A recent article that appeared at The Star Online discusses the Malaysian launch of the Sun FireTM V20z server, which is the first hardware product to be released since Sun's alliance with Advanced Micro Devices (AMD). The product features x86 dual processors capable of running on the SolarisTM Operating System (Solaris OS) (x86 Platform Edition) or Linux.

The server is the first of a series of servers based on the AMD Opteron 32/64-bit x86 series chips, and is designed to facilitate the migration from 32-bit to 64-bit computing. The article cites Sun Microsystems Malaysia Sdn Bhd managing director Cheam Tat Inn as stating that later models in this same range would appear later in the year.

Both AMD and Sun are reportedly collaborating to optimize the Solaris OS for the AMD Opteron processor family. Both companies have also stated their intent to collaborate with the Linux community to define and promote a 64-bit UNIXR-Linux application binary interface.

The article states, "These computing platforms were seen as the next generation forward from the currently popular 32-bit platforms, able to access exponentially larger data sets and providing the computing power to handle graphics and video-intensive applications."

The article also cites Cheam with stating that Linux-based volume servers were gaining market share away from those running Microsoft's Windows operating systems.

The Sun Fire V20z server was covered in article [12267].

For the complete article, see:

http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2004/3/23/corpit/7509311&;sec=corpit [...read more...]

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