Solaris Site License

NBCS Central Systems and Services coordinates a university site-license for a suite of Sun Microsystems software including Solaris, Sun Studio, PC Netlink, and HPC Cluster Tools. Here are some brief descriptions and links of the available software:

• Solaris - Sun offers an alternative to Windows with the Solaris Enterprise System, a unified platform of Solaris 10, Java Enterprise System, developer tools and N1 management software.

  Solaris Overview: http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/index.jsp
  Solaris Features: http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/soe_features.jsp

• Sun Studio - Sun Studio software delivers a collection of tools for application development, debugging, performance analysis, and optimization.

  Sun Studio Overview: http://developers.sun.com/sunstudio/index.jsp
  Sun Studio Features: http://developers.sun.com/sunstudio/features/

• PC Netlink - While Windows based desktops continue to proliferate in today's corporations, some of the key problems with Windows NT networks continue to go unsolved. Windows NT environments still have reliability issues, and IT departments still have difficulty scaling Windows NT environments quickly to meet volatile demand for network services.

  Solaris PC NetLink? software puts an end to those core challenges by putting the network services on the Solaris Operating Environment and Sun servers.

  PC NetLink? Overview: http://www.sun.com/products/interoperability/netlink/index.html

• HPC Cluster Tools 6 - Sun HPC ClusterTools? 6 software provides developers with the Sun Cluster Runtime Environment (CRE) and the Sun Message Passing Interface (Sun MPI). It is also compatible with Sun N1 Grid Engine, LSF, and PBS distributed resource managers.

  HPC ClusterTools? Overview: http://www.sun.com/software/products/clustertools/index.xml
  HPC ClusterTools? Documentation: http://www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/hardware/docs/Software/Sun_HPC_ClusterTools_Software/

How To Get New Software New software is available for loan (on DVDs) from CSS. Email oss@ossNOSPAM.rutgers.edu to request the DVDs.

How To Get Software Support Sun Standard Support is available on Monday through Friday from 8 AM to 8 PM. Contact oss@ossNOSPAM.rutgers.edu for phone numbers and contract information.

-- EricMarshall - 11 Apr 2008