Inside Solaris Engineering
Sun and Intel Joint EngineeringHigh level overview of the joint engineering work on Solaris in the areas of performance, energy efficiency, and reliability. PowerTOP & Turbo BoostTechnical 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. Power Aware Dispatcher & Deep C-statesTechnical 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. SSE Instructions & CPU Performance CountersTechnical review of how the Intel Xeon Processor 5500 Series running on Solaris can improve application performance by utilizing instruction set extensions (like SSE) and by observing performance characteristics of applications (with Performance Counters). Microcode Update & Fast RebootTechnical review of how the Intel Xeon Processor 5500 Series running on Solaris can reduce downtime and improve efficiency with Microcode Updates into the processor and Fast Reboot of the operating system. Memory Placement Optimization & Intel Hyper-Threading TechnologyTechnical discussion of how Solaris optimizations on the Intel Xeon Processor 5500 series for memory utilization and threaded applications enable new levels of application performance. Tickless ClockTechnical 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. Sun's x64 Open Network Systems for Web InfrastructureHigh performance, flash-ready, energy efficient NEW x64 blades and servers Sun's x64 Open Network Systems For EnterpriseNew x64 Virtualization Optimized Blade and Rack Servers Sun's x64 Open Network Systems For HPCSun innovation delivers high density, low latency and high performance clusters
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