Solaris —
If you read this blog regularly, you might know that we’re currently developing some new model-based computer vision technology that enables detailed information to be extracted automatically from large volumes of high-definition video. This is a computationally intensive activity - both on the storage and CPU fronts. We’re building a compute [...]
Yesterday, I was at a conference, and got talking to someone who works at a medium sized company that is currently based around Macs on the corporate desktop. They’re a large enough company that they do a lot of custom software development for the Mac for internal use in the company; and large [...]
It’s frustrating. Imagine you want to buy some low-cost, dedicated servers (or virtualised servers). You will manage these servers, but they will be hosted in a remote data center. Now, you have a number of great choices if you want to use Linux or Windows as your server operating system; but what [...]
Three days ago, HP put out a press release. I think it’s trying to persuade me that running Sun’s Solaris x86 operating system on HP’s rather nice x86/x64-based hardware is a good idea; but really it’s pretty damned difficult to tell. For example, take this sentence:
HP’s robust UNIX operating system, [...]
We’re in the process of buying some computer hardware to build a high-performance, scalable computer system to enable some complex (read CPU-intensive), fully-automated analyses of large volumes (think hundreds of terabytes) of high-definition digital video. For this system, my first choice of operating system is Solaris x86. We’re planning on managing the system by [...]
Microsoft has invented developed a new image format - called Windows Media Photo. From a quick glance, it looks pretty good (check out the nice work that Bill Crow, Microsoft’s Program Manager for Windows Media Photo, is doing on his blog). I’m more than a little interested in image formats at [...]
Where’s the mindshare when it comes to various flavours of Unix and Linux? It might not be where you think it is. Let’s take three of the most important: Red Hat (a flavour of Linux); Solaris (a flavour of Unix); and Ubuntu (a flavour of Linux). How would you rank those three in [...]
It’s been a good few years since the last time I looked at Solaris x86. In fact, I think the last time was back in the late 1990s, when we were building our first Linux compute farm for use in the Life Sciences. We were a Solaris SPARC shop on the server side, [...]