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Top Ten Articles for last few Issues

Saturday, May 9th, 2009

 Vol 134 Issue 1, 2 , 3, 4 and 5 Vol 133 Issues 2, 3 and 4;

We track how frequently each article is viewed on the web site to determine which the readers consider the most important. During the last quarter (February, March, April), the web site for this newsletter had 101k unique visitors who viewed 253k pages. (For the past 12 months: 531k unique visitors and 1.39 million page views.)

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 8 issues.

Top Ten Articles for Vol 134 Issue 5
Top Ten Articles for Vol 134 Issue 4
Top Ten Articles for Vol 134 Issue 3
Top Ten Articles for Vol 134 Issue 2
Top Ten Articles for Vol 134 Issue 1
Top Ten Articles for Vol 133 Issue 4
Top Ten Articles for Vol 133 Issue 3
Top Ten Articles for Vol 133 Issue 2

Review of News for 2008 - 50 Most Popular Topics, 900 Most Popular Articles

Thursday, January 8th, 2009

By accessing the “System News for Sun Users” web logs, we have determined that the following list of about 900 articles were the most popular with subscribers and web site visitors in 2008.

We have grouped those articles by topic to give you a view of what were the most important news articles for 2008. That a topic had enough popular articles to be included in this of topics is in itself significant.

Part 1 of 3

  • Sun Microsystems, Sun/NetApp Litigation, Jonathan Schwartz, Servers, Blade Servers, Intel Servers, AMD Servers, SPARC CMT, SPARC64 Servers, Green, Datacenter, Storage, Tape and VTL, ZFS, Open Storage

Part 2 of 3

  • Open Source, HPC, Lustre, Inifniband, Solaris 10, OpenSolaris, OpenSolaris Project, MySQL, Data Warehouse, Solaris Cluster, Netra, DTrace, Security, OpenSSO, Java FX

Part 3 of 3

  • Virtualization, Containers, Logical Domains (LDoms), Sun Ray, Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, Sun xVM, Sun xVM VirtualBox, OpenOffce and StarOffice, JRuby, Sun Studio, VMware, Windows, Linux, GlassFish, NetBeans, Mobile, Identity Management, Sun Java System, Java

PART 1 of 3

Sun Microsystems

Sun/NetApp Litigation

Jonathan Schwartz

Servers

Blade Servers

Intel Servers

AMD Servers

SPARC CMT

SPARC64 Servers

Green

Datacenter

Storage

Tape and VTL

ZFS

Open Storage

PART 2 of 3

Open Source

HPC

Lustre

Inifniband

OpenSolaris

OpenSolaris Project

Solaris 10

MySQL

Data Warehouse

Solaris Cluster

Netra

DTrace

Security

OpenSSO

Java FX

PART 3 of 3

Virtualization

Containers

Logical Domains (LDoms)

Sun Ray

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure

Sun xVM

Sun xVM VirtualBox

OpenOffce and StarOffice

JRuby

Sun Studio

VMware

Windows

Linux

GlassFish

NetBeans

Mobile

Identity Management

Sun Java System

Java

News Bites - Buyers Guide to ID Management, Self-Signed Certificates, Docs.sun.com, On2 Flix and JavaFX,, JavaOne Call for Papers

Friday, December 12th, 2008

Short News Items of Interest to the Sun User Community

The Complete Buyers Guide for Identity Management

This 48-page guide provides a business primer that examines the role of identity management in addressing today’s business opportunities and challenges as well as discusses the characteristics of an effective solution. It also contains decision-making tools that can be used to evaluate if a solution is best suited to a business’s needs and technology environment.

Managing Self-Signed Certificates

In Jay Danielsen’s blog “greetings from network.com,” he offers his Solaris Tip of the Week: a utility to automate the process of importing a self-signed certificate from a remote host into a client’s local truststore or certificate database, so the client can communicate with a secured service.

Updated docs.sun.com Web site

Sun’s documentation site has been redesigned with a new look to emphasize functionality. Experience these improvements yourself with a visit to doc.sun.com.

On2 Flix Video Encoders Support JavaFX

Support for Sun’s JavaFX 1.0 video has been integrated into On2 Technologies, Inc. Flix line of encoder products. On2 Flix video encoders range from desktop applications for consumers and professionals to server side encoding platforms for the enterprise.

2009 JavaOne Conference Call for Papers

Sun is seeking content submissions within and across four broad, high-level areas of the Java platform:

  • Rich Media Applications and Interactive Content
  • Mobility
  • Services
  • Core Technology

Key Dates:

  • Thursday, December 19th 2008: Call for Papers closes
  • Second week of February 2009: Notifications to submitters completed for technical sessions and BOFs.
  • April 17, 2009: Deadline for submission of final slide presentations.
  • June 2- June 5, 2009: 2009 JavaOne Conference

Top 10 Articles from Issue Posted October 9th

Thursday, November 13th, 2008

Here are the titles for the top 10 most popular articles from the current issue which was posted on October 9th (Vol 129 Issue 1 of System News for Sun Users):

  1. Zebra, Zamboni, Zen and the art of ZFS
  2. 10 Gigabit Ethernet Virtual Data Center Architectures (11-Page White Paper)
  3. Save the Date! Change Your Storage Economics: Web Event
  4. What’s New in Solaris 10 10/08?
  5. IBM, Sun Microsystems Launch ODF Toolkit Union
  6. Minimizing Downtime in SAP Environments with Solaris 10 OS
  7. Good News from Sun
  8. The UltraSPARC T2 Processor and the Solaris Operating System
  9. Sun Rack II: A New Generation of Data Center Optimized Cabinets
  10. ERP, the Open Way: Hugo Rivero Weblog

Sun Tech Days: A Worldwide Developer Conference

Sunday, August 31st, 2008

Tentative 2008-2009 Schedule

The 2008-2009 Sun Tech Days World Tour will kick off in September in São Paulo, Brazil. The Tech Days Tour will bring educational opportunities to 13 cities. It’s an opportunity for those who develop in Java, Scripting, MySQL, on OpenSolaris, with NetBeans or RIA’s. This conference features expert speakers and will provide opportunities learn, to network, to find peers in your community.

Tentative 2008-2009 Schedule

  • São Paulo, Brazil — Sep 29-Oct 1, 2008
  • Seoul, South Korea — October 15-17, 2008
  • Taipei, Taiwan — November 17, 2008
  • Guangzhou, China — November 19, 2008
  • Beijing, China — November 21-23, 2008
  • Tokyo, Japan –December 3-5, 2008
  • Singapore, Singapore — January, 2009
  • Hyderabad, India –February, 2009
  • New York, United States –February, 2009
  • United Kingdom — March, 2009
  • Madrid, Spain — March/April, 2009
  • St. Petersburg, Russia — April 8-10, 2009
  • Tel Aviv, Israel — May, 2009

2,203 GFLOP Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000

Friday, July 18th, 2008

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 largest that IBM makes for its 5GHz Power6-based servers.

A single Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 server shows 2.7 times the performance on the Linpack HPC benchmark when compared to the HP Integrity Superdome Itanium 2 system.

The Sun Performance Library was enhanced to take advantage of the SPARC64 VII architecture.

The blog posting highlights several results

  • Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000, 64 SPARC64 VII CPUs @ 2.52 GHz
  • Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000, 64 SPARC64 VI CPUs @ 2.4 GHz
  • IBM Power 595, 32 POWER6 CPUs @ 5.0 GHz
  • HP Superdome , 64 Itanium 2 CPUs @ 1.6 GHz
  • Sun SPARC Enterprise M8000, 16 SPARC64 VII @ 2.52 GHz

What is the Linpack Benchmark?

The Linpack Benchmark is a measure of a computer’s floating-point rate of execution. It is determined by running a computer program that solves a dense system of linear equations. Over the years the characteristics of the benchmark has changed a bit. In fact, there are three benchmarks included in the Linpack Benchmark report.

The Linpack Benchmark is something that grew out of the Linpack software project. It was originally intended to give users of the package a feeling for how long it would take to solve certain matrix problems. The benchmark stated as an appendix to the Linpack Users’ Guide and has grown since the Linpack User’s Guide was published in 1979.

Java ME HP iPAQ 900 series: Sun & HP Partner

Monday, July 7th, 2008

iPAQSun ’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.

“What it amounts to is vendors like HP want the Java virtual machine on their platform, but the question is where is their expertise on the phone best spent?” said David Hopert, group marketing manager for Java mobile technology at Sun.

David added, “What they have done is handed over to us the duties of optimizing so they spend a lot less time of making Java run well. We in turn can minimize the amount of bugs and fragmentation that get into the phone.”

More Information

Sun Press Release

Sun Engineering Services

New Sun Radio Program: “Innovation Insider”

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008

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.

Tune in between 10-11 a.m. PDT and go to http://www.blogtalkradio.com/stations/sunradio/innovationinsider to listen to the live broadcast. To pose a question to Melissinos during the broadcast, dial (646) 478-3261. Or, if you would like to submit a question for consideration in advance of the program, please send it to innovationinsider@sun.com by Thursday, June 12.

Podcasts will be available after every show, just visit: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/stations/sunradio/featured.aspx

100k OpenSolaris.org registrations

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008

The OpenSolaris.org site has reached a milestone - 100,000+ registrations and over 200k postings.

opensolaris growth

The New Quad-Core x64 Sun Workstation, the Sun Ultra 24

Wednesday, October 24th, 2007

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 configurations have been priced very competitively against similar configurations from Dell and HP.

Technical Specifications

  • Up to 8Gb DDR2-667 memory with DIMM sizes of 512 MB, 1 GB, and 2 GB (2 banks of 2 DIMMs each)
  • Several CPU choices
  • Intel Core 2 Duo Processors
  • Intel Core 2 Quad Processors
  • Intel Core 2 Extreme processor
  • Supports NVIDIA graphics accelerator cards:
  • 1 NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600
  • 1 NVIDIA Quadro FX 4600
  • 2 NVIDIA Quadro FX 1700
  • 2 NVIDIA Quadro FX 570
  • 2 NVIDIA Quadro NVS 290
  • Certified for many O/S environments:
  • Solaris 10 8/07 (Update 4)
  • Windows Vista Ultimate (32-bit/64-bit)
  • Windows XP Professional (32/64) Service Pack 2 and later
  • Windows Server 2003 R2 and SP2 (32-bit/64-bit)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS Client 5.0 (32-bit & 64-bit) and later
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS 4.5 (32-bit & 64-bit) and later
  • SuSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 (64-bit) Service Pack 1 and later
  • Compatible upgrade path to next-generation Intel workstation processors
  • Single Gigabit Ethernet integrated on motherboard
  • Up to four SATA drives, 3TB maximum: 250GB, 750GB (7,200 rpm)
  • Up to four SAS drives (Through PCIe HBA), 1.2TB maximum: 146GB, 300GB (15,000 rpm)
  • 2 FireWire ports (front)
  • 7 USB 2.0 ports - Two (Front), Four (Back), One (Internal)
  • Audio- High Definition Audio 1.0
  • PCI Express slots
  • Two full-length x16 Gen2 slots
  • One full-length x8 slot (x4 electrical)
  • One full-length x1 slot

Sun reports that the Ultra 24 Workstation will be available through the Try and Buy program beginning Nov. 12.

There is a 6-minute video of Brian Healy, Sun product manager, presenting the Sun Ultra 24 on youtube.

The Sun Ultra 24 Workstation Documentation, available now, includes these books:

  • Sun Ultra 24 Workstation Safety and Compliance Guide
  • Sun Ultra 24 Workstation Operating System Installation Guide
  • Sun Ultra 24 Workstation Product Notes
  • Sun Ultra 24 Workstation Service Manual
  • Sun Ultra 24 Workstation Installation Guide
  • Where to Find Sun Ultra 24 Workstation Documentation


Sun Ultra 24 Workstation Datasheet