OpenWorld 2010 Unconference – Open for JavaOne And/Or OracleDevelop Registrants Only. A Poll.

It has come to my attention that the Unconference offered during this year’s OpenWorld can only be attended by registered JavaOne or OracleDevelop attendees as per the following quote: Participation and attendance is reserved to JavaOne and Oracle Develop attendees. You have to be registered to JavaOne or Oracle Develop 2010 to attend any of [...]

Some Blog Errors Are Just Too Serious To Ignore. A Comparison of Intel Xeon 5400 (Harpertown) to Intel Xeon 5500 (Nehalem EP).

I’d like to direct readers to an important blog update/correction. In my post entitled An Intel Xeon 5400 System That Outperforms An Intel 5500 (Nehalem EP) System? Believe It…Or Know It I blogged about an erroneous conclusion I had drawn about a test performed on these two processor models. I think the update does the blog [...]

Oracle Exadata Database Machine I/O Bottleneck Revealed At… 157 MB/s! But At Least It Scales Linearly Within Datasheet-Specified Bounds!

It has been quite a while since my last Exadata-related post. Since I spend all my time, every working day, on Exadata performance work this blogging dry-spell should seem quite strange to readers of this blog. However, for a while it seemed to me as though I was saturating the websphere on the topic and [...]

Linux Thinks It’s a CPU, But What Is It Really – Part III. How Do Intel Xeon 7500 (Nehalem EX) Processors Map To Linux OS Processors?

Last year I posted a blog entry entitled Linux Thinks It’s a CPU, But What Is It Really – Part I. Mapping Xeon 5500 (Nehalem) Processor Threads to Linux OS CPUs where I discussed the Intel CPU Topology Tool. The topology tool is most helpful when trying to quickly map Linux OS processors to physical processor [...]

What’s Really Happening at OpenWorld 2010? Part II.

The OOW folks informed me that they needed to move our session to a larger room. So, if you are interested here are the new details: ID#: S315110 Title: Optimizing Servers for Oracle Database Performance Track: Database Date: 20-SEP-10 Time: 17:00 – 18:00 Venue: Moscone South Room: Rm 302

What’s Really Happening at OpenWorld 2010?

This is a quick blog entry to share a few of my plans for OOW. I’ll be co-presenter with a Wallis Pereira, Sr. Technical Program Manager in the Mission Critical Segment of Intel’s Data Center Group. Wally is a very old friend of mine and we’ll be delivering the following session. ID#: S315110 Title: Optimizing [...]