China ERC过去已经一个星期了，我到现在才有空对它作一个结。ERC是Sun公司在中国一年一度最重要的会议之一，主要是Sun公司与教育科研部门的合作以及一些核心技术产品的展示。很荣幸地成为了Sun公司全程资助的三位校园大使之一，不过这次除了我们三个人之外，还有成都几位校园大使和自费过来的几位同事的参与，使得ERC成了一次不折不扣的大聚会。本次会议不乏公司的大牌人物，Sun全球社区副总裁Lin Lee，Sun Lab技术总监Steve，还有Sun全球教育、销售、政府行业的副总裁Joe Hartley等。

会议于23、24号在成都香格里拉大酒店举行，而我由于23号晚上的一门考试错过了会议的重头戏。我在ERC的工作主要是负责xVM虚拟化展台，并协助wonderland展台的工作。其实工作很轻松，当有老师对该展台感兴趣的时候简单地介绍一下即可，闲着的时候也可以去会议听听公司老板们的报告。

本次大会有得有失，心情也是一波三折。第一个惊喜是公司让我们住的地方居然是八百八一晚的香格里拉超五星级大酒店，而我们仅仅是公司的小小实习生，这让我们受宠若惊。同时，通过这次会议我们见到了如此多的重量级人物，不得不说是一个大大的收获，齐聚成都这座极具情调的城市，连大家HIGH起歌来都是不一般的疯狂。当然，我们也零距离接触最新的Sun X2270服务器(最后负责搬运三台服务器和SunRay回Office的也是我)，感受公司精湛强大的技术实力。Besides，我的工作也得到了汪总的认可，即将成为下一任的三个Tech Lead之一，领。光线低沉，半天了都没人在楼道出现。三到五层以及第八层楼道口安有小牛奶箱，绿色房子造型，透过自身的孔被大铁钉铆导整个校园大使team。当然，有得也有失。最大的失望莫过于错失了月底赴美国参加Java One会议的机会。由于我没来得及参加二十三号副总裁召开的会议，在四选二的竞争中从一开始就处于下风，最终遗憾落败，自己的美国梦曾是如此的接近。

非常感谢汪总能够给我这么一次难得的机会，让我再次感受到了这个team的强大与温馨。我得继续努力，提高自己各方面的能力，为整个team作出更多的贡献，为圆自己的美国梦、为以后的工作打下更为坚实的基础。

On China ERC, there is an very attractive booth which is to show the latest Sun Server named Sun Fire X2270, and it attracts a lot of teachers’ attention.

Designed to benefit companies with technical computing workloads, the Sun Fire X2270 server offers a powerful I/O and compute node at a low starting price. The high performance, scalability, large memory capacity, the comprehensive remote management capability make it an economical platform of choice for large-scale HPC and Web infrastructure deployments.

Sun Fire X2270 server is fast, expandable and energy-efficient entry class x64 servers that run Solaris , Linux, Windows and VMware operating systems.

1.Do More With Less: High performing server helps to maximize Return On Investment. 

2.More Headroom to Grow: More expandable in memory and storage connectivity.

3.Cut IT operating expenses: More power efficient that results in power consumption and cooling cost.

Howerver, I can’t help to introduce the highlight of Sun Fire X2270 which are followed:

Rack-optimized(1U), two-socket x64 server

Best price/performance in its class with Sun Flash Modules and SSDs.

Accelerates floating-point calculations for compute-intensive applications

Up to 12 memory slots make it ideal for memory-intensive applications such as electronic design antomation(EDA) simulations or financial modeling

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I am so glad and excited to attend ERC in China held on April 29, 2009. It’s the first time I attend ERC, and it is so wonderful and unforgettable for me. I am from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, for my research field is virtualization, I am responsible for xVM booth which is a very cool virtualization solution.

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The demo showed in the xVM booth is developed by Rita Zhang, which is an education solution by using virtualization technology based on KVM. There are six virtual machines running on a server, which are two Solaris, two Linux, and two Windows XP, and the host OS is Ubuntu Linux. We can selectively start any of these six VMs for our own purpuses, for example, we can run java applications in a Solaris VM, and do other education jobs in a Linux VM or Windows XP,  however no conflict exists.

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Teachers from many universities show great interest in the xVM booth, because such OS virtualization can bring a lot of advantages for universities and enterprises, such like cost reduction, high security, more convenience, etc.   

In the field of OS virtualization, there are already a lot of excellent products such like Xen, KVM, Xen Server. With the release of xVM Server, we can have a more excellent choice for the virtualization solution. Let’s look forward to it.

终于抓住了一次回成都的好机会。
去年没去成公司在上海的ERC，今年有幸和丁总、李总一起成为成都ERC会议的三个幸运儿。
23号加上24号上午共一天半的会议，哥23号下午要组织一场Nvidia的活动、23号晚上还有门《自然辩证法》的考试，MD。
去成都最晚的灰机是晚上9点，肯定赶不及了。没办法，只能坐22:20飞重庆的灰机了，然后是2:30-7:30重庆至成都5小时的火车，一下火车直奔香格里拉。
去年金BOSS是大会的key speakers之一，不过今年没去，可以多请两天假了。期待与各位大老板及牛银的见面。
24、25、26、27在成都，成都的朋友们，期待ing；还有，回母校和春熙路看看，可是美女云集的地方啊……