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The Solaris Performance Wiki is in prototype phase. We are developing a community to provide a go-to reference for the key information related to Solaris Performance. Here we aim to provide a top level index to the essential performance information, by either linking to existing references (blogs etc...) and providing original documentation where necessary. Please update the WishList with items you want to see on the Wiki.

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NYC Seminar: HPC in Financial Services Industry, July 23 (Sun HPC Watercooler)

    (Tue July 22 2008) Please join Sun Microsystems and Acumem for an informative seminar on High Performance Computing for the Financial Services Industry in New York City on July 23, 2008. The following topics will be pr...


Is x64 the final answer for HPC? (Sun HPC Watercooler)

    (Tue July 22 2008) Express Computer writes that HPC is becoming increasingly popular amongst media and entertainment companies and their platform of choice is none other than 64-bit x86: Karthik Ramarao, Director-Tech...


Podcast: Mr. Multi-Core on Pervasive Parallelism (Sun HPC Watercooler)

    (Mon July 21 2008) In this episode of Semi-Coherent Computing, Ashlee Vance at the Register sat down with Kunle Olukotun to talk about his life, his work and his vision for computing's future: "As head of Stanford's n...


Sun's Fortress Language: Parallelism by Default (Sun HPC Watercooler)

    (Sun July 20 2008) Michael Feldman over at HPC Wire writes on Sun's Fortress parallel programming language: "If anyone knows how to introduce a new programming language, it's Sun Microsystems. The company's highly suc...


Sun Ignites Blades Market Across the Middle East (Sun HPC Watercooler)

    (Sat July 19 2008) Sun Microsystems has announced dramatic customer and revenue growth for its entire line of Sun Blade systems, distinguishing itself as the worldwide leader in year-on- year blade server growth in unit...


Revisiting the Intel 432 (The Observation Deck)

    (Fri July 18 2008) As I have discussed before, I strongly believe that to understand systems, you must understand their pathologies -- systems are most instructive when they fail. Unfortunately, we in computing systems...


SPECjvm2008 Sun Fire X4450 First Result Ever Published (BM Seer)

    (Thu July 17 2008) The Sun Fire X4450 server demonstrates Sun's position of leadership in Java based computing by publishing the first result ever for the new SPEC benchmark JVM2008. The Sun Fire X4450 server delivered...


SPEComp2001 Sun SPARC Enterprise M8000 2.52GHz (BM Seer)

    (Wed July 16 2008) The Sun SPARC Enterprise M8000 server using the new SPARC64 VII 2.52 GHz processor delivered a SPECompM2001 result of 104,714. The Sun SPARC Enterprise M8000 server (2.52GHz SPARC64 VII processors) ...


SPECompL2001 Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 @ 2.52GHz (BM Seer)

    (Wed July 16 2008) The Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 server using the new SPARC64 VII 2.52 GHz processor delivered results on the SPEC OMPL2001 benchmarks. The Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 server, powered by 2.52GHz SPARC64...


more on gallon/mile not MPG and huge amount of datacenter power draws (BM Seer)

    (Tue July 15 2008) ecogeek covers whey MPG (miles/gallon) is a silly measuremnt and why gallons/mile is a much better metric. The didn't draw the conclusions that watt/performance is also the better measurement, but th...


Linpack HPC benchmark Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 @ 2.52GHz (BM Seer)

    (Mon July 14 2008) The Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 server running 2.52GHz SPARC64 VII processors delivered 2.023 TFLOPS on the Linpack HPC benchmark. For single servers, the Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 server outperforms...


Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) performance (Lawrence Spracklen's Blog)

    (Fri July 11 2008) On a recent rev of Nevada, I just ran some ECC (elliptic curve cryptography) ubenchmarks, comparing a UltraSPARC T2 using the HW crypto accelerators and a 3GHz Xeon: These numbers are for ecdsa op...


High performance software crypto on CMT processors (Lawrence Spracklen's Blog)

    (Fri July 11 2008) While cryptography is typically viewed as computationally intensive (and so less well suited to CMT processors), software implementations of common cryptographic algorithms can be readily optimized ...


First SPECjvm2008 Result Published! (David Dagastine's Weblog)

    (Thu July 10 2008) The first ever SPECjvm2008 result has been published on the SPEC website. The Sun result stands alone, with no other hardware or software vendor stepping forward. This is the example of the confiden...


Storage engine or MySQL server? Where has the time gone? (Neelakanth Nadgir's blog)

    (Mon July 7 2008) I want to answer a simple question - If a query takes X milliseconds, how much of it is spent in the storage engine, and how much in the MySQL server? Why do I think is important? Well, since I am wor...


Apache Harmony: Thanks for the TreeMap Work! (David Dagastine's Weblog)

    (Mon July 7 2008) I'd like to thank Apache Harmony for their JDK library performance efforts. We were given a tip that the Harmony folks were doing some interesting work with the TreeMap collection class, and low and ...


JDK 6 Update 6 Performance Release is here! (David Dagastine's Weblog)

    (Mon July 7 2008) I'm please to announce the release of JDK 6 Update 6 Performance Release on SPARC platforms. This is the latest of our performance releases and is the culmination of our optimization efforts over the...


The LinkedIn Cloud (fintanr's weblog)

    (Wed July 2 2008) An interesting blog which passed over my desk recently on Linked In's architecture. Well worth a read. Solaris, Java & MySQL - seems like the perfect software stack to me ;)....


DTrace on Linux (The Observation Deck)

    (Mon June 30 2008) The interest in DTrace on Linux is heating up again -- this time in an inferno on the Linux 2008 Kernel Summit discussion list. Under discussion is SystemTap, the Linux-born DTrace-knockoff, with peo...


Crypto wiki (Lawrence Spracklen's Blog)

    (Mon June 30 2008) I've been gradually expanding the crypto wiki (which can be found here); adding additional info and some code examples. Please let me know what additional information would be useful to add, how the...


Improving filesort performance in MySQL (Neelakanth Nadgir's blog)

    (Wed June 25 2008) I recently filed Bug #37359 filesort can be more efficient based on some performance work with an industry standard benchmark. Read on if the internals of how MySQL implements filesort interests you. ...


Moving to a new location (Ariel Hendel)


DTrace in New York (The Wall)

    (Tue June 24 2008) Back in February I gave several DTrace talks in New York, including one at the New York OpenSolaris User Group meeting (NYCOSUG). I used an updated slide deck and was asked to put the PDF on my blog;...


High-performance SHA-1 (Lawrence Spracklen's Blog)

    (Mon June 23 2008) In my recent CommunityOne Microparallelism presentation, one of the cases studies discusses how to convert high ILP code on superscalar processors into the TLP implementations on CMT processors. The...


Blogging bosses... (fintanr's weblog)

    (Tue June 17 2008) My new boss, Amy O'Connor, (well my bosses boss) got a mention over on the On The Record blog last week, but for a slightly less formal introduction, and a lot more background, take a look at her blo...


Link compression (Lawrence Spracklen's Blog)

    (Fri June 13 2008) I've been spending some time over recent years looking into the potential for leveraging compression on various off-chip links. In July's issue of IEEE Transactions on Computing, there is an article...


Winner's Curse (Ariel Hendel)

    (Wed June 11 2008) It is time to wrap this CMT blog journey with a paradox, because CMT has done the unthinkable. CMT started as a radical exercise in putting all processing in one socket next to one big fat memory to ...


A Tribute to Jim Gray (The Observation Deck)

    (Sat May 31 2008) Like several hundred others, I spent today at Berkeley at a tribute to honor Jim Gray. While many there today had collaborated with Jim in some capacity, my own connection to him is tertiary at best:...


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Discussions about these Solaris Performance topics are held via the OpenSolaris Web Site.


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