined his views on the emerging market opportunity and how it might best be addressed.
Changes in the world marketplace have led Sun to form an Emerging Market Sales region, Ryan explained, that will enable the company to accelerate growth in these markets.
This webcast chats about Sun's commercially supported version of OpenSolaris, the open source OS with an enterprise pedigree, the innovation engine for the Solaris platform, a thriving community of smart, motivated developers, and an opportunity to be successful faster.
The Sun Cluster Agent for Informix is the first SC Agent built by the open source community is complete and available for download - the first step of realizing the vision of connecting the OHAC community with the product technology, monetizing from opensourcing through the participation of the community.
Solaris Cluster (SC) is an integrated software platform that delivers best-in-class high availability to business services, keeping global enterprises running 24x7 through planned maintenances, failures, wide area outages or disasters.
You can download this sophisticated infrastructure software and use it at no cost. If you need assurance and support, Sun offers licensing and support plans for purchase.
Sun now offers subscriptions to MySQL Workbench SE (Standard Edition). MySQL Workbench enables a DBA, developer, or data architect to visually design, generate, and manage all types of databases, including Web, OLTP, and data warehouse databases. It includes everything a data modeler needs for creating complex ER models, and also delivers key features for performing difficult change management and documentation tasks that normally require much time and effort.
A new GeoReplication add-on for MySQL, a real-time open source transactional database, and additional new MySQL Cluster Support offerings, are now available. MySQL Cluster combines the world's most popular open source database with a fault-tolerant database clustering architecture so you can deliver mission-critical database applications with 99.999% availability with no single point of failure.
Sun xVM Ops center is a cost effective, enterprise class-management platform with support for the virtual and the physical infrastructure and is designed to support small to large heterogeneous datacenters. Many businesses are taking advantage of virtualization to increase the utilization of hardware but decrease power expenses.
Sun xVM Server is a new product from Sun that allows users to run Solaris, Windows, and Linux guest operating systems side by side with X86 hardware, Sun, and other vendors. Sun builds in Best Practices, giving the user access to the benefits without the need to micro-manage the environment.
Sun released a new deeper rack model of the Sun Modular Datacenter (Sun MD20-versus S20) provides customers with new choices for deploying a broader spectrum of enterprise-class servers and storage in their modular datacenters. Since its launch in January 2008, the Sun MD has been deployed globally for many applications.
The optimization of secure desktop virtualization provided by Sun: Why Thin Clients Aren't Interesting, What We Learned from TV, What Customers Ask For, Case Study, and Other options.
"This is really about enterprise business strategies…When we move them away from the end user device and back into the enterprise, we increase uptime, performance, control and security around those enterprise assets."
Aaron Dubrow's article on "Virtual Clustering" at the Texas Advanced Computing Center discusses the locally developed MyCluster software, which allows researchers to aggregate resources across the TeraGrid and into the clouds.
The Sun HPC Consortium Austin is being held in conjunction with SC08 in Austin, Texas on November 15-17, 2008. The Sun High Performance Computing Consortium (SHPCC) is an independent, volunteer-organized, international group of member organizations that own or use Sun computer systems with emphasis on high-performance, technical computing, and visualization.
SHPCC's mission is to provide the high performance computing community with leadership and provide a forum for information exchange to enable the development and effective use of Sun computational tools in achieving the business and research objectives of member organizations.
Sun has made standard configurations and processor options available for the Sun Fire x4450 Server with the Intel Xeon Processor 7400 series. These new processor options range from 4-core to 6-core and 65W to 130W. These new Sun Fire X4450 standard configurations and processor options based on Intel Xeon processor 7400 series replace the existing configurations and options based on Intel Xeon processor 7300 series.
We track how frequently each article is viewed on the web site to determine which the readers consider the most important.
The top 10 articles for last week, Vol 127 Issue 3, were:
OpenOffice 3.0 Release Candidate 2 (build OOO300_m7) is available through the OpenOffice.org website. The software is not recommended for production deployment at its current stage. It is recommended for new users to chose one of the previously released more stable versions such as OpenOffice 2.0. The new OpenOffice 3.0 Release Candidate contains many updated features and Native support for Mac OS X.
Rob Snevely's 224-page book, "Enterprise Data Center Design and Methodology," is available as a free PDF download or it can be purchased as a printed book at a 30% savings from the Sun Microsystems Press Bookstore.
According to the latest statistics provided at the JavaOne 2008 conference, there are over 6 billion Java-enabled devices deployed worldwide. These devices can range from large-scale enterprise class servers down to a tiny smart card that fits in your wallet. Java technology is embedded into billions of phones, as well as countless other devices including the traditional desktop computer. Java technology is a critical part of the new high-definition video standard, the Blu-ray Disc standard. In this two-part series, we're going to cover several aspects of using the Java language to create applications for your Blu-ray disc player, which includes the very popular PlayStation 3 gaming console. Some various Java Platforms that exist today are:
Christoph Schuba has made his slide presentation New Solaris Security Presentation for Tech Days 2009 available on his blog as either a PDF or OpenOffice download. The latter version includes extensive sets of notes that help to understand the slides. The presentation includes a lot of code and administration examples.
News about the Sun Netra T5440 Server is stirring excitement among users interested in a high performance, carrier-grade rackmount server. The dual processors of the Sun Netra T5440 deliver unprecedented application throughput, and its dual processors with up to 8 cores per processor with 8 threads per core support twice the number of threads as previous systems using a single UltraSPARC T2 processor.
With the Netra ATCA Blade Server family Sun has has brought its industry-leading experience to the Advanced Telecom Computing Architecture (ATCA) space, the industry's best for choice, innovation, and value. Sun has announced numerous accessories needed for the Netra ATCA product line, covering accessories for both the Sun Netra CP3200 10G ATCA blades and the Sun Netra CT900 ATCA 10G systems.
COLT Telecom Group is one of the largest fixed line telecommunications providers in Europe, providing voice, data and managed services solutions to business customers over its 20,000-kilometer-long-fiber optic network. COLT experienced a need to develop a new system architecture that supports utility “pay-as-you-go” services offerings and to provide the means to rapidly integrate customer systems into the architecture, with the ability to dynamically increase or decrease RAM and disk capacity. Finally, this architecture had to support Microsoft Windows, Linux and Solaris 10 Operating System environments, as well as x64- and SPARC-based systems. COLT found its answer in a Sun clustering solution.
Sun and GigiSpaces announced new benchmark performance results that address the scalability needs of capital market customers.
Sun's SPARC Enterprise T5140 and T5240 system architecture incorporates third-generation CoolThreads Chip Multithreading (CMT) technology that provides users increased and extremely scalable computational density while staying within variously constrained envelopes of power and cooling.
Sun highlighted demand and sales growth in emerging markets around its Solaris Operating System, Sun SPARC Enterprise server family and joint Oracle deployments, as well as strong momentum showcasing numerous world record benchmarks and new reference configurations for Oracle data warehouses on Sun platforms.
"Customers have made Sun's SPARC Enterprise servers and the Solaris OS the backbone of mission critical enterprise deployments from the Web-tier to the back office," said John Fowler, executive vice president, Systems Group. "From mainframe-like RAS capabilities in open enterprise systems, to energy-efficient CMT servers and open storage, Sun has upped the ante on innovation with each successive generation of products. Customers driving their businesses on powerful platforms like those from Oracle demand the most reliable, efficient and scalable systems."
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