Most Recent and Popular Ones Listed
The Oracle-Sun downloads page offers the latest downloads along with a list of the top software visitors have downloaded. The page also offers its featured downloads, such as Java, NetBeans, GlassFish, JavaFX, OpenOffice.org, VirtualBox, and more. This article lists the most recent and top downloads, and links to access them.
Short Items of Interest for the HPC Community
April 14-16, Monterey Bay, Calif.
The Lustre User Group 2010 conference is set for April 14-16, in Aptos, Calif. on Monterey Bay. Registration for the event, which is ongoing, will be limited to 150 people to ensure the conference remains conversational and interactive. The first day of the conference will consist of a Lustre User Advanced Seminar and the following two days will cover a variety of topics, lead by both Sun experts and Lustre users.
Most Powerful Supercomputer on the Continent
When the South African government launched its largest (both in South Africa and the continent as a whole) supercomputer at CHPC in Cape Town, Marc Hamilton, Sun VP of Americas Systems Practice was there to interview Naledi Pandor, South African Minister of Science and Technology, on the system and the Sun technology at its core - the second generation Sun Constellation System.
New HPC Solutions, Benchmarks, Customers and Positioning on Top500 List 
The latest Top500 list published in November shows three of the top five supercomputers based on Intel Nehalem CPUs were Sun Constellation Systems. Sun also doubled its number of entries since the June 2009 list with a total of 11 deployments providing nearly 2 PetaFLOPS (PFLOPS). Additionally, Sun announced new products and technologies for high performance computing (HPC), an upgrade to the Sun Storage 7410 Unified Storage System, new HPC benchmarks and new HPC customers.
Open-Source Software Solution for Linux-Based HPC Clusters on Sun Hardware 
The Sun HPC Software, Linux Edition 2.0 is an integrated, open-source software solution for Sun HPC clusters. A ready-made framework of software components turns a bare-metal system into a running HPC cluster. This latest edition features support for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 10sp2, Sun supported cluster software (Sun ClusterTools, Sun Studio, Sun Grid Engine), Lustre 1.8.0.1, MPI libraries pre-built with Pathscale and Sun Studio x86 compilers and more.
Includes Lustre, Sun Fire Servers’ Firmware, HPC ClusterTools and More
Have you downloaded the latest updates in Sun software for your Sun solutions? Take a look at the top ten updates made available June 17th through June 23rd. These include Lustre 1.8.0.1; Sun Fire X4540, X2270, X4170, X4270, X4275; Sun Servers Integration 1.0; HPC ClusterTools 8.2; HPC Software, OpenSolaris Developer Edition 1.0; Sun Blade X6275; and Sun Server Hardware Management Pack 1.1.
Sun Constellation System Receives Enhancements, Sets Benchmarks
A new InfiniBand (IB) Quad Data Rate (QDR) switch, new Sun HPC Software Linux Edition 2.0, Sun Grid Engine 6.2 Update 3, and enhancements to the Lustre file system were all part of product announcements Sun made during the 2009 International Supercomputing Conference held June 23-26 in Hamburg. These new products improve and expand the Sun Constellation System, which also set new SPEC CPU2006 benchmarks, Sun reported.
Maintenance Release Offers Several Robust and New Features
This maintenance release does offer new features, performance and scalability improvements, reliability/recovery improvements, and forward interoperability with Lustre 2.0. Specific updates to the object-based, distributed file system include adaptive timeouts, client interoperability, OSS read cache, OST pools, and version-based recovery.
Short Items of Interest to the HPC Community
