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A sneaky use for the Sun Grid

A sneaky use for the Sun GridGrid as a Basis for Metro Area Networks?I've never deployed Sun Grid, but wonder openly if it would be applicable for support of Metropolitan area networks, e.g., the San Francisco wi-fi deal.Perhaps it's not a compute/floating point intensive task, but additional services would likely...

Tags: NETWORKING, Sol10, Plan 9, Sun Grid, Sun Microsystems Inc.

Discussion threads 2006-05-10

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The obligatory 'Victoria Falls' post

For those who don't know, Sun's new T2+ machines extend the T2's CMT capabilities across multiple units to produce 16 and 32 core SMP machines capable of handling 128 and 256 concurrent threads respectively. Sun blogger Denis Sheahan provides a good overview of the current dual...

Tags: T2, Performance, Sun Microsystems Inc., Performance Opportunity, Network Technology, Networking, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-04-15

Brief: 5

Brief: 5Okay...... but if the missing prose is important you might want to quote it here. The last prior prose is: "... and only then give them the task of coming up with the integrated information systems needed for the merger to actually succeed."The problems of using non-standard...

Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, merger

Discussion threads 2008-02-08

A comment from a backroom boy

A comment from a backroom boyCounter pressureSo what happens when businesses start wanting to pull their as much of their data off the grid (meaning it's not longer on the grid, not that it is pulled from the grid) because of their consistent failure to secure it as long as...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, PRODUCTIVITY, laptop computer

Discussion threads 2007-10-19

One neck to choke

One neck to chokeOn the other handLet's say you have Company A that decides to run WebSphere on top of AIX and Company B that decides to run WebSphere on top of RHEL. WebSphere is certified to run on both OSs.Now lets say you have an issue with an...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, vendor environment, vendor solution, IBM AIX, IBM WebSphere

Discussion threads 2007-10-04

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