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Eric Boutilier

Eric works in Sun's Solaris engineering organization developing Solaris community and open source programs. Prior to this role, he was a senior product manager in Solaris marketing; and prior to that, he was a presales systems engineer (SE) covering the academic and research (EDU) territory in the Chicago area.

Bryan Cantrill

Bryan is an engineer in Solaris Kernel Development. Recently, he -- along with Mike Shapiro and Adam Leventhal -- delivered a new dynamic tracing framework called DTrace. Per Bryan's profile on the OpenSolaris site: “When I'm not working on improving DTrace (and I’m not stuck in some meeting or approving some RTI), I’m probably either off improving ::whattype, debugging some random kernel bug, or (if I'm in a funk) upgrading leakbot’s cybernetic brain.”

Alan Coopersmith

Alan has been a developer in the X Window System group at Sun Microsystems for the past six years. His involvement in the greater X community included developing the IPv6 support and related X standards updates that were contributed by Sun to X.Org and XFree86. He also served as the Release Manager for the X.Org Foundation X11R6.9 release and as a developer on the X.Org modularization project that resulted in the X11R7.0 modular release.

Rich Green

As Executive Vice President for Software at Sun Microsystems, Rich oversees the Solaris Enterprise System, including the Solaris Operating System, the Java Enterprise System suites, N1 management software, Sun Studio and Java Studio developer tools. See also his full bio.

Jim Grisanzio

Jim is Community Manager for the OpenSolaris project. He has been at Sun for more than five years, mostly in Corporate Communications working on Java technology, standards, open source, and executive speech writing. Eighteen months ago, he moved from communications in the marketing organization to the OpenSolaris project in Solaris engineering. As program manager, his job is to help build an open source community around the Solaris Operating System.

HPC

The HPC Watercooler is authored by Rich Brueckner (AKA Flex Rex), HPC Programs Manager in the Systems Group.

Dan Lacher

Dan is a software development engineer working on HPTC clustering software and is currently focused on using Open MPI.

Adam Leventhal

A Solaris Kernel Engineer, Adam is one of the three authors of DTrace (the dynamic tracing facility new in the Solaris 10 OS), and is chiefly responsible for the user-level tracing components. In recognition of his work on DTrace, Adam has received Sun's Chairman's Award for technical excellence, and was named one of InfoWorld's Innovators of 2005. When he's not working on new features for DTrace, Adam has developed new observability tools for Solaris and spends a large amount of time applying those tools to bugs and performance problems.

Richard McDougall

A Distinguished Engineer, Richard specializes in Operating Systems technology and system performance. He is based at the Menlo Park Performance and Availability Engineering group, where he drives development of performance and behavior enhancements to the Solaris Operating system and Sun's hardware architectures. Richard authored the book “Solaris Internals” (Prentice Hall) with Jim Mauro, and is the lead author for "Resource Management" (Prentice Hall/Sun Blueprints).

Chris Quenelle

Chris is a tools developer at Sun Microsystems. He has worked on performance and debugging tools at Sun for more than 10 years. Currently he works on the Sun Studio compilers and debuggers

Jonathan Schwartz

The chief executive officer and president of Sun Microsystems, Schwartz is also an inveterate blogger. He was promoted to president and chief operating officer in 2004 and managed all operational functions at Sun -- from product development and worldwide marketing, to global sales and manufacturing.

Jignesh Shah

Jignesh works in Sun Market Development Engineering, helping ISV partners on the technical side to integrate products into specific solutions involving Sun.

Mike Shapiro

Mike is a Distinguished Engineer and architect for RAS features in Solaris Kernel Development. He led the effort to design and build the Sun architecture for Predictive Self-Healing, and is the co-creator of DTrace. Mike is the author of the DTrace compiler, D programming language, kernel panic subsystem, fmd(1M), mdb(1M), dumpadm(1M), pgrep(1), pkill(1), and numerous enhancements to the /proc filesystem, core files, crash dumps, and hardware error handling.

Bart Smaalders

I work on the Solaris kernel. Right now I'm working on:

• Improving Small System Performance (ssperf.eng)
In the past, I've worked on the following:
• Adding support for NUMA machines to the Solaris OS
• IOAdmin (the orignal metadisk)
• OpenWindows and CDE performance
• OS performance (where I wrote the nscd)
• Coauthored "Programming with Threads" with Steve Kleiman and Devang Shah
• Solaris Clustering (doing mostly gatekeeping)
• A couple of software patents dealing with function reordering and database preemption control
• Last, if not least, helped port Doom and Quake to Solaris and SPARC