Planet SunPlanet Sun - http://planetsun.org/HPC: Sun's Newest SMP: World-Record Floating-Point- July 14, 2008 The new Sun SPARC Enterprise servers have delivered two floating-point World Record results on industry-standard SPECfp2006 benchmark for both Optimized and Base tests. The SPARC Enterprise M9000 server, based on SPARC64 VII processors, and using Sun Studio 12 software with Solaris 10 OS delivers a score of 2.023 TFLOPS on the Linpack's Highly Parallel Computing benchmark. The SPARC Enterprise M9000 outperforms the IBM Power 595 POWER6 by nearly 2X and beats the HP Integrity Superdome...http://blogs.sun.com/HPC/entry/sun_s_newest_smp_world chhandomay: InformationWeek loves Sun Fire X4150 server...- July 14, 2008 This week's print issue of InformationWeek has a very positive review of Sun Fire X4150 server. Jeff Ballard examined this 1U powerhouse and wrote, "The Sun Fire X4150 delivers the goods with 16 DIMM slots, three PCI-e slots, and dual quad-core Intel Harpertown processors. The X4150 supports up to 64 GB of memory and sports four Gigabit Ethernet slots, double what is offered by the Dell 1950, IBM x3550, and HP DL360." Jeff provided an excellent overview of..http://blogs.sun.com/chhandomay/entry/informationweek_loves_sun_fire_x4150 Dave Powell: Ants should be telepathic- July 14, 2008 If they were, then when I kill one of the ants that appear in my bathroom, the rest would immediately realize that the ant's mission was one of folly. That only an ant expecting death should enter my bathroom. That zipping across my counter means a swift execution and watery grave. But alas, they aren't.http://blogs.sun.com/dep/entry/ants_should_be_telepathic Paul Lamere: Last.fm player for the iPhone- July 14, 2008 Today I tried out the new Last.fm iPhone client. It is pretty cool. It captures the most relevant bits of Last.fm. All of my radio stations are there: Personal Radio, Recommended Radio, Loved Tracks Radio, etc. I can see upcoming events, my personal music charts. The Now playing screen is especially slick - you can 'love' or 'ban' a track, read an artist bio, view the artist tags, find events related to the 'now playing' artist. It will scrobble the tracks it plays. Probably the best...http://blogs.sun.com/plamere/entry/last_fm_player_for_the1 Paul Lamere: Last.fm player for the iPhone- July 14, 2008 Today I tried out the new Last.fm iPhone client. It is pretty cool. It captures the most relevant bits of Last.fm. All of my radio stations are there: Personal Radio, Recommended Radio, Loved Tracks Radio, etc. I can see upcoming events, my personal music charts. The Now playing screen is especially slick - you can 'love' or 'ban' a track, read an artist bio, view the artist tags, find events related to the 'now playing' artist. It will scrobble the tracks it plays. Probably the best...http://blogs.sun.com/plamere/entry/last_fm_player_for_the Jason Beloro: Hey, check out these cheapseats- July 14, 2008 My colleagues, Tom and Sean, asked me to pinch hit for their blog, The Cheap Seats. But a recent turn of events has made me the main author of the blog, which I will graciously accept. So I am now going to author two blogs. This blog will remain my personal page and I will maintain the focus of cheapseats on sports. Take care, Tom and Sean, and I wish you both the best.http://blogs.sun.com/jbeloro/entry/hey_check_out_these_cheapseats Joshua Simons: Solaris InfiniBand: A Big Day!- July 14, 2008 Yesterday, the Sun InfiniBand engineering team released Solaris 10 driver support for ConnectX (a.k.a. Hermon), the latest generation of InfiniBand silicon from Mellanox. This is important news for both Solaris HPC customers as well as those enterprise customers interested in the best bandwidth and latencies available for applications like Oracle RAC. Congratulations to the team! In addition to the driver, the update also includes a new flash updating tool for ConnectX, a uDAPL update,...http://blogs.sun.com/simons/entry/solaris_infiniband_a_big_day Artem's Weblog: New in snv_93: dladm link property persistence- July 14, 2008 I once joined a pickup basketball game and one of my teammates only noticed me after three or four possessions. Another teammate tried to be supportive and used the word "stealth" to characterize my role in the game (my own choice was "zero impact"). Story of my life. But sometimes that's a good thing. A lot of OS improvements are like that, incremental in nature, not visible to most users, but contributing to the overall movement towards better future. Not quite the shouting from the rooftops.http://blogs.sun.com/artem/entry/new_in_snv_93_dladm Mark G. Dixon: Catalyst: The Iceberg of Identity Management- July 14, 2008 Wednesday's third Identity Management session in the Burton Group Catalyst Conference featured George Sherman - Managing Director, Morgan Stanley. His presentation was entitled, "Discovering the Iceberg of Identity Management in a Large Integrated Financial Services Firm" Key points include: Beware of the hidden cost and complexity of Identity Management. Morgan Stanley background: In business since 1935. 46,000+ employees in 600 offices around the world. Conducts business in 33 countries..http://blogs.sun.com/identity/entry/catalyst_the_iceberg_of_identity bmseer: World Record SAP-SD 2-Tier: Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 SPARC64 VII SAP-SD 2-Tier ERP 6.0 (2005)- July 14, 2008 The Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 (64 processors, 256 cores, 512 threads) set a World Record for the SAP-SD 2-Tier Standard Application benchmark. World Record SAP-SD 2-Tier: Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 SPARC64 VII SAP-SD 2-Tier ERP 6.0 (2005) outperforms largest IBM Power 595 5GHz POWER6. The 64-way Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 with 2.52 GHz SPARC64 VII processors achieved 39,100 users on the two-tier SAP Sales and Distribution (SD) standard SAP ERP 2005 application benchmark. The 64-way Sun...http://blogs.sun.com/bmseer/entry/world_record_sap_sd_2 |