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OpenSolaris and Nehalem - a digital short

By David Stewart (Intel) (174 posts) on January 14, 2009 at 1:17 pm

Another in the series of 5-minute videos on OpenSolaris and Xeon Processors.

This one is about the details in our work on the Intel Core i7 processor, previously known as the codename "Nehalem". The community has been busting hump all year with a laser focus on optimizing OpenSolaris and Solaris for Nehalem. And why not? The architecture has some truly new and exciting advancements for Intel.

Hope you like it - appreciate your comments.

Original video source
YouTube version if you prefer

Shameless request: If you can watch the Blip.tv version to the bitter end, I can get an accurate count of views... thanks!

Categories: Manageability & Security, Open Source
Tags: Core i7, Nehalem, new instructions, NUMA, OpenSolaris, power management, solaris, SSE 4.2, Virtualization, Virtualization Technology, VT, Xen, xVM

For more complete information about compiler optimizations, see our Optimization Notice.

Comments (9)

January 14, 2009 4:01 PM PST Wilson Peralta

Very informative. How can I get a T-shirt like what you have on?

January 15, 2009 6:38 AM PST EdwardOCallaghan

Hi, Good work. However, Intel is still has yet to fix atleast one of my two my bug reports ! http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=2978 http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=3582 The SATA controller is definitely priority one. What are Intels processes for dealing with current customer issues and how may I accelerate this long over due bug to be fixed? Thank you, Edward O'Callaghan.

January 15, 2009 1:23 PM PST David Stewart (Intel) Total Points: 12,330 Black Belt

Hi Edward - I'm checking to see if we have any 945 / ICH7 systems around. They pre-date my group, so I'm in the process of scrounging. Sun is handling 1st level support for Solaris and OpenSolaris... our processes get involved if they need to escalate something to us.

January 18, 2009 12:28 PM PST Edward O'Callaghan

Hi David, Thank you very much for getting back to me ! If you need any extra info, be sure to get back to me via email. Once again, Thanks, Edward O'Callaghan.

May 3, 2009 3:43 AM PDT Simon Breden

Great work David, I'd like to try out one of the lower-end 5500 series Xeon chips (5504) in a Solaris ZFS NAS. Got any engineering samples going? Just for test purposes :) I found some more great videos here of Intel Nehalem innovations in OpenSolaris: http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/intel/performance.jsp Cheers, Simon

November 16, 2009 9:28 PM PST Peter Lu

Thanks for the great video. A quick question: is Intel going to support its compilers and libraries (IPP in particular) on OpenSolaris? I've been using Windows and Ubuntu Linux for years, specifically because the support for compilers and libraries is so good. Yet nothing similar appears to be available on OpenSolaris from Intel (I'm told the Sun compilers are good, but there's no IPP, which my applications depend on). Any thoughts or links? Thanks.

March 4, 2010 5:52 PM PST Robin

Am I the only one who has noticed the Elephant in this room? When you install the Opensolaris's so called Operating System on a computer, it can only "see" its own installed file system. This worthless Operating system takes longer than the top of the line best Windows-OS to install, and then has nothing of any value to offer. Yes it puts a nice shade of blue on the screen with a few pretty icons on it, but that is about all of it. Opensolaris has no clue where the disk A, B, or C are or what is on them. It only sees and interacts with its own limited files. It takes another several hours to convince it to connect to the internet. As a waste of time for people who like to play with new and worthless computer programs, the OpenSolaris OS is an excellent piece of trash to play with, but as a serious useful quick Operating system that can read and write documents, open video files, do data graphing and calculations, draw, and get on the internet, this so called Operating system does not operate and can't even detect the computer's systems.

May 28, 2010 7:35 AM PDT erma

Ma che dici!!!

June 18, 2010 10:34 PM PDT Gio

Robin, I suggest you get a clue or research more before making off base opinions about something that you obviously know nothing about. You missed the whole point of OSol and ZFS. Google should be your friend. Intel also gets it. You don't...

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