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Oracle OpenWorld 2018

Thursday, 13 September, 2018 09:11 Written by Brian B

Want to learn more about the Oracle Solaris and SPARC update? Attend my  session:     

Oracle Solaris and SPARC technologies are developed through Oracle’s unique vision of coengineering operating systems and hardware together with Oracle Database, Java, and enterprise applications. Discover the advanced features that secure application data with less effort, implement end-to-end encryption, streamline compliance assessment, simplify management of virtual machines, and accelerate performance for Oracle Database and middleware. In this session learn how SPARC/Solaris engineered systems and servers deliver continuous innovation and investment protection to organizations in their journey to the cloud, see examples of cloud-ready infrastructure, and learn Oracle’s strategy for future enhancements for Oracle Solaris and SPARC systems.

SPEAKERS

Bill Nesheim, Senior Vice President, Oracle Solaris Development, Oracle

Brian Bream, Chief Technology Officer, Vaske Computer, Inc.

Masood Heydari, SVP, Hardware Development, Oracle

Monday, Oct 22, 11:30 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. | Moscone South – Room 206

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Oracle OpenWorld 2013 Day 1

Tuesday, 24 September, 2013 10:35 Written by Brian B

Had a fantastic day one at Oracle OpenWorld.

Here is the Collier IT group watching Mr. Ellison’s kickoff.
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And a partial view of the humanity that is OpenWorld
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From the Engineered Systems perspective the big announcement day 1 was the SPARC M6 – Terabyte Scale Computing.
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Some of the specifics/features
12 S3 Cores running @3.6 GHz
48MB shared L3 Cache
Scalable to 32 processors
2 integrated 2×8 PCIe 3.0
4.27 billion transistors
3 Terabytes per second bandwidth
1.4 Terabytes per second memory bandwidth
1 Terabyte per second I/O bandwidth
384 cores
3072 threads
32 Terabyte system memory

This thing is quite the beast.

We were told that the M7/T7 chip is running in the lab now. It extends the software on silicon to include:
Database query acceleration
Application data protection
Java acceleration
Data decompression

The first day shows us that Oracle continues it’s growth in the SPARC space. Exciting things coming real soon in the Solaris/SPARC world.

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Links – Week ending 8/2

Saturday, 03 August, 2013 08:19 Written by Brian B

MultitennantX2 with on . Please join launch to learn more –

at 25: Past, Present, and Future Register @ to hear the story of SPARC from the people who shaped it.

Need backup solution for compute assets? Check out refreshed Oracle Optimized Solution for Backup & Recovery

Oracle Engineered Systems eBook Now Available –

End-of-Life for SPARC SuperCluster T4-4 –

Oracle Solaris Cluster Product Bulletin, July 2013 –

Very cool videos about Upgrade to Oracle 12c –

How to Get Best Performance From the Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance

What makes 12c the most optimized App Server for Database 12c? Read the WP to find out

Some facts about T5 CPU architecture and “Software on Silicon”. What do you think about this new technology?

Excellent Reading! Part 2 – and WLS – Application Continuity –

Unveiling Oracle’s Latest Engineered System. Live webcast August 13th, 2013, 10am PT/1pm ET –

Beta testing begins this week for the new “Upgrade to Oracle Database 12c” certification exam (1Z1-060)

IDC White Paper: Oracle Virtual Networking Delivering Fabric Virtualization and Software Defined Networks

Double Maximum Memory Capacity for SPARC T5-1B & T5-2 Servers

YouTube Video: Hands-On Labs for Oracle VM –

Complete integration, continuous innovation: See how and systems are evolving: –

Database-as-a-Service and Platform-as-a-Service –

The System Administration course is on Oracle’s top selling course list, check it out yourself

VM – bit.ly/1clXH1Q

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Oracle Technology Day: Plug into the Cloud with Oracle Database 12c – Kolkata –

for diagnostic purposes –

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Oracle OpenWorld 2013

Thursday, 18 July, 2013 06:51 Written by Brian B

Excited to attend Oracle OpenWorld 2013 !

I attended in 2012 as well and was overwhelmed with the technical presentations over the 5 days I attended.

Some details at OpenWorld

Over 2500 technical sessions, it’s difficult at times to pick out which discussions to attend given the large number of presentation topics. You end up running out of “day” before you run out of sessions.

Hands on labs, hundreds of Oracle partners, all concentrated in one place.

Take a peek at the link posted above….. it is quite a valuable series of presentations.

It will be a busy September, I attend the Oracle University Partner Summit in New Orleans prior to OpenWorld, get a day and a half at home, then out to San Francisco for OpenWorld. I’ll be immersed in Oracle for two weeks straight.

I’ll share my thoughts during both events here.

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A SPARC CPU Overview: SPARC64-VII+ (M3), T3, T4, T5, M5, M10 – how do they compare?

Saturday, 15 June, 2013 22:29 Written by Brian B

CPU Type

  SPARC64-VII+ (M3)  T3 T4 T5 M5  M10/SPARC64-X

Servers

 M3000, M4000,
M5000, M8000,
M9000,
M9000-64		 T3-1, T3-2
T3-4		 T4-1, T4-2
T4-4		 T5-2, T5-4
T5-8		 M5-32 M10-1, M10-4,
M10-4S

CPU Core Codename

 Jupiter++ S2 S3 S3 S3 Athena
CPU Clockfrequency 2.66-3 GHz 1.65 GHz 2.85-3GHz 3.6 GHZ 3.6 GHZ  2.8-3 GHz
Number of Cores per socket 4 16  8 16 6 16
Number of Threads per core 2 8  8 8 8 2
Minimum amount of RAM,
number of sockets,
and threads per Server		  8GB
1 socket
8 threads		 8GB
1 socket
128 threads		  16GB
1 socket
64 threads		 256GB
2 sockets
256 threads		 1TB
8 sockets
384 threads		 32GB
1 socket
4 threads (2 cores activated from 16)
Maximum amount of RAM, number of sockets and threads per Server 4TB
64 sockets
512 threads		 128 GB
4 sockets
512 threads		 2TB
4 sockets
256 threads		 4TB
8 sockets
1024 threads		 32 TB
32 sockets
1536 threads		 32TB
64 sockets
2048 threads
L3 Cache no L3$
(12MB L2$ though!)		 no L3$ 4MB 8MB 48MB no L3$
(24MB shared L2$ though!)

Virtualization supported

 Dynamic Domains
(and Zones)

 LDoms
(and Zones)		 LDoms
(and Zones)		 LDoms
(and Zones)		 Hard Domains,
LDoms
(and Zones)		 LDoms
(and Zones)

CPU architecture (ISA)

 sun4u sun4v sun4v sun4v sun4v sun4v

 OS supported

 Solaris 10, 11 Solaris 10, 11 Solaris 10, 11 Solaris 10, 11 Control Domain: S11 only.
Guest Domains: Solaris 10, 11		 Solaris 10, 11

noteworthy features

 electronically separated domains 512 threads in 2010! First S3 based, single thread AND throughput 1024 threads in 8 RU
Mainframe class,
Mission critical
 Software on Chip
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