After taking a few days off and heading home to Canada for a wedding this past weekend, I'm back in Calfornia and back in the office. Today is a busy day. We're hosting a number of blogs and technical publications for a Superdome 10th Anniversary kick off. 

Superdome came out in the fall of 2000. In fact, I remember standing on a tradeshow floor (in Philidelphia) watching the live kickoff of this new server from New York. 9 years later, we're kicking off the Superdome 10th Anniversary celebrations by inviting a number of blogs for a day of discussion around Superdome. They include OS News [http://www.osnews.com/], TechVirtuoso [http://techvirtuoso.com/], Unix Adminosphere [http://administratosphere.wordpress.com/], SDR News [http://www.sdrnews.com/], Active Win[http://www.activewin.com/awin/default.asp], and Cuddletech [http://cuddletech.com/].

We're talking about such trivia as where the Superdome name came from (project name was Half Dome... but some of our collegues didn't want to sell half of anything), the history of the Superdome from PA-RISC to today's Itanium processors), HP-UX 11i and server virtualization. Superdome has definitely come a long way... more than 20x the performance, running a few hardware partitions to up to 2500+ virtual machines today, and up to 2 TB of memory today. We've heard some interesting customer stories, seen some neat pictures (I'll probably share a few of them later if I can), and seen some demos.

As we look forward to celebrating the Superdome 10th anniversary, it brings up a few questions. Do you use a Superdome? If so, what do you use it for? What is your most interesting Superdome story?

I hope to share a few as we go along.