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 is doing in OpenSolaris. (Have I really done 15 of these things). This one is about PowerTOP, and how you can use it to "green" your software applications and drivers. I also talk about our use of DTrace to collect the information. And too, the video production guys have fun with a few special effects as well. Enjoy.

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.


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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.

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-and-coming technologists in Beijing. The way he put it was like this: "The smartest 1% of Chinese people is a really large number of people - like 140,000 people. Compared with the smartest 1% of the United States, you simply have a lot of really smart people."