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At the ClusterWorld conference this week, Sun Senior Architect Murali Kaundinya discussed new features for J2SDK 1.6 that will allow the VM to multitask processes within the VM.

This new feature is expected to allow control over isolated application tasks within the same VM and to allow them to be executed concurrently.

J2SDK 1.5 currently in beta is expected to be released in a production release ready for JavaOne this summer.

A beta release of Java 1.6 is expected to be released this fall.

On the 40th aniversary of the first IBM mainframe, IBM unveiled a number of new mainframe products, the most interesting of which is a dedicated Java processing module, the zSeries Application Assist Processor, or zAAP.

The module will cost an additional $125,000 per processor.

Microsoft have released the source code for Windows Installer as Open Source on SourceForge.

This is apparently the first of a number of non-core projects that Microsoft will be open-sourcing. This is obviously a move for Microsoft to appeal to Linux and open source users.

An attempt to build a supercomputer comparable in processing power to the fastest currently on the Top500 list from donated PCs fell short of the expected results.

The network of 700 PCs donated in the ‘Flash Mob’ experiment at the University of San Francisco was capable of 180 billion ops/sec – far from the the 35 trillion ops/sec capable by the Japanese Earth Simulator – currently the fastest computer in the world.