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Today marks the one year anniversary of Intel and Sun joining together in collaboration to improve the Solaris operating system, among other things. Here's the way I tell it to people: "We're working to make Xeon the best platform to run Solaris."
One year into our collaboration marks a great time to review what we have done together so far in our joint development work to make Xeon/Solaris great. All of these would have been *impossible* without serious collaborative work with Sun. (And incidentally, it's a lot of fun for us to work with the experts in this community).
Well, I'm sure I'm forgetting a lot, but this came off the top of my head today. And of course for this year, I'm staring at a long list of things we're doing to make sure our 2008 processors (Nehalem and friends) are supported right out of the chute on OpenSolaris.
I hope this doesn't sound like bragging or boasting here – I am really extraordinarily proud of the Intel team and the people we have worked with at Sun and other places in the OpenSolaris community to make this project great. Thanks all for a great year and for a fantastic 2008!
| January 22, 2008 8:18 PM PST
Lee Hepler |
I hope Intel engineers are also working on support for Intel chip sets. I will be upgrading my hardware this weekend to an X38 based motherboard and a E8400 processor. It will be a bummer to wait for several months to run Solaris on this system if it doesn't run yet. Intel wants open source developers to use their platforms and most of us use the desktop chips and chip sets. I must admit this is only my second Intel build (not counting the Z80 systems) with the first being a DX2-66 machine. I've been running AMD ever since the Pentium first came out but Intel has done such a briliant job on the new CPU's that I just couldn't resist. Too bad they delayed the Quad cores. I wanted the extra cores so I could run 2 or three OS's at once to learn more about virtualization. Lee Hepler |
| January 23, 2008 12:23 AM PST
Jim Grisanzio | cool. congrats. :) |
| January 23, 2008 1:36 AM PST
Glynn Foster | Awesome list - congrats Dave on all the hard work you and your team have done. Very cool to know that you guys are a strong part of the OpenSolaris community. |
| January 23, 2008 2:20 PM PST
David Stewart (Intel)
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To Lee Hepler - > Hope you have a good experience with your X38 / E8400. > For such new hardware, I would recommend that you go with OpenSolaris rather than Solaris 10. > We're definitely working on enabling new chipset technologies. > I just talked to someone who is running OpenSolaris build 80, and it's running great on a X38 with the E8400 processor. |
| January 24, 2008 12:11 PM PST
Rayson | Very nice!! |
| January 28, 2008 12:35 AM PST
Happy Aether Bunny |
As of last night: E8400 + Intel DQ35JO + 8Gb + b79 = works. b70 suicided in the boot loader, b79 had no such problems, onboard graphics didn't like the 1920x1200 monitor so I ended up using any old nvidia. no sound ^^; I do wish the intel bios would allow you to move that 750mb of junk out of the way, it feels like I'm wasting half a DIMM. |
| January 28, 2008 4:00 AM PST
Rick (Vectorpedia) | Intel and Sun was a great marriage........keep up the good work ! |
| January 29, 2008 9:45 AM PST
Vijay Tatkar |
Great blog, Dave. Working with you in this year has been one of the high points of this relationship. On the compiler side, we've made tremendous strides with Core2 instruction selection and tuning, which resulted in HUGE SPECfp increases. As noted here: http://blogs.sun.com/tatkar/entry/sun_studio_12_patch_performance Similar results with the now tuned Sun Performance Library as well. Onward, to even bigger and better things. Not only is there accomplishments of the past year, but theres wonderful momentum built up as well. Cheers! Awesome work, Intel! |
| January 29, 2008 9:52 AM PST
David Stewart (Intel)
| Congratulations, Vijay! I'm very impressed with the progress you have made on SPECfp and I'm looking forward to more and better things with the premier compiler for Solaris/Xeon. |
| March 12, 2008 4:04 AM PDT
IBRAHIM FAGGE | such joint togetherness is an important mark up point in this IT Era. |

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