Monthly Archive for November, 2005

Sun NC Konfabulator Widget available

There’s a nice Konfabulator Widget from Sun available. The Konfabulator Widget displays the time left to Sun’s Network Computing Web event.

Sun Widget

Sun Opteron Video

Found a nice Video from Sun about Delt Server and the problems with heat in a Data Center.

Enjoy it!

Sun Solaris Express with ZFS

Every day good news from Sun.

Not only, that the Sun C / C++ compilers and Sun Studio 11 are now available for free, Solaris Express Build 27 including the new integrated Filesystem and Volume Manager called ZFS is available for download now. Start using ZFS reading the ZFS Intro Page and the zfs(1) man page.

Not enough?

Here’s a nice Sun ZFS presentation and the full Solaris ZFS Administration Guide.

Sun Fire T2000 Server Documentation online

Hi all,

if interested in Details of the new Sun Niagara Server called Sun Fire T2000 Server, hava a look at this link to the Sun Fire T2000 Server Documentation .

Here an excerpt of the Server Features:

1 UltraSPARC T1 multicore processor (4, 6, or 8 cores)
Memory: 16 slots that can be populated with one of the following types of DDR-2 DIMMS:
• 512 MB (8 GB maximum)
• 1 GB (16 GB maximum)
• 2 GB (32 GB maximum)
Ethernet ports: 4 ports, 10/100/1000 Mb autonegotiating
Internal hard drives: 1-4 SFF SAS 73 GB 2.5-inch form factor drives
PCI interfaces: 3 PCI-Express (PCI-E) slots for low-profile cards (supports x1, x4,and x8 width cards)
2 PCI-X slots for 64-bit 133 MHz low-profile cards
Cryptography Hardware-assisted cyptographic acceleration
Solaris 10 3/05 HW2 Operating System preinstalled

UltraSPARC T1 Niagara Processor

Today, Sun anounced the UltraSPARC T1 Processor, codename Niagara with up to 32 Threads on eight cores in one Socket !

This is the the most inovative CPU

and

this is the fastest chip on earth !

Wait a couple of days to hear about the new Sun Servers with this cool CPU.
Today you can visit the Portal theregister to have a look at the first pictures of a server called Sun Fire T2000.

Sun Niagara UltraSparc T1 CPU

Franz Ferdinand live in Berlin

Tonight, we’ve been at a great show:
Franz Ferdinand played in the Tempodrom in Berlin Kreuzberg.
If you like “Indie” Music and want to have have fun, this Band is my
recommendation.