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New on the HPC Community Portal Recap of Recent Topics for HPC Users 
Check out the following stories of note this week on the Sun HPC Community Portal: HPC Wall St. Live Twitter Feed Rolls Toward Sept. 22 Science Clouds: Sky's the Limit Sun to Rock HPC on Wall Street Sept. 22 Video: Sun xVM Virtualization Portfolio Sun to Shake Up Storage Industry Whitepaper: Current State of Java for HPC Kotura awarded $14M silicon photonics contract with Sun, DARPA Fanning the Winds of Change in Storage
Rich Brueckner, Sun HPC Marketing |
Jonathan Schwartz, who is blogging after again after a month, focuses on Open Source, Open Storage and revenue growth. There was a major launch this week of Sun's xVM portfolio. Sun is working with Microsoft on the interoperability of Sun xVM Sever and of Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V support for Sun Ray Thin Clients. Learn how to patching Solaris Using Sun xVM Ops Center. The Sun Fire X4600 M2 now supports up to 512Gb of memory and the Hitachi USP V (Sun StorageTek 9990V) delivered excelled SPC-2 Benchmark Results. Learn about OpenSolaris and Tape and the T10000B FICON (mainframe) tape drive. A self-directed, one-day, self-paced, OpenSolaris training course by Roman Strobl leverages VirtualBox. Sun Studio Express 07/08, available for download, is discussed in two podcasts. In the HPC section, learn more about the Sun xVM Virtualization Portfolio in a white paper and about the new release of Sun HPC ClusterTools 8 software. |
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Open Source and Storage Combine to Foster Revenue Growth for Sun Latest Blog from Jonathan Schwartz 
In his most recent blog Jonathan Schwartz reviews developments in the
storage segment of Sun's product family. He cites several developments,
including the acquisition of MySQL, discussions on flash memory,
archiving, the Lustre parallel file system, each of which is
contributing to Sun's efforts at increasing its prominence as a
provider of storage solutions.
In response to a question for an analyst who asked when will Sun
see revenue from its Open Source strategy, JS said, "Last year. You're
seeing it accelerate." |
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Sun and Xilinx Unveil OpenSPARC FPGA Evaluation Platform 64-bit Open-source Multi-core, Multi-threaded Microprocessor 
Sun and Xilinx have made available a new microprocessor that is the
industry's first 64-bit, open-source, multi-core, multi-threaded and
built with industry leading 65nm Virtex-5 high performance FPGA. This
platform will provide academic researchers and hardware developers with
a flexible OpenSPARC-based platform to create, customize and deploy
next-generation applications for a broad set of end markets including
supercomputers, industrial, scientific and medical (ISM), aerospace and
defense, and storage and networking. (Get More Information . . .) (Contact Me . . .) |
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Personnel Moves Underscore Ramping Up of Sun's Cloud Computing Initiative Network.com Boss David Douglas Sees Silver Linings in Clouds at Sun 
There are some new faces in the leadership roster of Sun's Network.com
cloud computing initiative, as reported in Sun's "On the record." In
July, David Douglas became Senior VP and head of Sun's cloud computing
initiative. Douglas handed Ingrid Van Den Hoogen the marketing,
adoption and business strategy responsibilities for Network.com to her
other responsibilities and, most recently, appointed Lew Tucker as VP
and CTO of Sun's Cloud Computing initiative. (Get More Information . . .) (Contact Me . . .) |
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Betfair, World's Leading On-line Gaming Pioneer, Leverages Sun’s Eco Responsibility Portfolio Cuts Storage Power, Cooling Costs by 60%; Now Runs 60 Databases on 3 KW Rather than 16 
The UK's Betfair is the world's leading online betting exchange,
logging more than 6,600 page views and processing 1,000 transactions
per second. By adopting Sun technology, Betfair was able to accommodate
growing from two billion page impressions a week to four billion page
impressions a week in the same physical datacenter space, while also
achieving a 60% reduction in power and storage-cooling costs and
cutting the power required to run 60 databases from 16 kilowatts of
power to 3 kilowatts. (Get More Information . . .) (Contact Me . . .) |
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Sun xVM Server Software and Sun xVM Ops Center 2.0 Target Windows, Linux UNIX Virtualization Markets State-of-the-art web GUI Gives Sun xVM Server Software Built-in Management Through a Browser, Enterprise-class Scalability reliability and security. 
Sun's recently announced open, Internet-scale xVM Server Software and
xVM Ops Center 2.0 are significant additions to the company's
virtualization portfolio, targeting the Windows, Linux and UNIX
virtualization markets. (Get More Information . . .) (Contact Me . . .) |
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Sun Certifies Microsoft Windows for xVM Server, Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Support for Sun Ray Cross-platform Virtualization Collaboration Grows Between Santa Clara, Redmond 
With the certification of Windows for the Sun xVM Server and of Windows
Server 2008 Hyper-V support for Sun Ray Thin Clients, the collaboration
on cross-platform virtualization technology between Sun and Microsoft
has intensified, making it easier to integrate and interoperate with
Sun's xVM portfolio. Reciprocally, Solaris has become a certified guest
OS on Windows Server 2008. (Get More Information . . .) (Contact Me . . .) |
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Patching Solaris Using Sun xVM Ops Center Big Admin Paper Shows How to Do Patching and Updating on both x86 and SPARC Platforms Patching the Solaris OS by using Sun xVM Ops Center 1.1 is the
subject of Shanthi Srinivasan's BigAdmin article that shows how to
accomplish this on both x86 systems (for the Solaris 10 OS) and on
SPARC systems (for Solaris 8, 9 and 10). |
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Top Ten Articles for last Issue Volume 127 Issue 1; Volume 126 Issues 2, 3 and 4 
We track how frequently each article is viewed on the web site to
determine which the readers consider the most important. The top 10
articles for last week, Vol 127 Issue 1, were:
The longer version of this article lists the top 10 articles for each of the last four weeks. |
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Sun White Paper: Virtualizing the Dynamic Datacenter An Examination of the Sun Virtualization Portfolio 
The Sun white paper "Sun xVM Virtualization Portfolio: Virtualizing the
Dynamic Datacenter" summarizes the benefits and challenges of
traditional virtualization strategies, the advantages of Sun’s
approach, and the core capabilities of the Sun xVM portfolio. It also
describes the key services and support offerings that will be available
for Sun xVM products. (Get More Information . . .) (Contact Me . . .) |
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High Performance Computing (HPC) ClusterTools 8 Latest Release Now Available to Customers as Free Download 
Sun continues to demonstrate its commitment to the HPC community with
the new release of Sun HPC ClusterTools 8 software. Sun HPC
ClusterTools 8 software enables customers to solve their complex,
compute-intensive applications on Sun systems and clusters of Sun
systems: the most cost-effective and flexible high-performance
computing systems available.
Sun HPC ClusterTools 8.0 is based on Open MPI 1.3 and it is the
first release of ClusterTools to include support for Linux platforms as
well as Solaris. It also provides support for MPI application profiling
with Sun Studio Performance Analyzer (available in Studio Express
7/2008). |
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Introducing NFS Fundamentals for the Solaris OS NFS Server Daemons in the Solaris 10 OS and Other Tech Tips 
In a Community-Submitted Tech Tip on the Bigadmin portal, the NFS
Fundamentals for the Solaris OS are organized into bullet lists to get
users up to speed using NFS. Network file system (NFS) is a
client-server application that lets users view, store, and update files
on a remote system as though the files were on a local system. An NFS
environment consists of two components:
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What's New on BigAdmin As of September 11th, 2008  Articles which have been posted to BigAdmin in the last week include:
http://www.sun.com/bigadmin |
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1-Day OpenSolaris Training Learn OpenSolaris Using VirtualBox 
Sun has released the OpenSolaris distribution which is a brand new way
of distributing Solaris using a live CD with even more software
available on network repositories.
A self-directed, one-day, self-paced, OpenSolaris training course by Roman Strobl is now available. During this training participants will learn how to get started with
OpenSolaris and get a good understanding of its benefits. It also
offers a unique hands-on experience with many of the advanced
technologies which come with OpenSolaris. |
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New Release of Sun Java System Content Delivery Server (CDS) Single Content Catalog Supports Multiple Storefronts on Phones, PCs 
A new version (5.1) of Sun Java System Content Delivery Server (CDS) is
a market leading product that allows mobile operators, service
providers and enterprises to deliver a variety of content to mobile
users. CDS provides a single content catalog that can support multiple
storefronts on phones and PCs, as well as content pricing, promotion,
preview, payment and delivery services. (Get More Information . . .) (Contact Me . . .) |
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Free Download of Logical Domains (LDoms) Increase Server Utilization, Efficiency, and ROI; Reduce Power and Real Estate Costs 
Now it is possible to increase server utilization, efficiency, and ROI
while at the same time shrinking server footprint. And users can do
this at no cost by adopting Logical Domains (LDoms), one of the
enabling technologies for Sun xVM, and the most open virtualization
technology available. Unlike proprietary virtualization technologies,
LDoms can save users over $3,600 per system without the need for
additional hardware to manage or control virtual machines. It's true:
The more servers you virtualize, the more you save and benefit. (Get More Information . . .) (Contact Me . . .) |
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Sun Fire X2200 M2 Changes to Standard Configurations 
The Sun Fire X2250 server demonstrates Sun's commitment to deliver one
of the most compelling entry-level HPC 1U rack-mount servers in the
industry. The Sun Fire X2250, with no redundant PSU & fans, is a
2-socket server based on Intel's "Stoakley" platform.
Within its 1U form-factor, the Sun Fire X2250 supports leading operating systems and applications, the fastest processor speed grades available, and the fastest memory available. All of this makes the Sun Fire X2250 ideal for companies with massively parallel technical computing workloads. Sun has changed the memory supplier manufacturing process. Systems
now need to contain only single-rank or all dual-rank memory. However,
If single-rank and dual-rank memory are mixed in a Sun Fire X2200 M2
server, customers will experience performance degradation by up to 10
percent. |
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Sun Fire X4600 M2 with up to 512Gb of memory With Single-Rank Memory DIMMS 
The new Sun Fire X4600 M2 servers are identical to the existing
standard configurations with the exception that they now use registered
single-rank DDR2-667 memory. 4GB (2x 2GB) memory kits, registered
single-rank DDR2-667, new XATO and X-options and 16GB (2x 8GB) memory
kits, registered DDR2-667 DIMMs, new XATO and X-options are all also
available.
The Sun Fire X4600 M2 now can have an unprecedented 512GB memory capacity for processing the most memory intensive workloads. |
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Sun Studio Express 07/08 Available For Download This release contains support for OpenMP 3.0 API 
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! |
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Stésud Deploys MySQL Enterprise and GlassFish Solutions to Serve ERP Customer Base Leading ERP Software Company Adopts Open Source Application Server and Database Platform as Best Solutions 
The MySQL database and GlassFish application server are the choice of
the Belgian company Stésud, a leading enterprise resource planning
(ERP) software vendor. With this deployment, Stésud becomes one of the
most recent companies to adopt these Sun products as a lower-cost,
higher-performance alternative to traditional database and application
server software. (Get More Information . . .) (Contact Me . . .) |
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OpenOffice.org 3.0 Release Candidate 1 (build OOO300_m5) available 
OpenOffice 3.0 Release Candidate 1 (build OOO300_m5) is available for
developer critique through the OpenOffice.org website. The software is
not recommended for production deployment at its current stage. It is
recommended for new users to chose one of the previously released more
stable versions such as OpenOffice 2.0. The new OpenOffice 3.0 Release
Candidate 1 (build OOO300_m5) will contain some updated features (Get More Information . . .) (Contact Me . . .) |
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Sun Netra X4450 Intel Xeon 4RU based x64 Carrier Grade Server Standard Configurations (AC and DC) and Options 
The Sun Netra X4450 server is a high capacity x64 carrier-grade server.
It combines the proven ruggedness and reliability of Sun Netra servers
with industry-leading performance, efficiency, and expandability. The
Netra X4450 server delivers stunning performance and expandability in a
4RU 20-inch deep compact form factor. This carrier-grade server can
expand up to a 16-way configuration with four quad core Intel Xeon
processors, up to 128GB of memory, and over 1TB of internal storage for
consolidation and virtualization. (Get More Information . . .) (Contact Me . . .) |
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Germany's apoBank Implements Implements Sun Information Lifecycle Management Solution Increases Efficiencies, Reduces IT Tech Staff to a Single Person 
apoBank, Germany's largest cooperative bank, has implemented a Sun
StorageTek information lifecycle management (ILM) infrastructure that
includes a Sun enterprise disk storage system with remote replication,
tape libraries and management software, all connected via a storage
area network (SAN). (Get More Information . . .) (Contact Me . . .) |
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Sun White Paper: The Road to Mobile Banking Sun Solutions Point the Way 
The Sun white paper "The Road to Mobile Banking" explains how the
climate has changed to make mobile banking seem a viable option for
financial services. (Get More Information . . .) (Contact Me . . .) |
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Barmer Ersatzkasse Replaces Mainframe Applications with Open Architecture, SAP Software Sun Solutions, Support Enable Deployment to Complete in Under Four Months Barmer Ersatzkasse, Germany's largest health insurance fund,
experienced a need to replace its mainframe-based applications with an
open architecture and SAP software in order to ensure more flexible and
cost-effective datacenter operations. The insuror opted for an
architecture based on open systems including Sun servers, Sun storage
solutions in a storage area network, Sun SAP service provisioning
software and Sun virtualization technology. |
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