Blogs about the Solaris OS, OpenSolaris, DTrace, Predictive Self-Healing, Fault Management, Networking, Security, Performance and
Availability, and much more. For blogs about compilers and tools for the Solaris platform, see Sun Studio blogs. See the OpenSolaris community for blogs by OpenSolaris members. More blogs related to Solaris technology can be found at planet.solaris.org and Planet Sun (solaris).
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
An accurate + comprehensive + carefully researched + NPOV history of OpenSolaris on the desktop by an independent publication is totally nonexistent (not even close) as far as I know. Now read ......
dtrace.conf(08)
Posted by bmc on Sun, 16 Mar 2008 21:45:21 -0700
dtrace.conf(08) was this past Friday, and (no surprise, given the attendees), it ended up being an incredible (un)conference. DTrace is able to cut across vertical boundaries in the software st ......
I ' ve been falling further and further behind on blogging for a while - maybe
I ' ll catch up someday with the cache of posts I have stored in my brain half
written (there ' s a new issue of the ......
Fresh on the heels of our announcement to acquire MySQL, Sun just revealed our intent to acquire Innotek . Located in Germany, Innotek is staffed with a bunch of very, very smart folks who have de ......
The Re-org
Posted by jimgris on Fri, 16 May 2008 09:08:30 -0700
The OGB has started a discussion
about a potential reorganization of the OpenSolaris community. This
grew out of the re-org that started last year with the previous OGB and
also discussions on v ......
Not @ Java ONE
Posted by dlacher on Thu, 8 May 2008 04:43:10 -0700
I feel a little out of the loop this year, one that Java ONE just snuck up and it happening now and that I am not attending and have not been following the news... time to get my head out of the sand ......
This originally was going to be a post-mortem on dtrace.conf, but so much time has passed, that I doubt it qualifies anymore. Back in March, we held the first ever DTrace (un)conference, and I ho ......
I noticed that time was all over the place on my Solaris guest, and it made me wonder just how to measure and quantify time on a virtualized guest. The problem is, if you use gettimeofday() in the gu ......
git user ' s guide?
Posted by Chris Quenelle on Tue, 6 May 2008 23:37:00 -0700
I ' ve been trying to study up on git recently. There don ' t seem to be any books available on it. I ' ve read a few introductions. I had a few minutes to play with it last week, and I got to ......
JavaOne wrapped up on Friday. We hosted individuals from across the globe, and from every industry: consumer electronics and gaming, to enterprise IT, space exploration, factory automation, the auto ......
It is that time of the year when many PostgreSQL fans gather in Ottawa, Canada for PGCon 2008 next week. This will be my first visit to PGCon in Ottawa. Earlier this year I had presented two sessions ......
Last week something really exciting happened in OpenSolaris: we got a native Windows CIFS server checked in. CIFS, also known as SMB, is the file sharing protocol used by Microsoft Windows systems, a ......
This weekend I decided to
bite the bullet and convert my desktop to Indiana Preview 2. Since
unlike most people at Sun my desktop machine also receives my email,
and hosts both my home directory ......
The preliminary agenda for the Sun HPC Consortium has been published on their conference site. Andy Bechtolsheim, Sun co-founder and Chief Architect, will keynote the event.
The Sun HPC C ......
