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Solaris Performance Wiki
About the Wiki
The Solaris Performance Wiki is 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.
News
Watercooler Signing Off - Hire Me! (Sun HPC Watercooler)
- (Fri January 29 2010) Rich Brueckner will not be joining Oracle, so this is the last Sun HPC Watercooler entry. It's all good! I've had a great 10-year ride here-- besides writing this blog (1780 stories!) I had the p...
Topology-Aware Scheduling in Sun Grid Engine (Sun HPC Watercooler)
- (Fri January 29 2010) Dan Templeton continues his deep-dive into Sun Grid Engine capabilities with a look at Topology-Aware Scheduling: "With topology-aware scheduling, the user who submits the job can specify how that j...
Sandia Tests HPC Virtualization (Sun HPC Watercooler)
- (Thu January 28 2010) We've heard a lot about virtualization for HPC from folks like Josh Simons. Now Sandia National Labs is putting the idea to the test thanks to the computing power of their Red Storm supercomputer: "...
Sun and QDR InfiniBand Power Africa's Largest Super (Sun HPC Watercooler)
- (Wed January 27 2010) Voltaire today announced that the Centre for High Performance Computing (CHPC) in Cape Town, South Africa has selected a Voltaire 40 Gb/s QDR InfiniBand director switch as part of its new Sun Microsys...
New Whitepaper: Double Your Performance with Flash (Sun HPC Watercooler)
- (Tue January 26 2010) Increasing your application performance is easier than you think. Find out how by reading this new white paper, Turbocharging HPC Application Performance with Flash Storage, which covers both the busi...
Forums
Discussions about these Solaris Performance topics are held via the OpenSolaris Web Site.
- OpenSolaris Performance Community
- OpenSolaris Observability Community
- OpenSolaris DTrace Community
- OpenSolaris ZFS Community
Organization
The Solaris Performance Wiki is organized into the following categories:
- Key Solaris Performance Communities
- Systems Performance Tools and Tuneables
- DTrace Topics
- Chip Level Multiprocessing
- Application Code Optimization
- Solaris Performance Features by Release/Version
- Virtualization Performance
- Application Specific Tuning
- Hardware/Platform Specific Tuning
- Benchmarking, Tools and Workloads
- Assignments and Mini-projects
The performance Wiki is sponsored by the Sun performance engineering teams (PAE, SAE, MDE etc...) at Sun, and is an OpenSolaris community effort.


