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Inside Japan's Top500 K Computer

Inside Japan's Top500 K Computer

The K Computer at the Riken Institute in Kobe, Japan has topped the latest edition of the biannual Top500 supercomputing list, with a benchmark performance of 8.162 petaflops Read more

21 June, 2011 by Staff

Oracle shows off Sparc servers with T4 chips

...has shown off the first servers powered by the company's new Sparc T4 processor. Oracle has unveiled the Sparc SuperCluster T4-4 running its... Read more

27 September, 2011 by Stephen Shankland

Oracle launches Sparc-based Exalogic cloud option

...Oracle has launched a Sparc-based Solaris server option for its Exalogic cloud-in-a-box product... Read more

3 December, 2010 by Tom Espiner

Oracle debuts updated Sun ZFS storage line

...collaborate" with Oracle in the future. Also on Monday, Oracle introduced new Sparc systems and processors, and announced a new range of Sun Ray desktop... Read more

21 September, 2010 by Jack Clark

Oracle earnings hurt by falling hardware sales

...more than 100 percent on a sequential basis. We shipped our first SPARC SuperCluster in Q2 and expect to begin deliveries of our Exalytics system... Read more

21 December, 2011 by Jack Clark

Oracle profits rise despite hardware hit

...prospects for its hardware business as it prepares to push out new Sparc products. On Tuesday, the Silicon Valley-based company reported fiscal first-quarter... Read more

21 September, 2011 by Ben Woods

Japan takes Top500 supercomputer crown from China

...processors from Intel and AMD; instead, it is based on Fujitsu-designed Sparc processors. K Computer is based at the independent Riken research lab in... Read more

20 June, 2011 by Jack Clark
VPN-X Server/Client 2.4.1.44

VPN-X Server/Client 2.4.1.44

...Supports CPU X86 or PPC),FreeBSD(x86),Solaris 9, 10(x86/x64,sparc).VPN-X allow Client has an individual Virtual IP Address.It can... Read more

16 September, 2010

Oracle and Fujitsu deepen Sparc partnership

Oracle and Fujitsu hope to boost the performance of Sparc hardware-based Unix servers fifteen-fold over the next five years. On... Read more

10 February, 2011

SPARC and Itanium support discontinued in Ubuntu 10.10

Ubuntu 10.10 will not be ported to the Itanium and SPARC platforms. The future version of the popular Linux distribution, (code-named Maverick... Read more

23 August, 2010
Introducing the Next Generation of <endeca_term>SPARC</endeca_term> Servers E-Book

Introducing the Next Generation of SPARC Servers E-Book

Fast, Scalable, Secure, Integrated, Optimized - discover the benefits of Oracle's new SPARC T4 servers and how they deliver world record performance for a wide... Read more

1 May, 2012
Virtualization Options for Oracle Database Deployments on Sun <endeca_term>SPARC</endeca_term> Enterprise M-series System

Virtualization Options for Oracle Database Deployments on Sun SPARC Enterprise M-series System

The combination of Sun SPARC Enterprise M-series systems and Oracle Solaris 10 provides an ideal platform... Read more

1 April, 2012
A Technical Overview of the Oracle <endeca_term>SPARC</endeca_term> SuperCluster T4-4

A Technical Overview of the Oracle SPARC SuperCluster T4-4

The Oracle SPARC SuperCluster T4-4 is a high performance, multi-purpose engineered system that... Read more

1 April, 2012
Drive Datacenter Efficiency and Reduce Costs with Oracle's <endeca_term>SPARC</endeca_term> Enterprise Servers

Drive Datacenter Efficiency and Reduce Costs with Oracle's SPARC Enterprise Servers

SPARC enterprise server users have long enjoyed the performance, high availability and virtualization... Read more

1 December, 2011
<endeca_term>SPARC</endeca_term> T4 Processor Design and Benefits

SPARC T4 Processor Design and Benefits

The previous design of the SPARC processors focused on throughput, specifically designed for threaded applications. The latest generation... Read more

1 December, 2011

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