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As promised, Sun has made all the sessions presented at JavaOne 2006 available online! Visit JavaOne Online to view the presentation (audio/slides) or just download slides and transcripts. You do not need to have registered for JavaOne, just use your Sun Developer Network login or register for one right now (for free). As I type this I'm enjoying the presentation on EJB 3.0... great stuff for all of us who want to get up to speed on the ...
Sun Studio fans everywhere can rejoice, apparently we now have early access to new developments in Sun Studio by way of Sun Studio Express! Just put in your email address and download. The June release is currently available for both Solaris X86 and SPARC. Thanks to Kuldip Oberoi, Product Manager for Sun Studio (Sun Blog) for posting this in his blog. Kuldip also has a BlogSpot blog here.
Tomorow, Sun's quarterly Network Computing event will be happening at noon in San Francisco. Be sure to watch it on the website. I'll be on site for the event, so I'll likely report any news late, but attempt to get some good pictures to make up for my lag. Lots of goodies are rumored, but I'm still keeping my eyes on Honeycomb.
The Register has dumped what it can find about the Tuesday announcement: Sun to replace excuses with loads of Opteron gear. Here's the forecast: X4500: "Thumper", the one we've waited for. Take a X4200, super-size it to 4U and then add 48 SATA drives... mix in the super secret ingredient (Solaris 10 Update 2, namely ZFS) and presto chango! Estimates are that a system with 16GB of memory and 12TB of storage will run you about $33,000....
I hesitate to write on this subject, I know Simon personally and like him, he's a good guy. But we have some differing opinions on the topics of open source philosophy. Here are three write-ups reguarding his recent talk at the Open Source Business Confrence in London: Sun's open source chief predicts software 3.0 Sun: Open source is about self-interest Simon Phipps on "The Zen of Free" (OSBC London) First things first. If you ...
Everyone loves big computers... especially me. So go wrap yourself in the June 2006 Top 500 List. Interesting things are happening in the Top 10, here's the bullet points imho: IBM Has taken control of the top 3 slot on the list, with 2 BlueGene's and a pSeries eServer p5 system comprised of 12,208 processors. A Dell PowerEdge 1850, 3.6 GHz, Infiniband cluster utilizing 9,024 processors makes number 6 on the list. Cray's best ...
Linus announced Linux v2.6.17 yesterday, among the usual long list of improvements, fixes, and features is the following: David S. Miller: [SPARC64]: Dump local cpu registers in sun4v_log_error() [TG3]: Handle Sun onboard tg3 chips more correctly. [SPARC64]: Avoid JBUS errors on some Niagara systems. [SPARC64]: Set appropriate max_cache_size. [SPARC64]: Do not double-export sys_close() when CONFIG_SOLA...
Seriously, check it out: Hewlett-Packard is adapting fans from radio-controlled jets to relieve heat-stressed computer servers. I'd personally suggest buying a better server.