Solaris for Intel Xeon Media Kit

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March 30, 2009 -- The Solaris platform, including the Solaris 10 Operating System (OS) and OpenSolaris, has been extended to provide performance, energy efficiency and reliability enhancements for the new Intel Xeon processor 5500 series.


Announcements


Solaris & Intel Joint Engineering
High level overview of the joint engineering work on Solaris in the areas of performance, energy efficiency, and reliability.

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Sun & SAP - Continued Collaboration

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PowerTOP & Turbo Boost

Technical review of how Solaris leverages the PowerTOP observability tool and Intel Turbo Boost Technology to maximize energy efficiency on the Intel Xeon Processor 5500 Series.

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Power Aware Dispatcher & Deep C-States

Technical review of how Power Aware Dispatcher & Deep C-states provide greater power efficiency without performance impact when running Solaris on the Intel Xeon Processor 5500 Series.

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Memory Placement Optimization & Intel Hyper-Threading Technology

Technical discussion of how Solaris optimizations on the Intel Xeon Processor 5500 series for memory utilization and threaded applications enable new levels of application performance.

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Tickless Clock

Technical discussion of how the Sun and Intel teams are working to make the Solaris kernel tickless, which means it will not periodically wake up to process a clock tick, but rather stay idle until an event of interest occurs, and then wake up.

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Multimedia

Sun and Intel Joint Engineering
Sun and SAP
PowerTOP & Turbo Boost
Power Aware Dispatcher & Deep C-States
Memory Placement Optimization & Intel Hyper-Threading Technology
Tickless Clock

Podcast

Blog Talk Radio

Hear Herb Hinstorff, director of datacenter software business management at Sun, discuss the latest Solaris platform advancements for the new Intel Xeon processor 5500 series in this edition of Sun News with host Chhandomay Mandal.


Press Contacts

Jacki DeCoster
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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