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A review of the Sun Ultra 24 workstation

I’m in a position to start ramping up my involvement in OpenSolaris, which has put me in the market for a new workstation. I’ve just had a shiny new Ultra 24 delivered as part of Sun’s extensive Try...

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Oracle have bought Sun

Well, this was a bit unexpected – but they were one of the only other companies who could realistically make a move. Oracle have purchased Sun, at $9.50 a share, in a deal valued at approximately $7.4...

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New SPARC solutions are on their way

The Hotchips conference is over, and with it comes some news from Sun about their SPARC plans. Sun shared details of it’s “Rainbow Falls” processor – the next iteration in the Niagara line. Boasting 16...

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Mad Larry seeks to rule all with Sun/Oracle

I’d still like to know what to call Sun once the merger is complete. Sucle is my favourite, although I suspect it’ll end up being something boring like “Sun, an Oracle company”. While busy decrying the...

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Timelapse video of Sandia’s Sun Constellation build

Sandia’s Sun Constellation system, Red Sky, has been placed at number 10 on the latest Top 500 supercomputer list. It’s a monster cluster system – 70TB of memory, 47,232 cores, and built up of Sun...

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Sun HPC Consortium presentations and videos posted

Alongside the recent SC09 show, Sun ran their HPC Consortium, which featured a number of interesting technical presentations from Sun and their customers. Obviously there was a big focus on using...

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Sun Grid Engine for Dummies

DanT has posted up a fantastic introduction to Sun Grid Engine. Most discussions of Grid Engine assume a decent level of knowledge of clustering and distributed load balancing – fine if you know your...

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Sun and Oracle – aftermath of the big event

Last week Oracle held a marathon 5 hour webcast session, where they laid out their plans for Sun and their technologies. Sun’s website now redirects to Oracle, and although all the old Sun website...

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New home for orphaned Sun projects

There was always going to be some fallout from the Oracle takeover of Sun – projects that were still in the development phase, technologies that weren’t making enough money – and there have been...

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Sun Studio compiler options – a beginners guide

Over at Sun’s HPC blog, Thierry Manfe has a nice blog up looking at compiler optimisation flags in the Sun Studio compiler. I try and use Sun Studio when building stuff on Solaris, because not only...

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