Audience Learns Where Oracle Will Focus Its Attention
Writing in eWeek Europe about the audience reaction to the presentation made by Oracle executives to 500 Sun customers and partners in London, Peter Judge assessed the response positively, saying, “The most surprising thing about the event was the complacency. Many of the delegates suggested that this merger, billed as one of the most cataclysmic ever (in a good way or a bad way), might simply lead to business as usual, with the products and support coming from the usual partners and executives, and the roadmap continuing.”
Now the World’s Largest Purveyor of Open Source Software
With its acquisition of Sun, Oracle is now the world’s largest purveyor of open source software. However, as Ken Hess notes on the DaniWeb Forum Index, Oracle’s support didn’t start with its purchase of InnoDB, MySQL or Sun. The company has a history of supporting free and open source software and has done much for the FOSS community.
Configuring a Development Environment to Practice OpenSolaris, Solaris Cluster Technologies
Learn how to set up a single x86-based system with OpenSolaris, configuring a training and development environment for Solaris 10/Solaris Cluster 3.2 and using VirtualBox to set up a two node cluster. These instructions can be found in the white paper “Practicing Solaris Cluster using VirtualBox” by Thorsten Frueauf. The presented configuration can be used to practice using various technologies such as Crossbow, COMSTAR, ZFS, IPsec, software quorum, and zone clusters.
On Java, JavaFX, OpenSolaris and Open Source Technologies
The Sun Academic Advantage is a joint initiative between Sun and online educational service provider Pearson, enabling instructors to add Sun-endorsed courseware into their curriculum and give students an enhanced classroom experience using the latest Sun technologies. Course materials and online courses cover topics on Java technology, JavaFX, OpenSolaris and open source technologies for students of all levels.
Lower Cost, Greater Flexibility than Proprietary Storage Solutions
The Sun white paper “Sun Open Storage: A Lower-cost, Higher Performance Alternative for the Enterprise” argues that the high cost and inherent lack of flexibility of proprietary enterprise storage solutions lends compelling appeal to Sun’s Open Storage offerings. Using industry-standard components and open-source software, open storage enables enterprises to build highly scalable, reliable, and flexible storage systems to fit their growing demands - all at a fraction of the cost of traditional, proprietary storage, the white paper maintains.
CPU2006 Throughput World Records with Sun Blade X6440s in Sun Blade 6048 Chassis
World record SPEC CPU2006 rate results were attained by a Sun Constellation system composed of 48 Sun Blade X6440 server modules in a Sun Blade 6048 chassis, running OpenSolaris 2008.11 and using the Sun Studio 12 Update 1 compiler. Gnanakumar Rajaram reports on these results.
How Sun Technologies Helped One Customer Do Just That
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Boise found the solution it required for updating their IT infrastructure with Sun. This particular implementation created a virtual storage solution that can scale to meet new demands; reduced 28 physical servers to six; reduced server support costs by 70%; cut power costs and increased performance per watt; and resulted in 95% system availability.
Includes New Debuggers, Visualization Technology and Support for Parallelism
Sun Studio 12 Update 1 is the latest version of Sun’s compilers and performance tools designed for the C, C++ and Fortran developer communities. As we mentioned when it was released in June, this major update delivers new optimizations and features for OpenSolaris, Solaris and the latest Linux operating systems such as optimized compilers with auto-parallelization, multi-thread aware code-level and memory debuggers, a thread analysis tool that identifies race and deadlock conditions in multithreaded code, a performance analyzer, DLight for unified application and system profiling using Solaris DTrace technology, support for OpenMP 3.0 and a next-generation IDE based on the NetBeans project.
Business Ready HPC Solutions for Small- and Mid-sized Organizations
Sun can deliver complete HPC clusters for small- and mid-sized organizations, offering an end-to-end HPC architecture that is designed to grow from a single rack up to tera- and peta-scale deployments. In a white paper entitled “Building HPC Systems for Business-critical Workloads,” readers can learn about the Sun Rapid Solutions Sun Compute Cluster that provides easy-to-deploy clusters with a choice of components including compute, storage, network, software and services.
