Previous issues of Sun Grid News are available at our Grid Community web page under the Resources section (toward the bottom). To receive future issues subscribe by sending an email to: mailto:grid-sig-request@sun.com Sun launches Internet-based access to a public compute utility called Sun Grid. Now, anyone in the U.S. can get flexible, metered access to enormous computing power over the network for the affordable price of $1/CPU-hr. All the details are explained on the Sun Grid portal. Read a good overview, with videos of Jonathan Schwartz, Applied Biosystems, Cllidus Software, and BlueStream Ventures. Read Jonathan Schwartz's blog. What others are saying:
Sun CTO Greg Papadopoulos on Open Services, eWeek, Darryl K. Taft; March 15, 2006. Sun Chief Technology Officer Greg Papadopoulos discusses what he believes comes next after open source software, open services. Papadopoulos expects that networks of open services will be prevalent in three to five years. Sun's role in open services is to drive open communities for what Papadopoulos calls the New Stack. He says part of Sun's contribution to drive adoption of open services is its Open Solaris, Solaris Enterprise System and Open SPARC. And the Sun Grid offering can deliver scalable infrastructure. Sun HPC Consortium Singapore May 14-15, 2006, Registration now open Registration is now open for the Sun HPC Consortium in Singapore. Full details can be found online on the events-at-sun web page. If you wish to submit a proposal to give a talk, please send an abstract to hpccons-info@sun. Sun HPC 2006 in Aachen, Germany now online Presentations for the SunHPC workshop and Consortium, March 13-17, 2006, in Aachen, Germany are now online (including some video). Don't miss this outstanding resource for learning how to debug and tune HPC applications. Worldwide ERC presentations online now The agenda and most of the presentations from this month's Worldwide Education & Research Conference are now available online. Hear from Scott McNealy, John Fowler, David Yen, as well as vice presidents and CIO's of top universities. HPC Cluster Tools 6 available for free download Sun HPC Clustertools 6 is now available for free download at the Sun download center Storage Resource Broker available for Solaris/x86 The data grid application from the San Diego Supercomputer Center, Storage Resource Broker (SRB) is now tested and available for Sun Solaris10 running on x86-based systems. OpenSPARC T1 Release, Learn more about Niagara! CNET, Stephen Shankland; March 20, 2006 Find out more about the T1 and OpenSparc. David Patterson, UC Berkeley professor and one of the foremost authorities in computer architecture, lectured to his CS 252 class the T1 server and Niagara chip. Watch webcast of his 1 hour, 15 minute lecture. The University of Aachen has published their tests of the T1-based systems for technical applications online. SilverStorm Technologies InfiniBand Qualified for Solaris 10 SilverStorm Technologies InfiniBand Switches and HCAs have been qualified by Sun Microsystems for the Solaris 10 Operating Systems. All SilverStorm Switches and HCAs now have Solaris Ready Certification on Sun Platforms. New NetBeans Tools, Release for Mac, Demos and Interviews Sun unveils new NetBeans tools and support for Java developers. Sun Delivers NetBeans Enterprise Pack for Mac Developers, InfoWorld, Caroline Craig; March 17, 2006. Get under the NetBeans hood: Explore what's new with this 20-minute video on NetBeans 5.0. More Sun Open Source projects Ever wanted a single place to see what Sun is doing in open source? Visit the Sun open source initiatives page. |
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