During the 2007 Spring
Semester, on March 31th – April 1st in
Chongqing University, Chongqing
City, China, 33 university
Operating System / Unix Programming teachers were trained with the
latest Solaris/OpenSolaris technology and the Sun Studio. 2
China professors delivered tutoring on Solaris Lab Courses for OS and
Solaris System Programming with Sun Studio, DTrace and MDB on Solaris
. We have installed 35 Solaris machines
so that all teachers finished the labs on their
individual machine installed with Solaris build
60 and Sun Studio 11. We have installed 35
machines in about 4 hours of automatic
installation in parallel from NetInstall server.
Below is the
agenda for this training:
Day 1 Morning:
- Welcome by
Hosting Institute, Mr. Chen, Chongqing
University.
- Welcome by Sun China Engineering and Research
Institute, Jason Tong.
- DTrace and
MDB, Prof. Xiang, Tsinghua University.
-
Solaris Process Model, Prof. Xiang
-
Lab Courses for Process and MT, Prof.
Xiang
Day 1 Afternoon:
- Sun Studio IDE,
Prof. Xiang.
- Solaris IPC, Prof.
Xiang.
- Lab courses for Solaris IPC, Prof.
Xiang.
Day 2 Morning:
- Memory Management, Prof.
Ma.
- Lab Course for Virtual Memory,
Prof. Ma.
Day 2
Afternoon:
- File System, Prof. Ma.
-
Lab Course for File System, Prof. Ma.
-
Panel Discussion: How to integrate Solaris/OpenSolaris and Sun Studio
into university courses
All the teachers received the
following materials / gifts during the training:
- OpenSolaris
Starter Kit DVD (localized version)
- Solaris Devleoper Kit DVD
(localized version)
- Solaris 10 Red Bible (published by
Publishing House of Electronics Industry)
- Solaris System
Programming (localized version, published by Publishing House of
Machinery Industry)
- All the Presentation materials
- A
T-Shirt
During the Panel Discussion in the afternoon of Day 2,
we gave introduction to the following topics:
- OpenSolaris
Programming Contest (under preparation)
- Solaris Experience
Center (www.unix-center.net)
-
Special Initiative to Promote Solaris/OpenSolaris and Sun Studio in
University OS / Unix Programming Lab Courses
- Sun Academic
Initiative
The teachers were very interested in these
programs. They all believed that these will help them a lot in their
actual teaching. When being asked whether they are willing to use
Solaris in their OS class, most of them happily said yes. They need
more documents on Sun Studio/DTrace/MDB to integrate them into the
Lab courses.
After quick screening of the survey forms, below
are the highlights:
1. 33 professors from 14
universities attended the training
2. 12 professors are planning
to integrate Solaris into their OS/ Unix Programming courses.
(36.4%)
3. professors from 5 universities are going to integrate
Solaris into their curriculum. (35.7%)
We are currently
working on the survey statistics, and will share with you when the
results are available.
