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- Cost comparison: Solaris/SPARC vs Linux/x86
- Cost comparison: Solaris/SPARC vs Linux/x86CoolthreadsI'm beginning to doubt whether Coolthreads is really all it's cracked up to be. The problem is the performance boost seems to assume that you have a very parallelizable problem. In practice, this means you either have code that has been intentionally written to...
- Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, Processors, Servers, T2000, hardware, Sun Sparc, Sun Solaris
- Discussion threads 2007-12-06
- Cooltreads and Optimization
- Cooltreads and OptimizationAppropriate nameWith the Tx000 servers using such new "radical" architecture, it makes a ton of sense to have a dedicated community site for performance. This should be Sun's biggest selling point - speed - but you need to alter your "thinking" about programming.I would be interested to find...
- Tags: Mainframes, Development tools, Servers, Processors, Sun Microsystems Inc., compiler, T2000, PC, mainframe, IBM Corp.
- Discussion threads 2006-09-12
- Coolthreads and Optimization
- Last week I stumbled across a very interesting T2000 test blog from digitar in which the authors report having a single 1Ghz, eight core, T2000 running Solaris 10 with ZFS outperform an HP DL145 G2 with two Opteron 244s and Gentoo by up to 14.5 times. The most interesting...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., PHP, This PHP
- Blog posts 2006-09-12
- Migrating Sybase
- Last week I talked about configuring a Sun "Pod" consisting of a T2000 computer in a rack with a JBOD, a UPS, and some network gear. I'm still looking for help on picking and costing the rack and other non computing components - please: most of you must know more...
- Tags: Sybase Inc., Sun Solaris
- Blog posts 2006-01-09
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- Achieving magical results in IT
- Achieving magical results in ITClient assignments, no thanksI agree that Trust and empowerment are powerful motivators, but I doubt that there will be many cases where empowerment will be on the menu while assigned to a client area. This will require a similar shift in thinking for the client, away...
- Tags: Strategy, information technology
- Discussion threads 2008-06-30
- Separating the bigots from the sheep
- Separating the bigots from the sheepObjectivelyThe truly experienced objective candidate would propose both solutions outlined in your original post and rationalise a preference for one of them. (In my case that would be the Microsoft approach due to my background.)If a candidate can produce two approaches that are reasonably dipolar...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Murph, software, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2008-02-13
- Hey, I love you too, guy
- Here's a comment from not so frequent contributor "SO.CAL Guy": murph_z you should be the last person calling someone a zealot. your the biggest zealot on zdnet. your blog is near the bottom of the list for a reason. ...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Performance, Sun Microsystems Inc., T1, Intel Xeon, Performance Management, Processors, Servers, Networking, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-01-24
- VoIP Services Provider Dials in to Sun Fire T1000 and T2000 Servers to Help Vonage Lower Total Operating Costs
- Vonage is a leading provider of VoIP telephone services with more than two million subscribers, based in Holmdel, New Jersey. The Company's technology enables anyone to make and receive calls almost anywhere a broadband Internet connection is available. The company wanted to accommodate rapid growth in subscriber base to establish...
- Tags: VoIP Service, Sun Microsystems Inc., Vonage Holdings Corp., Sun Fire, Company, Telephony, VOIP, Telecommunications, Servers, Networking, Hardware
- Case studies 2007-12-01
- Deploying Sun Java Enterprise System on the Sun Fire T2000 Server Using Solaris Containers
- Improving the manageability and efficiency of enterprise infrastructure services poses a significant challenge to many organizations. The problem is compounded by the proliferation of individual servers used to run key enterprise applications including directory, portal, identity, mail, and calendar services. A recent Gartner report indicates that the power, space, and...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Problem, Sun Java, Sun Fire, Sun Java Enterprise System, Enterprise Infrastructure Service, Sun Solaris, Servers, Java, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- White papers 2007-10-02
- Sun's High-Performance and Reliable Web Proxy Solution
- As individuals and businesses depend on the Web more than ever to conduct business, rapid and reliable content retrieval is critical. Reducing wait time improves productivity and increases user satisfaction. Web proxy technology has emerged as an effective solution to improve performance, help ensure content availability and enhance network security...
- Tags: Web, Sun Microsystems Inc., High-performance, Channel Management, Processors, Servers, Marketing, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components
- White papers 2007-05-17
- Power, notebooks and solid state disks
- My much-loved HP Omnibook 300 notebook went from a 4-hour battery life to 10+ hours when used with a compact flash card instead of a disk. Your laptop won't. Ever wonder why?Me too.So here's a short course in laptop power.Measuring powerThere are a lot of wrinkles in the power game,...
- Tags: Uncategorized
- Blog posts 2007-04-23
- Sun's worst enemy: Sun
- Sun's worst enemy: SunI'm sure that that's not the whole newsletter ...... and it seems to me that you missed some other obvious points were he was setting himself up for "shooting in the foot". The classic one being about hidden support costs when using a "free" operating systems. Pardon...
- Tags: Sun Solaris, UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Servers, Sun Microsystems Inc., Linux, software
- Discussion threads 2007-04-02
- What users want (4)
- Invisible computing. The easiest way to make a large system implementation fail is to under power the hardware - particularly during user training and pre-implementation pilot operations. The reason this works is that users want systems to be non frustrating - and the negative impact of one...
- Tags: What users care about, Sun, Infrastructure, Enterprise Policy, Development, General
- Blog posts 2007-03-01
- Details in tech journalism - a Sun Shiny example
- Details in tech journalism - a Sun Shiny exampleVeracity and JournalismIsn't this an example of what makes for a good journalist? Someone that digs deep and uncovers the truth WILL stand out in the crowd (and make themselves a target . . .).As for the funky numbers, I would say...
- Tags: Public relations, Servers, Concentric, T1000, Sun Microsystems Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-01-22
- Details in tech journalism - a Sun Shiny example
- Last Thursday Sun issued two sequential press releases signed by the same spokesman. The first, under the title "Sun Expands Solaris/SPARC CMT Innovation Leadership", announced the widespread availability of the 4GB DIMMS in the UltraSPARC T1 line, the corresponding megahertz rate increase to 1.4Ghz, progress on the "Neptune" TCP/IP...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Vonage Holdings Corp.
- Blog posts 2007-01-22
- Sun takes aim at Red Hat with Solaris 10
- Sun takes aim at Red Hat with Solaris 10Very nice, I'm sureHowever, Sun has a fundamental problem in the hardware dimension. They don't have much in the way of driver support for inexpensive platforms, their hardware though good is pricy, and outside of the basic AMP stack they don't...
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Processors, Programming languages, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Solaris, hardware, CDE, Sun Sparc, Red Hat Inc., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Sun Solaris 10
- Discussion threads 2007-01-16
- ZFS, HW RAID, and expensive mis-apprehensions
- Last week frequent contributor _dietrich drew everyones attention to a piece by Timothy Morgan comparing various low to mid range Unix and Windows servers from a "bang for the buck" perspective. Its an interesting piece of work and one I wish Id done despite Morgans politically...
- Tags: Sun Solaris, Operating systems, Performance management, Servers, duck, Unix, TPC/C, acronym, Sun Microsystems Inc., performance, server
- Blog posts 2006-12-20
- A reason for Unix sysadmins to thank Microsoft
- That Microsoft "get the facts" site is just chock full of fun stuff - and oddly enough I actually want to be positive about something I found there last week. Specifically, an IDC study on the choices people make when considering Unix/Linux or Windows as a migration target...
- Tags: Unix, Sun Solaris, IBM AIX, HP-UX, Vistabulations, Linux, General
- Blog posts 2006-11-23
- Reviewing a Microsoft anti-Linux case study
- As most people know Microsoft has an anti-Linux program called "Get the Facts" featuring case studies arguing the Windows case. When one of those, wearing the title: London Stock Exchange chooses windows over Linux for reliability, arrived in my email last week, I was sufficiently intrigued by the relative...
- Tags: General, Linux, Vistabulations
- Blog posts 2006-11-21
- Xserve Xeon, Thumper, and Apple's Market position
- Xserve Xeon, Thumper, and Apple's Market positionyes they had choicesFreescale, PA Semi ... and the outlier: SPARCWow ...Talk about smoke and mirrors ...But still, did Apple really have a choice, but to move to Intel? If not, then why complain about it?Careful Murph, you don't want to go against the...
- Tags: Apple Mac OS X, Desktops, Servers, Operating systems, Using AMD, Apple Inc., Apple Xserve
- Discussion threads 2006-11-06
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