Fujitsu and Sun arm juttejutsu server with quad-core processor
Fujitsu and Sun arm juttejutsu server with quad-core processor
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By Timothy Prickett Morgan • Get more from this author
Sword not included
By Timothy Prickett Morgan • Get more from this author
Earlier this week, John Fowler, the executive vice president of the Systems group at Sun Microsystems, hinted that Sun and server partner Fujitsu would be bringing a new "gap filling" server to market based on the new quad-core Sparc64-VII processor. Turns out, it is indeed an entry server, even if it might compete against Sun's own "Niagara" family of servers, which use Sun's own multi-core Sparc T series of chips.
The forthcoming machine - which Fowler said would ship before the end of 2008 - is code-named Ikkaku. Presumably, that's a nod to the 17th century Japanese martial art known as Ikkaku-ryū juttejutsu, which teaches how to fight with short swords, short staffs, grappling, and something called the war fan. (Go ahead, have fun with that).
The box will be sold as the Sparc Enterprise M3000 and is a single-socket machine that comes in a 2U rack-mounted chassis that is aimed at developers who need a modestly powered machine or for workloads where horizontal scaling works better than an SMP box. The Ikkaku server might also see use in supercomputer clustering, given that a single Sparc64-VII chip can deliver 40 gigaflops of number-crunching power with all four cores running at 2.5 GHz.
The Ikkaku server will have a single "Jupiter" Sparc64-VII processor with the four cores running at 2.53 GHz and 5 MB of L2 cache on the chip. The server is expected to have eight DDR2 memory slots, for a maximum of 64 GB using wickedly expensive 8 GB DIMMs and will have four PCI-Express slots and four on-board Gigabit Ethernet ports. The motherboard for the Ikkaku server will have a RAID disk controller and the chassis has room for four 2.5-inch SAS drives.
According to the documents I have seen, the Ikkaku server will be available in the fourth quarter. Pricing information was not available. The machine will obviously run Solaris 10 and is binary compatible with other Sparc boxes. ®
Fox Interactive Media, Sun Microsystems and Greenplum Create Enterprise Data Warehouse to Support Web Monetization Efforts
Los Angeles, SANTA CLARA, CALIF. September 24, 2008 Fox Interactive Media (FIM), Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ: JAVA), and Greenplum today announced that the three companies have developed and deployed a new data warehouse designed to support monetization efforts for FIM's portfolio of leading Web properties. The data warehouse solution is built upon the industry-leading Sun Fire x4500 storage server and the Solaris Operating System (OS) and provides complex, real-time analysis in support of FIM's advanced targeted advertising systems.
"Sun and Greenplum will be invaluable collaborators as we continue to put our data to work in new ways that will improve both the user and advertiser experience on our network of sites," said Arnie Gullov-Singh, EVP of Product, Technology and Operations for the FIM Audience Network. "Both of these companies are at the cutting edge of data collection and analysis, and we're excited this new working relationship has been established that we know will help drive our business forward."
The data warehouse solution will combine the highly-powerful and scalable Sun Fire X4500 storage server with the Greenplum Database, the industry's first massively parallel database capable of processing petabytes of data on general purpose hardware. The Sun Fire X4500 storage server combines the performance of a four- way Sun Fire x64 server and the highest storage density available at about half the cost of traditional solutions. This solution is also powered by Sun's Open Storage technologies including the Solaris 10 Operating System (OS) and Solaris ZFS, the world's most advanced file system.
"Sun is a leader in helping the world's largest Web brands build, grow and monetize high quality Web experiences for hundreds of millions of users," said John Fowler, executive vice president, Systems Group, Sun Microsystems, Inc. "Fox Interactive Media's use of Sun's Open Storage technologies like Solaris ZFS and the Sun Fire x4500 storage server speaks volumes to our ability to scale and efficiently manage massive amounts of content."
"This is an incredibly exciting time for Greenplum as the investments we have made in both our technology development and our relationship with Sun are now resulting in tremendous momentum in the marketplace. Fox Interactive Media is a perfect example of how companies can differentiate themselves, and change the game by intelligently leveraging their own data," said Bill Cook, CEO of Greenplum. "With most of Fox Interactive Media's nearly 190 million active users generating new content every day, Greenplum's database will be handling one of the world's most demanding analytical workloads."
About Fox Interactive Media
A division of News Corporation, Fox Interactive Media (FIM) is a portfolio of leading social networking, entertainment, sports and information sites that offer a platform and tools for consumers to express themselves, communicate with each other, and engage with media. The company's worldwide network includes such category leaders as MySpace, Photobucket, IGN, FOXSports.com, RottenTomatoes, AskMen, Flektor and more that together comprise one of the largest audiences on the Web.
About Greenplum
Greenplum develops the world's fastest, most scalable database software for Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing. Greenplum Database, the company's breakthrough database software product, enables companies to analyze terabytes of information faster and more cost effectively than traditional data warehouse solutions, allowing organizations to fully leverage their data to gain critical insights into the past, present and future and achieve and extend their competitive advantage in the marketplace. Greenplum Database also powers the Sun Data Warehouse Appliance, which integrates servers, storage and database to deliver industry leading performance, scalability, and cost of ownership. For more information about Greenplum, visit www.greenplum.com.
About Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Sun Microsystems develops the technologies that power the global marketplace. Guided by a singular vision -- "The Network is the Computer" -- Sun drives network participation through shared innovation, community development and open source leadership. Sun can be found in more than 100 countries and on the Web at http://sun.com.
Sun, Sun Microsystems, the Sun logo, Java, Sun Fire, Solaris, and The Network Is The Computer are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. and its subsidiaries, in the United States and other countries.
Source : sun.com
The forthcoming machine - which Fowler said would ship before the end of 2008 - is code-named Ikkaku. Presumably, that's a nod to the 17th century Japanese martial art known as Ikkaku-ryū juttejutsu, which teaches how to fight with short swords, short staffs, grappling, and something called the war fan. (Go ahead, have fun with that).
The box will be sold as the Sparc Enterprise M3000 and is a single-socket machine that comes in a 2U rack-mounted chassis that is aimed at developers who need a modestly powered machine or for workloads where horizontal scaling works better than an SMP box. The Ikkaku server might also see use in supercomputer clustering, given that a single Sparc64-VII chip can deliver 40 gigaflops of number-crunching power with all four cores running at 2.5 GHz.
The Ikkaku server will have a single "Jupiter" Sparc64-VII processor with the four cores running at 2.53 GHz and 5 MB of L2 cache on the chip. The server is expected to have eight DDR2 memory slots, for a maximum of 64 GB using wickedly expensive 8 GB DIMMs and will have four PCI-Express slots and four on-board Gigabit Ethernet ports. The motherboard for the Ikkaku server will have a RAID disk controller and the chassis has room for four 2.5-inch SAS drives.
According to the documents I have seen, the Ikkaku server will be available in the fourth quarter. Pricing information was not available. The machine will obviously run Solaris 10 and is binary compatible with other Sparc boxes. ®
Fox Interactive Media, Sun Microsystems and Greenplum Create Enterprise Data Warehouse to Support Web Monetization Efforts
Los Angeles, SANTA CLARA, CALIF. September 24, 2008 Fox Interactive Media (FIM), Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ: JAVA), and Greenplum today announced that the three companies have developed and deployed a new data warehouse designed to support monetization efforts for FIM's portfolio of leading Web properties. The data warehouse solution is built upon the industry-leading Sun Fire x4500 storage server and the Solaris Operating System (OS) and provides complex, real-time analysis in support of FIM's advanced targeted advertising systems.
"Sun and Greenplum will be invaluable collaborators as we continue to put our data to work in new ways that will improve both the user and advertiser experience on our network of sites," said Arnie Gullov-Singh, EVP of Product, Technology and Operations for the FIM Audience Network. "Both of these companies are at the cutting edge of data collection and analysis, and we're excited this new working relationship has been established that we know will help drive our business forward."
The data warehouse solution will combine the highly-powerful and scalable Sun Fire X4500 storage server with the Greenplum Database, the industry's first massively parallel database capable of processing petabytes of data on general purpose hardware. The Sun Fire X4500 storage server combines the performance of a four- way Sun Fire x64 server and the highest storage density available at about half the cost of traditional solutions. This solution is also powered by Sun's Open Storage technologies including the Solaris 10 Operating System (OS) and Solaris ZFS, the world's most advanced file system.
"Sun is a leader in helping the world's largest Web brands build, grow and monetize high quality Web experiences for hundreds of millions of users," said John Fowler, executive vice president, Systems Group, Sun Microsystems, Inc. "Fox Interactive Media's use of Sun's Open Storage technologies like Solaris ZFS and the Sun Fire x4500 storage server speaks volumes to our ability to scale and efficiently manage massive amounts of content."
"This is an incredibly exciting time for Greenplum as the investments we have made in both our technology development and our relationship with Sun are now resulting in tremendous momentum in the marketplace. Fox Interactive Media is a perfect example of how companies can differentiate themselves, and change the game by intelligently leveraging their own data," said Bill Cook, CEO of Greenplum. "With most of Fox Interactive Media's nearly 190 million active users generating new content every day, Greenplum's database will be handling one of the world's most demanding analytical workloads."
About Fox Interactive Media
A division of News Corporation, Fox Interactive Media (FIM) is a portfolio of leading social networking, entertainment, sports and information sites that offer a platform and tools for consumers to express themselves, communicate with each other, and engage with media. The company's worldwide network includes such category leaders as MySpace, Photobucket, IGN, FOXSports.com, RottenTomatoes, AskMen, Flektor and more that together comprise one of the largest audiences on the Web.
About Greenplum
Greenplum develops the world's fastest, most scalable database software for Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing. Greenplum Database, the company's breakthrough database software product, enables companies to analyze terabytes of information faster and more cost effectively than traditional data warehouse solutions, allowing organizations to fully leverage their data to gain critical insights into the past, present and future and achieve and extend their competitive advantage in the marketplace. Greenplum Database also powers the Sun Data Warehouse Appliance, which integrates servers, storage and database to deliver industry leading performance, scalability, and cost of ownership. For more information about Greenplum, visit www.greenplum.com.
About Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Sun Microsystems develops the technologies that power the global marketplace. Guided by a singular vision -- "The Network is the Computer" -- Sun drives network participation through shared innovation, community development and open source leadership. Sun can be found in more than 100 countries and on the Web at http://sun.com.
Sun, Sun Microsystems, the Sun logo, Java, Sun Fire, Solaris, and The Network Is The Computer are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. and its subsidiaries, in the United States and other countries.
Source : sun.com
