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Articles for the keywords: Rock
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06 Apr 2010
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The Latest Intel Xeon and AMD Opteron Processors [23022]
HPCwire Editor Looks at Appeal to the High-end Server Space
HPCwire Editor Michael Feldman gives an overview of the latest Intel Xeon and AMD Opteron processors - Intel's 6-core Westmere EP and 8-core Nehalem EX CPUs, and AMD's 12-core Magny-Cours processor - and examines the different approaches each company is using to appeal to the high-end server market.
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03 Feb 2010
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JavaFX and Why You Should Give It a Try [22761]
Java Champion Adam Bien Shares His Views
Java Champion and Rock Star Adam Bien, author of "Real World Java EE Patterns," shared his views on JavaFX with Janice J. Heiss in interview published in January 2010. Getting right to the heart of the subject, he identified the inclusion of "good skinnable components" in version JavaFX 1.2 as a welcome improvement. "JavaFX requires writing less code while it integrates very well with existing business logic written in Java. A reason to go the JavaFX route is better maintainability, and faster development with less code," he said.
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06 Jan 2010
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Sun Labs Technical Report on Hardware Transactional Memory Experimentation [22531]
Progress Shown in Results from Prototype Multicore SPARC Processor Based on Rock
Sun architects are making groundbreaking progress towards sophisticated synchronization support for multicore systems, find Dave Dice, Yossi Lev, Mark Moir, Dan Nussbaum, and Marek Olszewski. In their research for a Sun Labs technical report on commercial hardware transactional memory (HTM), the men report on a number of promising results using HTM to improve performance in a variety of contexts, in addition to lessons learned on more effectively using the feature.
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05 Jan 2010
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Sun/Oracle Solution Ups Transaction Capacity by 52x for StubHub [22451]
Just the Ticket for Rapidly Growing Company
StubHub, an eBay affiliate, and the world's largest ticket marketplace, upgraded a mission-critical, online transaction processing (OLTP) database from Oracle 9i Real Application Clusters (RAC) to Oracle 10g RAC. To take advantage of high scalability and mainframe-class performance, StubHub also moved the database from a 32-bit platform to a 64-bit platform with Sun SPARC Enterprise M5000 servers running the Solaris 10 Operating System.
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14 Oct 2009
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Sun Storage 6180 Array [22475]
Latest Addition to Sun's Disk Storage Portfolio
The Sun Storage 6180 Array is a high-performance, enterprise-class, full 8 Gigabit per second (Gb/sec) I/O Fibre Channel solution with backend loop speeds of 2 or 4 Gb/sec. It is modular, rackmountable, and scalable from a single dual-controller tray (1x1) configuration to a maximum configuration of 1x7 with six additional CSM200 expansion trays behind one controller tray. Sun reports that this new array delivers 50% more performance than Sun's previous generation, and over 70% better price/performance than the IBM DS5020.
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