Sun recently announced the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 and Sun Blade T6320 systems based on the UltraSPARC T2 processor.  You can find lots of information on the various features and functionality provided by these servers.

One other cool feature is that these systems ship with Cool Stack pre-loaded. The Cool Stack 1.1 packages are available in /var/spool/pkg. You can install the ones you want using the pkgadd(1M) command as follows :

root@wgs40-82 # cd /var/spool/pkg
root@wgs40-82 # ls
CSKampSrc_sparc.pkg        CSKphplibs_sparc.pkg
CSKamp_sparc.pkg           …

Sun engineers give the inside scoop on the new UltraSPARC T2 systems

[ Update Jan 2008: Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 servers were awarded Product of the Year 2007. ]

Sun launched the Chip-Level MultiThreading (CMT) era back in December 2005 with the release of the highly successful UltraSPARC T1 (Niagara) chip, featured in the Sun Fire T2000 and T1000 systems. With 8 cores, each with 4 hardware strands (or threads), these systems presented 32 CPUs and delivered an unprecedented amount of processing power in compact, eco-friendly packaging. The systems were referred to as CoolThreads servers because of their low power and cooling requirements.

Today Sun introduces the …

Sun engineers give the inside scoop on the new UltraSPARC T2 systems

[ Update Jan 2008: Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 servers were awarded Product of the Year 2007. ]

Sun launched the Chip-Level MultiThreading (CMT) era back in December 2005 with the release of the highly successful UltraSPARC T1 (Niagara) chip, featured in the Sun Fire T2000 and T1000 systems. With 8 cores, each with 4 hardware strands (or threads), these systems presented 32 CPUs and delivered an unprecedented amount of processing power in compact, eco-friendly packaging. The systems were referred to as CoolThreads servers because of their low power and cooling requirements.

Today Sun introduces the …

Sun engineers give the inside scoop on the new UltraSPARC T2 systems

[ Update Jan 2008: Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 servers were awarded Product of the Year 2007. ]

Sun launched the Chip-Level MultiThreading (CMT) era back in December 2005 with the release of the highly successful UltraSPARC T1 (Niagara) chip, featured in the Sun Fire T2000 and T1000 systems. With 8 cores, each with 4 hardware strands (or threads), these systems presented 32 CPUs and delivered an unprecedented amount of processing power in compact, eco-friendly packaging. The systems were referred to as CoolThreads servers because of their low power and cooling requirements.

Today Sun introduces the …

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MySQL is one of the world's most popular open source databases, and it is widely used and becoming the database-of-choice for many leading Web 2.0 sites. Like most database servers, the most common bottleneck in the enterprise environment encountered by MySQL is disk I/O. To maximize the performance of MySQL for disk I/O bound workloads on the Solaris operating system on CMT servers (e.g. the Sun Fire T2000 Server), configuration and tuning of MySQL server variables is critical and can make a big difference to performance,  as does the optimization of the Solaris filesystem for MySQL, and the configuration of storage arrays.

Configuration Issues

MySQL server's performance can be optimized using various configuration settings. The first step is to read the configuration and system variables by running the command:

mysql> show variables;

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MySQL is one of the world's most popular open source databases, and it is widely used and becoming the database-of-choice for many leading Web 2.0 sites. Like most database servers, the most common bottleneck in the enterprise environment encountered by MySQL is disk I/O. To maximize the performance of MySQL for disk I/O bound workloads on the Solaris operating system on CMT servers (e.g. the Sun Fire T2000 Server), configuration and tuning of MySQL server variables is critical and can make a big difference to performance,  as does the optimization of the Solaris filesystem for MySQL, and the configuration of storage arrays.

Configuration Issues

MySQL server's performance can be optimized using various configuration settings. The first step is to read the configuration and system variables by running the command:

mysql> show variables;

…

New Page 1

MySQL is one of the world's most popular open source databases, and it is widely used and becoming the database-of-choice for many leading Web 2.0 sites. Like most database servers, the most common bottleneck in the enterprise environment encountered by MySQL is disk I/O. To maximize the performance of MySQL for disk I/O bound workloads on the Solaris operating system on CMT servers (e.g. the Sun Fire T2000 Server), configuration and tuning of MySQL server variables is critical and can make a big difference to performance,  as does the optimization of the Solaris filesystem for MySQL, and the configuration of storage arrays.

Configuration Issues

MySQL server's performance can be optimized using various configuration settings. The first step is to read the configuration and system variables by running the command:

mysql> show variables;

…

Cluster

This blog entry describes how to install MySQL clusters on Solaris.

MySQL cluster consist of 3 seperate types of nodes:

• SQL nodes
• Storage nodes
• Management nodes

The SQL nodes are the nodes that applications can connect to. Internally SQL nodes connect to storage nodes to  process the queries and return the result set to the end client.

The storage nodes are controlled by management nodes. They do most of the work in processing the queries.

Managment nodes manages the entire cluster. They start and stop the data and SQL nodes and manage backups.

Lets start with the simplistic installation where all the nodes of the cluster are on the same box. Of course this is not how you would do a typical MySQL cluster installation...but this is just to get a feel of what is involved in MySQL cluster …

Cluster

This blog entry describes how to install MySQL clusters on Solaris.

MySQL cluster consist of 3 seperate types of nodes:

• SQL nodes
• Storage nodes
• Management nodes

The SQL nodes are the nodes that applications can connect to. Internally SQL nodes connect to storage nodes to  process the queries and return the result set to the end client.

The storage nodes are controlled by management nodes. They do most of the work in processing the queries.

Managment nodes manages the entire cluster. They start and stop the data and SQL nodes and manage backups.

Lets start with the simplistic installation where all the nodes of the cluster are on the same box. Of course this is not how you would do a typical MySQL cluster installation...but this is just to get a feel of what is involved in MySQL cluster …

Cluster

This blog entry describes how to install MySQL clusters on Solaris.

MySQL cluster consist of 3 seperate types of nodes:

• SQL nodes
• Storage nodes
• Management nodes

The SQL nodes are the nodes that applications can connect to. Internally SQL nodes connect to storage nodes to  process the queries and return the result set to the end client.

The storage nodes are controlled by management nodes. They do most of the work in processing the queries.

Managment nodes manages the entire cluster. They start and stop the data and SQL nodes and manage backups.

Lets start with the simplistic installation where all the nodes of the cluster are on the same box. Of course this is not how you would do a typical MySQL cluster installation...but this is just to get a feel of what is involved in MySQL cluster …