News: System News for Sun Users Vol 52 Issue 2
John J. McLaughlin
System News for Sun Users Vol 52 Issue 2: June 10 to June 16
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6871 Sun Tops IDC Supercomputer Rankings in Enterprise Category
6859 Sun Increases UNIX[R] Server Market Lead
6869 Plexxikon Chooses Sun[TM] Grid Engine Software Technology
6872 I3C Announces New Life Science Protocols
6894 Sun Joins Open Mobile Alliance
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6871 Sun Tops IDC Supercomputer Rankings In Enterprise Category
http://sun.systemnews.com/system-news/jobdir/submitted/2002.08.all.w2.html#6871
The most recent IDC Balanced Rating test shows Sun powering 30
percent of the top 50 supercomputing sites and over 50 percent of
the top 46 clusters in the Clustered Enterprise category. Sun
also leads in the Technical Divisional category of HPC, with 20
percent share of revenue and the only gain for the quarter among
HPC vendors.
6859 Sun Increases UNIX[R] Server Market Lead
http://sun.systemnews.com/system-news/jobdir/submitted/2002.08.all.w2.html#6859
International Data Corporation's (IDC) Q1 2002 Enterprise Server
Tracker Report shows an increase in Sun's share of the
RISC/UNIX[R] systems server market of five percentage points to
42.8 percent in the ASEAN and India market. IDC also reported
that Sun leads the RISC/UNIX server market in the ASEAN and India
region with a 64.1 percent unit shipment share.
6869 Plexxikon Chooses Sun[TM] Grid Engine Software Technology
http://sun.systemnews.com/system-news/jobdir/submitted/2002.08.all.w2.html#6869
Plexxikon, a drug discovery company, is integrating cutting-edge
technologies, including structure-driven chemistry, in the
lead-finding process to rapidly discover novel chemical scaffolds
and high-quality drug leads using a protein-family approach.
Plexxikon has chosen Sun to provide much of its IT
infrastructure, including Sun Blade[TM] workstations; a compute
farm utilizing the new Sun[TM] Grid Engine, Enterprise Edition,
5.3 software; a highly available clustered solution featuring the
Solaris[TM] Operating Environment (Solaris OE); Sun Fire[TM]
servers; a Sun Enterprise[TM] server; Sun StorEdge[TM] arrays and
an Oracle database application.
6872 I3C Announces New Life Science Protocols
http://sun.systemnews.com/system-news/jobdir/submitted/2002.08.all.w2.html#6872
The Interoperable Informatics Infrastructure Consortium (I3C) has
drawn up new protocols and specifications, including the Life
Science Identifier (LSID), which defines a common, logical naming
convention for biological data, in an effort toward simplifying
data exchange and knowledge sharing within the life sciences.
6894 Sun Joins Open Mobile Alliance
http://sun.systemnews.com/system-news/jobdir/submitted/2002.08.all.w2.html#6894
Sun has joined the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) which helps create
interoperable services that work across countries, operators and
mobile terminals and are tailored for consumers' needs. Sun is
joining OMA as a sponsor and board member.
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