Dec. 13th, 2006 SLLUG Meeting: High perfomance and scaling in the data center
This months SLLUG meeting will be held this week instead of next to avoid conflict with other activities closer to the holidays. Everyone is welcome! Looks to be a great presentation by Allen Parker on high perfornamce and scaling in the data center. A copy of the announcement follows:
NOTICE: December meeting is one week earlier than usual!!!!
The Salt Lake Linux Users Group ( SLLUG ) All are invited to the August 2006 SLLUG meeting:
Date: Wednesday, December 13th, 2006 Time: 7:10 PM Cost: $0.00. Zip. Nada. Place: Engineering and Mines Classroom Building (EMCB) room 101 Directions: See directions and map URL at the bottom of this page
Agenda:
- Welcome and a brief “What’s new in Linux”
- Discuss news of interest to the Linux community
- http://lwn.net/
- http://lwn.net/daily/
- http://slashdot.org/
- http://freshmeat.net/
- news:comp.os.linux.announce
- news:utah.linux
Presentation:
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Allen Parker will be presenting:
A focus on high performance computing on a budget: how to get the
most bang for your buck in web-based applications. I’ll be
touching on scalability concerns, software actually used in my
production environments. What it’s like to be the sysadmin for a
site in alexa’s top500 (3mos rank 404, Monday’s rank 286);
challenges in digital rights/copyright/dmca handling; basics of
Linux server optimization for high volume production environments.
Directions/Parking: Directions - [http://www.map.utah.edu/umaplink/0063.html] Parking can be found just East of the EMCB building and there is a big lot just North of the Merrill Engineering building (MEB). Parking is free after 6:00 (Based on the signs posted. Always check in case this changes.)
Special thanks go to (in alphabetical order): - Prof. Lepreau and the U of U for providing the meeting room. - Universal Systems Inc. http://www.usicomputer.com/ - Various Volunteers
SLLUG - a non-profit corporation composed of professionals, students, and general computer users dedicated to the use and development of Linux - a powerful, open, freely-redistributable computer operating system (OS) for Intel PC’s, PowerPCs, DEC AlphaAXPs, SPARC, ARM, etc. http://www.sllug.org/ http://www.linux.org/
