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Vice President of Global Systems Engineering Hal Stern talks to Joost Pronk, product manager for virtualization in the Solaris group, and Dan Price, staff engineer and lead on the containers project in the Solaris kernel group, about the Solaris 8 Migration Assistant in an Innovating@Sun podcast.
The three discuss:

How the Solaris 8 Migration Assistant allows users […]

A new IBM-tuned version of OpenSolaris is expected to be ready soon, according to David Boyes, president and chief technology officer of Sine Nomine Associates, who gave eWeek a demonstration of the enterprise-level system running on a System z mainframe during the Gartner Data Center Conference 2007.
“Because there are three entities involved here (IBM, Sun, […]

According to a Garner, as reported in ComputerWorld, “Unix use remains core in data centers, and while its revenue share is predicted to stay flat for the next five years — from $16.4 billion this year to $16 billion in 2012 — Gartner analysts this week said users of major Unix systems from Sun , […]

SAS and Sun have announced a new initiative to help organizations establish an enterprise-wide analytic architecture built on a highly available, scalable, secure and cost-effective platform. As part of this initiative, the SAS Enterprise Intelligence Platform Powered by Sun’s Datacenter of the Future was launched. This solution is designed for better management, optimization and enhancement […]

Mid-market as well as large companies will be the targeted customers for Sun and NEC Corporation of America’s recent collaboration to offer high-performance computing (HPC) professional services. The two companies recently announced they will be teaming together to provide the following services:
- OS software services such as porting and migration, performance enhancement and optimization, benchmarking […]

Darryl Gove (compiler performance engineering, Sun Microsystems) delivered an excellent Sun “Hot Topics” webcast. The topics covered are parallelising using Pthreads (POSIX threads) and OpenMP, auto-parallelisation by the compiler, profiling parallel applications. Finally, detecting data races using the thread analyzer.
These topics are covered in less than 15 minutes. The Sun production team shot a video […]

Agfa Healthcare will be using the Sun Ultra 40 M2 Workstations and Sun Fire X2100 M2 server for its IMPAX digital imaging platform with the integrated visualization solution, Voxar 3D Enterprise, from Barco.
These Sun systems were selected following a successful proof of concept trial that flaunted their multiple graphics cards capabilities in accelerating server-based rendering, […]

A number of presentations (in PDF format) that were delivered at the 2007 Sun HPC Consortium 2007 are now online.
What is the Sun HPC Consortium?
The Sun High Performance Computing Consortium (SHPCC) is an independent, volunteer-organized, international group of member organizations that own or use Sun computer systems with emphasis on high-performance, technical computing, and […]

Each week, we determine which articles have been most frequently referenced by logged-in subscribers to provide you with a list of the most popular articles for each of the last 4 issues.
Top Ten Articles for Vol 117 Issue 2

Sun’s Q1 Report Seen from Jonathan Schwartz’s Perspective [18975]
Sun to Acquire Vaau, Inc. [18992]
Solaris OS/OpenSolaris to be […]

Mellanox Technologies‘ ConnectX 20Gb/s InfiniBand Host Channel Adapter (HCA) supports Sun’s Blade Modular Systems, including the Sun Blade 6000, 6048 and 8000 Modular Systems. The ConnectX 20Gb/s InfiniBand HCA is based on the PCI SIG ExpressModule specification.
“The combination of Sun’s innovative blade technology and Mellanox’s leading ConnectX InfiniBand adapters is an attractive mix across a […]