OpenSolaris @ SmugMug
As for his storage array with battery backed RAM from another vendor, I think we will have something soon to resolve Don's problems. Check back in November and visit Sun's booth at SC08 or attend the Sun HPC Consortium for an early preview. Because no matter if you are running the world's fastest supercomputer at TACC (a Sun Constellation System with > 60,000 AMD Opteron CPU cores), or the world's coolest photo sharing site, our soon to be launched Open Storage products are sure to impress both Don and Jay.
Stay tuned.
p.s., if you want to try out OpenSolaris but don't have a spare server to try it out on, try one of our latest servers free for sixty days (we even pay the return shipping if you decide not to keep the box). And while we are shipping you your trial server, you can always spend a few dollars to try out OpenSolaris on Amazon's EC2 cloud.
Alternately people can download Virtual Box and use OpenSolaris inside VB for free.
Posted by William Hathaway on October 11, 2008 at 04:07 AM PDT #
And Joyent offer virtual private servers (called Accelerators) running OpenSolaris at www.joyent.com
I agree with the SmugMug blog post that the OpenSolaris GNU userland could be a lot nicer, but it's getting better all the time thanks to Ian (of Debian fame) and many others.
Posted by Kevin Hutchinson on October 11, 2008 at 10:11 AM PDT #
HPCVL is using Solaris 10 + ZFS + MySQL for its outreach programme at The Virtual Lab, http://www.thevirtuallab.org.
And I bet we pronounce basil and tomatoe differently :)
Posted by Tony on October 11, 2008 at 05:05 PM PDT #