Some of the server categories include: SPARC enterprise servers, CoolThread servers, x64 servers and high-end servers.
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Developed by the Association of Research Libraries, SPARC has become a catalyst for change.
Nothing about the Ventura SPARC Sigma MGS from a functionality perspective is unique to this watch.
Meanwhile, SPARC--a worldwide alliance of research institutions, libraries and organizations that encourages competition--has started publishing rival journals.
SPARC, a voluntary organisation that has begun redeveloping small sites on a piecemeal basis in collaboration with residents.
Of this, SPARC enterprise servers contribute more than 50% of servers revenue for Sun, however the growth has been declining.
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SPARC, made for Sun by Texas Instruments, is always going to be far dearer than any high-volume chip from Intel.
Noting Sun's swing toward software, the Silicon Valley rumor mill is wondering whether Sun will sustain the 19-year-old Sparc chip program.
The European awards outfit skews towards modern devices, and the SPARC is a poster child of the stuff they like to recognize.
In 2012, the Ventura SPARC wrist watch received a Red Dot award.
And the SPEC J Enterprise benchmark showing the SPARC T5 is the fastest processor in the world for its job in middleware.
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Preliminary analysis in four different cancers indicates that Sparc-positive patients are as much as three times more likely to benefit from the drug.
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Its Sparc computer chip and Solaris operating system have been made less relevant by Microsoft Windows, Intel chips and the open-source Linux operating system.
He argues that a chemical called Sparc (secreted protein acidic and rich in cysteine) is the culprit, leading smoldering cancers to suddenly spread like wildfire.
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By studying whether Abraxane works in pancreatic cancer, where many cells are churning out Sparc, he will be able to help solve the mystery of metastasis.
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One idea, put forth by Soon-Shiong himself, was that when cancer cells metastasize they secrete a protein called SPARC, which also leads them to absorb Abraxane.
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The rapid growth of highly differentiated products like Exadata and the SPARC T4 have consistently, quarter after quarter, improved the profitability of our overall hardware business.
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Soon-Shiong argues that when a cell starts making Sparc, suggesting it's about to spread, it also starts sucking in albumin-soaked Abraxane, which, he says, will kill the tumor.
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The newest SPARC watch is the SPARC Sigma MGS. It will initially be offered in a black or satin finished steel case on a bracelet or high-grade rubber strap.
"If the Sparc hypothesis proves to be true and it changes the course of medicine, it would be more satisfying than all the money we ever made, " he says.
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The formerly cordial relationship between the two soured when Oracle entered the hardware business by buying Sun Microsystems, which brought along its SPARC microprocessor architecture as part of the dowry.
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This newest generation SPARC Sigma watch is probably the most beautiful, benefiting from a lovely pebble-like curve that has the watch wrap around the wrist looking like a fat boomerang.
Patients whose cancers are churning out the Sparc protein usually have a worse prognosis than those who aren't Sparc-positive, but with Abraxane they may do just as well, Soon-Shiong argues.
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Sparc has long been implicated by researchers in the spread of colon cancer to the liver and may be similarly predictive in melanoma, breast cancer and glioblastoma, a type of brain tumor.
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Oracle also announced plans to launch 4 new hardware products by Sun, which will help it drive sales of its database and middleware software, which is optimized for the new SPARC super clusters.
The products involved are the already familiar engineered appliances Exadata Database Machine, Exalogic Elastic Cloud, Exalytics In-Memory Machine, Sun ZFS Storage Appliance and the SPARC SuperCluster, an appliance running Solaris 11 on up to 16 SPARC processors with eight cores each.
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