Sun News this week reports on the Sun FireTM E25K server running UltraSPARCR IV+ processors setting a world-record performance on the SPEC Java Business benchmark [16062]. Two new Sun Fellows and six Distinguished Engineers have been named [16079], announced Sun, which also revealed that it has united its Global Sales and Services divisions [16082].
Features covers a Sun paper on identity management in the Participation Age [15968]; Sun EVP and CTO Greg Papadopoulos' penned view of IT's future [15969]; Sun's work with a 2006 TED Prize recipient [16031]; an English city's adoption of StarOffice[16020]; and Oxford University's switch to Sun technologies [15986].
The Promotions section publicizes a developer bundle being offered at a 76 percent savings [16059]; an Itanium-based workstation trade-in promotion for an UltraTM 40 workstation [15996]; a free cabinet and special pricing on rack integration and software when buying 20 or more Galaxy servers [16058]; and a Solaris-embossed jacket giveaway with Sun training [16045].
Sun's Galaxy server line is expected to expand this year [16053]. A new version and new configurations of the Sun FireTM V440 server have been released [15852]. Sun Fire servers win Supercomputing's Product of the Year [16080]. And, InfoWorld reviews the Sun FireTM X4200 server [16012].
Project Sun SPOT (Small Programmable Object Technology) [16046] tops Java Technology news, which also invites readers to vote for a winner in the Duke's Choice Awards [16030]; introduces the JavaOneSM Event Connect Tool [16074]; and has information on NetBeansTM[16061] and JavaScriptTM[16042].
Articles in the SysAdmin's section report on OpenSolaris Dynamic Tracing (DTrace) Toolkit [16054]; the design of UltraSPARCR T1 [16016]; and two Sun BluePrintsTM OnLine papers covering the Sun Systemic Security approach [15944] and the least privilege approach [15943].
Sun is offering a "Developer Powerhouse" with hardware, software and support needed to build scalable applications all bundled into one package at a discounted rate of 76 percent off the retail price. This promotional package consists of the Sun Fire X2100 server, a perpetual Right-to-Use (RTU) license for software developer tools and a three-year service subscription.
Customers with specified Itanium-based workstation have the opportunity to trade-up to an eligible Sun Ultra 40 workstation and receive 20 percent for their trade-in allowance from now until June 30, 2006. With this limited time trade-up promotion, customers get double the trade-in allowance.
A special offer from Sun is making the purchase of 20 or more Sun Fire X2100, Sun Fire X4100 and/or Sun Fire X4200 servers in a Sun Grid Rack System more inviting. The Sun Customer Ready Systems Program is offering a free rack cabinet, savings of 33 percent on rack integration charges and about US$64,000 in savings on software.
Purchase a Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS) for SPARC/X64 CD-ROM training package and receive a Solaris-embossed varsity-style jacket. Sun offers four new self-paced Solaris 10 OS training packages for System and Network Administrators in both the SPARC and X64 environments. These packages are designed to help improve data center skills and prepare attendees for certification.
A world-record performance has been set by the Sun Fire E25K server running UltraSPARC IV+ processors and the Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS) on the SPEC Java Business benchmark (SPECjbb2005) with over 1.16 million business operations per second recorded. Testing results were conducted on the Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE) 5.0_06 with Java HotSpot virtual machine technology.
Sun announced it is uniting its sales and services teams under the newly aligned Global Sales and Services organization. Sun Executive Vice President Don Grantham has been appointed to lead the organization and will report directly to Sun President and COO Jonathan Schwartz under this appointment.
Sun will be helping Northern Gas Networks overhaul its IT system to ensure its new network that will oversee an England pipeline operation is reliable and performs as needed for its 2.5 million customers. Sun technologies to be implemented include the Sun Fire V20z server, Sun StorEdge Enterprise Storage Manager, Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS), among others.
Java.net's CoolThreads project is challenging developers to develop groundbreaking applications or improve on existing applications for optimal throughput performance and scaling using Sun's CoolThreads servers. The contest is meant to spur innovation and incite designers to take advantage of the performance optimization available in the CoolThreads platform running the Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS) and Java developer tools.
Over the past 12 months, Sun's technical roster has gained two Sun Fellows and six Distinguished Engineers, the latter of which has increased due to both promotions within the company as well as new hires.
Each week, we determine which articles have been most frequently referenced by logged-in subscribers to provide you with a list of the most popular articles for each of the last three issues. The Web version of this article lists the top 10 articles for each of the last three issues. The top articles for the three most recent issues were:
97.2: McNealy to HP CEO Mark Hurd: Let's Join Forces
97.1: Is Solaris OS Better than Linux?
96.4: A Glance at the Future of Server Chips from Sun's Marc Tremblay
Blogs, wikis, open source communities...these are all characteristics of what has come to be known as the Participation Age. Robin Wilton of Sun Microsystems reflects on the phenomenon in a piece entitled "Not Just a Spectator Sport: Identity Management in the Participation Age."
Sun Executive Vice President and CTO Greg Papadopoulos recently published an article in Network World on his view of the IT future that he called "The future is new kinds of communities."
Technology, Education, Design, TED for short, is the name given to the prize awarded by Sun Microsystems to individuals for their work in making the world a better place to live. Cameron Sinclair, co-founder of Architecture for Humanity is an award winner for 2006. Larry Brilliant, another 2006 winner, is the head of Google's philanthropic arm, and Bono, lead singer of U2, was an award winner in 2005.
Standardizing the application software and integrating some 5000 computers was the issue facing the IT managers for Bristol, England. When Microsoft switched its licensing plan to a volume-based scheme, a migration to an application other than Word became unavoidable. Jono Bacon reported on the saga that resulted in the city choosing Sun's StarOffice Office Suite for O'Reilly's LinuxDevCenter.
The theoretical physics (TP) sub-department of Oxford University's Physics Department recently upgraded its IT infrastructure from an assemblage of disparate products and operating systems to a new, coherent and integrated system provided by Sun.
Sun's line of Galaxy servers will be adding an eight-socket version as well as a new blade server, reports Darrell Dunn with InformationWeek, who quotes Sun Executive Vice President John Fowler of the company's Network Systems Group as saying this will address the server consolidation and database server market and re-enter Sun into the blade server market.
Replacement models for the Sun Fire V440 servers that are in compliance with the Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) directive of the European Union should be generally available March 20, 2006. Features of the Sun Fire V440 systems remain the same as the previous version other than these new systems are fully compliant with required standards of the RoHS.
The annual Supercomputing Online Reader's Choice Award for Product of the Year is Sun's family of x64 (x86, 64-bit) and SPARC-based Sun Fire servers. Sun Fire servers received close to 25 percent of the 1,000 total votes among the 12 nominated high-performance computing (HPC) products, including those from HP and IBM.
InfoWorld's Paul Venezia recently reviewed the Sun Fire X4200 server, and according to his assessment of this next generation of x64 servers from Sun, the entry-level server is almost near perfect. "Although it’s not a bull’s-eye, it’s not far off the mark....," he deduces.
The particulars and capabilities of the high-throughput 32-thread UltraSPARC processor are detailed in a Sun white paper entitled "A Power-Efficient High-Throughput 32-Thread SPARC Processor." The authors note that the processor's power-efficient architecture enables a massively parallel design at a less aggressive frequency, with high resource utilization.
Glen Brunette's Sun BluePrints OnLine article "Toward Systemically Secure IT Architectures" addresses the need for strong security guarantees in increasingly dynamic and flexible IT environments. Brunette focuses on the time-tested security principles, architectural patterns and iterative refinement policies embodied in the Sun Systemic Security Program.
The difficulty with using the traditional UNIX privilege model in privilege debugging operations is that all privileged operations are associated with the root account, which makes it possible for an application to do anything on the system. Glenn Brunette and Darren Moffat show how to avoid this risk in a Sun BluePrints OnLine paper.
Sun Microsystems Laboratories recently introduced its Project Sun SPOT (Small Programmable Object Technology) that is aimed at transforming the potential of wireless sensors into real-world products. Based on a 32 bit ARM CPU and an 11 channel 2.4 GHz radio, Sun SPOT radically simplifies the process of developing wireless sensor and transducer applications.
One of this year's winners of the Duke's Choice Awards, which recognizes innovation and creativity of Java technology-based applications and services, will be chosen by you from the many applications featured on java.com. Five finalists have been selected and you are invited to cast your vote for your favorite java.com application by March 31.
An online tool for JavaOne conference attendees to connect with others in advance of the event is being offered in preparation for the 2006 JavaOne Conference scheduled for May 16-19 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. The JavaOne Conference event connect tool enables attendees to quickly identify other attendees with whom they can exchange knowledge and share best practices.
A new version of NetBeans Integrated Development Environment (IDE), the NetBeans IDE/BlueJ Edition, has been created to offer a seamless migration path for students transitioning from educational tools to a full-featured, professional IDE. BlueJ is an integrated Java programming environment designed for introductory teaching aimed at assisting beginning programmers learn the craft.
"The JavaScript Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks & Hacks" is a compilation of customizable solutions to the most common JavaScript questions and problems, including solutions using AJAX. All the code in the book has been thoroughly tested, and is best practice as well as standards-compliant to ensure compatibility across different browsers and platforms.
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