Marc Hamilton's WeblogMarc Hamilton's WeblogFavorite Runs - Ipanema Beach- April 25, 2008 Three flights, three business dinners, three cities, two analyst lunches and no running, I finally found my way to what I had been looking forward to all week. I checked into my hotel in Rio De Janeiro last night after 11 pm, left the curtains open, and awoke early this morning facing a beautiful view of my running path. Unlike some of my other favorite runs requiring elaborate directions, this one is easy, walk out of hotel, cross street, turn left or right, and run. The LED sign at the corner.http://blogs.sun.com/marchamilton/entry/favorite_runs_ipanema_beach What To Do With 10,000 Threads of T5140- April 11, 2008 There has been lots of great blogs by Sun engineers on the capabilities and features of the new T5140 server and UltraSPARC T2 Plus processor announced this week. Take a look at what one large HPC customer, Canada's High Performance Computing Virtual Laboratory is doing with their 10,000 thread cluster, aptly named Victoria Falls.http://blogs.sun.com/marchamilton/entry/using_the_t5140_cmt_server Change is Good- April 10, 2008 It was a big day for changes today. Sun released their first two socket CMT (Chip Multi Threading) servers based on the UltraSPARC T2 Plus processor. There are dozens of Sun engineer blogs today going into tons of technical detail, but for those of you perhaps less familiar with CMT I thought I would give a brief overview. Almost all modern microprocessors today are multi-core, that is they have two or more CPU cores packaged into a single chip which fits into a socket on your computer. Until..http://blogs.sun.com/marchamilton/entry/change_is_good April 9th NYC Product Launch- April 8, 2008 Two redeye flights in three days and I'm in NYC, meeting with customers prior to tomorrow's big product launch event. Our sun.comlaunch page will be updated tomorrow with all the details, but I expect a lot of the really interesting details will be posted at blogs.sun.com by actual engineers who worked on the projects being launched. Rick Hetherington, VP and co-CTO of Sun Microelectronics and Massood Heydari, VP SPARC Volume Systems will hold a live technical chat at 12 noon EDT on April...http://blogs.sun.com/marchamilton/entry/april_9th_nyc_product_launch Spotting Trends- April 4, 2008 When my two teenage kids tell me I haven't updated my blog for a while, it is a clear sign of a trend I need to reverse. Having just finished up my first quarter leading our systems sales organization for the Americas, I've had a chance to see on a daily basis the buying trends of our customers. Of course, I'll have to wait until after we announce our quarterly earnings to talk about last quarters trends in the Americas. But after a quarter of hard work, and it being the kids Spring break, we...http://blogs.sun.com/marchamilton/entry/spotting_trends |