>From: intel-platform-discuss-bounces at opensolaris.org [mailto:intel- >platform-discuss-bounces at opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Jim Grisanzio >Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2007 4:18 AM
>* Blogging: > - List of technical subjects to blog This is a good reminder for us on the project to keep these up. (For example, I keep forgetting to update my technical blog.) >* Conferences: > - Who is attending and presenting at what conferences? > - Other communities we should reach out to? There are three OpenSolaris talks at next month's IDF coming up. Can we get these posted quickly? I did a quick search on the IDF site and saw the following: * Sun Gold Sponsor Session: Project Indiana -- The Road to Solaris* Next This session will focus on Sun's Project Indiana, and its main goal of reorienting the Solaris* Operating System around the Linux distribution model. Beginning with a background on Solaris and Linux and why they have been so successful in their respective markets, we'll then discuss Sun's OpenSolaris* model of distribution and how it will evolve to Project Indiana for creating a binary distribution of OpenSolaris into the community. Type: Session Speakers: Ian Murdock Chief Operating Systems Platform Strategist, Sun Microsystems Inc. * OpenSolaris* on Xen* Interest in virtual machine software for multi-core virtualization-enabled hardware is rapidly increasing. Simultaneously, storage networks are evolving because of PCI Express* Technology, SATA-II, SAS, iSCSI, and Sun's ZFS file system. Multi-core, multi-port, multi-gigabit PCI Express network cards are also enabling network bandwidth virtualization. This session looks at using the features of OpenSolaris* together with the Xen* hypervisor to enable system-level virtualization of the processors, storage and also the network stack because of the enabling effects of multi-core gigabit Ethernet. The key enablers are the OpenSolaris operating system using Xen running on Intel(r) Xeon(r) processors, PCI Express SAS and SATA-II controllers and PCI Express gigabit Ethernet interfaces. Type: Session Speakers: David Edmondson Senior Staff Engineer, Sun Microsystems Greg Lavender Visiting Professor, University of Austin * Writing Device Drivers For Solaris* Intended audience: Developers, technical decision makers and influencers What you will get from this session: * An introduction to developing device drivers for the Solaris* operating system running on Intel(r) architecture platforms * An introduction to the Solaris kernel * Instructions on how to write, compile, install and add a new driver * Technical information on debugging tools in Solaris and how to use the Solaris DDI/DKI Type: Session Speakers: David Stewart Engineering Manager, Intel Corporation James Liu Sr. Staff Engineer, Sun Microsystems, Inc. Seth Goldberg Staff Engineer, Sun Microsystems * Predictive Self Healing of Solaris* Operating System Predictive Self Healing of Solaris* operating system provides technology to automatically diagnose problems from observed symptoms, and results of the diagnosis can then be used to trigger automated response and recovery. Fault Management Architecture of Solaris provides new tools, new structured log files for telemetry data and live diagnosis updates without reboot. Service Management Facility of Solaris provides integrated and automatic process/service restart. This session will give an introduction to Predictive Self Healing technologies of Solaris and also a demo of Fault Management Architecture of Solaris. It will provide an update on plans of Fault Management Architecture of Solaris support for Intel(r) Xeon(r) processor line. Type: Session Speakers: Gavin Maltby Staff Engineer, Sun Microsystems Robert Johnston Software Engineer, Sun Microsystems * Sun* Blade Modular Architecture A discussion of the Sun Blade 6000 Modular System* which illustrates how Intel(r) Xeon(r) processor-based blade servers are built for maximum performance, power and cooling efficiency, and effectiveness running the Solaris* OS. Sun engineering and design elements will be discussed to show how Intel Xeon processor-based platform architecture is leveraged to build high performance compute platforms. In addition, an examination of the overall system design will show how power and cooling efficiencies are achieved, therefore enabling lowered TCO and increased reliability. And finally, Solaris OS, with Containers technology enables consolidation for increased asset utilization. Type: Session Speakers: Marshall Choy Group Manager, Technical Marketing, Sun Microsystems * How to Get the Most Performance from Sun* JVM* on Intel(r) Multi-Core Servers Intended audience: Business decision makers, developers, technical decision makers and influencers What you will get from this session: * An overview of how Sun* JVM* has evolved to take advantage of current and future Intel(r) Multi-Core processor-based servers since Sun and Intel teams started working on JVM performance improvements in early 2007 * A good understanding how harnessing the best Intel(r) Xeon(r) processor features with Sun JVM will start producing immediate benefits * A quick overview of Intel Multi-Core architectures * An understanding of how Sun JVM takes advantage of Intel(r) architectures on three major operating systems (Linux*, Windows*, Solaris*) * A look at how to select JVM parameters for your application to get the most performance, and at employing VM parameters tuning as a last resort * A few common options for a list of application classes Type: Session Speakers: Kingsum Chow Senior Staff Engineer, Intel Corporation David Dagastine Senior Staff Engineer, Java Platform Performance Technical Lead, Sun Microsystems
