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This release of Sun Clusters add support for  Oracle 11g in HA-Oracle and Oracle RAC configurations on SPARC based platforms.
It also adds support for Logical Domains in a Cluster. The Release note describes  topologies, requirements and restrictions, and installation and configuration procedures for guest domains as cluster nodes:

SPARC: LDom Guest Domains: Cluster in a […]

A BigAdmin System Administration Portal is now available for the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5140 and T5240 Servers.
Features on the portal include:

an overview of CoolThreads technology (with 360-degree tour)
link to the T5140 detailed product page
link to the T5240 detailed product page
discussion of Management Facilities
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Jeff Cheeney, Storage facilitator, recently posted a ” Storage Community Annual Report“  in which he included these quick facts:

Projects

  36 approved & live
  5 approved, not live - waiting for web pages to be created
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The proceeding from the 2008 OpenSolaris Developer Conference, June 25-27th, 2008, Prague are now available in a 122 page PDF document.
The slides + videos (as they are being converted and uploaded) are at:
http://www.osdevcon.org/2008/program.html

Title
Author
Page

Governing OpenSolaris: Get Involved!
Grisanzio Jim
3

“The Package Man Always Builds Twice”
From SysV Packaging To The Image Packaging System
Brandt Volker A.
5

OpenSolaris Testing
Walker Jim
9

The Cryptographic Framework […]

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Sun has approved Active Power, Inc.’s PowerHouse system as a complimentary solution to the Sun Modular Datacenter S20. Active Power provides efficient, reliable and green critical power solutions and uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems to enable business continuity in the event of power disturbances.
Its Powerhouse system is based upon the company’s flywheel-based UPS system and […]

Network.com, Sun’s collection of grid-enabled online applications available on a pay-per-use basis, along with the free open source 3D content creation suite Blender were selected by BBC World News as one of the best cloud applications available:
“Sun’s data centres are available for hire by the hour to power on-demand cloud services. Used mainly for processing […]

In a Sun BigAdmin community-submitted tech tip by Victor Feng, readers are treated to some helpful hints they may need when setting up resource control for Zones in the Solaris 10 08/07, which was the first version that offered this control directly to users.
Tips passed along by Feng:
- Use cpu-shares to control zone computing resources.
- […]

The International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) 2008 is currently underway in Dresden, Germany. Numerous announcements from Sun have been made including:

the new Sun Blade X6450 Server Module powered by four high-performance dual-or-quad core Intel Xeon processor 7300 series. When integrated into the Sun Constellation System, this new Sun Blade x64 system delivers more than seven TFlops […]

Sun now holds the number four spot on the Top 500 Supercomputers list with its Sun Constellation System-powered supercomputer at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC), which boasts a compute capacity of 326 TFlops and a peak performance of 504 TFlops.
The Ranger supercomputer at TACC is based on the Sun Constellation System which combines the […]