[SoCoSA/discuss] [SoCoSA/notify] Reminder: Meeting next week (Tuesday, April 7th)

[SoCoSA notifications and reminders, primarily of events]

We're trying something new, which is to send more (and earlier) 
reminders about meetings.  The idea is to send a reminder a week in 
advance, a day in advance and the day of to help those people 
perpetually busy.  This is a little late to be a week in advance, but 
it's still a few days earlier than we've done in the past.  If you have 
any thoughts on this, please share on the discussion list.

Day: Tuesday, April 7th
Time: 7pm for speaker, doors open at 6, be there by 6:10 for pizza order
Location: O'Reilly Media, Tarsier Room (behind the big metal tarsier)
           1005 Gravenstein Hwy N, Sebastopol; http://xrl.us/u6vz
Topic: Ganglia
Speaker: Jason Cook
Event page: http://socosa.org/node/852

According to Jason, here's what we have to look forward to:

Ganglia is a scalable distributed monitoring system for high-performance 
computing systems such as clusters and Grids. It is based on a 
hierarchical design targeted at federations of clusters. It leverages 
widely used technologies such as XML for data representation, XDR for 
compact, portable data transport, and RRDtool for data storage and 
visualization. It uses carefully engineered data structures and 
algorithms to achieve very low per-node overheads and high concurrency. 
The implementation is robust, has been ported to an extensive set of 
operating systems and processor architectures, and is currently in use 
on thousands of clusters around the world. It has been used to link 
clusters across university campuses and around the world and can scale 
to handle clusters with 2000 nodes.

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-Kevan Benson <kbenson at SoCoSA.org>
-SoCoSA President

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