PenLUG Tonight: SGI Altix

Thu Apr 22 13:53:39 PDT 2004

Tonight the Peninsula Linux Users Group will feature a speaker from
SGI (Silicon Graphics), Wayne Vieira.

Here are the details about this meeting.  For more information or
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Date:		Thursday, April 22, 2004
Time:		7:00 - 9:00 PM
Location:	100 Oracle Parkway, Redwood Shores, CA 94065
		Room 1op104

Conference Call: If you cannot attend in person, but would like to
dial in and listen, please send mail to conferencecall at penlug.org and
we will try to accomodate you.

Agenda:
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7:00 - 8:30 PM: Presentation by Wayne Vieira, SGI
8:30 - 9:00 PM: Members' Minutes
       9:00 PM: Adjourn to IHOP (Belmont) for social & food time

Presentation by Wayne Vieira, SGI
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The presentation will cover technical issues regarding SGI's Altix
3000 and 300 HPC systems, which leverage Silicon Graphics' NUMALink
technology on Intel's Itanium2 processors and the Linux operating
system, enabling scaling from 1 to 2048 processors within this
high-bandwidth/low-latency interconnect fabric.  Single systems with
only 1 copy of the operating system resident can be as large as 512
processors and 8TB of memory.  A true shared memory multiprocessor
system, the Altix series enables high-performance computer users
insight like never before.

Topics to be discussed are:

        SGI NUMAFlex architecture
        Altix3000 system overview
        Altix350 system overview
        Developing applications on large Linux systems
        SGI's Linux development and support strategy
        SGI Altix Visualization System for Linux (VSL) development

Questions will follow.

Members' Minutes
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Members will have an opportunity to take a few minutes to...

    * Describe their latest Linux discovery
    * Ask questions and get help from other members
    * Discuss Linux projects

You can just stand up and talk, or give a short demo or presentation.
If you need audio/visual support for your Members' Minute, please
contact Bill in advance to arrange for your needs.

Although it is NOT required, we like to have an idea of how many
people to expect, so if possible please email rsvp at penlug.org if you
are planning to attend.

-- 
William R Ward            bill at wards.net          http://www.wards.net/~bill/
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