Claesson.org

Here's a video of Ernest Lötter from ISS International (world leader in microseismological services and software for monitoring of mines) in Stellenbosch, sharing some info about the the NetBeans Platform Visual Library.

However, you need to learn Afrikaans first to understand it! In fact, this is (unless I am mistaken) the first screencast about the NetBeans Platform that is in Afrikaans! (German and Dutch speakers would probably understand the screencast though.)

The whole screencast is less than 5 minutes, it won't take much of your time, so take a quick look:

In summary, Ernest describes an extension to a homework exercise done during the NetBeans Platform Certified Training in Stellenbosch. He drags and drops a Node from a BeanTreeView into a Visual Library Scene (which the students learned to do during the course), shows how to extend that to a multi-drop scenario, talks about creating rules for ConnectionWidgets, and shows the zoom functionality in action.

By the way, the students in the Johannesburg training decided that "koeksister" is the Afrikaans equivalent of the NetBeans "cookie", while the students here in Stellenbosch have suggested "die NetBoontjie Fundament" as the equivalent name for "the NetBeans Platform"!

Join us at this live event in Milan to better understand what’s new with MySQL. You will learn more about the current and future state of MySQL, now part of the Oracle family of products. We will also cover Oracle’s investment in MySQL aiming to make it even a better MySQL.

In particular the following topics will be discussed:

• Oracle’s MySQL Strategy
• What’s New for:
• The MySQL Server
• MySQL Cluster
• MySQL Enterprise
• MySQL Workbench

Stay tuned because we are organizing a similar event in Rome that will be announced soon. Attendance is free, but you’ll need to register in advance. Seats are limited, register today!

When:

• September 28, 2010: 9:30am in Milan - Register here.

If you haven't seen Eduardo's post on the new faces in the GlassFish team, check it out. It's great to have more people working on the project and specifically on the 3.1 release which is going strong with Milestone 4 recently out and Milestone 5 set to be feature-complete by JavaOne (if all goes well).

Planning is documented on the GlassFish Wiki, milestones and promoted builds are available from download.java.net/glassfish/3.1/promoted.

Laird wrote this comment to my post on "Staying the Course"

Thanks, guys; it's got to be hard producing a great application server on a skeleton crew. Your work is VERY much appreciated.

Very nice comment, but I wanted to follow-up on the skeleton part.

We can always use some extra recs (Steve?) and we miss some old friends and contributors that chose not to stay at Oracle, but GlassFish is one of Oracle's strategic projects and it's benefited from Oracle's focus.

Here are four faces that you probably remember from previous projects at Sun that became key members of GlassFish in the last few months.  They are all very senior Sun engineers with experience in many Sun projects. Clockwise from top left:

• Chris Kasso - Previously in the Java Enterprise System and Update Center; currently the GlassFish 3.1 Engineering Lead.
• Tom Mueller - Previously in the Open Portal project; currently GlassFish Admin and Infrastructure Lead.
• Joe Di Pol - Previously in the Java Enterprise System and Update Center; currently Update Center and helping in multiple fronts.
• Santiago Pericas-Geersten - Previously in the GlassFish Mobility Platform; just joined the GlassFish Web Tier project.

There are many more contributors to GlassFish.  Some contribute directly, some to subprojects.  Many work at Oracle, but others, like Hervé Souchaud and Romain Grecourt at Serli folks, do not.  I've tried a few times to get a full list of the contributors; at some point I had collected all the folks that had submitted bugs see GlassFish Poster Project and this (now out-of-date) list - maybe time to try again.

JavaOne is quickly approaching and we wanted to take this opportunity to invite all JCP program participants, members, expert group member, spec leads, and EC memers to attend the activities planned during the JavaOne conference for JCP program enthusiasts.

Birds Of a Feather (BOF) Sessions:
- Java ME Checkpoint: Current Status and Future Directions - Tuesday, September 21, 7:00PM | Hilton San Francisco, Yosemite C

- Java Community Process: What You Like and What You Don't - Tuesday, September 21, 7:00PM | Parc 55, Cyril Magnin III

Expert Group Meeting Room:
As every year, the JCP PMO has arranged a room for in person meetings for the Expert Groups.
The room is available on a first-come-first served reservation system.
In order to book a slot, please email max@jcp.org with the desired schedule and he will confirm or recommend alternative time slots should the room not be available.
The EG room is in the Hilton San Francisco Union Square:
333 O'Farrell Street, San Francisco, California, United States 94102
The Hilton is one of the three Hotels where the main JavaOne sessions are going to be held, so it is very conveniently located.


JCP Community Event:

Our annual JCP community Event. Join us to celebrate the recipients of the JCP awards. Join the PMO, Spec Leads, Expert Group Members and Executive Committees members to celebrate. Appetizers and drinks will be served as well as door prizes.  The event will be held at the Pacific Terrace of the Intercontinental Hotel at 888 Howard Street on Wednesday, September 22, between 6PM and 8PM on your way to the Oracle Appreciation Event. Shuttle buses to Treasure Island will be available less than a block away.

We look forward to seeing you there!

I have taken some screenshots of the various DBXtool versions that I described in a previous blog. Heres a slideshow based on those screenshots. Enjoy!

Hot on the heels of the first release of odt2braille comes the new release: version 0.0.2 of odt2braille. This new release includes many features and enhancements, as well as new and updated braille translation tables in several languages (Catalan, Danish grade 2, Portuguese grade 2, and Spanish). This release also includes an updated user manual and a 6 part video tutorial on how to use it.

When combined with either Oracle Open Office or OpenOffice.org, odt2braille provides a powerful Braille embossing solution - even thought it is only at version 0.0.2... Great stuff!

Just in case you wonder about the relative silence in this blog ... i wrote a longer article in the last few days circling about Illumos, OpenSolaris, the Java lawsuit, some people in the Solaris community, an article about the live, the universe and all the rest ... it was a large big rant. I've decided not to put it on the blog ... a lot of work in the evenings for the bucket ... but believe me ... it's better that way

• Schneier on Security: More Skein News
• Keine Sympathien fuer ein Leistungsschutzrecht (Kultur, Medien, NZZ Online)
• IBM Names Itself Worst Company For Fixing Critical Software Security Bugs - Andy Greenberg - The Firewall - Forbes
• Boeing silent on specific 787 profit predictions
• Introducing tcprstat, a TCP response time tool
• Germanwings wird voller Miles&More-Partner

A blog is a website with a reverse chronological navigation structure for the articles. It implies certain expectations on both sides of the screen, i.e. the blog author and the dear reader. The author commits to provide more or less frequent articles about more or less well defined areas. The reader is invited to browse, read, comment, and subscribe the feed. At best, a conversation emerges, and becomes part of the blogosphere.

Good content and style is key, but even the best content does not fly if the blog's usability is poor. That's why I am continuously improving various aspects of this virtual UX blog. Let me share today the top 7 consideration that drove me to the current design. 

1) This is the end, now what?

No, it is not. It is just a catchy headline for my first point. A few users of the web might find the way to your blog. Some even start reading, but most of them just skim the page. The game is on. Either they hit BACK in a couple of seconds and are gone forever, or they spend a few moments more to skim, scroll, and read. Now ask yourself what happens if the reader reaches the end of the page. What links do you provide to keep the reader on your pages?

The default themes from Apache Roller and a few additional themes from Sun simply don't care. The reader is left alone in the middle of nowhere, and the chance is high that he clicks BACK because he has obviously reached a dead end.

Simple solution: Provide pagination both on the top and at the bottom of the page. In Roller you can add the following lines to the weblog and permalink templates in order to get a simple "« Previous | Main | Next »" navigation element:

#set($pager = $model.getWeblogEntriesPager())
#showNextPrevEntriesControl($pager)

Related: Persuasives Web-Design. Jenseits von Usability und Konversion von Sebastian Deterding

2) Good Tags - Bad Tags

It is no secret that I am a fan of tagging. If done right, it has many advantages both for the author, as well as for the reader. On blogs they act like a fingerprint of the content. They provide a fast impression what the blog is about without the need to browse several pages. In addition, they are a second-level navigation. (The first level navigation on blogs is the implicit reverse chronological order of articles.) All this is so convincing to me that I display my tag cloud on a very prominent spot, top in the left column. And BTW without a heading, because it is pretty obvious that these are tags.

Over time you will develop a personal vocabulary of tags. And you also have to do some house-keeping on your tags, e.g. combine tags and retag older articles. Errors become obvious if you use the tag cloud also for yourself to navigate your blog.  If the main tag cloud becomes too large, you should also increase the lower threshold when tags are shown.

I've written before about how to implement a tag cloud for a Roller blog.

Related: my tagged pages on tagging

3) The Look of the Link

This is a question of typography and usability. First of all, links must be recognizable. Why waste the time of the reader by making her hunt for the links? Why minimize the probability that links will be clicked by hiding them among the regular text? Underlining is rather typical for hyperlinks since the early days of the web, but legibility suffers as the line is too thick and too close to the baseline of the text. My current solution uses CSS to apply a thin red dashed bottom border. It changes to a gray dotted line once the link was visited. Red indicates a little bit more something new and hot, while the gray line is calm and less calling for clicks. I use this style for the blog articles. On the other hand, the second level links, like the tag cloud, links in side bar, and action links, have just a blue color without the border to avoid visual clutter.

Media links are treated a bit differently. Whenever a link points to a PDF or ODF document a little icon is added to indicate the type of the link. The good news is that it can also be handled automatically by CSS styles.

Related: The Look of the Link - Concepts for the User Interface of Extended Hyperlinks by Harald Weinreich and Harmut Obendorf

4) Fluid Layout

Although the general page layout is not very spectacular, there are some points to mention compared to the Roller & Sun standard themes. I have a fluid 3-column layout with a resizable main column to fit the width of the browser window. The idea is to adjust the content to the reader's window size, instead of letting him scroll vertically all the time, or wasting so much space as many newspaper sites do. However, there is a minimum width for my content to prevent an ugly rendering, and a maximum width to avoid long lines of text that cannot be read with ease anymore.

Even the images cannot break the layout, because their size is limited to 100% of the main column. BTW_ a nice drop shadow comes almost for free on modern browsers, just by setting the border attribute to 1. Here is the CSS:

div.entry img { max-width:100%; } img[border="1"] { -webkit-box-shadow: 2px 2px 12px #888; -moz-box-shadow:2px 2px 12px #888; }

The left column contains the tag cloud, about information, blog-rolls, resources, and author links last. The order of elements corresponds to the relevance for the reader. To the right we have first the search field to meet web browsing expectations. Then a random image from my flickr account to have at least one visual element on the blog to attract people from a different angle.
And finally, a news stream on virtualization. This is an interesting component, because it attracts even myself to come and check what's new on my blog!

Related: Information Plumbing

5) We are open. Be my guest. Let's have a conversation.

One benefit of blogs over classical web 0.9 sites is the ease of commenting. You do not have to change media to pick up the phone or send e-mail to the author. Instead the comments are appended straight to the article, and other readers or the author himself can pick up the ball and continue the conversation.

What I don't like on almost all blogs is the fact that comments are only visible on the article page itself. This makes it difficult to browse content and comments of the blog. So why not display the comments also on the main page? This grands prominent space to the comments and stimulates further participation. Though, it might become too crowded over time – several hundreds of comments on GullFOSS come to mind – but I do not have this challenge on my blog, and can deal with it when things go over any reasonable limit.

I've customized my Roller templates in a way to

• Invite readers to comment by placing a link "Add Comments" to the end of each blog article
• Display all comments also on the home page

I've also changed the default period when commenting is allowed to infinite. If a reader wants to comment on an article in the long tail, yes, feel free to do so. There is no reason to shut down the comments as long as the blog is still active.

So let's try it out. Let me know what you think about my usability improvements on this blog?

There are three kinds of mathematicians. The ones who can count. And the others who can't. – To be continued soon...

• Are you interested in learning the nuts and bolts of the Java EE 6 platform ?
• Do you want to learn on how Servlet 3.0, Java Server Faces 2.0, Context & Dependency Injection 1.0, Enterprise JavaBeans 3.1, Bean Validation 1.0, Java Persistence API 2, RESTful Web services and other new technologies in Java EE 6 provide a complete stack for building your Web & Enterprise applications ?
• GlassFish 3.1 adds clustering, high availability, application versioning and other interesting featuresm, above light-weight, OSGi-based modularity, and embeddability, making it the richest open source application server.
• Did you know that NetBeans, Eclipse, and IntelliJ provide comprehensive tooling around Java EE 6 and would like to learn it ?

If you are interested in learning any of these details then I'll be delivering 2-day workshops in 3 countries across Europe. The complete details about the venue and cost are available in the links below:

• Oct 4/5: Munich, Germany
• Nov 22/23: Czech Republic
• Nov 25/26: Hungary

This is going to be a complete deep dive for 2 days and extensive hands-on experience.

Be ready to drink from the fire hose and learn how you can leverage Java EE 6 in your next project to boost the productivity and simplify the development and deployment of your applications.

Register now!

Technorati: conf javaee6 glassfish workshop germany czech hungary

• Are you interested in learning the nuts and bolts of the Java EE 6 platform ?
• Do you want to learn on how Servlet 3.0, Java Server Faces 2.0, Context & Dependency Injection 1.0, Enterprise JavaBeans 3.1, Bean Validation 1.0, Java Persistence API 2, RESTful Web services and other new technologies in Java EE 6 provide a complete stack for building your Web & Enterprise applications ?
• GlassFish 3.1 adds clustering, high availability, application versioning and other interesting featuresm, above light-weight, OSGi-based modularity, and embeddability, making it the richest open source application server.
• Did you know that NetBeans, Eclipse, and IntelliJ provide comprehensive tooling around Java EE 6 and would like to learn it ?

If you are interested in learning any of these details then I'll be delivering 2-day workshops in 3 countries across Europe. The complete details about the venue and cost are available in the links below:

• Oct 4/5: Munich, Germany
• Nov 22/23: Czech Republic
• Nov 25/26: Hungary

This is going to be a complete deep dive for 2 days and extensive hands-on experience.

Be ready to drink from the fire hose and learn how you can leverage Java EE 6 in your next project to boost the productivity and simplify the development and deployment of your applications.

Register now!

Technorati: conf javaee6 glassfish workshop germany czech hungary

Not much new this time: just summary of part 3 published and fixed mistake in chapter 10 (thanks, Shane!).

Summary.

In the third part we discussed methods of application debugging in cases when query plays secondary role in the problem.

I'd like to bring your attention we only discussed most frequent cases while MySQL server has a lot of parameters which of them can affect application. Analyze parameters which you use. One of the methods is run problematic query using MySQL server running with option --no-defaults and examine if results are different for MySQL server run with parameter which you use. If results are different analyze why parameter affects it and solve the problem.

...

Rest of the chapter is here.

We're getting closer to official Grizzly 2.0 release and RC is a big step towards that target.

Ryan was faster than me, so I'll just refer his blog right here :)

With recent versions of GlassFish 3.0 (and beyond), the asadmin syntax has been cleaned up a bit and you might find your old syntax not working anymore for instance for doing remote operations on a given server and port.

asadmin now has a well-defined set of "common" options such as --host, --port, --terse that are independent of the subcommand used (start-domain, deploy, etc.). The full list of such options is documented here.

For instance, here's how to redeploy hello.war to a GlassFish server running on myserver.mydomain with admin port set to 4848 while preserving sessions :

      asadmin --host mymachine.myport --port 4848 redeploy --properties keepSessions=true hello.war

The three day NetBeans Platform Certified Training in Stellenbosch is over and here is a group pic:

In the background you should see a sunny view of the beautiful sunny Stellenbosch surroundings. But it's not so sunny today and we're all standing in front of the view...

Left to right: Gys (ISSI), Ernest (ISSI), Renoir (ISSI), Hendrik (ISSI), Ilana (ISSI), Cornel (ISSI), Matthew (Core Freight), Mark (Jumping Bean), Michael (UCT), Geertjan (NetBeans), Tim (Core Freight), Chris (PinkMatter), Renault (Traffic Management Technologies). Chris and Mark were in town for the day to do presentations to the group about open source (Mark) and Maltego (Chris).

If you were to remove all of the people from the above picture, you'd see this:

Now, the next two days begin—the advanced part of the course. Two days of porting a real application to the NetBeans Platform to get hands on experience of all that that entails.

People wondered why there is no release date defined in http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/OOoRelease33. For the past releases there was a detailed, complete release plan including date for all details in advance. That schedule is important for involved people (like l10n, qa and marketing folks) to plan their resources for the release and make the release process transparent for all.

With the current release we did not enter all concrete release details in this plan. In the past those dates were not that reliable, we missed schedules in the translation area, we missed schedules with frequent release candidates and due to miscellaneous other problems. Because of that we are now entering the date for the next upcoming milestones we know for sure but not for all dates in the future. As the release process is in general defined all participants are able to do the time estimation for their slots after the start of the release process, meaning the branch off of the code line.

Continue making the release date public although we know that there is a high probability that we miss the date is setting the wrong expectations to the public. And we continue to get reactions again like: "The OpenOffice.org release is delayed again."

The release status meeting stay responsible for the release coordination, so if there are questions or concerns please don't hesitate to show up there.

This is an occasionally-generated index of previous entries in the BestPerf blog. Skip to next entry

Colors used:

Benchmark
Best Practices
Other

Aug 25, 2010 Transparent Failover with Solaris MPxIO and Oracle ASM Aug 23, 2010 Repriced: SPC-1 Sun Storage 6180 Array (8Gb) 1.9x Better Than IBM DS5020 in Price-Performance Aug 23, 2010 Repriced: SPC-2 (RAID 5 & 6 Results) Sun Storage 6180 Array (8Gb) Outperforms IBM DS5020 by up to 64% in Price-Performance Jun 29, 2010 Sun Fire X2270 M2 Achieves Leading Single Node Results on ANSYS FLUENT Benchmark Jun 29, 2010 Sun Fire X2270 M2 Demonstrates Outstanding Single Node Performance on MSC.Nastran Benchmarks Jun 29, 2010 Sun Fire X2270 M2 Achieves Leading Single Node Results on ABAQUS Benchmark Jun 29, 2010 Sun Fire X2270 M2 Sets World Record on SPEC OMP2001 Benchmark Jun 29, 2010 Sun Fire X4170 M2 Sets World Record on SPEC CPU2006 Benchmark Jun 29, 2010 Sun Blade X6270 M2 Sets World Record on SPECjbb2005 Benchmark Jun 28, 2010 Sun Fire X4270 M2 Sets World Record on SPECjbb2005 Benchmark Jun 28, 2010 Sun Fire X4470 Sets World Records on SPEC OMP2001 Benchmarks Jun 28, 2010 Sun Fire X4470 Sets World Record on SPEC CPU2006 Rate Benchmark Jun 28, 2010 Sun Fire X4470 2-Node Configuration Sets World Record for SAP SD-Parallel Benchmark Jun 28, 2010 Sun Fire X4800 Sets World Record on SPECjbb2005 Benchmark Jun 28, 2010 Sun Fire X4800 Sets World Records on SPEC CPU2006 Rate Benchmarks Jun 10, 2010 Hyperion Essbase ASO World Record on Sun SPARC Enterprise M5000 Jun 09, 2010 PeopleSoft Payroll 500K Employees on Sun SPARC Enterprise M5000 World Record Jun 03, 2010 Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 World Record SPECjAppServer2004 May 11, 2010 Per-core Performance Myth Busting Apr 14, 2010 Oracle Sun Storage F5100 Flash Array Delivers World Record SPC-1C Performance Apr 13, 2010 Oracle Sun Flash Accelerator F20 PCIe Card Accelerates Web Caching Performance Apr 06, 2010 WRF Benchmark: X6275 Beats Power6 Mar 29, 2010 Sun Blade X6275/QDR IB/ Reverse Time Migration Feb 23, 2010 IBM POWER7 SPECfp_rate2006: Poor Scaling? Or Configuration Confusion? Jan 25, 2010 Sun/Solaris Leadership in SAP SD Benchmarks and HP claims Jan 21, 2010 SPARC Enterprise M4000 PeopleSoft NA Payroll 240K Employees Performance (16 Streams) Dec 16, 2009 Sun Fire X4640 Delivers World Record x86 Result on SPEC OMPL2001 Nov 24, 2009 Sun M9000 Fastest SAP 2-tier SD Benchmark on current SAP EP4 for SAP ERP 6.0 (Unicode) Nov 20, 2009 Sun Blade X6275 cluster delivers leading results for Fluent truck_111m benchmark Nov 20, 2009 Sun Blade 6048 and Sun Blade X6275 NAMD Molecular Dynamics Benchmark beats IBM BlueGene/L Nov 19, 2009 SPECmail2009: New World record on T5240 1.6GHz Sun 7310 and ZFS Nov 18, 2009 Sun Flash Accelerator F20 PCIe Card Achieves 100K 4K IOPS and 1.1 GB/sec Nov 05, 2009 New TPC-C World Record Sun/Oracle Nov 02, 2009 Sun Blade X6275 Cluster Beats SGI Running Fluent Benchmarks Nov 02, 2009 Sun Ultra 27 Delivers Leading Single Frame Buffer SPECviewperf 10 Results Oct 28, 2009 SPC-2 Sun Storage 6780 Array RAID 5 & RAID 6 51% better $/performance than IBM DS5300 Oct 25, 2009 Sun C48 & Lustre fast for Seismic Reverse Time Migration using Sun X6275 Oct 25, 2009 Sun F5100 and Seismic Reverse Time Migration with faster Optimal Checkpointing Oct 23, 2009 Wiki on performance best practices Oct 20, 2009 Exadata V2 Information Oct 15, 2009 Oracle Flash Cache - SGA Caching on Sun Storage F5100 Oct 13, 2009 Oracle Hyperion Sun M5000 and Sun Storage 7410 Oct 13, 2009 Sun T5440 Oracle BI EE Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 World Record Oct 13, 2009 SPECweb2005 on Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 World Record using Solaris Containers and Sun Storage F5100 Flash Oct 13, 2009 Oracle PeopleSoft Payroll (NA) Sun SPARC Enterprise M4000 and Sun Storage F5100 World Record Performance Oct 13, 2009 SAP 2-tier SD Benchmark on Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000/32 SPARC64 VII Oct 13, 2009 CP2K Life Sciences, Ab-initio Dynamics - Sun Blade 6048 Chassis with Sun Blade X6275 - Scalability and Throughput with Quad Data Rate InfiniBand Oct 13, 2009 SAP 2-tier SD-Parallel on Sun Blade X6270 1-node, 2-node and 4-node Oct 13, 2009 Halliburton ProMAX Oil & Gas Application Fast on Sun 6048/X6275 Cluster Oct 13, 2009 SPECcpu2006 Results On MSeries Servers With Updated SPARC64 VII Processors Oct 13, 2009 MCAE ABAQUS faster on Sun F5100 and Sun X4270 - Single Node World Record Oct 12, 2009 MCAE ANSYS faster on Sun F5100 and Sun X4270 Oct 12, 2009 MCAE MCS/NASTRAN faster on Sun F5100 and Fire X4270 Oct 12, 2009 SPC-2 Sun Storage 6180 Array RAID 5 & RAID 6 Over 70% Better Price Performance than IBM Oct 12, 2009 SPC-1 Sun Storage 6180 Array Over 70% Better Price Performance than IBM Oct 12, 2009 Why Sun Storage F5100 is a good option for Peoplesoft NA Payroll Application Oct 12, 2009 1.6 Million 4K IOPS in 1RU on Sun Storage F5100 Flash Array Oct 11, 2009 TPC-C World Record Sun - Oracle Oct 09, 2009 X6275 Cluster Demonstrates Performance and Scalability on WRF 2.5km CONUS Dataset Oct 02, 2009 Sun X4270 VMware VMmark benchmark achieves excellent result Sep 22, 2009 Sun X4270 Virtualized for Two-tier SAP ERP 6.0 Enhancement Pack 4 (Unicode) Standard Sales and Distribution (SD) Benchmark Sep 01, 2009 String Searching - Sun T5240 & T5440 Outperform IBM Cell Broadband Engine Aug 28, 2009 Sun X4270 World Record SAP-SD 2-Processor Two-tier SAP ERP 6.0 EP 4 (Unicode) Aug 27, 2009 Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 with 1.6GHz UltraSPARC T2 Plus Beats 4-Chip IBM Power 570 POWER6 System on SPECjbb2005 Aug 26, 2009 Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 with 1.6GHz UltraSPARC T2 Sets Single Chip World Record on SPECjbb2005 Aug 12, 2009 SPECmail2009 on Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 and Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.3 Jul 23, 2009 World Record Performance of Sun CMT Servers Jul 22, 2009 Why does 1.6 beat 4.7? Jul 21, 2009 Zeus ZXTM Traffic Manager World Record on Sun T5240 Jul 21, 2009 Sun T5440 Oracle BI EE World Record Performance Jul 21, 2009 Sun T5440 World Record SAP-SD 4-Processor Two-tier SAP ERP 6.0 EP 4 (Unicode) Jul 21, 2009 1.6 GHz SPEC CPU2006 - Rate Benchmarks Jul 21, 2009 Sun Blade T6320 World Record SPECjbb2005 performance Jul 21, 2009 New SPECjAppServer2004 Performance on the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 Jul 21, 2009 Sun T5440 SPECjbb2005 Beats IBM POWER6 Chip-to-Chip Jul 21, 2009 New CMT results coming soon.... Jul 14, 2009 Vdbench: Sun StorageTek Vdbench, a storage I/O workload generator. Jul 14, 2009 Storage performance and workload analysis using Swat. Jul 10, 2009 World Record TPC-H@300GB Price-Performance for Windows on Sun Fire X4600 M2 Jul 06, 2009 Sun Blade 6048 Chassis with Sun Blade X6275: RADIOSS Benchmark Results Jul 03, 2009 SPECmail2009 on Sun Fire X4275+Sun Storage 7110: Mail Server System Solution Jun 30, 2009 Sun Blade 6048 and Sun Blade X6275 NAMD Molecular Dynamics Benchmark beats IBM BlueGene/L Jun 26, 2009 Sun Fire X2270 Cluster Fluent Benchmark Results Jun 25, 2009 Sun SSD Server Platform Bandwidth and IOPS (Speeds & Feeds) Jun 24, 2009 I/O analysis using DTrace Jun 23, 2009 New CPU2006 Records: 3x better integer throughput, 9x better fp throughput Jun 23, 2009 Sun Blade X6275 results capture Top Places in CPU2006 SPEED Metrics Jun 19, 2009 Pointers to Java Performance Tuning resources Jun 19, 2009 SSDs in HPC: Reducing the I/O Bottleneck BluePrint Best Practices Jun 17, 2009 The Performance Technology group wiki is alive! Jun 17, 2009 Performance of Sun 7410 and 7310 Unified Storage Array Line Jun 16, 2009 Sun Fire X2270 MSC/Nastran Vendor_2008 Benchmarks Jun 15, 2009 Sun Fire X4600 M2 Server Two-tier SAP ERP 6.0 (Unicode) Standard Sales and Distribution (SD) Benchmark Jun 12, 2009 Correctly comparing SAP-SD Benchmark results Jun 12, 2009 OpenSolaris Beats Linux on memcached Sun Fire X2270 Jun 11, 2009 SAS Grid Computing 9.2 utilizing the Sun Storage 7410 Unified Storage System Jun 10, 2009 Using Solaris Resource Management Utilities to Improve Application Performance Jun 09, 2009 Free Compiler Wins Nehalem Race by 2x Jun 08, 2009 Variety of benchmark results to be posted on BestPerf Jun 05, 2009 Interpreting Sun's SPECpower_ssj2008 Publications Jun 03, 2009 Wide Variety of Topics to be discussed on BestPerf Jun 03, 2009 Welcome to BestPerf group blog!

I don't normally repost someone else's blog, but this is a good occasion. Think Thin (no relation) shows the quickness and speed of the latest Oracle Virtual Desktop Infrastructure in a 5 minute demo.

He demonstrates how easy it is to login and run different clients using Oracle VDI 3.2 from his mac using the same software that I use to connect to internal Sun Ray servers for work.  Scott was right, the network is the computer these days.

There was also a very interesting webcast by John Fowler and  Edward Screven recently, you can catch the replay here:  and also catch up all the Virtualisation news at the main Oracle site.

Happy viewing

업무용 랩탑의 데스크탑 OS를 Oracle Enterprise Linux로 변경하였습니다. (이제 저도 리눅스 가이???!!!)

Solaris 10은 테스트를 위해서 VirtualBox를 이용하여 게스트로 설치해 두었고 빈 파티션을 두어 Solaris 10 Update 9이나 Solaris 11 Express가 출시되면 여차하면 멀티부팅 환경으로 사용할 예정입니다. 9월 16일 Oracle OpenWorld 2010 행사에서 Solaris 10 Update 9 및 Solaris 11 Express의 발표가 있을텐데 하루 빨리 릴리즈되어 소식을 전해드릴 수 있으면 합니다.

- Oracle Enterprise Linux Desktop -

- Solaris 10 Virtualbox guest on Oracle Enterprise Linux host -