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Archived Illumos Articles
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11 Aug 2008
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OpenSolaris in review July 2008 [20385]
By Tim Foster, Sun Microsystems, Solaris Engneering Ops
July's (slightly shorter than usual?) news report - as always, please add missing stuff to the comments section. Topics include:
- Project Sierra - more Intel wifi chipsets
- OSDEvCon presentations and videos online
- Integrated Load Balancer project
- OpenSolaris development build nv_93-based available
- Milax 0.3.1 for SPARC
- OpenSolaris Trademark Policy 1.0 - Wed Jul 16 "]
- Belenix 0.7.1
- Community Governance simplification conversations
- PSARC 2008/393 zfs primarycache and secondarycache properties
See also the OpenSolaris Trademark page.
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11 Aug 2008
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OpenSolaris Storage Summit, San Jose, September 21st, 2008 [20416]
To be followed by SNIA's Storage Developer Conference.
Ben Rockwood says that, "The first annual OpenSolaris Storage Summit is coming on Sunday, September 21st, to San Jose, to be followed by SNIA's Storage Developer Conference. This is really exciting. SNIA SDC is one of the best storage conferences in the world (along with USENIX FAST), and OpenSolaris is undoubtedly the most powerful storage platform on earth... this is an excellent opportunity to get a lot of excellent and rewarding information in a week and get to meet the minds behind the technology in OpenSolaris."
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05 Jul 2008
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OpenSolaris and NUMA Architecture [20261]
Video of Rafael Vanoni Polanczyk at the Open Solaris Developer Conference
Rafael Vanoni Polanczyk, from Sun's Solaris Kernel Performance Group
delivered a 40 minute talk called, "OpenSolaris and NUMA Architecture", at the Open Solaris Developer Conference.
Topics in the talk:
- Where did NUMA come from?
- Access Latencies
- Topology Considerations
- Optimizing for NUMA
- Topology discovery
- A peek at the implementation
- Where is NUMA going?
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01 Jul 2008
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OpenSolaris in Review June 2008 [20233]
ByTim Foster, Sun Microsystems, Solaris Engneering Ops
Tim recently summarized what the OpenSolaris community has been talking about, including:
- 1st Community Strategy Planning meeting
- New AI Prototype Available
- Apple fixes their DTrace bug (thanks!)
- DTrace on FreeBSD
- MilaX 0.3.1
- Storage Driver Test Suite (SDTS) open sourced!
- PSARC/2008/382
- PSARC 2008/302 DTrace IP Provider integrates
- The Times They Are A-Changin'
- We Are Three! (Happy Birthday OpenSolaris)
- rum v0.1
- OpenSolaris pkg repository updates to nv_90, nv_91
- Jun '08
- OpenSolaris 2008.05 bundled with C't magazine
- "A Network In A Computer"
- OSDevCon photo & 5,500 other OpenSolaris-related photos
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