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Enables Data-intensive Streaming Read/Write I/O Performance.

The Sun BluePrints Online paper “Configuring Systems for High Bandwidth I/O” by Kevin Colwell and Carolyn Bumatay describes a recipe for configuring systems to support the very high bandwidth I/O capabilities needed by such data-intensive applications as operational intelligence and surveillance, epidemic trend analysis and prediction, failure analysis of aircraft and ships, predictive traffic management, weather and ocean forecasting, virtual design, astronomy, human genomics, and other scientific disciplines that are data-intensive, and depend on streaming read/write I/O performance.

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Sun’s New Reference Architecture Described in BluePrint

Nick Kloski and Alejandro Medrano have penned a Sun BluePrints Online article covering Sun’s new reference architecture, the Open Network Systems for Internet Infrastructure, MySQL Edition. This reference architecture combines Sun Open Storage, high-performance networking and servers, open source software and Sun services into an integrated enterprise portal solution for Web and enterprise environments. This paper describes the hardware and software components of the reference architecture, studies the scalability of the architecture, and includes step-by-step directions for setup and configuration.

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Sun BluePrint: “Running Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) on Sun Logical Domains”

Read this Sun BluePrints for running Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) on servers set up with Sun Logical Domains (LDoms). Learn about implementing a solution that runs in both development and production environments. Imagine virtualization technology available that comes with Sun LDoms that allows the creation of multiple virtual systems. However, these LDoms run on a single physical system. With this technology, users can set up the fine-grained assignment of CPU and memory resources to an Oracle RAC workload.

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Sun BluePrints Online Article

The Sun BluePrints Online article provides an inside look into the best practices for deploying TWiki software on GlassFish, an open source application server. Users can run up to twice the speed of Apache HTTP Server software when they use Java technology, long-running Web process (LRWP) protocol on the Solaris Operating System (OS).

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Combination Delivers the Necessary Performance, Scalability Web 2.0 Growth Demands

The authors of this Sun BluePrints Online paper, “Deploying Web 2.0 Applications on Sun Servers and the OpenSolaris Operating System,” address the need for a means to respond to the mounting pressure for highly scalable and flexible solutions for hosting applications and suggest open source as the answer.

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