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- OpenSPARC: An Open Platform for Hardware Reliability Experimentation
- OpenSPARC is an open source community based around hardware design and experimentation aids for the UltraSPARC T1 and T2 Chip Multi-Threaded CMT microprocessors. The UltraSPARC T2 processor is the industry's first "Server on a chip", with 8 cores, 64 threads and on-chip networking and security. The richness of the RTL...
- Tags: T2, Stanford University, Sun UltraSPARC, Experimentation, OpenSPARC, Network Technology, Processors, Networking, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components
- White papers 2008-03-11
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- OSUM portal from Sun
- Yes, that acronym is pronounced "Awesome." Cheesy acronyms aside, the Open Source University Meetup is actually a great idea. Joe Hartley touched on it during our interview and Sun Microsystems formally announced it yesterday. OSUM is a social networking and learning site devoted to Sun Microsystem's ecosystem...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Student, Portal, OSUM, Open Source, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-10-30
- Will OpenSolaris bring a chill to Sun-Ubuntu romance?
- You scratch my back, and I'll scratch yours. That seems to be the mantra of Ubuntu and Sun, both open source underdogs whose relationship and mutual platform support has been growing for three years. On the eve of the release of OpenSolaris, both companies are banging the drum that the...
- Tags: Ubuntu, OpenSolaris, Sun Microsystems Inc., Linux, Open Source, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-05-02
- Open Source Cars and More
- The Consumer Electronics Show CES might be in full throws this week, but some of the coolest devices may be found off the Net -- blueprints and all. A burgeoning trend in open source hardware is putting up some devices on the Web -- from machines that make anything...
- Tags: Video, Hardware, Open Source, Dave Greenfield
- Blog posts 2008-01-06
- Sun, allies broaden open-source chip push
- Sun, allies broaden open-source chip pushSome do understand.David Yen, head of Sun's newly re-created microelectronics group, commented "Though the publicity is getting broadened, most people are still digesting and trying to understand what we are offering."Some people do understand. Quoting:As with its open-source software plans, the OpenSparc project is...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., open source
- Discussion threads 2007-05-15
- In Search Of Sun's Java Economics
- "Freedom is scary; but on balance I think Java’s new path will be more interesting and more profitable and more fun." --Tim Bray Suns Director of Web on his Java Is Free blog. The big question is how much more profitable will free Java be? Perhaps a GPLed Java will...
- Tags: General, Open Source, IT Management, Hardware Infrastructure, Berlind
- Blog posts 2006-11-13
- In search Of Sun's Java economics
- "Freedom is scary; but on balance I think Java’s new path will be more interesting and more profitable and more fun." --Tim Bray Suns Director of Web on his Java Is Free blog. The big question is how much more profitable will free Java be? Perhaps a GPLed Java will...
- Tags: Java, Suns, Hardware Infrastructure, Open Source, IT Management, General
- Blog posts 2006-11-13
- Fixed-mobile convergence switch race begets a Ferrari-Hummer hybrid
- So I got the weirdest voice mail of my life today. Now, we've all heard about boards of directors leaking to the press. But have you ever heard of a telecom switch dialing up an industry analyst all by itself and -- I swear, it sounded just like Stephen Hawking...
- Tags: voice, voicemail
- Blog posts 2006-10-25
- Sun gives OpenSparc a push
- Sun gives OpenSparc a pushIt's about timeSun should have done this when they released the 8-core Sparc. But for non-integrity reasons (and $$$ too) they ignored that and went for Opterons from AMD. The Sparc is far...far more superior than the Opteron and I was quite shocked to see Sun...
- Tags: Processors, Operating systems, UNIX, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Sparc, Sun Solaris, Advanced Micro Devices Inc.
- Discussion threads 2006-10-03
- Intel puts four on the floor
- Intel puts four on the floorWhere's the high-speed interconnects to support quad?4 cores will just highlight the inefficiencies of Intel's memory and FSB architectures. Intel has at least made the first step and admitted they have a problem. Too bad the solution isn't until 2008. Then again,...
- Tags: Mainframes, Semiconductors, Processors, Sun Microsystems Inc., NVidia Corp., Intel Corp., HT Technology, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., ATI Technologies Inc., multi-core, mainframe
- Discussion threads 2006-09-25
- The good old days - are back?
- The good old days - are back?Faster disks - how so?They still run at 7200 RPM (10k or 15k for HP SCSI). They still have the same number of platters and heads. A 500Gb drive takes about 500 times longer to load and unload completely as a 1Gb drive. It's...
- Tags: Sun Solaris, UNIX, Operating systems, Sun Microsystems Inc., Niagara-2, disk, advertisement
- Discussion threads 2006-09-11
- Sun releases open-source Sparc designs
- Sun releases open-source Sparc designsSun's open source effort is bound to doomThe technology of open source is by no means of cutting-edge, like buggy Linux kernel, firefox and so on. Advanced technologies will never be open, look at Windows, Office, Google search engine etc. The only reason why Linux becomes...
- Tags: Processors, Operating systems, UNIX, Servers, Microsoft Corp., Cutting-Edge, Sun Sparc, Sun Microsystems Inc., open source, Sun Solaris, server
- Discussion threads 2006-03-21
- Open source goodness and business realities
- During my sojourn at the Open Source Business Conference, I spent a few minutes with Tim Bray and Bill Vass of Sun. Tim is Sun's director of Web technologies and one of the authors of the XML specification and Bill is the company's CIO (and former CIO of the U.S....
- Tags: Java, open source, sourcing
- Blog posts 2006-02-17
- Seeding the planet with OpenSparc
- Speaking at the Open Source Business Conference, Sun President and COO Jonathan Schwartz reprised his FOSS Free and Open Source Software and ‘free leads to volume’ themes and announced that the Sparc processor will be open sourced under the GPL license. “The most popular products in world will be free—whether...
- Tags: Sun Sparc, Jonathan Schwartz
- Blog posts 2006-02-14
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