Newsletter - February 2005
Previous issues of Sun Grid News are available at our Grid Community web page under the Resources section (toward the bottom): http://www.sun.com/edu/commofinterest/gridcomp/ To receive future issues subscribe by sending an email to: mailto:grid-sig-request@sun.com Sun unveils its new Sun Grid Utility Sun unveils its new Sun Grid, which aims to transform the computing world. Sun President and CEO Jonathan Schwartz notes, "The issue is whether you can convince a data center employee or a data center executive to use a different model." Sun Opening a Global Grid Sun Releases Solaris 10 for Free Sun offers Solaris 10 as a free download to registered users. Solaris is available to anyone for commercial or noncommercial use, and Sun will supply security fixes as they're released, but users wanting bug fixes and support must sign a support contract with Sun. The article lists support for 64-bit x86 processors, Solaris containers and predictive self-healing as a few of the improvements to the updated operating system. Sun's Open-Source Gamble In a Q&A, Sun President and COO Jonathan Schwartz talks with CNET about the server market, OpenSolaris and his relationship with Sun CEO Scott McNealy. Sun CTO: New License Protects Developer Rights Sun CTO Greg Papadopoulos explains why Sun is using the newly created Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL) for the OpenSolaris project. He states, "We want developers to freely use any of the OpenSolaris code that we developed for their purposes without any fear of intellectual property infringement of Sun: either patent or copyright. We chose a license, the CDDL, an improvement of MPL (Mozilla Public License), that clearly and explicitly gives that freedom." Sun makes patents open to open-source developers Sun: Patent Use OK Beyond Solaris Project Sun VP of Software Tom Goguen says, "Clearly we have no intention of suing open-source developers." However, he states, "We haven't put together a fancy pledge on our Web site" to that effect. He adds, "We're definitely looking into what would make sense and what would make the community feel more comfortable with the patent grant we have made available." The article notes, "The issue isn't a mere philosophical - legal curiosity. It could influence whether Sun technology may be incorporated into Linux and how other companies might choose to liberate their own patents." High Performance Computing Workshop at Aachen University Have you wanted to know more how to optimize a technical, scientific application for a modern RISC microprocessor? Are you interested in learning about parallelization? Now is the time to learn! SunHPC 2005 March 14 - March 18, 2005 Part I: Tuning Serial Applications DTU organizes 2nd workshop on Interval Methods and their applications Second Scandinavian Workshop on INTERVAL METHODS AND THEIR APPLICATIONS August 25-27, 2005 The meeting will focus on applications. The intention is to bringtogether engineers and researchers from different fields, who have the need and interest for application of interval methods in common. Sun Burnishes Next-gen Sparc Chips Sun discusses plans for a significant development milestone in 2005 with its second-generation Niagara system and its "Rock" processor. The Rock processor employs some of Niagara's technology for running multiple jobs at once but is designed for more-demanding, higher-end tasks. Sun CEO Scott McNealy says both chips are maturing and notes, "We'll be taping out Rock this year, as well as the second version of Niagara this year." Sun Micro is Largest Customer Of Opteron Chip Speaking at a Sun-sponsored analyst meeting this week, AMD CEO Hector Ruiz said Sun is the largest volume customer of the AMD Opteron server chip. Ruiz stated Sun is the "leading unit driver of Opteron." Sun CEO Scott McNealy commented on Sun's product line and its position to help the company grow. He stated, "I think the financial analysts are right to say, 'Where's the growth?' I would say this is still a work in process." He added that customers are showing increased interest in Sun gear and visiting its campus more frequently for more information on the company's product line. Sun completes the acquisition of SevenSpace We are pleased to announce that a new online course "New Features of the Solaris 10 Operating System" is now available to the Sun Academic Initiative (SAI) participants. For information on the SAI visit: http://www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/edu/programs/sai/ For information about all of the STAR (Sun Technology and Academic Resources) programs visit: http://www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/edu/programs/star.html Report card for JXTA Daniel Brookshier http://www.itmanagersjournal.com/article.pl?sid=05/02/01/0015229 ãJXTA is great but we need to work on utilities and education. Consider this my JXTA Board state of the union.ä |
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