Heat from the sun boils water to run a steam turbine generator, which delivers power to the grid.
The devices will run on Sun's Java-based operating system and will boost demand for the company's big servers, which already power some of the most popular websites.
Future packages for a year's computing power might have the customer pay up front, pay later, pay now and run down an account, or draw computing power from a general-purpose "grid" of computers run by Sun.
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Options run the gamut from sun dried tomatoes and roasted garlic to spinach to kalamata olive to mushroom and onion.
Now the company is seeking to get back on track and commercialize a power generator with the potential to run either on the sun or biogas.
The solar arrays would no longer be correctly pointed at the sun, and the storage batteries would run down.
Sun Microsystems' write-once-run-anywhere programming language is expected to grow from an installed base of 3.8 million digital cable boxes in 1998 to 12 million boxes by year 2001, according to International Data Corp. (IDC), a Framingham, Mass.
And that's a problem--the temptation to hook up a hot name with most any product under the sun, while profitable in the short run, only leads to a dilution of the athlete's brand name after a while, experts say.
Meanwhile, reserving room for those energy sources that only run when the blows or the sun shines is problematic, along with getting the necessary permits to construct any new wires projects.
Khosla Ventures run by uber venture capitalist and Sun Microsystems co-founder Vinod Khosla, the Founders Fund from PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel and Innovation Endeavors from former Google CEO Eric Schmidt contributed to the round.
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Yet as well as revealing the acquisition of Star Division (although not its terms), Sun also announced something that will in the long run probably matter more.
And, in 2004, black audiences had a crucial role in making a success of the limited-run revival of "A Raisin in the Sun, " starring Sean Combs.
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In five years, Dutra says, more efficient servers and virtualization--the conversion of multiple computers into software that can be run on a single machine--will allow Sun to do away with five of its eight data centers, reducing both the centers' square footage and data consumption by around 50%.
If you run an HR software company, your day in the sun is here.
We will harness the sun and the winds and the soil to fuel our cars and run our factories.
Yet Intel and Sun face a potential threat from the upstart Transmeta, whose chips run only 75% as fast but suck only 20% of the power.
Then there is one of the oldest ways of getting power out from the sun: solar "thermal" installations, which absorb the sun's energy, transforming it into heat so it can boil water and run a turbine.
The four systems run on Solaris 8 OS and extend the server line whose genesis in September was the Sun Fire 280R.
They also must be able to run over a number of different operating systems, such as Qualcomm 's Brew, Sun Microsystems' Java and Microsoft 's Windows Mobile.
The importance of the Web browser is that, combined with Java, a software language which can run on any platform and which was developed by another of Microsoft's rivals, Sun Microsystems, it may become a rival to the Windows operating system.
All over Africa every day children walk or run for miles to reach decrepit buildings, which often do little more than keep off the sun and rain.
It's run entirely off the power that's in that fiber, that was originally collected from the sun, through photosynthesis.
With his three new works in the run's rotation of 21 dances, Mr. Taylor warns off anyone from assuming that the sun-filled corner he turned in 1962 was a point of no return.
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He describes a server upgrade on one of Sun's own data centers last June that turned 22 outmoded servers into 11 modern machines, whose processors run at a slower speed but are capable of far more simultaneous tasks.
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