Thursday March 08, 2007
Thursday March 08, 2007 The Black Boxes have started goin' places
The wonderfully simple idea Project Blackbox: Datacenter in a Container is becoming more and more realistic these days. There are customers who have reportedly signed up for the early access of the first few shipments of the containers fully loaded with latest technology servers. The idea also made it to the list of crackpot tech ideas
Tuesday February 27, 2007 my clicks around sun blogs recently opened these interesting things
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Tuesday February 06, 2007 Loot lo offer: Register your Solaris 10 box and get a gift
Do you manage Solaris boxes ?
Do you plan to go buy some apparels this weekend ? 
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Sunday December 10, 2006
Virtualization I was in mumbai yesterday and day before, talking about the most loved and hated term these days, 'virtualization' ...
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Monday December 04, 2006 Today, I have completed 6 years at SUN. I joined SUN on 4th Dec, 2000 as a systems management engineer and I am still a systems management engineer.
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Saturday November 25, 2006 OpenSolaris, IIT Kanpur and glimpses of North India I had an opportunity to share my views on OpenSolaris with the IIT K students , as a guest lecturer. ... The by-products of my IIT K visit were some rare and most of the times unusually joyous moments. ... [Read More] Posted by chiplunkar ( Nov 25 2006, 02:14:03 AM IST ) Permalink Comments [14]
Monday October 09, 2006 Fair and Unfair: Cricket, TT, Chess, etc
Why do Indians like Cricket so much ?
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You can't have a lengthier table where a taller person has an upper hand by just sending drops near the net so that a shorter opponent can't reach there.
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one can't change the number of squares on the chess board. ... The Bishops have to move diagonally, knights confined to 2 and a half and the King is as sluggish as it's rival on the other side. And all of them do not carry any weapons, unlike armies of countries with unequal military strengths...
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What's that !? BullFight ! well let's ask the bull about it 
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Thursday September 21, 2006 ThreadGroup added to the fun with Sun Fire T1000 Modified my java program a little to control the number of threads, and I see very interesting results !! [Read More] Posted by chiplunkar ( Sep 21 2006, 07:00:00 AM IST ) Permalink Comments [0]
Monday September 11, 2006
Fun with multi threaded java program on T1 Definitely not a benchmark testing kind of program, but a small java program to check the T1 performance.
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Thursday September 07, 2006
Sun Fire T1000 Physical View The lean and thin system looks like a helpless, small, dull box... What's that ! 24 Processors ??? !!! I can see only one, where are the remaining 23 of them !!!
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Tuesday July 04, 2006 Some quality music albums A fantastic collection of Thumri [Read More] Posted by chiplunkar ( Jul 04 2006, 08:00:00 PM IST ) Permalink Comments [0]
Tuesday June 27, 2006 Extending Sun Management Center Agent Update Agent Update can be exploited to deploy things like your own sunmc module, a bunch of files or a small application remotely on solaris sparc/i386, Linux, provided they are running sunmc 3.6 agents. [Read More] Posted by chiplunkar ( Jun 27 2006, 03:00:00 PM IST ) Permalink Comments [0]
Monday June 19, 2006 Hands free sun management center server installation An installation configuration file for a hands free sunmc server installation. [Read More] Posted by chiplunkar ( Jun 19 2006, 05:00:00 PM IST ) Permalink Comments [3]
Friday May 05, 2006
CPU Caps: Control those CPU Pigs I am thrilled to say that probably I am one of those few lucky souls to get an early experience of the latest and arguably coolest resource control mechanism on Solaris. CPU Caps released a month back by Andrei on opensolaris.
At a first glance:
it's a simple equation. 1 CPU cap = 1/100 th of one CPU. And it gells well with the Solaris Containers. Let's check out how CPU caps and containers work together.
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Thursday April 20, 2006 CEC visit made a quick visit to the CEC to make sure things are setup for the evening preso and demo. [Read More] Posted by chiplunkar ( Apr 20 2006, 11:50:00 PM IST ) Permalink Comments [0]
