Saturday October 02, 2004

I've been a software engineer in the Platform I/O Software group on the East coast for 6+ years. Generally speaking, we do Solaris device drivers and device driver frameworks for mid-sized and (lately) blade servers. It's always interesting work and stressful schedules, but at the same time we're always getting to work on the "bleeding edge" with some of the newest, hottest technologies. Some examples of things I've worked on in my time at Sun:

• Solaris 1394 Software Framework (available since Solaris 8 Update 2)
• PCI Express
  • Jbus-to-PCIE
• InfiniBand
  • Safari-to-InfiniBand HCA driver (will not ship)
  • PCI-over-IB tunneling (will not ship - but demo'd at IB Solutions Conference, Spring 2002)
  • "Gamla" - Mellanox InfiniBridge MT21108 (will not ship)
  • "Tavor" - Mellanox InfiniHost MT23108 (coming soon to Solaris 10!)
  • "Arbel" - Mellanox InfiniHost III Ex MT25208 (stay tuned!)

These days I'm keeping myself pretty busy here at work doing bringup on prototype hardware. There's always something new and exciting to learn about (e.g. AMD64 hardware, PCI-Express, HyperTransport, InfiniBand, etc.)

I came to Sun pretty much directly out of school (M.S. in Computer Science - University of Maryland at College Park & B.S. in Computer and Systems Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute). And, yes, Sun has had it's ups and downs over the last six years... but I have an excellent manager (ooh! brownie points!) and I can honestly say that I love being able to come in every morning to work on this stuff.

So, with any luck, my blog will give a little taste of what it is that I enjoy so much about my work.