[lug] BLUG Meeting Announcement 2012-11-08

[Jose Luis Salas]

Thank you Dave it was a great presentation.

Best Regards!


On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 3:12 PM, Davide Del Vento <
davide.del.vento at gmail.com> wrote:

> Folks,
> as promised here are the slides of my talk. ODPs are easier to
> cut-and-paste, have vector graphics and high resolution jpgs etc. If
> you only care about the links, PDFs are much lighter and more portable
> (as the name says :-)
> Other than that, they are the same.
>
> This year talk:
> http://www.javacorner.org/blug/Yellowstone.pdf 3.1MB
> http://www.javacorner.org/blug/Yellowstone.odp 7.2MB
>
> 2009 talk (I couldn't find it anywhere else on the web):
> http://www.javacorner.org/blug/supercomputing.pdf 5.7MB
> http://www.javacorner.org/blug/supercomputing.odp 8.1MB
>
> Let me know if you have any questions!
> Davide
>
> On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 8:00 AM, Boulder Linux <boulderlinux at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >     http://lug.boulder.co.us/calendar.html
> >
> > The November Boulder Linux User Group meeting is coming up.
> >
> >    Talk : Yellowstone, the New Linux-based supercomputer at NCAR.
> >
> > Speaker : David Del Vento
> >
> >    When : 7:15 p.m. on Thu, Nov 08, 2012
> >
> >   Where : Applied Trust, 1033 Walnut St, Bulder, CO 80302
> >
> >           Applied Trust is on Walnut Street in downtown Boulder. It is
> >           the door just west of Amante Coffee.
> >
> >     Map : http://lug.boulder.co.us/meetings.html
> >
> > Parking : Parking on the street is free after 7pm and there are 2 public
> >           garages on Walnut at $1.25/hour and bike parking on the
> sidewalk
> >           in front of the office.
> >
> >     Bus : Less than 2 blocks from Broadway which is served by the Skip
> busses.
> >           Less than 4 blocks from the Boulder Transit Center which serves
> >           almost all routes.
> >
> >
> > Summary of 'Yellowstone, the New Linux-based supercomputer at NCAR.'
> > --------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > Yellowstone is the latest NCAR's supercomputer and it marks many changes
> > for supercomputing at NCAR. As always it's the largest machine to date to
> > be deployed at NCAR, but it's using "commodity technology" such as x86
> > processors and Linux which are unusual entries for supercomputing at
> NCAR.
> > Of course a supercomputer can't be "just" commodity, so there are many
> > hardware and software tricks that Yellowstone has in its sleeves, and
> that
> > this talk will unveil some. Four software "tricks" may be useful to
> normal
> > Linux deployment, so you may learn something good to know even if you
> > don't run a supercomputer. The building accommodating the machine is also
> > brand new, and using the latest and greatest technology itself, so I will
> > describe them too.
> >
> >
> > Pre meeting food
> > ----------------
> >
> > Food will be available at the meeting location, so please show up around
> 6:45 pm
> > and join us for a bite to eat. We'll start the meeting about 7:15.
> >
> >
> > --
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-- 
Jose Luis Salas
CompTIA Linux+ Certified

E-mail: joseluis.salas09 at gmail.com
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