Sun Computational Biology SIG Newsletter - 18 February 2005

Sun's New Student Developer Program from Global Education and Research

http://www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/edu/programs/developer/
http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/2005-02/sunflash.20050217.2.html

Lots of good stuff for student developers.  Take advantage of this program!

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Several Articles from our LifeScience Group

http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/2005-02/sunflash.20050214.3.html

Adds world's highest performing processors from AMD for 2- and 4- way x64 systems outperforming IBM, HP and Dell; Expands operating systems (OS) choice with new SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9; Demonstrates dual-core technology.

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From Jonathan Schwartz's (great) Blog: Solaris 10 Downloads

http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/jonathan/20050211#a_turning_tide

Total Number of Solaris 10 Licenses Downloaded Since First Commercial Ship:

• SPARC: 151,039
• x64/x86: 269,856
• Total: 420,895

Port your applications to Solaris 10 (http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/). This is NOT just another release of Solaris! It has many very important, innovative, features, and is being open sourced, as well.  You can download Solaris 10 here {http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/get.jsp}.

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Selected Sun Corporate News of Interest to Computational Biologists

Sun Microsystems Helps VA Hospitals Improve Patient Care Via Stateless
Sun Ray Ultra-Thin Client Solution

Sun Fire E25K Server Running Oracle Database 10g and Solaris 10 Sets
Record-Breaking Three-Terabyte Data Warehousing Benchmark Result http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/2005-01/sunflash.20050131.1.html

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