Thursday March 01, 2007

The next meeting of the New England OpenSolaris User Group (NEOSUG) will be held on Monday, March 12th from 6:00-7:30pm on Sun's Burlington campus [directions]. Registration opens at 5:30pm.

Nils Nieuwejaar, Solaris kernel engineer, will talk about virtualization technologies in OpenSolaris, including Zones, BrandZ, and Xen. I've known Nils for years from when we worked together at Thinking Machines and later here at Sun on our High Performance Computing software stack. As we say in New England, he's wicked smart. And he's a very good speaker. I'm looking forward to his talk.

There will also be a tour of Sun's Project Blackbox, which will be in town that day. I've seen the photos, but not the real thing. Should be interesting.

Attendees are asked to RSVP to Laura Dot Ramsey At Sun Dot Com so organizers have an accurate count for the tours.

John Fowler mentioned today at an internal Systems meeting that we were more forthcoming than usual about our processor roadmap at the Sun Analyst Summit held on February 6th in San Francisco. He wasn't kidding.

Check out his slides [PDF] for a roadmap of when Niagara 2, Victoria Falls, ROCK, etc. will be available, and for a basic idea of what these chips are if you don't already know.

People in Systems are kicking butt to deliver an interesting and innovative array of products over the next several years. It's nice to see some of this work acknowledged, if only via a brief glimpse behind the curtain.