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----------------------------------------------------------------------- *Innovation Awards: The Winners Are...* The Wall Street Journal, Michael Totty; September 11, 2006 http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB115755300770755096-R2Ct41cQ4ZIPMwk4_xh0xU_HnQI_20061011.html?mod=tff_main_tff_top Sun?s DTrace software is named the Gold winner in The Wall Street Journal's 2006 Technology Innovation Awards. According to the piece, ?Bryan Cantrill and a team of engineers at Sun have devised a way to diagnose misbehaving software quickly and while it's still doing its work. While traditional trouble-shooting programs can take several days of testing to locate a problem, the new technology, called DTrace, is able to track down problems quickly and relatively easily, even if the cause is buried deep in a complex computer system ? Mr. Cantrill came up with the general idea for DTrace in 1996, while he was a computer-science student at Brown University, but didn't get to start work on it until late 2001. It took nearly three years for him and his team -- Michael Shapiro, a Sun distinguished engineer, and Adam Leventhal, a staff engineer -- to make it work; a final version shipped early last year as part of Sun's Solaris 10 OS.? -======================================================================= *Energy and Power* ? *Runner-Up*?Sun Microsystems (U.S.): UltraSPARC T1, an ?eco-friendly? processor that generates less heat --
