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The Sun HPC ClusterTools environment enables users to develop, debug, and deploy multi process distributed memory applications.

This white paper describes the Sun Netra Telecom Blade platform, consisting of the carrier grade Netra CT 820 server and Netra CP2300 Telecom Blades. Offering high-performance blade computing, the Sun Netra Telecom Blade platform addresses the efficiency and flexibility needs of organizations by delivering significant improvements on space and per-server energy consumption. Organizations can increase resource utilization by flexibly responding to customer needs, leverage a shared infrastructure to increase availability, and reduce cabling complexity through a modular, plug-and-play platform.

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The efficiency gains offered by standards-based COTS components offer much promise, but are limited by NEPs' need to tightly manage all solution components to prevent unplanned downtime. NEPs often must take on extensive development of heuristic code to implement the fault management capabilities they require. In stark contrast, Sun offers a complete system management architecture designed to be easily integrated into NEP solutions, eliminating lengthy development time and costs.

The purpose of this Briefing is to review the field of Computational Biology (CB), to identify the IT challenges and opportunities, and to demonstrate that Sun provides a deep and broad product offering to address these challenges short-term, and an equally deep and comprehensive vision that will enable our customers and partners to attack these challenges and exploit these opportunities over the long-term.

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This Engineering-focused Technical Report focuses on the development of a Collaborative Grid environment for the purpose of Simulation-based Design. Simulation-based Design (SBD) is a process which involves modeling and simulation technology, in which simulation is the primary means of design evaluation and verification to ensure manufacturability of the product and its performance and is a phase-based process. This Technical Report describes these phases from a Distributed Collaborative Design (DCD) perspective, in line with the goals to be achieved in the Collaborative Engineering Project (CEP), but mainly focuses on the development of a Collaborative Grid environment for the purpose of Simulation-based Design.

Increased levels of integration, standardization, and higher levels of abstraction are finally allowing management of services, rather than individual hardware, operating system, and application platforms.

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This report evaluates the product features and performance of the Sun Fire V440 in greater detail and analyzes its strengths and weaknesses compared to its leading competitors in the 64-bit market.

A number of key Sun initiatives covered in this paper have enabled existing customers to receive real benefits, including a reduction in overall IT costs.

This report plumbs the thinking of IT Executives to understand why they favored vertical or horizontal scaling. Additionally, the interviewees were asked to share their thoughts on whether their future computing deployments would continue to follow the same scaling approach.

Manufacturing industry has always been early adopters for at latest advancements in computational technology. And, as researchers and designers face the challenge of working across continents and time zones, it becomes more imperative to design framework compatible with new working environment and outsourcing trends. This document focuses on the Data Transport and Sharing infrastructure, designed as part of the Collaborative Engineering Project but can be more widely deployed for the Collaborative Manufacturing Industry.

This article explores the weakness of MPP architecture, namely its sensitivity to data partitioning, as well as, discusses the predictability of SMP architecture. The article then looks into industry benchmarks, and delves into issues related to datawarehousing.

This IDC white paper describes Sun's latest entry in the four-way server market space.

Traditional processor design has long emphasized the performance of a single hardware thread of execution, and focused on providing high levels of instruction-level parallelism (ILP). These increasingly complex processor designs have been driven to very high clock rates (frequencies), often at the cost of increased power consumption and heat production.

Partitioning is the ability to take a single system and dynamically divide it into multiple smaller systems with each partition running its own instance of the operating system. This has been a popular and widely used feature exclusively in the mainframe world--until the introduction of the Sun Enterprise 10000 server, the first system to incorporate these features into Unix servers.

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An Executive Overview

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On November 14, Sun Microsystems announced the arrival of the long-awaited Niagara CPU called UltraSPARC T1, which is the first member of Sun's new multicore highly threaded SPARC processors.

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Scalable grid computing infrastructure is increasingly common mainstream technology that helps organizations anticipate and respond to technical and competitive pressures, providing the considerable computational power that organizations need to support their business or research.

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If more powerful servers were also smaller, consumed less electrical power, and demanded less cooling, then the business value contribution of IT would improve.

This IDC whitepaper describes the benefits of the SPARC/Solaris platform from a vertical computing workloads perpective.

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Sun StorEdge SAM-QFS software can bridge the gap, opening databases to vast, inexpensive, removable-media storage for long-term warehousing of mission-critical data.

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This white paper describes the Netra 240 server's system architecture, along with key software components for enabling high availability through remote management and resource management, and key services that further enhance Telecom application availability.

This white paper describes the Netra 440 server's system architecture, along with key software components for enabling high availability through remote management and resource management, and key services that further enhance Telecom application availability.

Ultimately, high availability is the key consideration for many Telecom companies. The Netra 440 server incorporates a comprehensive approach that considers people, processes, and technology. This white paper describes the Netra 440 server's system architecture, along with key software components for enabling high availability through remote management and resource management, and key services that further enhance Telecom application availability.

Deregulation and privatization has created intense competition in the worldwide telecommunications market over the past few years. The marketplace continues to evolve as voice and data solutions become more integrated and next-generation wireless, video, and messaging technologies emerge. Growing demand for scalable and available services coupled with modern economic realities are re-shaping the design of the telecommunications infrastructure.

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The Sun Grid Rack System for Web Services and the Service Delivery Network Architecture

Reducing the Cost to Serve the First WiMAX Subscribers July 07 Sun Netra ATCA blades or rack mount servers can provide the platform for radically consolidating all the applications in an IMC core network. Try out the WiMAX ROI Business Planning Tool to assess how you can reduce the cost to serve your first WiMAX subscriber.

Sun's mainframe rehosting solution reuses - not replaces - your mainframe application assets. This paper describes the new demands on the high-end data center in today's business climate, the realities and limitations of mainframe-only environments, and the business case for rehosting mainframe applications on cost-efficient, reliable, flexible Sun servers.

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This IDC whitepaper describes the benefits of the SPARC/Solaris platform from a vertical computing workloads perpective.

Sun Fire Enterprise servers demonstrate that Sun is ideally-qualified to deliver the benefits of chip multi-threading through its throughput computing strategy. With throughput computing, Sun Fire Enterprise servers, and the UltraSPARC IV processor, Sun provides up to twice the delivered throughput and compute density of previous-generation systems while maintaining a high level of investment protection for current and future customers of Sun technology.

Marked by the prevalence of web services and service-oriented architecture (SOA), the emerging Participation Age promises the ability to deliver rich new content and high-bandwidth services to larger numbers of users than ever before.

As part of an end-to-end architecture available from Sun, the Sun Fire V20z server--with its flexibility and performance--creates a myriad of opportunities to build technical and business solutions that match specific customer requirements.

A Technical White Paper

Growing demand for scalable and available services coupled with modern economic realities are re-shaping the design of the multi-tiered datacenter.

This document describes the system architecture of the Sun Fire V440 server along with key software components for remote management, resource management, and services that promote available application delivery in the data center.

Sun understands that low-and high-end entry servers must meet customer requirements in terms of price/performance, reliability, security, availability, and manageability. As a result, the Sun Fire V440 server is designed to be affordable while reducing data center cost and complexity.

The new Sun Fire V490 and V890 servers running the proven and robust Solaris Operating System deliver on Sun's Throughput Computing vision. Along with the horizontal and vertical scalability needed for many classes of applications, the Sun Fire V890 server delivers up to twice the computational throughput and compute density of Sun's previous-generation datacenter servers in the same physical footprint.At the same time, both the Sun Fire V490 and V890 servers offer full binary compatibility for unprecedented levels of investment protection for owners of Sun's previous-generation systems.

A white paper describing the capabilities and benefits of the Sun Fire X2100 M2 and X2200 M2 servers.

A white paper describing the capabilities and benefits of the Sun Fire X2250 server architecture.

Describes the Sun Fire X4140, X4240, and X4440 server architecture along with that of Dual-Core and Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors.

This paper describes the architecture and features of these Intel processor-based Sun servers.

A technical white paper providing details about the Sun Fire X4540 storage server architecture.

Describes Dual-Core and Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors and Sun Fire X4600 server architecture.

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Sun Mainframe Migration Solutions software extends the benefits of an open environment to legacy applications. Rehosting mainframe applications on the Sun platform provides a low risk, high value alternative to leaving applications on a proprietary mainframe or redeveloping applications in new languages. Rehosting is low risk because business rules and procedures remain largely unchanged, unlike a redevelopment project or off the - shelf package implementation. Together with scalable Sun Fire servers and the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS), Sun Mainframe Migration Solutions software reuses existing investments in mainframe applications and data, redefining TCO across the enterprise and resulting in substantial cost savings.

The Netra X4200 M2 server is Sun's first Netra server to incorporate AMD Opteron dual-core processors. It delivers dramatic performance and flexibility along with space and power efficiency to meet the increasing demands of the network infrastructure.

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Sun delivers mainframe-class reliability, availability, serviceability (RAS) features and capabilities in its commercial computing solutions. Highly-available servers, robust software, tested applications, and mission-critical services provide whole-environment RAS solutions.

This Aberdeen Executive White Paper compares Sun's V480 SPARC/Solaris architecture running Oracle 9i RAC with Dell's PowerEdge 6650 Xeon MP-based server using Linux and also running Oracle 9i RAC.

See how SUN-P can serve as the consolidation platform utilizing the Sun Netra ATCA blades and rack mount servers for rapid and cost-effective delivery of innovative new subscriber services.

This white paper provides an overview of the role of AdvancedTCA in the marketplace and outlines Sun's unique strategy for delivering highly attractive, comprehensive ATCA solutions.

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This product guide answers many questions about the architectural improvements customers will benefit from by transitioning to the Sun Fire 12K/15K servers. Transitioning guidelines through Sun's upgrade and migration programs are also provided.

The new UltraSPARC T1 processor-based Netra T2000 server and Netra CP3060 UltraSPARC T1 ATCA Blade are ideal for IMS networks,with the proven availability and reliability that enterprise customers have come to expect of Sun technology.

The results from a recent consolidation proof of concept demonstrates that consolidating applications using Solaris 10 and Solaris Container technology on the Sun Fire UltraSPARC IV platform is a proven solution to handle mixed and diverse workloads in a single system. Customers benefit from reduced costs, increased utilization, simplified administration, and predictable service levels.

This Sun authored whitepaper describes specific attributes that make the SPARC/Solaris platform the ideal choice for midrange and high-end server system designs.

This paper examines the business case for using traditional Unix servers such as the Sun Fire V440 instead of Intel servers. It uses a Business Value methodology, which allows all the impacts to be quantified. The paper concludes that in many environments this approach offers reduced capital and management costs, improved availability, and more productive applications delivered faster.

Sun's Chip Multithreading (CMT) processor strategy for throughput computing will usher in a computing revolution that will dramatically reduce the cost and complexity of network computing by delivering performance and power efficiency that are orders of magnitude greater than contemporary processors.

This fundamentally new approach to processor design enables the UltraSPARC T1 processor to be more suitable for dense rack-mount implementations in the data center than other contemporary processors.

Among the more important but perhaps less widely appreciated benefits of CMT design, is a dramatic overall improvement in system reliability, availability, and serviceability (RAS).

This white paper will help customers compare computer systems from HP, IBM, NCR and Sun, and understand the architectural advantages that the Sun Fire product line provides.

Changing the Economics and Ecology of the Data Center with Innovative SPARC Technology

Sun and Dell both claim to reduce IT cost and complexity. "Two Vendor's Strategies for Reducing Cost and Complexity," an executive white paper from Aberdeen, compares strategies and products offered by the two companies to achieve this goal, demonstrating Sun's clear advantages.

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Today's data centers present a range of challenges for technology decision makers. Data center complexity is being driven by demands on business processes being integrated to manage and create more valueadded services. As new hardware platforms are added to improve service levels, end users will decide which hardware vendors can deliver the required performance.

This paper describes the characteristics of vertical, horizontal, and diagonal architectures along with system-level attributes that can affect application performance and availability.