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http://blogs.sun.com/sunatncsu/date/20070415 Sunday April 15, 2007

SunPack Solaris Installation Night

Sun Microsystems presents its last NCSU event of the semester:


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SunPack Solaris Installation Night:
The first meeting of the NC State OpenSolaris Users' Group
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Where:
North Carolina State University
Centennial Campus
Engineering Building 2 (EB2)
Room 1231

When:
Tuesday, April 24th

700pm - 830pm

Just like earlier Sun events this year, we'll have software and other prizes to give away!

Featured Topics and Activities:

Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris:

Anita Sivakumar will present a brief introduction to Solaris 10 and the OpenSolaris project. She will discuss the basic features of the Solaris operating system, with particular attention to the new features it brings to the UNIX platform. These include, but are not limited to:


  • Dtrace
  • Solaris Containers
  • ZFS: The 128-bit Filesystem

Solaris Installation Party:

Your Campus Ambassadors will do their best to assist any students that want to install Solaris 10 or OpenSolaris on their own personal computers. What you'll need for this:


  • A PC with either an Intel-compatible x86 or x64 processor (or a SPARC machine, if you happen to own one)

  • A hard drive you can format (optional, you may run an OpenSolaris Live CD if you don't want to wipe your machine)

  • A copy of OpenSolaris or Solaris 10 (we have a few copies to give out, but if you already picked up one at a prior Sun event, please bring it). If you would like to download a copy, you can get one from OpenSolaris's Download Page.

  • All the network information you can possibly gather (naming service, ip addresses, DNS servers, anything and everything) for the internet connection you would like to use the Solaris machine on. Some Solaris installations will automatically detect this; others are meant for stationary workstations, and network information is required at install-time.

Whether you're simply curious about Solaris, or whether you want to become one of the first members of SunPack Solaris, this event has something for you!


If you know you'll need a copy of Solaris 10 or OpenSolaris, email Alex Ronke at waronke@ncsu.edu prior to the event.

Posted at 02:51PM Apr 15, 2007 by sunncsu in Sun  |  Comments[0]

http://blogs.sun.com/sunatncsu/date/20070410 Tuesday April 10, 2007

Sun Microsystems with ACM/AITP present the Sun Spot!

Alex Ronke and I (Anita Sivakumar) joined up with the local ACM/AITP chapter here at our University. ACM is the Association of Computing Machinery and it is run by students in order to bring together people who are pursuing paths that involve computers. At their latest meeting, they allowed us to showcase the Sun Spot. Our sales representative, Skip Vail, had organized a donation of Spots from Sun to Dr. Fornaro's class. These students then turned around and used these sun spots for a variety of different things they had been working on this past school year. They showed off their projects at this event.


One view of the audience

The meeting began with the president of the ACM chapter addressing what would be happening during the meeting and introducing Alex and I. We intorduced who we are and what we did. We gave our basic overview of what we wanted to share at the meeting today as well and then the real fun began!

First, David Simmons, one of the creators behind Sun Spots began by talking about the work done in Sun Labs. He also introduced sun spots to the audience and talked about how they were created.

Dr. Fornaro then introduced what the students were doing in their class this semester. He explained that there were individual student researchers as well as two main groups: a hardware group and a software group. He also told the audience about how he found out about sun spots. The students then took the lead and began with their presentations.


Dr. Fornaro addresses the audience

The first student used sun spots to look at how many data packets were lost while they were sending information to one another, based on proximity and interference. He lined up 6 sun spots and sent data back and forth between them. His program then showed us how many packets were lost.

Cameron and Chris were next. They were part of the ECE team which came from a hardware point of view. They looked at spots by attaching a gps sensor to the spots and tracking them on a map. They then created a gui that has tabs for each spot and also said they were going to look into trying to calculate the number of hops between different areas.

Lastly, Zach presented the software group's project. This team looked into a geocasting protocol, with packets addressed by geographic region rather than a port number or MAC address.


Zach talks about his group's project

We then retired to go eat pizza and rejoined up to do prizes. We gave out water-bottles, shirts, and some copies of Solaris 10 Enterprise edition. Lastly, we also gave away a $100 Best Buy gift card!


Another view of the audience

Our next event will be an event a Solaris installation fest and presentation. Look for details coming up soon!

Posted at 03:15PM Apr 10, 2007 by anita0ncsu in Sun  |  Comments[0]