Allan N. Packer

Allan N. Packer is a Senior Staff Engineer with the Performance and Applications Engineering Group at Sun Microsystems. He has developed workloads for performance and regression testing, led Sun's engineering team working with IBM DB2, acted as technical lead for nine published TPC benchmark results, and developed a training curriculum for Sun's internal training organization focused on configuring, monitoring and tuning database systems. He currently specializes in server systems performance and availability.

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JIM MAURO has 20 years of industry experience with UNIX systems. Jim is a senior engineer in the Performance Applications Engineering group at Sun Microsystems. When Jim is not wrestling with his two sons, his house, or his yard, he works on systems and applications availability and resource management-related projects for Sun.

RICHARD McDOUGALL is a senior engineer in the Performance Applications Engineering group at Sun Microsystems, focusing on enterprise systems architecture, large system performance, and OS technology. He has been known to have some knowledge of operating system architecture and internals. When Richard isn't tinkering with cars or racing karts, he is usually found analyzing system performance, contributing to Solaris development, and developing tools for measurement, monitoring, tracing, and sizing UNIX systems.