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According to a blog posting by Sun,
The Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 server running 2.52GHz SPARC64 VII processors delivered 2.023 TFLOPS on the Linpack HPC benchmark.
For single servers, the Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 server outperforms the best IBM Power 595 5GHz POWER6 published result by two times on the Linpack HPC benchmark. This system is the […]

Sun ’s Engineering Services group will be delivering to HP a compiled version of Java ME for wireless handsets for the iPAQ. Sun will work with HP to implement specific feature set. Normally Java ME licensees like HP start with the code and are responsible for integration and producing a binary product for their platform.
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A new Internet radio program from Sun called “Innovation Insider” will be featuring discussions with industry innovators on a variety of topics. This coming Friday, June 13th, Sun Chief Gaming Officer Chris Melissinos will be talking about current trends in PC gaming and answer questions from listeners during the show hosted on blogtalkradio.com.
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The OpenSolaris.org site has reached a milestone - 100,000+ registrations and over 200k postings.

Sun announced the Sun Ultra 24 Workstation, a single socket (dual or quad core) Intel workstation - the first Intel based Sun workstation since the Sun 386i (1988). Dual core configurations start at $995, quad core at about $2,400. Sun is targeting the high-end, technical professional with this family of workstations. High-end […]

Project Darkstar, Sun’s version of the online game server platform written entirely in Java technology, made its debut at the 2007 Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, where Sun also announced the opening of registration for the Darkstar Playground, which will enable developers to create a wide variety of games that can be provisioned through […]