SGC - Sun Grand Challenge Contest
<<mail from Ankit, campus ambassador DA IICT Gandhinagar>>
The contest has started from 20th Feb, 2008 and can be
participated till 20th March, 2008. It covers 10 Sun technologies with 3
days on each technology. This is online contest.
Each technology will have three phases:
1. Introduction Phase - 1st Day
2. Coding Phase - 2nd and 3rd Day
3. Contribution Phase - Open for whole month from 20th Feb to 20th March
This contest is a national platform to promote open source technologies
and to acknowledge the leaders in it.
20 colleges from all over India have already taken part in this contest.
I now propose to expand it to your college as well. I am sure the
system of lectures and demos would have been tried to promote
technologies. It takes time to get across and attain attention making it
less effective.
So Sun Grand Challenge is the other system - a mode of playing and winning
which gives an incentive to each student to participate. It also happens
to be the first event in which any student of any college can participate
due to its easy and simple appeal. It does not demand time or experience
from an individual to participate.
Campus Ambassadors can use it to make a solid base of open source
awareness in their respective colleges. They just need to publicize the
event and form an evaluation team which will check the submissions from
their college and give us the best entry. The best entry of each college
will then be judged by us to declare the overall stage winner.
Sun Grand Challenge is not an 'Open for All' contest. This is for making a
channel of systematic organization and coordination among participating
colleges.
For more details on the contest, please go through the below mentioned URL:
http://sunclub.daiict.ac.in
Posted at 02:55AM Mar 05, 2008 by G S Hiregoudar in India Edu |
CFF winners awarded at Sun Tech Days 2008
Ian Murdok, VP community and developer marketing and K Nageshwara Rao, Director and acting site lead India Engineering Center distributed the prizes to the winners.
“Code For Freedom” is a Unique contest for students which was launched in India on India' s independence day 15th August 2007 and was open till 14th Feb 2008.
This encouraged students in any university in India to contribute code in 5 Open Source technologies namely Open Solaris. NetBeans, Apache Derby, Open Portal and Glassfish.
This contest attracted more than 2500 students who registered.
A total of 179 contributions were made.
119 contributions were made to Solaris
45 contributions were made to NetBeans
13 contributions were made to Apache Derby
2 contributions were made to Open Portal.
Three teams of students who contributed the most significant contributions to the open technologies are being awarded laptops for their contributions.
The NetBeans category of the Code for
freedom contest threw a unique challenge to students in India.
NetBeans is a world class IDE used by thousands of developers around
the world and has a high standard of code and quality. To contribute
something to NetBeans which would be useful to experienced developers
was a tough proposition in front of students. Angad Singh rose to the
challenge splendidly. His "Regular Expressions NetBeans module"
helps NetBeans users with understanding and composing regular
expressions, a power tool in programming. It is a fine example of a
contribution useful to the NetBeans users, right from novices to
experienced hackers.
Angad's approach in implementing the plugin
deserves applause. He used the NetBeans mailing lists effectively to
gather input from NetBeans users and developers and has been smart in
using existing open source utilities to achieve his end goal, instead
of re-inventing the wheel. Angad's plugin has also been featured on
NetBeans TV.
We would like to invite Angad Singh from the Jaypee Institute of Information and technology to the stage to receive his prize.
We would like to invite Ashwin Bhat and Balaji Rao from NITK Surathkal to come to the stage and receive their prize
Avinash and Rishi were determined to
win the Grand Prize of Code For Freedom.
They started with simple
bug fixes which fascinated them. They went on to submit a whole
bunch of contributions for some difficult bugs too. Together,
they submitted 26 contributions, which is the highest number of bugs
contributed to Code for freedom by any team.
We would like to invite Avinash Joshi and Rishi Nair from Amritha Vishva Vidyapetham, Amrithapuri to come to the stage and receive their prize
Last but not the least we would like to announce the prize for the University College whose students had the maximum number of contributions to Code for freedom. Amritha Vishva Vidyapeetham, Amrithapuri wins this prize with more than 100 contributions to the contest. A lot of passion in this contest came from Prof Vipin Pavithran whose passion for Open source is visible in this great number of contributions.
We would like to Invite Dr Balakrishnan Sankar, Associate dean and Prof. Vipin Pavithran from Amritha Vishva Vidyapeetham, Amrithapuri to come and receive the prize. Their University will soon receive Sun equipment worth Rs 1 Lakh.
We would also like to announce that the 28 students have won the prize for 3 or significant contributions to Code for freedom. They will be receiving their iPod shuffles my mail soon.
The 10 early-bird contributors will also be receiving their memory stick, certificate of appreciation and a Sun T-shirt by mail.
All contributors will be receiving a certificate of appreciation and a Sun T-shirt by mail too.
Sun India university core team is very proud of this success and planning to launch this contest in upcoming academic year as well.
Also, I would like each one of you guys can contribute and win a big bucks from Sun.The 1,000, 000$ awards program is here. Be sure to let the students in your universities know.
http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/pr/2008-01/sunflash.20080129.2.xml
Posted at 11:41PM Feb 28, 2008 by G S Hiregoudar in India Edu |
Code For Freedom (CFF) contributions
We had a code for freedom contest and it was closed on Feb 14th.We have received the following submissions from the university students in India.
OpenSolaris - 119
NetBeans - 45
Derby - 13
OpenPortal -2
GlassFish - 3 are working towards completion.
It was a great team effort from IEC engineers who helped students to make this happen.
Especially Jayakar Kini from solaris and Rohan Ranade from netbeans didn't sleep properly from last few weeks as they were busy in answering the queries to students and helping to fix the bugs in opensource community.
Prof. Vipin from Amrita university, Kollam campus helped his students to contribute more to opensource community.
CFF is the way to innovation.
Please look at one million innovation award for opensource community and start contributing for the same.
Posted at 11:24PM Feb 17, 2008 by G S Hiregoudar in India Edu | Comments[2]
CampusWorld is here...
In India, we were thinking of how can we capture our CAs efforts in a
nut shell. Then IPG team stood up and told me we can design a newsletter
and publish. Thanks to Geetha who heads IPG team in India and her team
members Chinmayee and Rahim, put lot of effort in putting this together.
Thanks a lot to make this happen.
This'll be made available in http://in.sun.com/univ website, please let
us know if you have any suggestions to campusworld-fb@sun.com
Newsletter can be downloaded from : CampusWorld
Posted at 03:47AM Feb 15, 2008 by G S Hiregoudar in India Edu |
Rewards and recognition to top performing CAs in India
Its my great pleasure to announce our top performers for their excellent
contribution to CA program.
July - Prashanth from AKCE, Krithika from TCE and Ramya from BIT
They have conducted training to faculties on opensolaris and open source
technologies
August - Sudhakar from JNTU Hyderabad, Kumar BiPallav from SRM
Sudhakar did a excellent job in mukt.in event by conducting a sessions
on opensolaris with the help of Raju Alluri
Kumar BiPallav did a great job in conducting a solaris demo during their
techfest and quizing competition
*September* - Tauheed and team from JMI Delhi helped in hosting CA
induction training program to CAs
October - Kartik from BVB, Trisha from BMS, Alok from Assam University
and Ankit from DA-IICT
Kartik has done Sun Software freedom week which was figured in top 10 in
the world and also did a install mania
Trisha has organized a two days workshop on CFF
Alok has helped in hiring, motivating CAs in north east
Ankit has initiated Sun Grand Challenge contest and done couple of demos
on opensolaris, helped in organizing two days workshop on CFF
November - Ramprasad from IIIT Allahabad, Angad from JIIT university and
Parantap from Manipal
Ramprasad has done lots of demos on opensolaris as part of the techfest
and installed netbeans in most of the labs and hostels
Angad and team has developed Robocontrol using netbeans 6.0
Parantap has done more demos on netbeans and very aggressive in
evangelizing activities in MIT
December - Kshitiz from IIT Kanpur
Sun club from IITK floated a summer projects and delivered series of
lectures on projects.
Jan* *- Archana from Amrita, Sushant Kumar, SMVD University
Archana has conducted as many 30 demos on opensolaris in contributing to
CFF
Sushant has done lots of demos and other activities like conducting
classes for students who are doing their projects and researchers.
Its a great effort folks, keep up the great spirit and enthusiasm.
Posted at 03:56AM Feb 05, 2008 by G S Hiregoudar in India Edu |
Code For Freedom Contest
Please go to http://in.sun.com/codeforfreedom and register for yourself for contributing the code in the following open source technologies
opensolaris
netbeans
glassfish
apache derby
open portal
Guys, lots of prizes lined up, go for grabbing the prizes. Lets do lot many things in building open source community in India. This is an opportunity for student community to participate in this movement.
Sun as a company always believe in open source philosophy and providing the platform to student community to contribute in this.
Posted at 12:39AM Aug 15, 2007 by G S Hiregoudar in India Edu |
PSG Tech, Coimbatore faculty training
Its my great pleasure that our campus ambassadors Prashanth from AKCE
Madurai, Krithika from TCE Madurai and Ramya from BannariAmman,
delivered a faculty training at PSG Tech, Coimbatore sponsored by AICTE.
This is about 15 days program and we participated in one day
event(threee days activities, see below for details). The training was
attended by 25 faculties from 15 engineering colleges from TN and Kerala.
The amazing part was that they were shocked when our CAs told them that
"we are students representing Sun Microsystems" . They were enjoyed all
the sessions. Interesting thing was that faculties are from multi
disciplinary domains from engineering colleges and this was organized by
PSG to create an awareness about open source technologies.
Prashanth had setup a 3D desktop using compiz with opensolaris build 64,
after looking at the features and usability in opensolaris, faculties
wanted to use sun studio, netbeans and of course open solaris.
Before delivering the sessions to faculties on July 2nd, our CAs
conducted sessions on Sun technologies to M.Tech and B.Tech students on
weekend, please see the schedule below for details. After looking at the
level of expertise of these CAs, faculties from PSG invited them for
delivering a guest lecture sessions on sun technologies.
This is one more feather to the accomplishments from CA program in India.
Thanks guys, great job done! Keep the flag high.
The *Schedule of events at PSG Tech, Coimbatore* :
*30th June 2007 :
*10AM to 6PM
* Installation and configuration of opensolaris in open source
technology lab
* Resolved all outstanding installation issues
* Presentation to IT dept. faculties about open source and Sun.
*1st July 2007 :
*9:00AM to 1:00PM
* About CA program
* Academic developer initiatives
* Presentation to M.Tech and B.Tech students on Sun technologies and
hands on approach on sun studio and netbeans and projects
* How Application management is superior in solaris when compared to
Windows..
* RDMA
* Awareness about training and certification from Sun
*2nd July, Faculty training*
8.00 to 9.30
- installation in seminar hall
- checking out projector
- Checking audio systems
9.30 – 10.20
Introduction of Sun,Open Source,Community
By krithika
10.20-10.30
Break
10.30-12.00
Generating Solaris from Windows
Installation
By A.Prashanth
12.00-1.30
Lunch Break
1.30-2.50
Belenix – Krithika and Ramya
Netbeans – Krithika and Ramya
Sun Studio – A.Prashanth
Open Solaris – Ramya
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Posted at 10:26PM Jul 03, 2007 by G S Hiregoudar in India Edu |
June Monthly Awards to Campus Ambassadors, India
In India, May to July period is kind of quite period as most of the universities have got exams followed by summer vacation.
In spite of having exams and vacation, this month two things have done extremely brilliant.
So, the excellent achievers of this month are, Prashanth from AKCE, Madurai and IIT Kanpur, Sun club under the supervision of Madhuresh.
Prashanth from AKCE has conducted 6 days of summer workshop(planned for 10 days)
The Agenda of this camp..
1. Differentiation between x86 and SPARC
2. Solaris Installation Demonstration
3. Netbeans Demo
4. Temple of Sun gaming 1 hour daily
5. Java refreshment
6. Projects in Netbeans
The project topics are 1. Optical Character Recognition 2 . face recognition 3. Complete office automation 4. Students information tracking system etc..
Also quiz being organized at the end and students received a prizes from Prashanth. Ram Gokul and Sindhu from AKCE also helped Prashanth in conducting this workshop. Sudhakar Kamadi, Director AKCE and other faculty members helped Prashanth in organizing this workshop and students from neighbouring colleges were also participated.
Details : http://blogs.sun.com/PrashanthAyyavu
IIT Kanpur, Sun Club :
They have organized
(1) Sun Club Summer Workshop
(2) Sun Club Speaker Series
during this summer.
Feedback from Audience: Many students have decided to join the Sun Club and are willing to write their own mobile games.
CAs spent about 1-2 hrs everyday till June 14th towards the Sun Club Summer Projects which they have started in early May. Some of the projects are about to finish now which we will soon be sharing for the certification after their presentations at IITK.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/9480649@N04/
Workshops on :
* Game Programming using J2ME
* Servlets using NetBeans
On Solaris Side - Most of the students have already joined the project
communities at opensolaris.org.
On Java API sides, tons of project ideas being floated and they are nearing to completion.
This is really great job from you guys. You guys are amazingly brilliant. Kudos to both of you for this milestone.
Posted at 04:17AM Jul 02, 2007 by G S Hiregoudar in India Edu | Comments[1]
May Monthly Awards to Campus Amassadors, India
This month is not active as most of our campus ambassadors are busy in
exams and few are on summer vacation. Out of their busy academic
schedule, campus ambassadors from Bangalore have done
exceptionally well in the month of May. This month the award goes to teamwork.
Its my great pleasure to announce team award for the month of May
to Bangalore campus ambassadors.
* Anand B, RVCE
* Anil G, JSS
* Ankita A, PESIT
* Jayanth R, UVCE
* Pooja A, RNSIT
* Pradeep M, MSRIT
* Trisha M, BMSCE
What they have done :
- Conducted Sun CA Day and the event name as CORONA(One at UVCE and other at PESIT)
* Identified the students from CA and non CA institutions in Bangalore
* Selected 8-10 students from each institute
* Campaigning, printing posters and banners
* Give aways(Temple of Sun DVDs, Pens, and snacks too)
* Conducted on the spot programming and distributed the prizes as USB sticks to the winners
* Technical hands on sessions being conducted by CAs on opensolaris, sun studio, netbeans and AJAX
- Promoted temple of Sun gaming contest in big way.
Congratulations to all of them.
Great team effort, keep up the great work.
All the best for your exams as well.
Posted at 07:07AM Jun 09, 2007 by G S Hiregoudar in India Edu |
SunTechnologySummit 2007
I had an opportunity to attend SunTechnologySummit 2007 held at Taj Westend Bangalore on May 18th. I invited all our Bangalore campus ambassadors and NITK CA for the event. After lot of push, we finally happened to meet Scott McNealy, Chairman and Co-Founder, Sun Microsystems Inc. Sorry to other CAs, Bangalore CAs represented India on behalf of all of you guys. We presented a momento(Indian antique) to Scott who was very happy to receive the same. He was very excited and impressed about the work done by CAs from India. Kudos to all of you guys, keep the flag high. We did mention to Scott and Anil about our "Sun CA Day"(the event CORONA). He was amazed after hearing about that.
After that our CAs did meet our site lead Anil Gupta who is big supporter of this program.
Later we had a photo session with both Scott and Anil respectively.
Photo with Scott
Photo with Anil Gupta
Posted at 06:53AM May 18, 2007 by G S Hiregoudar in General | Comments[2]
Sun CA Day
We are conducting a first ever "Sun CA Day" on May 12th @ UVCE, Bangalore organized by Bangalore Campus Ambassadors. The event name called as CORONA.
Its a hands-on sessions. We have selected 10 students from 7 institutions in Bangalore.
Sessions will be delivered by CAs on opensolaris, netbeans and sun studio.
More details after the event.
Posted at 08:07PM May 09, 2007 by G S Hiregoudar in India Edu |
temple of sun
To promote sun studio in big way, we have temple of sun gaming contest and win 5000USD.
Please visit the following link and play the game.
http://www.sun.com/templeofthesun1
The contest will be closing on June 19th.
Posted at 07:58PM May 09, 2007 by G S Hiregoudar in India Edu |
BITES
I visited JSS Academy Bangalore on Friday 4th and met HOD CSE, Prof Kamalesh. We discussed lot about academics and benefits from Sun. He also has lot of ideas in order to promote Sun technologies. Anil Gulecha who is our campus ambassador from JSS took us to Sun Lab who has setup the same in order to provide the facility to work on sun technologies. We did a round tour of JSS and in the course of that Kamalesh told me about the workshop. JSS and BITES(Board for IT Educatio Standards) jointly organized a workshop on "Funding opportunities for sponsored research" which was scheduled on 5th May and invited me to attend the same.
I went to JSS again on 5th May to attend the inaguaral function of workshop at 9AM.
This workshop was about how funding can be provided for academic research. Eight government organizations were participated and representatives from more than forty engineering institutions were participated. There was a press coverage on this. Dooradarshan and TV9 folks were also present.
In this opportunity I met lot of dignitaries from various sectors.
I met M N Vidyashankar, secretary to Government of Karnataka(IT, BT and S&T)
Dr. R Natarajan, former chairman AICTE and chairman - BITES
Dr K V Prahlad Rao, Director - BITES
Dr V K Aatre, IISc visiting professor
Dr A N N Murthy, JSS Principal
S K Gupta, AICTE advisory and so on.
I discussed about Sun academic initiative(SAI), STAR(Sun Technology and Academic resources) for education and research and also about university engagements. They all are excited about such initiatives from Sun. Soon I'll be talking to all these dignitaries in their respective offices for further engagements.
Posted at 10:28PM May 06, 2007 by G S Hiregoudar in India Edu |
April Monthly Awards to Campus Ambassadors, India
I would like to recognize who have proposed lot of ideas for summer holidays.
* Kishore, IIT Guwahati
* Sun club co-ordinators, IIT Kanpur(Kshitiz, Madhuresh and Vikas)
* Prashanth A AKCE, Madurai
Thanks guys lets implement the same. Please look at the end of the blog about their ideas.
Now, its time for announcing the April month excellent achievers.
Most of you guys have exams followed by vacation starting from April.
In spite of that some of you have done extremely great job.
Its my great pleasure to announce this month award to Ankita Agarwal from PESIT, Bangalore and Abhishek Nagaraj from COEP, Pune.
What they have done :
Abhishek Nagaraj
* Conducted 4 day(hands on) workshop on “Web Development Using Netbeans”. Every morning from 9:00 am to 11 am.
1. NetBeans for the desktop.
2. Visual Web Pack for Netbeans
3. Java EE using Netbeans.
4. AJAX using Netbeans
Also discussed other issues (not in program) like
1. Designing for the web
2. Content Management Systems
3. Basic design principles etc.
* Gave a small demo during the workshop. Lots of people have crossed the initial levels and are waiting for the Sun Studio distros.(Windows/Linux and Solaris)
* Conducted a quizzing and 100 students were attended.
* Floating the project competition during summer holidays.
Ankita Agarwal
* Started conducting the workshop on Java from Feb 28th(about one and half hour of each session). In this month she has completed three and put together 10 workshops.(Attendence of around 75 each session)
* Showed netbeans about developer collaboration demo
* Quite active and helpful in conducting PESIT track(IEC engineers conduct these sessions of four hours every weekend)
Congratulations to Abhishek and Ankita.
Keep up the great work.
Excellent guys, all are doing good.
Lets give lot of push for "temple of sun" gaming contest for upcoming months.
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Update from Kishore, IIT Guwahati
The following e-mail sent to student community
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Dear all,
CSEA in associatoin with Sun Club, IITG is intending to conduct online
course in Solaris operating system basics during the summer holidays.
Solaris is new to almost all the entire IITG student community.
Participating in this programme will make you the pioneers of
OSUG(OpenSolaris User Group) that is set up in IITG.
Course will be completely online. We will have the course content
dispersed over the net and talk among ourselves with chat conferences.
Believe me, this will be a very nice experience that you wouldn't want to
miss.
The outline will be as follows. It is tentative and will be changed as the
need arises.
1. UNIX - philosophy
2. open source - philosophy
3. Introduction, Installation - Live CD, virtualisation (Virtual PC,
VMWare, Qemu), actual install
4. Command line usage
5. Everyday tasks - howto (PDFs, Players etc)
6. Simple administration (net config, web server etc)
7. C programming (editors, debuggers, profilers)
8. Other C programming issues - (libraries, make)
9. Networking basics - (servers, clients)
10. Socket programming
11. Operating system basics
12. ZFS, DTrace, Zones - real good stuff here
13. A project
As you can see the course starts with real basics and we can proceed at a
very slow pace to grasp the entire content. We will have a 2 hr meeting
every week and the participant would need to spend 3 - 5 hrs a week.
The above course will be completed in a period of 1.5 months. The next
15-20 days will be dedicated for the project. We will involve in very good
projects that will be useful to the IITG community and deployed in the
next semester. The projects may be paid ones (not yet confirmed).
Requirements:
1. Interest and dedication to participate and learn
2. A net connection at hand during holidays
No previous knowledge of Solaris is required whatsoever.
To participate please reply to this mail with your NAME, ROLL, BRANCH.
(The course will be more CSE oriented but is useful to other branches
also)
This course is supported and sponsored by SUN Microsystems, India.
Cheers,
CSEA.
Kishore
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Kishore you rock!
Sun club, IIT Kanpur(Kshitiz, Maduresh, and Vikas) announces the
following projects for summer
Gtalk connector - bluetooth will be used to connect mobile phone to the PC
and the phone will then serve the purpose of speakers and Mic .
J2ME games - basically we are focusing on developing mutli player games
over bluetooth analogous to multi player games over LAN
Guitar chords- synthesizing musical notes from a playing mp3 or from an
audio input from a guitar
Solaris System monitor - the students will try to develop a system
monitor for open Solaris. for this basically they will rely heavily on
using Dtrace as a system probe.
Update from Prashanth, AKCE Madurai
Seminars have been announced for Second Years in the following Topics..
dTrace
ZFS
NIAGARA
Belenix
Sun Vs Microsoft
RISC
Advantages of Solaris 10
Netbeans
etc..
One month time have been given for Preparation
i.e., after their examination they will be asked to present.
some goodies will be given for good presos..
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Posted at 10:45AM Apr 30, 2007 by G S Hiregoudar in India Edu | Comments[2]
Sun Opens Doors to Next-Generation Technology
*Sun Opens Doors to Next-Generation Technology*
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The article from InfoWorld, Paul Krill; April 26, 2007
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http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/04/26/HNsunopenhouse_1.html
Sun Microsystems opened up its labs Thursday, spotlighting projects in
areas ranging from wire-free chip-to-chip communications to Web 2.0
security.
The Sun Labs Open House at Sun facilities in Menlo Park, Calif.,
featured presentations and demonstrations on technologies still in
development. One room even featured a slot car track embedded with
real-time Java sensor technology.
Fostering communications between different Sun engineers is one intent
of the open house, although customers, press, and students could be
found roaming the different Sun buildings to check out exhibits and
presentations.
"One of our constant efforts is technology transfer, which is getting
other people at Sun to understand what we're doing," so plans can be
formulated based on what each group is up to, said Robert Sproull, vice
president and Sun fellow at Sun Microsystems Laboratories.
The open house extends to Friday but only for Sun employees. The agenda
for Friday features a presentation on Project Flair, a project focused
on Web development.
One project drawing a lot of attention Thursday, Proximity
Communication, seeks to overcome limitations of Moore's Law. This famed
principle stipulates that the number of transistors per chip doubles
every 24 months at the same level of investment. In development for
several years now, Proximity Communication involves placing silicon
parts close to each other and transmitting signals between them sans wires.
This can increase bandwidth, make chips replaceable, and enable smaller
chips, according to Sun. But there still are challenges, such as heat
dissipation, said Robert Drost, director and distinguished engineer in
Sun Labs. "[The project] has a very high risk and high reward," he said.
Proximity Communication represents major progress if Sun can pull it
off, according to analyst Nathan Brookwood, founder of Insight64.
"Today, trying to build a system out of multiple chips really imposes
tremendous performance constraints," Brookwood said. "If they can
achieve this, if they can take several chips and make them behave like
one large chip from an electrical and signal timing perspective, then
that's a huge step forward."
Doing so would save power and enable the building of much larger caches,
for example, Brookwood said.
Sun officials differed on when Proximity Communication technology might
actually arrive in products. Drost would not comment on when this might
happen except to say there would be some "packaging-type announcements"
in the next year. But Sproull said it would be years, not months, before
Proximity Communication would be in products.
"We haven’t even gotten the first prototype working," he said.
Sun's SPARC CPU platform is a likely destination for Proximity
Communication. "You would get the most value out of this in something
like a SPARC processor," Drost said.
The Web 2.0 security project, meanwhile, would provide server-to-user
and user-to-server authentication, unlike SSL, which is limited to
authenticating a user to a server. "If you really want to spread
stronger trust models, especially in the e-commerce world, it would be
very nice to have mutual authentication," Sproull said.
Another effort, Project Squawk, is intended to produce a small Java
virtual machine. Squawk would extend Java down to
microcontroller-powered devices, which run on as little as 8K of flash
memory and 1K of RAM. Even a toaster is a possible destination. The VM
runs in the absence of an OS.
"Today, we're able to run Java on fairly large servers down to
workstations and phones. I would like to see Java running on
microcontrollers," said Eric Arseneau, a Sun principal investigator.
With Squawk running on multiple varieties of microcontrollers, embedded
application developers could be provided with a uniform set of tools to
build applications regardless of which microcontroller is present,
Arseneau said. The intention is to offer Squawk technology via open
source, he said.
Among the other projects on display, many of which have been detailed
before, were:
* Fortress, a high-performance computing language intended as a Fortran
replacement
* DReaM, which is Sun's digital rights management initiative
* SPOTs (Small Programmable Object Technology), providing
Java-programmable wireless sensors
* Celeste, presenting a new model for massively scalable storage
* Project Pulsar, which ports the embedded OpenSolaris OS to the PowerPC
platform
* MPK20, providing a Sun virtual workplace and featuring collaboration
and 3D capabilities. It is more of a gaming environment, Sproull said.
* Project Live, for system virtualization
* Sedna, presenting a next-generation switch
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Posted at 08:47AM Apr 27, 2007 by G S Hiregoudar in General |