Sun BluePrints Article Explains How
The Lustre Storage System, a clustered file system can remove high performance computing I/O bottlenecks created by increasing load. The Lustre Storage System takes front stage of the methods used for traditional CPU performance because of growing computing requirements by HPC clusters.
Define Your Lustre Parallel File System Requirements and Sun Will Deliver
Take full advantage of the Lustre file system by integrating the software quickly and efficiently into an HPC environment via the Sun Lustre On-site Implementation Services. This offering allows Sun to design, rapidly deploy, and perform acceptance testing for the pre-defined configuration of Lustre to meet HPC customers’ particular IT and business needs.
Set for April 20th-23rd in Santa Clara, Calif.
Registration is now open for the Fifth Annual MySQL Conference and Expo 2009, which will be held at the Santa Clara, Calif. Convention Center and the Hyatt Regency Santa Clara on April 20-23. Conferees are expected to number more than 2,000 as open source and database advocates come together to consider optimizing the range of solutions available in the MySQL ecosystem.
A Review of the First Year and a Glance at the Future
What, in addition to the resignations from Sun of Marten Mickos and Monty Widenius, are the changes in the works for the MySQL Database, many are wondering. Brian Prince sheds some light on the subject in a recent eWeek.com article, where he writes that Sun remains confident in the wake of the release of MySQL 5.1, bugs and all.
Developer Community Making Many Contributions to OpenOffice.org, OpenSolaris
Simon Phipps, Sun’s chief open-source officer, was interviewed by Alex Serpo of ZDNet.com.au on the subjects of the MySQL acquisition and community engagement in both OpenOffice.org and OpenSolaris. He spoke about the long-term consequences of acquiring MySQL and praised the community contributions to both OpenOffice.org and OpenSolaris.
Sun has released an early access version of its Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Software that includes support for VMware Infrastructure 3 and adds support for Sun xVM virtualization and the Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems.
“Yes, the same VDI kit will work with VMware, as well as xVM VirtualBox,” writes Dennis Maher in his Sun blog. “There is a VDI tier that you plug in your virtualization platform. … New desktop providers can be created to plug in to the same framework.”
Maher also points out that Sun VDI 3 Early Access addresses a number of VDI service considerations, namely:
“Provisioning for Windows XP, Windows Vista, Solaris, Any flavor of Linux …. in fact any user environment that will run in xVM VirtualBox is fair game,” he explains. “Support for ActiveDirectory as the identity source (or native LDAP) works out of the box with a click of the mouse. Placing your user environments in NAT’ed environments works…”
In general, Sun VDI Software offers the following features and benefits:
Virtual desktop access: Use existing PCs or Sun Ray virtual display clients to access virtual desktop environments over a wide variety of network connections.
Added flexibility using virtual machines: Use the new Sun Virtual Desktop Connector to manage access to virtual desktop environments hosted on VMware Infrastructure 3.
High security connections: Leverage the built-in VPN client in Sun Ray virtual display clients or SSL encryption for other clients when accessing virtual desktops.
High quality user experience: Use Sun’s high performance protocols to create a high quality desktop user experience for users on the LAN, WAN, or the public Internet.
Simple software licensing: One license allows a user to connect to their virtual desktop from supported client devices, including popular PCs and Sun Ray virtual display clients.
Desktop choice: Supports Microsoft Windows, Solaris OS, and Linux as desktop environments.
MySQL Enterprise is the paid commercial subscription offering of the database software and is available for a free 30-day trial. This gives users a chance to try out the MySQL Enterprise Monitor which includes:
This free trial run also allows for two support incidents relating directly to MySQL Enterprise Monitor.
Sun will be hosting the Webinar “Scaling MySQL” on Thursday, January 22nd at 10:00 a.m. PST, 1:00 p.m. EST, 6:00 p.m. GMT with speaker Steve Staso, Lead Web Solutions Architect, Global Systems Practice. The presentation, expected to run about 45 minutes followed by Q&A, will address the following:
The core components of the Sun Java System Web Server 7.0 have been released under a Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) license. Open Web Server is part of the Web Stack community in the OpenSolaris project.
Open Web Server is a highly scalable multi-threaded HTTP engine capable of handling hundreds of thousands of simultaneous HTTP connections.
The developer documentation and build instructions are available as is a feature comparison of Open Web Server and Sun Java System Web Server. Also check out the Web 2.0 Technology Partners forum.
Jumpstart Enterprise Toolkit (JET) has released version 4.6. This bug fix release will be part of the next xVM OpsCenter.
“In terms of changes, I’ve fixed a couple of bugs with turning ntp on, and multiple disks in zfs pools for ZFS disks. This version also has tweaks in place to workaround some DHCP issues when installing S10 U6 and Solaris Nevada,” writes Mike Ramchand, who, along with Marty Lee, developed JET as part of the RedBull project.
Some of JET’s key features for use on SPARC or x86-based Jumpstart servers:
Visit the JET wiki page for more.
