System News for Sun Users - The BlogUp-to-the-minute news about Sun Microsystems and Sun Microsystems PartnersWhite Paper: Sun Fire X4150, X4250, and X4450 Server Architecture- August 31, 2008 Breakthrough Density Using Sun and Intel Technology - White Paper - August 2008 The Sun white paper &8220;Sun Fire X4150, X4250 and X4450 Server Architecture: Breakthrough Density Using Sun and Intel Technology&8221; explains how Sun, in response to the increasing pressure being applied to IT departments to deliver new services ...http://blogs.systemnews.com/2008/08/31/white-paper-sun-fire-x4150-x4250-and-x4450-server-a... Sun Tech Days: A Worldwide Developer Conference- August 31, 2008 Tentative 2008-2009 Schedule The 2008-2009 Sun Tech Days World Tour will kick off in September in So Paulo, Brazil. The Tech Days Tour will bring educational opportunities to 13 cities. It&8217;s an opportunity for those who develop in Java, Scripting, MySQL, on OpenSolaris, with NetBeans or RIA&8217;s. This conference features expert speakers and will provide opportunities ...http://blogs.systemnews.com/2008/08/31/sun-tech-days-a-worldwide-developer-conference/ White Paper: MySQL Enterprise Monitor: Technical Overview- August 31, 2008 A Tool for Proactive Management of MySQL Database Environments The 32-page white paper MySQL Enterprise Monitor: A Technical Overview provides a comprehensive functional and technical overview of the MySQL Enterprise Monitor and the distributed, web-based application that is used to service the comprehensive feature set. The MySQL Enterprise Monitor proactively monitors enterprise MySQL database environments and ...http://blogs.systemnews.com/2008/08/31/white-paper-mysql-enterprise-monitor-technical-over... White Paper: MySQL Workbench: A Data Modeling Guide for Developers and DBAs- August 31, 2008 Versatile Tool for Creating and Modifying Corporate Databases The 14-page White Paper, &8216;MySQL Workbench: A Data Modeling Guide for Developers and DBAs&8216;, looks at the various types of data modern businesses need to manage, examines the reasons why a model-driven approach to data management is necessary, and outlines the benefits such an approach provides. It also ...http://blogs.systemnews.com/2008/08/31/white-paper-mysql-workbench-a-data-modeling-guide-f... Rock: A SPARC CMT Processor- August 31, 2008 Sun&8217;s Shailender Chaudhry delivered a presentation at the August 2000 &8220;Hot Chips&8221; conference. Slides from the talk, &8220;Rock: A third Generation 65nm, 16-Core, 32 Thread + 32 Scout-Threads CMT SPARC Processor&8221; are available on-line in PDF format. &8220;The goals for this high-end commercial microprocessor are high throughput and high single-thread performance, mainframe-class reliability, hardware transactional ...http://blogs.systemnews.com/2008/08/31/rock-a-sparc-cmt-processor/ Eco Innovation in the Datacenter: A Slide Deck by Angis MacDonald- August 28, 2008 Angus MacDonald, chief technologist for Sun Microsystems, Australasia, has put together a slide presentation that he calls &8220;The Future of the Eco-Datacenter,&8221; which investigates the increasingly pressing conjunction of ecology and economy as it affects the datacenter. He talks about the tension between demand and capacity and ways around these conflicts, such as increasing utilization, ...http://blogs.systemnews.com/2008/08/28/eco-innovation-in-the-datacenter-a-slide-deck-by-an... Fujitsu readies eight-core SPARC64 chip - (Code name Venus)- August 28, 2008 Fujitsu&8217;s Takumi Maruyama delivered a presentation on Tuesday at the Hot Chips conference in Palo Alto, Calif. According to a report in Computerworld, at the end of that presentation there was a brief discussion of a future eight-core version of the quad-core SPARC64 VII. The eight core chip has a code name of &8220;Venus&8221;. Sun ...http://blogs.systemnews.com/2008/08/28/fujitsu-readies-eight-core-sparc64-chip-venus/ Chill-Off! SVLG Data Center Energy Summit: Modular Datacenter Cooling Systems- August 5, 2008 Demo Project Tests Datacenter Cooling Technology of 7 Vendors Dean Nelson blogs about the results of a demonstration project on comparing cooling products for datacenters, the results of which were presented in May 2008 at the Silicon Valley Leadership Group. Nelson identifies the participants in the demo, who were: Liebert XD APC InRow Rittal LCP+ IBMVette Cool ...http://blogs.systemnews.com/2008/08/05/chill-off-svlg-data-center-energy-summit-modular-da... |