There are scads of reasons why Solaris unleashes the full potential of the new Xeon 550 (Nahalem) processors from Intel. But before we get to the groundbreaking only-on-Solaris performance, power management and reliability capabilities of Nahalem-based servers, let's spend a moment to understand underlying reasons why Solaris is the best OS for Nahalem:
  • There have been more than 2-years of joint development between Intel and Sun.
  • Intel is an active participant in the OpenSolaris community.
  • Solaris is now OEMed by the top five x86 server vendors (HP, IBM, Dell, Fujitsu and Sun).
  • Solaris has been optimized to take advantage of large memory and multi-core and multi-thread systems for many years.
  • ZFS brings enterprise data scaling with the performance of dedicated proprietary storage systems.
OK, now for the goodies. Thanks to the tight collaboration between Intel and Sun, as well as Solaris' lineage in running multi-threaded system, customers can enjoy a number of one-of-a-kind capabilities by choosing Solaris for their Nahalem-based systems. But don't take my word for it. Check out Sun and Intel engineers discussing the optimzations:



Or, listen to the impressive power management and performance benefits made possible by the only-in-Solaris PowerTop and Turbo Boost features:



For more examples of the performance, power management and relaibility benefits made possible by Solaris, point your browsers here.

Or, for more info, check out Jacki's fine On the Record Blog.

Also, bookmark http://www.sun.com/launch and tune in on April 14 for more details on Sun's major systems launch and get a sneak peek of the event here.
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