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Olio on 6-core Opterons (Istanbul) based Sun Systems

Sun is launching systems with multisocket  6-core Opterons (Istanbul) today. Last week I got access to  Sun Fire X4140 with 2 x 6-core Opterons with 36GB RAM. It is always great to see such a 1RU system packaged with so many x64 cores.

# psrinfo -vp The physical processor has 6 virtual processors (0-5)   x86 (chipid 0x0 AuthenticAMD family 16 model 8 step 0 clock 2600 MHz)     Six-Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 8435 The physical processor has 6 virtual processors (6-11)   x86 (chipid 0x1 AuthenticAMD family 16 model 8 step 0 clock 2600 MHz)     Six-Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 8435


I decided to take the system for a test drive with Olio. Olio is a Web 2.0 toolkit consisting on a web 2.0 event calendar application  which can help stress a system. Depending on your favorite scripting language you …

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Olio on 6-core Opterons (Istanbul) based Sun Systems

Sun is launching systems with multisocket  6-core Opterons (Istanbul) today. Last week I got access to  Sun Fire X4140 with 2 x 6-core Opterons with 36GB RAM. It is always great to see such a 1RU system packaged with so many x64 cores.

# psrinfo -vp The physical processor has 6 virtual processors (0-5)   x86 (chipid 0x0 AuthenticAMD family 16 model 8 step 0 clock 2600 MHz)     Six-Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 8435 The physical processor has 6 virtual processors (6-11)   x86 (chipid 0x1 AuthenticAMD family 16 model 8 step 0 clock 2600 MHz)     Six-Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 8435


I decided to take the system for a test drive with Olio. Olio is a Web 2.0 toolkit consisting on a web 2.0 event calendar application  which can help stress a system. Depending on your favorite scripting language you …

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Olio on 6-core Opterons (Istanbul) based Sun Systems

Sun is launching systems with multisocket  6-core Opterons (Istanbul) today. Last week I got access to  Sun Fire X4140 with 2 x 6-core Opterons with 36GB RAM. It is always great to see such a 1RU system packaged with so many x64 cores.

# psrinfo -vp The physical processor has 6 virtual processors (0-5)   x86 (chipid 0x0 AuthenticAMD family 16 model 8 step 0 clock 2600 MHz)     Six-Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 8435 The physical processor has 6 virtual processors (6-11)   x86 (chipid 0x1 AuthenticAMD family 16 model 8 step 0 clock 2600 MHz)     Six-Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 8435


I decided to take the system for a test drive with Olio. Olio is a Web 2.0 toolkit consisting on a web 2.0 event calendar application  which can help stress a system. Depending on your favorite scripting language you …

[Read more]
How I built the NOW_USEC() UDF for MySQL

Last week I wrote about my efforts to measure MySQL's replication speed precisely. The most important ingredient in that recipe was the user-defined function to get the system time with microsecond precision. This post is about that function, which turned out to be surprisingly easy to write.

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