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:

Presentation:

    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/

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