The Sun Recovery Assistance web site provides system administrators
with documentation, patches, contact information, and discussion forums
designed to assist customers in the rapid recovery of their computing
environments based on Sun hardware and software products and
solutions.
During the second quarter of calendar year 2001, Sun was the only
vendor to grow UNIX marketshare. According to IDC Q2CY01 Server Tracker
report, Sun's total server shipments, including all
operating systems, increased 5.5 percent from Q1 to Q2, more than any
other top five server vendor.
Sun Educational Services offers web-based Jiro technology
courses, including the Jiro Technology Bundle, the Jiro Technology
Overview, and Getting Started with Jiro Technology.
The next HPC Consortium Meeting is November 10 and 11, 2001, Denver,
Colorado, in conjunction with the IEEE SC2001 Conference. The HPC
Consortium is a Sun Global Education and Research worldwide customer
forum which meets to research and discuss high-end scientific and
engineering computing issues and trends.
Sun will grant hardware, including servers and a secure storage system,
to the Open Bioinformatics Foundation, a group of volunteer developers
who create free standards-based tools for life science informatics. The open
standards helps with data exchange in the bioinformatics community and
saves researchers time and costs.
Oil and gas company, Unocal, will use Sun technology to visualize
seismic data. Visualization software from Landmark Graphics and Sun
Blade 1000 workstation with Sun Expert 3D graphics technology
are combined with a flat-screen and single stereoscopic projector
running on the Solaris 8 Operating Environment (OE). Unocal will
use these technologies to help improve departmental-level collaboration
and decision-making in oil and gas exploration and production.
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