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Oracle Produces World Record SPECjbb2013 Result with Oracle Solaris and Oracle JDK

Oracle, using Oracle Solaris and Oracle JDK, delivered a
world record result on the SPECjbb2013 benchmark (Composite metric).
This benchmark was designed by the industry to showcase Java
server performance. SPECjbb2013 is the replacement for
SPECjbb2005 (SPECjbb2005 will soon be retired by SPEC).

  • Oracle Solaris is 1.8x faster on the
    SPECjbb2013-Composite max-jOPS metric than the
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux result.

WHEN EVERY DETAIL COUNTS: A MEDICAL CASE FOR THE AMD FIREPRO™ W5000 DVI GRAPHICS CARD

As an avid photographer, I value that some photographs are up for interpretation and subjective commentary. As an AMD graphics specialist, I also understand that some pictures should never leave room for guesswork, especially when it comes to medical imaging.

Oracle VM Manager used with SPARC - demo

Oracle VM Manager support for SPARC

This post is one of a series of notes on Oracle VM Manager support for Oracle VM Server for SPARC (formerly named Logical Domains)

Oracle VM Manager and SPARC

As described in
Oracle VM Manager support for SPARC,
Oracle VM Manager with
Oracle VM Server 3.2
now supports SPARC servers running Oracle VM Server for SPARC 3.0 (formerly called Logical Domains).
The

Improved Oracle Solaris 10 1/13 Secure Copy Performance for High Latency Networks

With Oracle Solaris 10 1/13, the performance of secure copy or scp
is significantly improved for high latency networks.

  • Oracle Solaris 10 1/13 enabling a TCP receive window size up to 1 MB
    has up to 8 times faster transfer times over the latency range 50 - 200
    msec compared to the previous Oracle Solaris 10 8/11.

  • The default TCP receive window size of 48 KB delivered similar
    performance in both Oracle Solaris 10 1/13 and Oracle Solaris 10 8/11.

Best Practices - Top Ten Tuning Tips

This post is one of a series of "best practices" notes for Oracle VM Server for
SPARC (formerly called Logical Domains)

Top Ten Tuning Tips

Oracle VM Server for SPARC is high performance virtualization technology for SPARC
servers. It provides native CPU performance without the virtualization overhead typical
of hypervisors. The way memory and CPU resources are assigned to domains avoids
problems often seen in other virtual machine environments, and there are intentionally
few "tuning knobs" to adjust.

Oracle VM Manager support for SPARC

Oracle VM Manager support for SPARC

This post is one of a series of notes on Oracle VM Manager support for Oracle VM Server for SPARC (formerly named Logical Domains)

The News

Oracle recently announced general availability of Oracle VM Server 3.2.
This introduces significant new features described on
the Oracle virtualization blog
and on

New Year, New Design

Most people start the New Year with a resolution.  Lose weight.  Exercise more.  Work a little harder on that home “to-do” list. I need embedded customers to put one resolution on the top of their list:  work differently on their next embedded design.

Big Ideas; Big Tech: Continuous Operations for Oracle RAC with EMC VPLEX

Here’s an EMC video on Youtube about Oracle RAC with EMC VPLEX. Very nice, check it out!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRtl6dU2P_E

Penguin and AMD, Changing the Status Quo

By: Phil Pokorny, Chief Technology Officer, Penguin Computing

I’ve been working in the server industry with Penguin Computing for over 10 years now, and one of the constants during that time is that server features are driven by the motherboard and that motherboard is usually an exercise in compromises.

Better VM storage management with VMware vVOLs

The next step in the storage integration after vSPhere API for Array Integration (VAAI) and VSphere Storage APIs for Storage Awareness (VASA) will be the VM Volumes or vVOLs.

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