Today on this ol' server

JavaOne 06 Wrap-up

Too bad I didn't take pictures. Yesterday, late afternoon I said goodbye to Moscone and JavaOne 06. It's amazing how much work goes on behind the scenes to put on such a large venue. If only I had pictures of the break-down an set up. Amazing, the beeping, taping, and all the paper. Shouts out to everyone who worked the show. We did an amazing job.

I was the project lead system administrator for the Hands on Labs at JavaOne '06. For the tech specs, we had 100 single processor Ultra 20s with 2gb of ram, (10 machines had 4gb), running Solaris Nevada build 35, a multitude of Java versions, Netbeans versions, and the latest release of Netbeans 5.5 Enterprise Beta, Sun Grid engine, dual booted to SUSE 10 with Netbeans Mobility pac. On the morning of the 12th we physically brought up the 100 and deployed Suse, then Solaris to 90 brand new Ultra 20s. The other ten I had been using a mock environment about a month and a half. The server was a Sun Fire v1280 with 16gb of ram, and 8 cpus that was also used for last years show. This year we had a full gigE network, although it was not connected to the Internet. Sorry, to the lab users who couldn't reference the net for online documentation.

Zip files of the hands on labs can be found here: http://www.javapassion.com/handsonlabs/ That page will be updated with the latest zipfiles some time in the next two weeks (after I come back from vacation.)

Posted at 12:07AM May 21, 2006 by saf in Sun  |  Comments[0]