Dell White Paper Sample

This migration guide discusses the process for porting C/C++ applications running on the Sun Solaris operating system (OS) from SPARC platforms to Intel architecture platforms. It outlines a number of possible software portation issues; however, a typical migration effort is unlikely to encounter all of them. Although this guide is directed towards software portation, some of the issues presented in this white paper are also relevant to other aspects of SPARC to Intel architecture platform migration.

Many equipment manufacturers are porting their telecom and data center applications running on Solaris to Intel multi-core processor based platforms to benefit from industry leading performance and greater performance per watt. Solaris delivers a consistent computing environment for business critical applications and infrastructure from departmental servers up to massive, clustered servers. The combination of the Solaris operating systems and Intel processors enables unmatched performance, compact footprint, energy efficiency and simplified manageability.

This document provides engineers with useful migration planning information, a list of items worthy of consideration, code examples and URLs to on-line resources that can assist in the implementation. When text is underlined in the white paper, readers can find a corresponding URL link in the last section. It is assumed that any operating system version differences have already been addressed by the migration team.