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Sun's Niagara 3
Sun's Niagara 3, a one billion-transistor, 16-core processor, and the IBM POWER7 are the subject of Jon Stokes's Ars Technica piece that introduces readers to the floorplan of both chips.
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What is Flash Memory and Where Will Flash Technologies Lead?
The basics of flash memory are the topic of a blog entry in The Zone Manager. Engineer Brad Diggs attempts to explain why flash through the ZFS secondary cache, or L2ARC, and ZFS Intent Log (ZIL) can improve overall directory performance. He also asserts the use of flash memory and ZFS will enable "radical" new directory services architectures, and explains further in a secondary posting.
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Choosing SPARC or Intel Processors
Are the advances in Intel processor design edging SPARC processors out of the marketplace, asks Karim Berrah in a recent blog entitled "SPARC or Intel?" He offers some points of comparison that result in a necessarily ambiguous conclusion, as each processor has advantages in its favor, according to him.
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Sun Flash Accelerator F20 PCIe Card
The Sun Flash Accelerator F20 PCIe Card is a Flash PCIe card with an integrated disk controller that increases server storage I/O and application performance. Targeted at I/O intensive applications, such as databases with 4K block aligned workloads, the Sun Flash Accelerator delivers I/O performance equaling that of up to 300 disk drives, Sun reports.
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Sun Flash Accelerator F20 PCIe Card
The Sun Flash Accelerator F20 PCIe Card is part of the Sun's FlashFire product family. It delivers up to 96 GB of solid-state disk capacity and 100K IOPS without consuming any disk slots. It also provides 87,000 write IOPS at 4k. The card contains a super-cap to ensure that there is power to write down the caches to the flashes.
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Hardware Upgrades for Select Sun Blade Systems
New solutions are available for the Sun Blade Server Product Group: 16GB (2X 8GB DDR2-667, Dual Rank DIMMs) Memory Kit; Enhanced AMD Opteron Processor Options -- Model 2376 HE for Sun Blade X6240 Server Module and Model 8376 HE for Sun Blade X6440 Module; Support for 300 GB (10K RPM) SAS drives on Sun Blade X6240 and X6250 Server Modules; Sun Blade X6240 and X6440 Server Module Solaris preinstall.
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Sun Ultra 24 Supports Intel PRO/1000 PT (PCIe) Desktop Adapter
The Intel PRO/1000 PT (PCIe) Desktop Adapter is available as an XATO option for the Sun Ultra 24 Workstation. This adapter can maximize system performance and increase end-user productivity through the use of auto-negotiation technology, which allows the adapter to run at the highest available network speed (10, 100 or 1000 Mbps) while maintaining full bandwidth capacity with the dedicated 2.5-Gbps bandwidth of a PCI Express (PCIe) input/output (I/O) bus.
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Hardware Certification Test Suite Version 4.2
The Hardware Certification Test Suite (HCTS) Version 4.2 is the latest release in the Solaris Operating System HCTS Program for x86 systems and components. Version 4.2 includes new features such as support for hard drives with more than one terabyte capacity and support for OpenSolaris. The Solaris HCTS Program enables independent hardware vendors (IHVs), system manufacturers, system integrators, and end users to certify their systems and components for the Solaris OS on x86 and x64 platforms.
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Sun Rack II: A New Generation of Data Center Optimized Cabinets
The Sun Rack II product line represents a new generation of data center optimized cabinets, including a selection of innovative low profile, highest density Power Distribution Units (PDUs) available in 12 different models, from 5kVA to 37kVA in single and three phase, low and high voltage versions. This allows as many as 42 C13 & 6 C19 outlets and 45 C13 & 9 C19 outlets on a single PDU. The Sun Rack II product line will enable higher than ever density of IT equipment within a standard 42RU rack footprint.
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Three Phases Of Datacenter Management: Strategy, Design And Build
Sun offers a comprehensive suite of professional services intended to help customers strategize, design and build datacenters optimized for energy, space, and cost efficiency. Continuing Sun's broad eco leadership, Sun consultants can now retrofit existing datacenters to meet minimum power and efficiency needs, or develop new modular datacenter design concepts that can maximize space utilization, increase power and minimize operating costs, based on customers' specific business needs.
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