3/7/07
Last weekend, IEEE student's club organized it and i happened to attend the lecture by Raju Alluri from Sun Microsys... few things i would like to mention are:
The age has been changing from Industrial to information to participation age and this is where the open source has come into light and is of great importance when the intellectual level among users are developing and they no more want to depend fully onto vendors, instead every community want to give some contribution and at user level, they want to reconfigure the softwares as per their need and understand the actual functionality rather than a black box. Yeah of course, only the intelligent minds can participate here, but then that makes a difference. You don't need to pay huge amount to the vendor and their monopoly will be controlled as well as the updates too will be at your reach and for free. All you need to do is, join a good forum and start discussion. Now something might be revolving in your mind. I will tell you, if u have missed it, what bout professional ethics in response to open-source. Well it has many advantage than very few back points.
Sun believes in 1 dollar/cpu/hr expenditure. They came up not only with SPARC processor but as well as huge memory server technologies as well. ZFS (pronounced as G file system) is a hybrid data server and uses some 24 Terra bytes of cpu but still it use compression technique. You might be thinking that this might make the speed slower as compressing-decompressing technique while write-read operation, but this is not the truth. I will tell u how? The memory size has increased from few kilobytes to terrabytes within a decade and so has the CPU clock speed increased to 3.2GHz, but the rpm of secondary device reader has hardly leaped upto 7200 rpm. So whenever a read write operation is performed, the cpu has to wait a long time retrieving the data or writing it, in searching proper track and sector. This wait state is efficiently used for compressing-decompressing the data.
The containers provide the privilege of customizing the the sharing of data capability and putting restrictions among different processes running parallel. The SPARC processors are better than dual core INTEL concept, infact they came ahead with this idea much earlier. Group of each two cores form a cache and finally a ROM. The predictive self heating and cool threading techniques used are simply great.
What will u do, if a person suffers from a disease? Will u kill him, let him born and grow again and keep checking his status and cure? so stupid right?? Then why do u keep restarting your system whenever it gets halted? Think of a system which would never need to restart, it should be able to handle any kind of interrupt or traps or deadlocks. The answer is study, keep yourself update and go for open-source. You will need when and what is happening. You have everything in your hand to take care of.
The need of autonomy has so tremendously increased. Lets take an example of cars, the BMW technology will continuously monitor onto the condition of car, which will have inbuilt sensors and that will constantly keep communicating wid the vendor. Any problem like fuel viscosity, or if u get struck into deep forest or lonely place, they will come to know round the clock time and without your request or call, they will send rescue team for such persons. Alas technology, too good. This is what can been said the information age.
Sun has open work programming environment i.e. u can work for the company by logging onto any system and anywhere with some kind of chip provided to every employee. They are less than 50% of Sun's employee who come to office and work, rest follow this. Sun concentrates on academic initiative program and they have brand ambassadors at different leading institutes. Now what can u do? Logon to Sun's site, take up byte-sized bugs. Solve them, make proper documentation or snapshots. Contribute to them as well as same thing can be practiced for the open source. Post to ur blog and communicate to others as well.
Contact mr Raju at: raju.alluri@sun.com or askraju@spurthi.com. He has been wid Sun for more than 15 years and is a senior engineer. He is a blogger and enthusiastic open-source contributor. He is greatly inspired by the book "The seven habits of highly effective people". He suggests to read the 8th habit, a book from the same writer. I suggest a book "You can win" by shiv khera, really an inspiring book on building up positive attitude. He says, "Winners don't do different things, they do things differently."
Last weekend, IEEE student's club organized it and i happened to attend the lecture by Raju Alluri from Sun Microsys... few things i would like to mention are:
The age has been changing from Industrial to information to participation age and this is where the open source has come into light and is of great importance when the intellectual level among users are developing and they no more want to depend fully onto vendors, instead every community want to give some contribution and at user level, they want to reconfigure the softwares as per their need and understand the actual functionality rather than a black box. Yeah of course, only the intelligent minds can participate here, but then that makes a difference. You don't need to pay huge amount to the vendor and their monopoly will be controlled as well as the updates too will be at your reach and for free. All you need to do is, join a good forum and start discussion. Now something might be revolving in your mind. I will tell you, if u have missed it, what bout professional ethics in response to open-source. Well it has many advantage than very few back points.
Sun believes in 1 dollar/cpu/hr expenditure. They came up not only with SPARC processor but as well as huge memory server technologies as well. ZFS (pronounced as G file system) is a hybrid data server and uses some 24 Terra bytes of cpu but still it use compression technique. You might be thinking that this might make the speed slower as compressing-decompressing technique while write-read operation, but this is not the truth. I will tell u how? The memory size has increased from few kilobytes to terrabytes within a decade and so has the CPU clock speed increased to 3.2GHz, but the rpm of secondary device reader has hardly leaped upto 7200 rpm. So whenever a read write operation is performed, the cpu has to wait a long time retrieving the data or writing it, in searching proper track and sector. This wait state is efficiently used for compressing-decompressing the data.
The containers provide the privilege of customizing the the sharing of data capability and putting restrictions among different processes running parallel. The SPARC processors are better than dual core INTEL concept, infact they came ahead with this idea much earlier. Group of each two cores form a cache and finally a ROM. The predictive self heating and cool threading techniques used are simply great.
What will u do, if a person suffers from a disease? Will u kill him, let him born and grow again and keep checking his status and cure? so stupid right?? Then why do u keep restarting your system whenever it gets halted? Think of a system which would never need to restart, it should be able to handle any kind of interrupt or traps or deadlocks. The answer is study, keep yourself update and go for open-source. You will need when and what is happening. You have everything in your hand to take care of.
The need of autonomy has so tremendously increased. Lets take an example of cars, the BMW technology will continuously monitor onto the condition of car, which will have inbuilt sensors and that will constantly keep communicating wid the vendor. Any problem like fuel viscosity, or if u get struck into deep forest or lonely place, they will come to know round the clock time and without your request or call, they will send rescue team for such persons. Alas technology, too good. This is what can been said the information age.
Sun has open work programming environment i.e. u can work for the company by logging onto any system and anywhere with some kind of chip provided to every employee. They are less than 50% of Sun's employee who come to office and work, rest follow this. Sun concentrates on academic initiative program and they have brand ambassadors at different leading institutes. Now what can u do? Logon to Sun's site, take up byte-sized bugs. Solve them, make proper documentation or snapshots. Contribute to them as well as same thing can be practiced for the open source. Post to ur blog and communicate to others as well.
Contact mr Raju at: raju.alluri@sun.com or askraju@spurthi.com. He has been wid Sun for more than 15 years and is a senior engineer. He is a blogger and enthusiastic open-source contributor. He is greatly inspired by the book "The seven habits of highly effective people". He suggests to read the 8th habit, a book from the same writer. I suggest a book "You can win" by shiv khera, really an inspiring book on building up positive attitude. He says, "Winners don't do different things, they do things differently."
