Behind the scenes of the Fishworks development
Bryan Cantrill put together some thoughts and anecdotes about the development of Fishworks in Fishworks: Now it can be told. He writes in regard of the dtrace based appliance analytics:...
Interesting links about the Sun Storage 7000 series.
There are two interesting articles about the new storage from Sun: Amitabha Banerje wrote about an benchmark with filebench on the 7410. Another good article is Josh Simons’ article about...
links for 2008-11-12
faban: Project Faban Opensours Load Generator and Benchmarking Tool from Sunsource (tags: tools web tuning tool testing test sun stress scalability project)
E25K - the most expensive blade rack of the world
There is another important new product: Sun Fire USBRDT 5240 Uniboard. To get the expectations right: The unibord gets just power and cooling from the E25K chassis, it´s not about...
Illness
I´m not in the CEC presentations at the moment. Not because of laziness or gambling … a sinusitis striked me. That´s so typical … i travelling around the world to...
Nice side blow ...
David Blasingame writes in his blog: What do you get when you mix Sun Servers, ZFS, DTrace and Commodity Storage? A: Nervous competitors. I tend to agree ;)
Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems
The Sun Storage 7000 series storage just appeared on the Sun website today (albeit the lauch event here at CEC will only start in 3-4 hours). There are three systems...
ZFS and SSD in storage systems
Roch wrote an really interesting article about usage of SSD and ZFS in storage systems: Using ZFS as a Network Attach Controller and the Value of Solid State Devices. Worth...
SunCEC2008 - Day -1: Death Valley
SunCEC2008 Day -1: Flight to Las Vegas
Disclaimer: I wrote the text yesterday while waiting for my flight to Las Vegas I´m sitting at the airport of Chicago. It was a pleasurable flight so far, even when...
SunCEC2008 Day -1: The first day
I arrived well and healthy in Las Vegas. Was a smooth flight to Vegas, no “assumed” destruction of the tarmac by the pilot at the landings like at my trip...
CEC 2008 Day -1: SunRays
Hey people, leaving the public SunRays screenlocked is somewhat antisocial …
SunCEC2008 Day -2: A first step
There is an old saying: “Every journey begins with the first step”. My first step today s the step out of bed. And somehow this one is harder than usual...
Bond 22
Just viewed “A Quantum of Solace” with friends in a nearby cinema. Albeit the last Bond was a little bit better than the actual installment, it was an nice evening....
SunCEC2008 Day -3: Weather in Las Vegas
Weather in Las Vegas looks good. KLAS 070656Z 22004KT 10SM CLR 13/M07 A3031 RMK AO2 SLP260 T01281067 No clouds, 13 degrees and just 4 knots wind.
New storage systems
One of the events of the upcoming CEC: We will announce the OpenStorage systems in Las Vegas. Will write about them directly at the event. :)
OpenSPARC Internals
A really good source of in-depth informations about the UltraSPARC Tx processor line: OpenSPARC Internals. It´s available as a pdf-book for free after registration.
links for 2008-11-06
2004 Fire Publications - FK-5-1-12 Performance Characteristics: Recent Developments. (tags: fire suppressant) Zieht AMD den neuen Phenom auf November 2008 vor? - Planet 3DNow! - Das Online-Magazin für den AMD-User...
Mysql on SSD benchmarked ...
Roger Bitar did some really interesting benchmarks with mysql on SSD. In his benchmarks he artificially constrained the availability of memory for the mysql buffers (aka cache): We choose to...
Obama
I think, the people in the US made the correct choice last night. Congratulations! In my opionion Barack Obama has all the basics to be a great president. Let´s give...