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The two-year Sun Microsystems and Intel joint development and marketing agreement to offer performance, scalability, power management and virtualization enhancements in Solaris on x86 systems is continuing to show results. Sun officials say while some advancements already have been rolled out, the key goal was to optimize Solaris for Intel’s new processor architecture, code-named Nehalem. Intel releases a Nehalem EP or Xeon 5500 series of chips for two-socket systems March 30.

Sun Microsystems and Intel for the past two years have been working to optimize the Solaris operating system on the Xeon chip platform.

Since the February 2007 announcement of the development and marketing deal, Sun and Intel have announced several steps in the partnership, including several new Sun blade and rack servers powered by Xeon chips and the May 2008 launch of Solaris 10 Release 05/8, which continued the optimization of the operating system on the Intel architecture.

However, while there have been advances, at the forefront of the work has been Intel’s new “Nehalem” microarchitecture, said Herb Hinstorff, director of business management at Sun.

I’m looking forward to learning more about the new Sun servers based on the new Intel Xeon processors, they’ve got an event coming up on the 14th of April, I’m off to read up more and register for the event. I wonder if this will include new blade servers?

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