I had several things to do the last few days. So no updates for the last few days. Have to change this.
Okay, i will be on CeBIT this year from beginning to end. So when you want to know who i am: Come to the Sun-booth this year. More time for catching boothgifts-opposums (what´s the right term for "Beutelratte" in english).
There was serveral news in the last few days. I don´t want to comment on our Q2 numbers. David Yen told the press, that Sun
wants to prolong the partnership with Fujitsu. I have a somewhat mixed opinion of the Fujitsu-Deal. But this is because of a german speciality.
The galaxy rigs seems to be accepted well in the filed:
8000 units shipped. I had done several Galaxy-Presentations the last few weeks and the system get regulary good comments. It seems, that we´ve done almost everything right with this systems. And new blades
are on the way. I was able to read some documents about the new systems. Exciting stuff.
Okay ... news about Niagara:
We will add logical domains on Sun T1000 and T2000. All you have to do is upgrading the firmware. Additionally there is a chance to see Linux on this system.
The layer also will ease development for the programmers who work on Linux for Sparc-based computers, Yen said. "To facilitate Linux porting...we will publish the API for the internal firmware," he said.
I´m curious to see how Linux scales on such a system.
The RWTH Aachen tested the T2000. It´s a good rule of thumb not to use the systems in the HPC-environment. But it seems to me that there are certain exceptions. Very good read.
And at last
very good messages from our management about Rock:
Yen is optimistic about Rock. "We feel we may have underestimated a bit due to the conservativeness of predicting performance," he said. Sun had said earlier that Rock systems will offer 30 times the performance of a system with a 1.2GHz UltraSparc III.The cost of the better performance is a chip that's "a little bit bigger, but nowhere near the crazy size of Intel's Itanium", Yen said.
Comments
Fri, 21.11.2008 17:32
Yes the Storage 7000 series is nice but... If Sun want to survive, and flourish, duri ng the coming economic d [...]
Fri, 21.11.2008 16:14
no sure if it makes sense to c ompare Sun-Technologie to GM? Sun is like the german car-com panies, number one in th [...]
Fri, 21.11.2008 10:24
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/ community/arc/caselog/2008/685 /materials/tenaya-onepage-txt/
Fri, 21.11.2008 07:35
I will not disclose anything m ore than that
Fri, 21.11.2008 03:08
We have X4600s which have four 146GB HDDs in them. We want t he first two as mirrored root disks and the other two [...]