IN THIS ISSUE »  2005 — A Banner Year! »  GELC Provides Free Education Resources »  Manukau: Sensibly on Sun »  Massive Multithreading Goes Open Source Dear [Name], Sun Microsystems is known for innovation, and 2005 was truly a banner year. MORE » Kim Jones, VP Global Education and Research Sun Microsystems, Inc.   »  Sun Tech Days in Asia Developer events in Thailand, India, and Singapore in January/February   »  EUNIS 2006 Rektors Seminar Bologna Process impact in Europe, Paris, March 23-24   »  Watts Up? Drive 'em down with new UltraSPARC servers. See the launch replay.   »  JavaOne Conference Registration opens soon! San Francisco, May 16-19   »  Sun Grants Princeton University 100,000 CPU Hours on the Sun Grid   »  Dartmouth College to Contribute Security Features to the OpenSolaris Project   »  Sun Open Sources CPU Design for New UltraSPARC T1 Processor   »  CoolThreads Competition for Innovation Kicks Off with $50,000 Cash Prize   »  Sun Makes NetBeans IDE Available at No Cost to Every Developer

January 2006    GELC Provides Free Education Resources New open source, multimedia elearning content available from the Global Education and Learning Community. MORE » New Zealand's Manukau: Sensibly on Sun At Manukau Institute of Technology, New Zealand, directory services are at the center of information. It relies on Sun for critical directory management and messaging that's simplified its infrastructure and excelled at reliability. MORE »   »  Education Only: Save Thousands on the New Sun Fire T2000 Server Get deep education-only discounts on new Sun Fire servers with UltraSPARC T1 CoolThreads technology — the industry's fastest and most space- and energy-efficient systems.   »  Sun Discovery Cluster: A Low-cost, Turnkey Solution for Research Size up the performance gains and costs savings you get with the Sun Discovery Cluster for Life Sciences, and take advantage of Sun's discount pricing for education. Massive Multithreading Goes Open Source Sun's new UltraSPARC T1 systems are demonstrably the most powerful single-chip systems ever built, putting the power of an entire 32-way SMP server into a small, uniprocessor system that fits into a single rack unit of space and consumes just 350 watts of electricity. And the design is open source. MORE » Get Involved. If there are topics you'd like to see in future issues of EduConnection or you would like to submit an article, we want to hear from you. Click here to email us. Please have Sun Sales contact me. Prefer a text version? Update your profile.

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