pingVision Interactive Design + Development for Drupal websites http://pingv.com/node/3720/atom/feed 2008-06-24T17:43:22-05:00 Unboxing the Sun SPARC Enterprise T1000 server http://pingv.com/blog/laura/2008/unboxing-sun-sparc-enterprise-t1000-server 2008-03-31T13:59:40-05:00 2008-06-24T17:43:22-05:00 Laura At DrupalCon Boston 2008, we had the great pleasure of winning the grand prize as the Top Showcase Site, for PopSci.com. Because we were so busy making presentations and otherwise engaged in the incredible DrupalCon sessions, winning this was an unexpected surprise. The submissions were judged by Chris Bryant, Scott Mattoon (Sun Microsystems) and Fish McGill (Harmonix). Sun posted the ad hoc post-plenary interview here.

On Friday, we stole about 10 minutes from a very busy day to unbox the Sun SPARC Enterprise T1000 server that was the prize. Wow!

The box was big....

Sun server unboxing

Sun server unboxing

Sun server unboxing

...making the server inside seem all the smaller....

Sun server unboxing

The actual unit is about half the depth of our existing internal dev server.

Sun server unboxing

Sun server unboxing

Simplicity on the outside ... but compact power on the inside.

Sun server unboxing

It came with 8GB of RAM. One of the first things we'll be doing is bumping that up quite a bit. We aim to work this beautiful machine hard.

We'll be running Solaris on this so we can leverage all the potential power. We'll probably be posting about that sometime in the future.

Our deepest heartfelt thanks go out to Sun Microsystems for their generous contribution to DrupalCon Boston 2008!

Also: Matthew has more pics of the unboximg on flickr.

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