This is a community for anyone
interested in High Performance Computing (HPC) on OpenSolaris. Its
purpose is to:

• Provide a home for the OpenSolaris HPC distro,


• Highlight existing features and future enhancements relevant for high-performance computing,


• Provide a forum to discuss issues and possible solutions to problems faced by HPC developers, and


• Provide pointers to pertinent resources and tools currently available

VMware unveiled a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) platform for remote users who want to use VDI with Sun Ray Software and virtual display clients. The new integrated desktop solution is ideal for wide area networks (WANs) and uses Sun's Appliance Link Protocol (ALP), which VMware and Sun report outperforms other display protocols in delivering virtual desktops in a WAN deployment with high latency and in delivering consistently better performance than competing display protocols.

With a VDI setup, virtual machines hold end users' PC environments; those virtual machines are hosted on servers in the datacenter.

Brewin define the composition of Project Hydrazine as "...a network environment, a data center and other infrastructure components such as Sun's JavaFX rich Internet application technology, Sun's GlassFish application server, the Sun enterprise service bus, the Sun directory server, MySQL, 'cheap storage' and Sun hardware."

In addition, two repositories will be part of the package. These will enable the storage of services that run on the cloud and of metadata to be used and reused in creating applications. Furthermore, Sun will include Project Insight, an analytics capability, that will enable developers to monitor the users of their projects and to monetize them, according to Brewin.