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The Mighty Guys of Power

By David Stewart (Intel) (138 posts) on September 4, 2008 at 10:08 am

More from Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, Fall 2008

This photo makes me smile in a couple of ways:

• This is a booth at the Demo Showcase at the most recent IDF, from one of our fantastic corporate partners in the OpenSolaris project
• The purpose of the booth was to show the deep commitment these guys have for greening the datacenter through software running on Intel hardware.
• As I have said before, greening is not just a job for platform building block vendors like Intel. It's also the responsibility of OS vendors and Independent Software Vendors. And heck, for any enterprise developer. This is what I was talking about in this 5 minute video.
• I smile also because these guys are showing off PowerTOP v1.1 for Solaris in their booth. Not only is it running on the "bare metal" OS but also running in an OpenSolaris Virtual Machine guest, running under xVM Server, which is based on Xen.
• Although there were four other booths that I counted for this partner, this seemed like one of the best trafficed of the booths.
• But the biggest smile of all comes from the fact that this gang of demo guys are all quite senior OS architects / developers. These guys have all contributed serious code to the Intel platform project in the OpenSolaris project, and particular in this area of power management.
• Having done booth duty myself, this is an incredibly exhausting job. I'm proud of you for doing this!

According to these guys, they got hundreds of queries as a result of the booth, which should result in great conversations about OpenSolaris and power management.

Congratulations to these my good friends and colleagues from the OpenSolaris project! Well done!

Categories: Open Source, Virtualization

Comments (2)

September 4, 2008 9:04 PM PDT stevel

... and, this group of guys (Darrin, Bill, Eric, Jonathan, and Kuriakose from left->right) are 5 of the nicest and best engineers at Sun. Eric was the guy who recruited me to join Sun, and I learned pretty much 95% of everything I know about Solaris from working with Eric & Jonathan. Fantastic guys. :-)

September 5, 2008 8:55 AM PDT David Stewart (Intel) Total Points: 9,435 Status Points: 9,435 Black Belt

@stevel - I totally agree with you. Having worked with the best and brightest from all of the industry's biggest players, these guys have been the best by far - the most relational, focused on results rather than rancor, and very nice. (Thanks also for naming these guys, I thought it better for someone else to do that...)

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