Project Hydrazine is billed as a "turnkey hosted solution allowing developers to leverage the Sun platform to create applications and services and monetize them without going anywhere else." Darryl K. Taft of eWeek interviews Bob Brewin, Sun distinguished engineer and CTO for software, about this current Sun venture.
The Sun Download Center has final releases available for the OpenSPARC T1 1.6 and OpenSPARC T2 1.0. Each of the downloads is split into two parts with the first being the chip source code while the second contains the architectural tools and software for software engineers and architects.
This premier workshop demonstrates the new features and provides hands on experience for the cutting edge technology of Sun’s Web Server version 7.0.
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System News posts items of interest for Sun users on a regular basis on the System News For Sun Users blog. A quick recap of posts for the last week includes: Top Five Security Threats to Web Scale Deployment; Sun Answers the Question: What is Open Storage?; Importance of Measured Watts and Systems Performance; New Sun Fire X4440 Server Tops SPECjbb2005 Benchmark; SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence Accelerator on Sun; Die-Hard Linux Shop Turns to the Solaris OS; and Windows 2008 Supported by Sun Fire X4150, X4450.
ShareStream provides a secure, feature-rich digital media asset management platform that delivers video and audio assets through streaming, downloads, and podcasts. ShareStream specializes in interoperability with university and college internal systems, such as data services, learning management systems, library catalogs, and university Web pages.
An Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) report singled out Sun's Open Work program as a recent innovation that demonstrates environmental efficiency as well as economic savviness. Sun's inclusion in the report "Innovations Review: Making Green the New Business as Usual" was announced at an EDF event held in San Francisco last week with California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sun President and CEO Jonathan Schwartz in attendance.
Women have had a substantial impact on Sun in relation to its growth, profitability and innovation, according to the YWCA of Silicon Valley, which recently honored four female Sun employees with 2008 Tribute to Women (TWIN) awards. Sun also is the employer of an Anita Borg Institute 2008 Women of Vision Award winner. This honor is bestowed on women making significant contributions to technology.
The Sun Cluster Oasis blog explains how Solaris Cluster can improve the Sun Java System Application Server's availability. Madhan Kumar states Solaris Cluster is designed to provide the highest availability for Sun's application server by virtue of its integration with the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS), stability and having an agent specifically designed just for it.
Sun has announced that its Sun Java Desktop System Product Family is being retired. The last order date for this family of products is July 18th, last ship date is October 17th and end of service life is October 17, 2013. Note that all end of life products are subject to product availability, and the dates listed do not constitute a warranty that orders will be fulfilled or accepted.
VMware unveiled a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) platform for remote users who want to use VDI with Sun Ray Software and virtual display clients. Plus, if you happen to want to use VDI with Sun Rays but without using a smart card, Dirk Grobler presents a script that can help you do just that, as well as a script integrating the Provision Networks broker and the thin client.
If you are interested in running the Mac OS or Windows on Sun Ray clients, then give VirtualBox a try, suggests the Chinese Functional CA Team blog, which takes readers through the steps of having Windows XP run on a Sun Ray client.
Data Direct Networks has produced a white paper on best practices for architecting a Lustre-based storage environment, noting the trade-offs associated with various design decisions. The Lustre File System, a leading technology in the new class of parallel I/O technologies turns commodity servers into smart storage management devices that serve and store data objects.
The Sun HPC Consortium 2008 is gearing up for its June 15-17th gathering taking place in Dresden, Germany. Sponsored by the Sun Global Education and Research High Performance Computing Consortium (SHPCC) - an independent, volunteer-organized, international group of member organizations - the meeting has confirmed presentations by the likes of Marc Hamilton, Andy Bechtolsheim, Peter Braam, Peter Bojanic, Harriet Coverston and Denis Sheahan, among others.
General availability for the recently introduced Sun Fire X4140, X4240 and X4440 servers with dual-core and quad-core AMD Opteron processors was scheduled for May 22nd. These 2-socket and 4-socket x64 Opteron servers allow customers to run
existing 32-bit applications on the same hardware as they migrate to their choice of next generation 64-bit applications. Find out more about each server's specific features.
The Sun Fire X4450 server powered by four quad-core Intel Xeon X7350 processors, the Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS) and the Java SE 6 Update 6-P now holds the 4 chip multi-JVM world record and the single JVM x86 world record.
The Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 configured with SPARC VI processors, Sun StorageTek 2540 Arrays, and running Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS) combined with Oracle 11g achieved the world record TPC-H performance of 118,573.3 QphH@1000GB for non-clustered systems and $23.38/QphH@1000GB. BM Seer concludes that this new record proves the M9000 can handle the increasingly large databases required of DSS systems.
Customers can now order the Sun Fire X2200 M2 Server with AMD Opteron quad-core processors featuring a native multi-core design with directly connected cores, I/O and memory controller for increased system performance over dual-core processors, particularly in floating point applications. Users can benefit from its Direct Connect Architecture which eliminates the bottlenecks inherent in front-side bus architectures.
The Sun Blade X8450 server modules are fast, expandable and energy-efficient enterprise class x64 servers that run the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS), Linux, Windows and VMware operating systems. It is the first four socket Intel blade designed for the Sun Blade 8000 and 8000 P Modular Systems.
Sun is adding two new services to its consulting portfolio: the Sun Virtualization Architecture Service, which is designed to help customers choose the appropriate virtualization technology; and the Sun Virtualization Implementation Service, which will help reduce risk and speed deployment of a physical-to-virtual server environment.
With the Solaris 8 Operating System's (Solaris OS) end of service life less than a year away (April 1, 2009), customers are trying to prepare for their next move. One option will be to sign up for a Vintage Support Plan that Sun purportedly will be offering.
Interested in learning how to build a Java EE platform-based appliance with the GlassFish application server on OpenSolaris? Marina Sum recaps a JavaOne technical session led by Sun technical evangelists Peter Karlsson and Chuk-Munn Lee that covers the subject and includes "many practical and insightful tips for developers and system administrators alike."
Pramod Gopinath and Rick Palkovic demonstrate how to use MySQL and memcached on the GlassFish Application Server in an SDN article, where the two develop and deploy a simple example application on a Sun Ultra 40 workstation running the Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS). The format for commands and path names also can easily be adapted to other platforms, the authors assure readers.
Readers with an interest in creating a sample program using PHP on the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS) with the NetBeans 6.0 IDE will be interested to have a look at this Sun Developer Network article that demonstrates just how easily one can write a "Hello World" program using the web stack integrated with SXDE. This information will be of special interest to readers new to the Solaris OS and to SXDE.
Sensing a need among "... the unpatient ones who want to solve 90% of the day to day performance issues without long studies," Stephen Schneider has written a series about Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS) performance monitoring tools. The "Solaris Performance Primer" is designed to assist users in being able to scale quickly in the web age, where the load can grow by an order of magnitude overnight, he says.
The Sun Third Party System Management Integrations are designed to help customers with complex, heterogeneous environments overcome the common issues of integration, functionality and support. Sun Third Party Management Integrations address the need to enable the rapid integration of Sun system hardware into a customer's larger data center management scheme. Customers can choose to use all Sun tools, all third party tools, or a combination of both.
Impending changes are coming for the ZFS write throttling feature that may result in slower microbenchmark times, but is expected to increase the general quality of service. Earlier write throttling operations in ZFS could result in long tx sync times, with consequent problems, including sluggish system behavior, granularity issues, vulnerability to crash loss of cached data, failure to issue I/Os to disk and depleted memory. The upcoming solution resolves these issues.
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