To help Iraqi engineers and scientists access key information necessary to the Iraq rebuilding effort, a new web portal has been developed by scientists, government agencies and help from Sun. The portal, the Iraqi Virtual Science Library (IVSL), provides scientists with access to more than 1 million articles from 17,000 journal titles from leading scientific publishers.
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High praise for Sun's Data Management Group (DMG) came from the director of Enterprise Operations and Systems at the University of Texas at Arlington when Sun moved the university's data center in 24 hours, problem free. The new data center includes Sun StorageTek libraries, tape drives and disk arrays, and Sun StorEdge Open SAN (Storage Area Network) Architecture.
OpenSolaris is now part of the Google Summer of Code program, enabling students to participate in the Sun sponsored open source community on the opensolaris.org site, which offers a project overview and roadmap, discussion forums and resources for downloading the source, BFU archives and tools.
Sun opened its first academic lab at the King Hussein Foundation's Jubilee School in Jordan, reported strategiy.com. The Sun Academy at the Jubilee School is the first below the higher educational level. More Sun labs will follow in Jordan and other Middle Eastern countries.
Sun Microsystems India will begin the Sun Matching Grant Program, according to a report on CRN-india.com. The program provides equipment to educational institutions that match the funds. Sun offered this program in India previously and it was successfully used by 45 educational institutions, CRN noted.
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