Implementation Guide for Higher Education Institutions
The Sun BigAdmin paper “Deploying Oracle PeopleSoft Campus Solutions [9.0] on Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System” explains that the solution can be successfully deployed with Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems, provided the underlying application server, web server, and relational database management system (RDBMS) platforms are installed and configured correctly. Author Abhishek Gupta outlines the details of the process required to implement this deployment.
On Java, JavaFX, OpenSolaris and Open Source Technologies
The Sun Academic Advantage is a joint initiative between Sun and online educational service provider Pearson, enabling instructors to add Sun-endorsed courseware into their curriculum and give students an enhanced classroom experience using the latest Sun technologies. Course materials and online courses cover topics on Java technology, JavaFX, OpenSolaris and open source technologies for students of all levels.
Microsoft Hyper-V, Remote Desktop Services, Sun Desktop Access Client, Adobe Flash Enhancements, USB Redirection to Windows
Sun Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) Software 3.1 is available both as a perpetual license and as a subscription. The Key New Features for this release are:
Microsoft Hyper-V is now supported as an additional virtualization platform.
Microsoft Remote Desktop Services (formerly Microsoft Terminal Services)
Sun Desktop Access Client
Adobe Flash Enhancements
USB Redirection to Windows
Support for additional virtual desktop operating systems
Features ability to “teleport” a VM from one host to another
With 20 million total downloads and some 40,000 downloads per day, Sun VirtualBox has become a major, general-purpose full virtualizer for x86 hardware. Targeted at server, desktop and embedded use, it is now the only professional-quality virtualization solution that is also Open Source Software. A significant new release, VirtualBox 3.1, improves performance and adds significant new features, including ‘teleportation’ which is the live migration of a VM session from one host to another (e.g. from an Intel-based Mac Desktop to an AMD server then to an Intel-based laptop running Windows 7).
Offers Benefits of Cloud Computing to the School Desktop
A new cloud-based Desktop as a Service is being offered for educational institutions by Sun and Ashbourne Technology Group. The multi-platform service provides a virtual desktop experience for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and Solaris to most client devices, including Sun Ray thin clients and other platforms with Java-based browsers.
Solutions Offer Support for 21st Century Teaching, Learning, Research
Columbia University will use an open source Sun solution to run its digital preservation project, and the University of Zurich is deploying Project Wonderland projects to advance a global eLearning initiative. The Sun Open Computing portfolio includes Sun OpenStorage, OpenSolaris, Sun Open Archive solutions and the OpenSPARC T1 processor.
Sun Servers Improve Performance, Ability, Stability With Less Space
The University of Washington’s Department of Mathematics needed a hardware upgrade in order to successfully expand the computational capabilities and overall performance of Sage, an open-source computational software program. A new Sun solution was chosen with Sun Fire X4450 and Sun Fire X4540 servers, providing a powerful, compact server technology for the department’s growing open-source mathematics software engine.
Sun Machine Boasts 28.16 Trillion Calculations per Second
Sun along with the National Science Foundation and Iowa State University have facilitated the institution’s second supercomputer known as Cystorm that boasts a peak performance of 28.16 trillion calculations per second. The 3,200 computer processor cores powering Cystorm provide five times the peak of the university’s first supercomputer CyBlue, an IBM Blue Gene/L, that uses 2,048 processors to do 5.7 trillion calculations per second.
An Academic Shares Her Experience with the Open Source OS
Sun’s cutting-edge innovations is one of the reasons many universities collaborate with the vendor. British Columbia’s Simon Fraser University (SFU) is an example. In a nine-minute video, Sun Staff Engineer Eric Saxe discusses SFU’s collaboration with Sun on OpenSolaris with Alexandra (Sasha) Fedorova, SFU assistant professor in the School of Computing Science, who shares why she believes the open source OS is a great research and teaching tool.
Sun Can Power the Economic Recovery, Especially in the Public Sector
“Sun Solution for the Public Sector: Maximizing the Value of Stimulus Fund Investments” is a white paper that surveys the Sun solutions eligible for the the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), which has allocated funds to state and local governments, particularly in the areas of municipal, educational, and healthcare projects.
