OpenSolaris

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Episode #9: Keeping Drivers Under Control [Videos]
David Stewart talks about why devise driver stability is important for running your mission critical applications on Solaris or OpenSolaris, then he delves into the technologies that provide tons of s ...

Posted: 2008-10-20 13:09:18 by David Stewart (Intel), Jerry Makare (Intel)
cpu, Open Solaris, Intel Xeon, Open Sourcec Community, Open Source Technology, Intel Open Source Software, Devise Drivers, Direct Memory Access, IOMMU, IO Memory Management Unit, VT-D, Intel Platform, Solaris OS, David Stewart, Enterprise Software, Sun Microsystems, OpenSolaris, Optimizing Solaris, Solaris 10
Google love and OpenSource videos [Blogs]
Someone pointed out to me that I should google "xeon processors" and check out what pops up on the first page. Here is a screen shot of what happened when I did it this morning: Note towards t ...

Posted: 2008-10-30 14:36:38 by David Stewart (Intel)
xeon, Intel Software Network, "open source", OpenSolaris, video, Solaris
OpenSolaris and Intel Video - Keeping Drivers under Control [Blogs]
One of the cool things we have added to OpenSolaris recently is a capability which strengthens the whole foundation of stability on which the OS and processor rests. It does this by addressing one of ...

Posted: 2008-10-31 14:57:13 by David Stewart (Intel)
IOMMU, VT-D, "open source", Virtualization Technology, OpenSolaris, Solaris
Intel, Korea and OpenSolaris [Blogs]
Last month, I had the privilege of spending a few days in Seoul, the capital of the Republic of Korea. I visited Seoul once before in 1990. That was two companies ago for me, my first management jo ...

Posted: 2008-11-04 11:31:16 by David Stewart (Intel)
"open source", Korea, Seoul, Sun Tech Days, OpenSolaris, Solaris
OpenSolaris & Intel: Turbo Mode [Videos]
Episode 10 of the OpenSolaris & Intel video series with David Stewart, Engineering Manager, Intel Open Source Technology Center. Topic: Turbo Mode. As multi-core performance increases more and mor ...

Posted: 2008-11-07 13:02:09 by David Stewart (Intel)
xeon, OpenSolaris, DaveStewart, opensource
OpenSolaris and Centrino 2 [Blogs]
Last summer, Intel launched our latest mobile computing platform, branded Intel Centrino 2 processor technology. For a long time as we were doing OpenSolaris development, I used to know this platform ...

Posted: 2008-11-27 15:38:50 by David Stewart (Intel)
power management, "open source", ACPI, Centrino 2, DVD playback, graphics drivers, wireless device drivers, OpenSolaris, Power, mobile, Solaris
OpenSolaris & Intel: Advanced Graphics [Videos]
OpenSolaris & Intel® Xeon® Processors: Episode 11 Solaris and OpenSolaris are great for graphically intensive applications and it just gets better. David Stewart gets into all the great stuff I ...

Posted: 2008-12-02 18:01:51 by David Stewart (Intel)
open source, xeon, OpenSolaris, intel, Solaris
Tech Days Tokyo [Blogs]
Tokyo Tech Days 2008, originally uploaded by jimgris. I am currently in sunny Tokyo, Japan, to give a talk about Intel's products and our work in Java and the OpenSolaris operating system. I t ...

Posted: 2008-12-03 16:42:10 by David Stewart (Intel)
java, "open source", Japan, Tech Days, Tokyo, OpenSolaris, Solaris
My favorite OpenSolaris 2008.11 features [Blogs]
The next OpenSolaris binary release is due to launch any time now. It's turning into a pretty slick and sexy desktop release. Here are some of my favorite features: As I previously wrote here, I am ...

Posted: 2008-12-07 21:56:46 by David Stewart (Intel)
centrino2, OpenSolaris 2008.11, OpenSolaris, Solaris
Fantastic demo of OpenSolaris2008.11 [Blogs]
Roman Strobl, an OpenSolaris evangelist and an all around nice guy, has done a really terrific screencast of the new features in the newly launched OpenSolaris 2008.11. The video link is here All ...

Posted: 2008-12-11 01:55:34 by David Stewart (Intel)
demo, "open source", OpenSolaris 2008.11, Corei7, OpenSolaris, Nehalem, Solaris
Tech experts - worldwide innovation [Blogs]
I have just finished the week in China, and I am again astonished at the caliber of technology talent here. A work acquaintance from a US-based technology company told me that he is mentoring up-an ...

Posted: 2008-12-12 02:24:02 by David Stewart (Intel)
"open source", OpenSolaris, china, globalization, innovation, PRC
Does "popular" mean "better" in open source? [Blogs]
Here in the West, having a hit is considered the mark of success. If you do something that is really insanely great, it should become incredibly popular, no matter what the critics or the bloggers ...

Posted: 2008-12-18 17:47:59 by David Stewart (Intel)
Ubuntu, "open source", OpenSolaris, DTrace, Jim Grisanzio, ZFS, Linux, Solaris
ATOM support now in OpenSolaris [Blogs]
I just got a heads up that two very interesting changes were just put back to the OpenSolaris code base, related to the Intel Atom Processor: Performance counters for Atom. Support for the MOVBE ...

Posted: 2008-12-22 19:08:20 by David Stewart (Intel)
netbook, netbooks, "open source", OpenSolaris, Embedded devices, Milax, Mobility, Solaris, MID
Singapore Tech Days - OpenSolaris and Intel [Blogs]
Just a quick note if you are celebrating anything between now and the end of January (Christmas, New Years, Hanukkah, Kwanza, Winter Solstice, Chinese New Year - did I catch everybody?) I will be spe ...

Posted: 2008-12-25 19:27:46 by David Stewart (Intel)
"open source", Tech Days, OpenSolaris, Singapore
OpenSolaris and Nehalem - a digital short [Blogs]
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". T ...

Posted: 2009-01-14 13:17:04 by David Stewart (Intel)
virtualization, power management, "open source", Virtualization Technology, OpenSolaris, new instructions, NUMA, SSE 4.2, VT, Xen, xVM, Core i7, Nehalem, Solaris
Tech Rock Star to speak at Brazil Tech Days [Blogs]
I just heard that Sean Maloney will be speaking at the next Sun Tech Days in Sao Paulo, Brazil on September 30! If you have not heard of Sean, here are some tidbits: Sean is one of the four ...

Posted: 2008-09-10 11:35:33 by David Stewart (Intel)
java, "open source", OpenSolaris, "Sean Maloney", Solaris, Sun
Sun + Intel + OpenSolaris + 2 Years = The Year of Core [Blogs]
Today is the second anniversary of the Sun and Intel joint agreement to optimize the Solaris operating system for Intel Xeon processors. Like last year, when I wrote this summary of our work, I decid ...

Posted: 2009-01-22 23:02:24 by David Stewart (Intel)
virtualization, power management, Threading Building Blocks, SSE, IOMMU, Intel Core Microarchitecture, ACPI, OpenSolaris, IOAT, DTrace, new instructions, NUMA, Xen, xVM, Dunnington, Fault Management Architecture, Intel Centrino2 processor, Intel Xeon processor, powertop, x2APIC, Wireless, FMA, Nehalem, Solaris, visual computing
PowerTOP: Dave enters a video game [Blogs]
Always wanted to see Dave Stewart fragged, as in "killed in a video game" ? Yes, I knew you did. Ah, yet another analogy goes haywire. This is another in a series of digital shorts about work Intel ...

Posted: 2009-02-22 01:35:32 by David Stewart (Intel)
power management, xeon, "open source", OpenSolaris, DTrace, powertop, atom, Centrino, Solaris
OpenSolaris & Intel: ZFS and Intel Architecture [Videos]
David Stewart shows how ZFS, one of the latest features of OpenSolaris and Solaris 10, works on the latest Intel architecture (Nehalem microarchitecture exemplified in Intel Core i7 processors). Hear ...

Posted: 2009-03-05 23:24:14 by David Stewart (Intel), Elizabeth Vice (Intel), venkatrajaraman
xeon, David Stewart, OpenSolaris, ZFS, CRC32, Core i7, Intel architecture, OpenSolaris Intel platform project, Optimizing Solaris, Tesla project, OS, OSS, Nehalem, intel, Solaris, SW developer, open-source community
OpenSolaris & Intel: Fault Management with Nehalem [Videos]
Episode 17 - David Stewart talks about fault management, the new CMCI (Corrected Machine Check Interrupt) feature on Nehalem server processors, and how the terrific reliability (Predictive Self-Healin ...

Posted: 2009-03-23 02:58:16 by David Stewart (Intel), Elizabeth Vice (Intel), venkatrajaraman
, xeon, David Stewart, OpenSolaris, Optimizing Solaris, Solaris 10, CMCI, Corrected Machine Check Interrupt, fault management, FMA, server processors, OS, OSS, Intel platform project, Nehalem, intel, Solaris, SW developer, open-source community
OpenSolaris & Intel Xeon Processor 5500 Series: Building Big Systems [Videos]
Episode 18: OpenSolaris & Intel Xeon Processor 5500 Series - Building Big Systems - David Stewart explains when bigger really is better, and what they’ve been doing to make the Intel Xeon proces ...

Posted: 2009-04-05 14:40:42 by David Stewart (Intel), Elizabeth Vice (Intel), venkatrajaraman
, xeon, David Stewart, OpenSolaris, x2APIC, Optimizing Solaris, Solaris 10, OS, OSS, Intel platform project, Nehalem, intel, Solaris, Xeon 5500, series, Nehalem EP, IDT, multi-processor server processors, SW developer, open-source community
Congrats to the OpenSolaris team for 2009.06 [Blogs]
Although I'm not working actively on OpenSolaris any more, I was happy to see the launch today of OpenSolaris 2009.06. See Glenn's announcement email here. The download of the LiveCD distro went do ...

Posted: 2009-06-01 19:59:37 by David Stewart (Intel)
"open source", OpenSolaris, powertop, Solaris, compiz, OpenSolaris 2009.06, Poweer Aware Dispatcher
Two Years Later: Why Linux people still lust after DTrace [Blogs]
Bill Pearson from the Intel Software Network posted a declaration of a party on the occasion of the 2000th blog post on ISN. One of the highlights he listed was the conversation which was engender ...

Posted: 2009-06-04 17:36:21 by David Stewart (Intel)
Intel Software Network, "open source", OpenSolaris, DTrace, powertop, Linux
Glynn Foster from Sun Discussing OpenSolaris [Videos]
In this video from the Intel booth at OSCON, Glynn Foster, OpenSolaris Product Manager at Sun Microsystems, talks about the OpenSolaris community project and describes the release process for OpenSola ...

Posted: 2009-09-24 10:39:22 by Dawn M. Foster, Julie Ann Baker (Intel)
open source, OSCON, OpenSolaris, OSCON2009
Robert Kasten on OpenSolaris Collaboration [Videos]
In this video from the Intel booth at OSCON, Robert Kasten, Senior Engineering Manager at Intel, talks about the collaboration between Intel and Sun in the OpenSolaris community to improve system perf ...

Posted: 2009-10-13 09:23:37 by Dawn M. Foster, Julie Ann Baker (Intel)
open source, OSCON, Open Solaris, OpenSolaris, OSCON2009, robert kasten