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  • Health Sciences South Carolina Selects Sun SOA
    Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:13:04 -0800

    Health Sciences South Carolina recently selected Sun and Recombinant Data Corporation to collaborate on the Health Sciences South Carolina Integrated Platform for Research, a statewide research initiative.

  • (Podcast) Sun News Week in Review, November 16-20
    Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:11:49 -0800

    The podcast highlights new Sun HPC products and technologies and AT&T's new Sun-powered Synaptic Compute as a Service.

  • What's New in NetBeans 6.8?
    Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:09:43 -0800

    Erno Mononen rounds up some expected changes in the upcoming NetBeans 6.8 release.

  • Report Shows Deep Sun/India Ties
    Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:08:24 -0800

    The Bay Area Council Economic Institute reports that more than half of India’s developer community works on Sun platforms.

  • New JFXstudio Challenge
    Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:07:00 -0800

    The subject of the next challenge is "holiday," and the deadline is December 15.

  • Devoxx 2009 Digital Media Report
    Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:04:58 -0800

    Java Champion Peter Pilgrim interviews participants at the conference in Belgium.

  • Java Warehouse Goes Global
    Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:58:22 -0800

    Developers from the UK, Australia, India, China, Sweden, Brazil, and Russia can now submit their applications to the Java Warehouse and reach the US Java Store users.

  • Reviewing Wonderland Code In-World
    Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:57:10 -0800

    This week the Project Wonderland team performed a group code review within the virtual world itself.

  • OpenOffice Reviews
    Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:55:28 -0800

    Chhandomay Mandal rounds up recent OpenOffice-related coverage.

  • Closures in JDK 7
    Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:54:17 -0800

    Developers are surprised by the unexpected news from the Devoxx 2009 conference that JDK 7 will include closures.

  • Java Card 3.0 Connected Edition
    Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:52:51 -0800

    Terrence Barr takes a look at Java Card 3.0 Connected Edition, which contains a new architecture that enables developers to integrate smart cards within IP networks and web services architectures.

  • (Video) Building the CLUMEQ Supercomputer
    Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:51:20 -0800

    Supercomputing consortium CLUMEQ designed its high-performance computing system in Quebec with Sun technology.

  • Geek of the Week: Sun's Ted Leung
    Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:14:20 -0800

    The Seattle Post-Intelligencer interviews Sun principal engineer Ted Leung.

  • (Video) Building Red Sky
    Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:20:39 -0800

    Watch the building of Sandia National Laboratories' Red Sky supercomputer, which uses Sun's new 5600 Cooling Door System to achieve new levels of energy efficiency for a system of this size.

  • Sun's Storage Array Smokes the Competition
    Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:18:14 -0800

    Sun has upgraded its Sun Storage 7000 family of disk arrays, doubling both the performance and capacity from a maximum of 288TB to 576TB in a 4U space.

  • Supercomputing and Efficiency Meet
    Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:16:43 -0800

    The new Red Sky supercomputer as Sandia National Laboratories, built with Sun technology, just debuted as the 10th fastest supercomputer on the Top500 list, with a sustained performance of 429.9 teraflops.

  • Sun Shows Off World's Fastest Storage
    Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:15:25 -0800

    This week at the SC09 conference, Sun announced new products and technologies that extend its HPC leadership, maximize application performance and throughput, and provide superior building blocks for HPC systems.

  • Reviews and How-to Articles from NetBeans Developers
    Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:14:06 -0800

    Chhandomay Mandal rounds up recent NetBeans-related articles.

  • Devoxx 2009 Recap
    Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:13:09 -0800

    The Planetarium recaps Sun-related activity at the Devoxx 2009 conference.

  • Devoxx 2009, Day 2
    Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:12:16 -0800

    Sven Reimers reports from the conference in Belgium.

  • ATT Launches On-Demand Cloud Storage Service with Sun
    Wed, 18 Nov 2009 08:27:13 -0800

    Sun will take care of networking software with Java and storage hardware with its StorageTek systems.

  • Bray Tells Web Entrepreneurs to "Just Do It"
    Wed, 18 Nov 2009 08:26:34 -0800

    If you have an idea that will connect a community of people on the internet, “just do it,” said Sun director of web technologies Tim Bray at an Entrepreneur Week event in Waterloo, Canada.

  • State of Open Source Java EE Application Servers
    Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:48:46 -0800

    Masoud Kalali offers a basic review of active and available open source Java EE Application servers and Servlet containers (Web containers).

  • Following the Tweets from Devoxx
    Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:47:42 -0800

    The Java Tools Community is providing live coverage on the DEVOXX 2009 conference.

  • More on the Top500 Supercomputer List
    Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:46:13 -0800

    Sun has 11 machines on the current Top500 list, totaling 171,442 cores and 1.52 petaflops of aggregate performance.

Most Popular

  • New JFXstudio Challenge
    Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:07:00 -0800

    The subject of the next challenge is "holiday," and the deadline is December 15.

  • Reviewing Wonderland Code In-World
    Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:57:00 -0800

    This week the Project Wonderland team performed a group code review within the virtual world itself.

  • State of Open Source Java EE Application Servers
    Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:48:00 -0800

    Masoud Kalali offers a basic review of active and available open source Java EE Application servers and Servlet containers (Web containers).

  • NASA Adopts the NetBeans Platform
    Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:44:00 -0800

    Tim Boudreau, Sun senior staff engineer, recently spent some time with engineers at NASA, showing them how to use the NetBeans platfom.

  • New Top500 Supercomputer List
    Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:31:00 -0800

    A Sun blade system at the Sandia National Laboratories is one of only two new systems among the top 10 supercomputers.

  • JavaFX Survey Results
    Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:06:00 -0800

    Sungmoon Cho highlights some of the findings from a recent survey of JavaFX developers.

  • Web Site Performance Tips and Tools
    Thu, 12 Nov 2009 11:58:00 -0800

    Carol McDonald offers dozens of performance-related tips, tools, and fixes.

  • Announcing Sun Ray Software 5
    Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:27:00 -0800

    The Sun Desktop Virtualization Marketing team is pleased to announce the release of Sun Ray Software 5, which focuses on improving the end user experience with a broader choice of end-client devices.

  • Financial Applications on the NetBeans Platform
    Mon, 9 Nov 2009 11:25:00 -0800

    Geertjan Wielenga shows how financial leaders Experian and Société Générale have invested in the NetBeans platform by using it as the basis of one or more applications.

  • Sun and GlassFish at Devoxx 2009
    Mon, 9 Nov 2009 11:24:00 -0800

    The Aquarium blog lists the GlassFish and Sun-related sessions at this year's Devoxx conference in Belgium.