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Meeting Information for April 16, 2008Charles Alexander did a presentation on VirtualBox and server virtualization. For the past four decades Charles has worked primarily as a systems analyst and engineering manager. During the last 10 years, Charles' primary focus has been to lead the development of enterprise engineering best practices. Charles is currently a Senior Engineering Manager within Sun's software organization where he leads a team developing best practices for the deployment of large scale messaging systems. Ryan Scott also presented on What's New in OpenSolaris. This was a quick look at the changes that have gone into OpenSolaris in the past several months. Meeting Information for January 16, 2008Ryan Scott presented the Sun xVM Hypervisor technology in OpenSolaris. Meeting Information for October 17, 2007The September meeting featured a presentation on LDoms by Haik Aftandilian. Logical Domains provide server virtualization for UltraSPARC-T1 (Niagara) and UltraSPARC-T2 (Niagara2) based systems. This talk will provide an introduction to the Logical Domains design and implementation as well as the "sun4v" architecture. Haik is an OpenSolaris kernel developer on the Logical Domains team at Sun. Haik has been at Sun for over five years which has been spent delivering bug fixes, enhancements, and new projects for Solaris on SPARC systems. Haik has worked on systems ranging from the Niagara and Niagara2 based servers up to Sun's largest servers such as the E25K and E6900.
Meeting Information for September 19, 2007The September meeting featured a presentation on ZFS by Richard Elling. ZFS is a new kind of file system that provides simple administration, transactional semantics, end-to-end data integrity, and immense scalability. ZFS is not an incremental improvement to existing technology; it is a fundamentally new approach to data management. We've blown away 20 years of obsolete assumptions, eliminated complexity at the source, and created a storage system that's actually a pleasure to use. Richard is a Senior Engineer in the Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability Engineering group at Sun Microsystems in San Diego, California. Richard had been a field systems engineer at Sun for five years. Richard was the Sun Worldwide Field Systems Engineer of the year in 1996. Prior to Sun, Richard was the Manager of Network Support for the College of Engineering at Auburn University, a design engineer for a startup microelectronics company, and worked for NASA doing electronic design and experiments integration for Space Shuttle missions. Richard also presented on What's New in OpenSolaris. This was a quick look at the changes that have gone into OpenSolaris in the past month. Meeting Information for August 15, 2007William (Bill) Franklin talked about the organization and processes used to manage OpenSolaris. Bill also took the opportunity to talk about the new installer, new packaging and Xen.William (Bill) L. Franklin is Sun's Senior Director of Engineering for the Solaris Core Operating System. Bill directs all development of the Solaris kernel and networking. Previous to managing Solaris development, Bill was responsible for Sun's Database Technology organization which provides the database technologies used in all Sun products and is actively involved in Apache Derby and Postgresql communities. Bill has worked at Sun for five years on enterprise products and open source projects. Prior to Sun Bill spent many years in a variety of start ups building enterprise middle-ware, as such he offers a unique perspective on using OpenSolaris in startup and early adopter ventures. Bill has managed distributed engineering organizations between Silicon Valley and Europe for over 15 years. He holds bachelors degrees in Computer Science and Economics from University of California at Berkeley, and an M.Sc. from University of Essex in England. He is a keen advocate of entrepreneurship and collaborative ventures. Ryan Scott also presented on What's New in OpenSolaris. This was a quick look at the changes that have gone into OpenSolaris in the past month. Meeting Information for July 18, 2007Ryan Scott presented Building and Deploying OpenSolaris. Ryan demonstrated how to download the OpenSolaris source code, how to make source code changes, and how to build and install these changes.He also presented on What's New in OpenSolaris. This was a quick look at the changes that have gone into OpenSolaris in the past month. Ryan is a kernel engineer in the Solaris Core Technology Group, working on implementing Solaris on the Xen Hypervisor. In previous work at Sun, he worked on Predictive Self Healing, for which he received a Chairman's Award for Innovation. He has also worked on error recovery and SPARC platform sustaining. Ryan joined Sun in 2001 after receiving a BSE in Computer Engineering from Purdue University. Meeting Information for June 20, 2007Our guest speaker was Scott Davenport. He has been at Sun since 1998 and has played a variety of roles within Sun, with most of them having a problem or system diagnosis slant to them. Most recently, he has been leading the team delivering the Predictive Self Healing features for the upcoming UltraSPARC-T2 family of products. Scott presented an overview of the Predictive Self Healing feature of OpenSolaris, also referred to as the Fault Management Architecture (FMA). Ryan Scott also presented on What's New in OpenSolaris. This was a quick look at the changes that have gone into OpenSolaris in the past month.Meeting Information for May 2, 2007Our featured guest speaker was Benoit Chaffanjon. Benoit talked about his practical experiences with DTrace in a presentation titled "Performance Analysis Methodology Using DTrace". He is an expert in performance analysis and benchmarking. Benoit has authored many performance papers and has presented at engineering conferences too numerous to mention. For more information, Google Benoit and also see his blog. |