In a recent blog entry, Markus Weber describes the demo he helped create for the launch
of the Sun xVM portfolio.
He quips, "who would have thought a few years ago that we'd have such offerings, and such a launch, including representation from both Microsoft and Intel?"
He continues to describe the demo for xVM VirtualBox: "The idea is to be able to do cross-browser and cross-platform application testing, such as to test how certain web pages or web applications render on those different browser and operating systems."
Stanislav Mekhanoshin is the team lead of the Sun Studio Opteron Performance team, which is based at the Sun Saint Petersburg Development Center in Russia. His article entitled "Getting The Best AMD64 Performance With Sun Studio Compilers" brings developers completely up to date on the means to employ in optimizing the performance of this processor and compiler combination.
Given the decreased emphasis on faster processor speeds and the increasing number of multithreaded parallel programming applications being developed to run on multicore hardware platforms, along with the diverse open-source solutions that are now available, it is fortuitous that Sun Studio 12 software is available because it was designed for the current development scene.
GlassFish Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and its open source counterpart, Open ESB, have a staunch fan in Sébastien Stormacq, senior software architect at Sun Microsystems. In a recent blog he informs readers of the availability of and support for
GlassFishESB.
The latest preview release of Sun Studio compiler and tools suite for C, C++, and FORTRAN users, Sun Studio Express 07/08, is now available for download.
This latest release marks an important advance for HPC developers and for anyone interested in extracting high performance from today's multi-threaded and multi-core processors. This release contains support for OpenMP 3.0 APIs, which offers developers a more general approach to multi-threaded programming with task queuing and also integrates with Sun HPC ClusterTools, providing support for performance analysis of MPI applications. Based on the NetBeans 6.1 IDE, developing parallel applications for the multi-core era has never been easier!
The Sun Studio Performance Analyzer can shed light on a variety of questions concerning your system that range from whether tuning Message Passing Interface (MPI) code could produce significant performance improvements, to how long it might take for program performance to equilibrate, to whether processes that send messages synchronize with processes that receive them. These are only a few of the several issues Performance Analyzer can illuminate. The tutorial focuses on guiding readers through some of the basic new features of the Performance Analyzer.
A download of Sun Studio Express 7/08, which is now available on Solaris 10, OpenSolaris and Linux (RHEL and SuSE), is available. User comments are invited at the Sun Studio Forum.
Available for free download, Sun Studio 12, provides users with high-performance, optimizing C/C++ and Fortran developer tool chain for Solaris, Open Solaris and Linux even when supporting the newer multi-core models. The new update of NetBeans-based IDE lightens the load of developing and debugging applications for the multi-core era.
Cloud computing, no idle, vaporous dream, becomes an increasingly solid reality in the world of IT, as Richard Martin and J. Nicholas Hoover note in their InformationWeek article that considers the subject from the perspective of eight of the most prominent practitioners and/or vendors of the technology.
Sun and Joyent Inc. have collaborated on the development of social applications for Facebook and OpenSocial environments. The collaboration will provide, "up to 12 months free web hosting on Joyent's Cloud, a flexible first-class infrastructure powered by OpenSolaris on Sun's ultra-scalable servers, as well as training on web-scale application development, the program lets developers deploy their social applications on an entirely open infrastructure at no initial cost."
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