Posts tagged with: dtrace

Are you still a bit sceptical about running your business on OpenSolaris - a free and power operating system, which due to it's development status is technically unsupported (cos you can't pay for the support)? Well, don't be. Joyant run on OpenSolaris and do encounter problems, however they get them fixed, and quickly too. Check out Benr's recent post on their experience when encountering problems on OpenSolaris.  Continue reading ►

I was a little surprised and saddened to read that DARPA has decided to pump US$250m into Cray and US$244m in IBM for them to work on DARPA's next high performance computing initiative - their "Petascale" program.There was a lot of bidding and vying for the investment and it came down to 3 final contenders - IBM, Cray and Sun. Now being a Sunny, you can understand my disappointment - had Sun got some of this cash, I may have got a pay rise. That aside, I'm surprised DARPA made their decision based on the idea's pitched.  Continue reading ►

Cooool. Mac OS X Leopard will have DTrace built into it when it's released. Now I can debug the crap performance I get on my Mac every once in a while the Solaris way.  Continue reading ►