Links for 3 Nov 2008 - 10 Nov 2008

Links of interest for 3 Nov 2008 - 10 Nov 2008:

• Fishworks: Now it can be told : The Observation Deck - Bryan Cantrill's recount of the road to Fishworks and Amber Road.
• Fishworks Hardware Topology - Eric Schrock gives an intro to the chassi subsystem at the heart of the technology behind the Sun Storage 7000 series.
• Hybrid Storage Pools in the 7410 : Adam Leventhal's Weblog - Wow, the Fishworks guys have been busy blogging like crazy. Adam's got a great detailed report on the Hybrid Storage Pools in the biggest of the Sun Storage 7000 server - the 7410.
• Status Dashboard - Details on the Status Dashboard on the Sun Storage 7000 series from Brendan Gregg, one of the Fishworks engineers. I bet you've never seen DTrace look this sexy.
• Introducing the Sun Storage 7000 Series - Mike Shapiro - A full run down of what to expect from these bad boys from one of the men in the know.
• FOSS Boss: OpenSolaris 2008.11 pre-release, The year of the laptop?! - I don't think OpenSolaris is quite there yet, but a lot of work has gone into OpenSolaris to ensure it runs well as any other desktop env, especially on laptops (which most of the developers use).
• John Doerr’s Advice for Barack Obama: Hire Bill Joy - Now this would be cool: Bill Joy for CTO for the United States of America.
• Concurrency's Shysters - Brian Cantrill eloquently crushes the concurrency naysayers. Well worth a read if you're interested in CMP and the fear mongering that surrounds it.
• Windows 7 to scale to 256 processors - Why wait? Solaris 10 10/08 supports 256 CPUs/cores NOW