Sun Microsystems has boosted networking and performance in
the latest version ofOpenSolaris, by
including Project Crossbow from the Solaris operating
system.
The changes to network and storage performance make the
operating system much faster than Linux, according to Sun.
Project Crossbow is
Sun's network architecture for virtualisation. The company claims
that Crossbow can be used to network multicore, multi-threaded
processors together using an extremely fast network interface.
With Project Crossbow, OpenSolaris 2009.06 gets a virtual
network interface, which Sun says can be used to simplify
administration of complex deployments of multi-tiered applications
on a single machine or an entire datacentre
OpenSolaris 2009.06 also includes a revamped version of Sun's
ZFS file system, which now supports flash storage devices. Sun said
flash-based storage support in ZFS can be used to accelerate read
and write access to build high-performance storage systems.
Sun said OpenSolaris 2009.06 delivers 35% better memory
management, 22% better integer arithmetics and 18% better
multi-thread scheduler management when compared with the latest
Linux releases.