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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.

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Sun HPC Newsletter for June (Sun HPC Watercooler)

    (Sat July 4 2009) The latest Sun HPC Newsletter is out. Don't miss an issue--Subscribe today!...


Inside HPC Launches Green HPC Podcast (Sun HPC Watercooler)

    (Fri July 3 2009) Our friends at Inside HPC have launched a Green HPC podcast series: "In the inaugural episode of the Green HPC podcast series we will examine the issues that datacenter managers and system designers...


Video: Performance Tuning - An Introduction to Parallel Programming (Sun HPC Watercooler)

    (Thu July 2 2009) In order to help developers and engineers meet the challenges posed by parallel programming, Sun Microsystems is offering a series of seminars called "An Introduction to Parallel Programming" discu...


Webcast: Flash Technology Revolution in HPC (Sun HPC Watercooler)

    (Wed July 1 2009) Join us for an extraordinary panel session that you just won't want to miss. In this eSeminar from Sun Microsystems, hosted by Tech Target, leading technical experts will discuss Flash technology a...


Interview with Andy Bechtolsheim (Sun HPC Watercooler)

    (Tue June 30 2009) The publication "Spektrum der Wissenschaft? (the German sister publication of Scientific American) sits down with Sun co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim to talk about all things HPC: "There have been very...


ZFS and OpenStorage things you might have missed (Bizarre ! Vous avez dit Bizarre ?)

    (Fri June 19 2009) Here are a few things that caught my attention. First off, a great post showing the scalability of a 7410 with SAS Grid Computing all the way to 900MB/sec+ of throughput through a single IP interface...


Compared Performance of Sun 7000 Unified Storage Array Line (Bizarre ! Vous avez dit Bizarre ?)

    (Thu June 11 2009) The Sun Storage 7410 Unified Storage Array provides high-performance for NAS environments. Sun's product can be used on a wide variety of applications. The Sun Storage 7410 Unified Storage Array w...


cmdtruss -- truss -c MySQL (COM_*) Commands (Neelakanth Nadgir's blog)

    (Wed June 10 2009) MySQL clients uses COM_* commands to communicate with the MySQL server. MySQL show status breaks these commands into many categories and displays how many times each of these commands were executed...


Improved crypto scaling on T2+ (Lawrence Spracklen's Blog)

    (Thu June 4 2009) Some great work by Krishan Yenduri has led to nice improvements in the multi-socket bulk cipher performance on UltraSPARC T2+ processors. The improvements are available in the current build, snv_117...


Come to my talks, Intel is raffling 2 Netbooks! (David Dagastine's Weblog)

    (Wed June 3 2009) Come to TS-5254 at 9:45am or TS-7499 at 4:10pm, Intel is giving away 2 netbooks. All the more reason to come to the sessions!...


Hot Chips 21 -- Sun's next-generation HW security accelerator (Lawrence Spracklen's Blog)

    (Mon June 1 2009) I'll be presenting Sun's next-generation on-chip UltraSPARC security accelerator at this year's Hot Chips. The preliminary program can be found here. ...


T2 acceleration of encrypt() (Lawrence Spracklen's Blog)

    (Mon June 1 2009) Following from my recent post mentioning the acceleration of encrypt/decrypt and OpenSSL enc using the T2 crypto HW (here) I went and did some basic tests to see what kind of uptick was achieved: La...


Java One 2009: Come check out my performance sessions (David Dagastine's Weblog)

    (Mon June 1 2009) This will be a busy Java One as I have two talks this year.  Both are on Wednesday June 3rd.9:45 am:  TS-5254 SPEC Java Platform Benchmarks and Their Role in the Java Technology Ecosystem.&n...


Inniostat - InnoDB IO Statistics (Neelakanth Nadgir's blog)

    (Thu May 28 2009) I wrote a small DTrace script to understand InnoDB IO statistics. This script shows statistics about different kinds of Innodb IO requests and how many of them result in actual IO. Sample output is sh...


Offchip bandwidth enhancement using compression (Lawrence Spracklen's Blog)

    (Thu May 28 2009) My slides on using light-weight compression to enhance available offchip bandwidth on future processors can now be found here. As way of an introduction, we found that light-weight compression schem...


Securing data in the cloud (Lawrence Spracklen's Blog)

    (Thu May 28 2009) An interesting project to backup and securely store ZFS snapshots to the cloud can be found here. This is a great opportunity for the UltraSPARC T2 cryptographic hardware accelerators that can be us...


InfoWorld weighs in on Energy Star for Servers (BM Seer)

    (Wed May 27 2009) New article on Energy Star for Servers http://www.infoworld.com/print/76258 Idle servers are the devil's tools So what's wrong with the new Energy Star criteria? Perhaps the most significant drawback...


Free Beer and Free Deep Dive (Bizarre ! Vous avez dit Bizarre ?)

    (Wed May 27 2009) For those lucky enough to be in the Bay area next week, I just heard there will be free unlimited beer and free access to the technical deep dives at the Community One event at the Moscone Center and ...


MySQL Innodb ZFS Best Practices (Neelakanth Nadgir's blog)

    (Tue May 26 2009) One of the cool things about talking about MySQL performance with ZFS is that there is not much tuning to be done Tuning with ZFS is considered evil, but a necessity at times. In this blog I will ...


Miles per gallon or GPM, same as perf/watt or watt/perf (BM Seer)

    (Tue May 19 2009) As a reminder: "Miles per gallon is misleading and can play tricks on our intuitions," Jack Soll said. Take this little test, if you think he is wrong: http://www.fuqua.duke.edu/news/mpg/mpg.html I...


Power-performance benchmarks show Linear estimates very accurate at different utilisation levels (BM Seer)

    (Fri May 15 2009) Servers have near-linear power response between Idle and 100% utilisation, that is just knowing idle and 100% utilisation you can come up with very good estimates of watts used at any utilisation lev...


Queue, CACM, and the rebirth of the ACM (The Observation Deck)

    (Fri May 15 2009) As I have mentioned before (if in passing), I sit on the Editorial Advisory Board of ACM Queue, ACM's flagship publication for practitioners. In the past year, Queue has undergone a significant trans...


SPECpower_ssj2008 Sun Netra X4250 - SPECpower issues highlighted (BM Seer)

    (Thu May 14 2009) Sun has finally published some results that show the configuration issues with SPECpower_ssj2008, these three results substantiate a just a few of the issues that I've been talking about with SPECpowe...


Olio Java EE source code released (Kim LiChong's blog)

    (Wed May 13 2009) I'm happy to announce the availability of Olio Java source code as an apache incubator project!     What is Olio exactly? Project Olio is a web2.0 toolkit that can be used to invest...


Observing Intel's "Turbo Boost" feature with PowerTOP (End of Line)

    (Fri May 8 2009) One of the most interesting features of Intel's Core i7 and the Xeon 5500 processors (Nehalem) is the ability of the processor to go into a mode called "Turbo Boost". While most modern processors are ...


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