Mar 08
It’s good to see quality products don’t always have to languish in no-man’s land following an acquisition? Hopefully they haven’t lost too much steam and can maintain their enthusiasm? It now just remains to see how VMware integrates this component in to the bigger picture?
VMware Project North Star Beta (Thinstall) (for Windows Systems)
Latest Version: Beta | 3/05/08 | Build 3.350
What’s Coming
Upcoming enhancements in the VMware Project North Star release:
- Expand the production services and product quality :
VMware 24/7 Gold and Platinum Support
VMware QA
VMware Professional Services Solution Offerings
VMware Educational Services
- New Features:
Application Link – Connect virtual application packages to enable streamlined deployment.
Application Sync – Fast, low-bandwidth update model for deployed virtual applications.
Getting Started
- If you are new to application virtualization (Thinstall), watch our introduction webinar, or read the many case studies, whitepapers or information available on our website: www.thinstall.com
- Read the documentation
The VMware Project North Star Beta (Thinstall) documentation contains the necessary information regarding this release, including summary of features, known issues, system requirements plus how to install, setup, and configure this release.
- Download the VMware Project North Star Beta (Thinstall) installer.
- Start using the product
Refer to the VMware Project North Star Beta (Thinstall) release notes and documentation for detailed information on installing and using the software.
VMware Project North Star Beta (Thinstall) feedback and support options
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Technical Support
The VMware Project North Star Beta (Thinstall) is open to the public and not supported by VMware until the product becomes generally available. Any support questions or problems should be reported to the Project North Star Beta (Thinstall) forum.
VMware Project North Star Beta (Thinstall) - VMware
written by dcaddick
Mar 08
With over 60,000 CPU’s in this beast it certainly packs some punch? And if you have a task that needs some serious computing like this then you can actually submit a request to get your jobs processed - submit proposals here - how cool is that?
At 500 Teraflops though this is quite a significant increase in global computing power and it makes you wonder just how much further this can increase? What if someone was able to create and prove a quantum computer? how much would that influence these sort of projects?
I does make me wonder whether or not there might be some breakthrough with how we manage the input side of things? Here we are with this enormous Computing power and yet we are still effectively stuck with a keyboard? 
The World’s Largest Supercomputing Cloud
I had no idea the Hubble telescope could see only 12 billion years into the past.
Frankly, I’d never really thought about telescopes looking into the past until Dr. Michael Norman, a researcher from UCSD gave me a basic education in astronomy - and explained the Hubble looks at celestial bodies whose light is just now reaching us. But it can "only" see 12 billion years into the past - and that was a veil he’d like to pierce. (I asked him what he did for a living, he said, "I simulate the universe." Trump that job description.)
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I was asked to give a keynote to celebrate Ranger’s opening, and this was only one example of the flood of basic research and science that will now be performed on the world’s largest open computing platform. Open? The facility was funded by the National Science Foundation, and is committed to providing large scale supercomputing as a service to any researcher or scientist within the US (submit proposals here). Ranger is built entirely on Sun - to dip into geekspeak for a moment, here are the stats:
- In around 6,000 square feet datacenter space, consuming less than 3 Megawatts…
- More than 4000 quad core Sun/Opteron blades, 120+ Tb of DRAM, running CentOS
- Delivering more than 500 teraflops computing capacity
- Jobs scheduled by Sun’s Grid Engine
- Interconnected by two, 100 terabit non-blocking Magnum switches (horns optional)
- Data managed by the Lustre file system, on Thumpers
- More than 2 petabytes of storage
- Managed by our hierarchical data management SAM-FS product, archived to Sun tape platforms
- With overall systems managed and monitored by xVM OpsCenter (the world’s largest installation).
Jonathan Schwartz’s Blog
written by dcaddick
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