CIO Today writer Lisa Valentine drew some interesting responses from
H. William Howard, CIO of Sun Microsystems, in a recent interview.
Among the issues most important to Howard are reducing complexity,
keeping technology current and maintaining corporate agility.
With a 14 GB database, the Department of Energy Human Genome Project
(HGP) at Los Alamos National Laboratory unquestionably qualifies for
the "heavy computing" label. According to DB Administrator Robert
Sutherland, the database has doubled in size every 15 months since 1989
when sequencing work began. The Los Alamos HGP relies on Sun technology
to keep itself up and running.
Sun is striving to bring something radically new to the
open source desktop in the form of Project Looking Glass. First shown
last month at LinuxWorld, Project Looking Glass offers a 3-D windowing
capability to users that does not stack their windows one upon another
and represent them with icons or buttons. Rather, solution, which
works with both Linux and the Solaris
Operating System (Solaris OS), can display windows in a 3-D environment
that can be manipulated as 3-D objects.
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