Tuesday March 18, 2008 Links for 18th March 2008
Three Sun related ones.
- Small and Medium Business (SMB) Initiative
After seeing the problems that some small businesses have had trying to buy Sun equipment directly from us in the past (as opposed to going through partners and channels), I've been hoping that we'd address this. Apparently we have.
"We're making it easier for you to buy with quick response, competitive pricing and fast delivery times".
This initiative is aiming at new customers to Sun who have not bought Sun products in the last two years, but hopefully those others who have tried in the past, will give us another chance or at least give us constructive feedback on this new process.
- World's Largest Supercomputer
Yes, this is old news (by Internet standards), but it still is awesome (and if you don't know me, I rarely use that word). This puts the Sun Constellation entry way in the lead, and by an order of magnitude for some ratings. It's catchup time for IBM and Dell.
Check out Jonathan's posting on this for more details.
- NetBeans 6.1 IDE Beta
"NetBeans 6.1 Beta adds a rich set of features for JavaScript(TM) technology development. The JavaScript technology support is based on the dynamic language support added for Ruby and includes: semantic highlighting, code completion, type analysis, quick fixes, semantic checks and refactoring. It also includes a browser compatibility feature that makes it easy to create JavaScript software code that works in the popular Mozilla Firefox, Windows Internet Explorer, Opera, and Safari Web browsers. "
And with the recent hiring of Python and Jython developers, Ted Leung and Frank Wierzbicki, I'm hoping to see NetBeans Python support improvements too.
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er, that's still slower than BlueGene/L (especially if that Peak is the theoretical peak)...
Posted by no yuo! on March 18, 2008 at 09:31 AM PDT #
Yo no yuo!
Interesting. I wonder why it's not on that
list then...
Posted by 24.6.152.125 on March 18, 2008 at 09:50 AM PDT #
I think it's probably because that page only lists the machines in the TeraGrid. The top500 list is the "offical" list of supercomputers - the latest one is visible at www.top500.org/list/2007/11/100
Note that the BlueGene/L at the DOE has a R(peak) of 596378 gigaflops.
Constellation is wicked fast though - easily number 2!
Posted by no yuo! on March 18, 2008 at 10:21 AM PDT #
Python in NetBeans is indeed in the future. See http://martin.adamek.sk/?p=16 for some hope. :)
Posted by Frank Wierzbicki on March 18, 2008 at 11:48 AM PDT #
Excellent Frank! Many thanks.
Posted by Rich Burridge on March 18, 2008 at 12:56 PM PDT #