We’ll be giving a talk at the GCIO meeting in San Antonio, on Sept 17, 2009.
http://www.gcio.org/agenda.html
The meeting is located at
Hyatt Regency San Antonio
123 Losoya Street
San Antonio, TX 78205
Phil Carinhas is giving two seminars on Green Computing in the next month.
On Jan 22 2008: Austin-San Antonio Chapter of the Association of Energy Engineers at 11:00, San Marcos, TX. See http://www.txaee.org/calendar.htm
The second talk, on Feb 7 2008, is at the Association for Computer Operations Management (AFCOM, a group dedicated to data center managers and [...]
Dominique Heger is designing an MPI extension for the Flexible File Systems Benchmark (FFSB). The extension will allow FFSB to be utilized in cluster and GRID environments. FFSB reflects a cross-platform filesystem performance measurement and stress-testing tool that allows quantifying IO performance based on actual workload profiles that mimic production environments. Dominique Heger designed FFSB [...]
We have a new whitepaper by Dr. Heger entitled: Capacity Planning: A Necessity for Green Computing. Green computing is a very hot topic these days, so I think you’ll find this and interesting addition to the discussion of energy conservation, computing, and all things green.
You can find the paper here.
In addition, have a green computing [...]
Fortuitous is excited to announce today’s newly forged alliance with Xensource (http://xensource.com).
Fortuitous will assist XenSource with their clients who need capacity planning and performance design for their virtualization conversions and projects. Fortuitous sees it’s alliance as a strategic enabler for large virtualization clients who need assurance, design, and scalability.
For more information please contact http://fortuitous.com [...]
We’ll be giving a talk on Grid Node Classification in Houston, TX on March the 8th. We will discuss Monte-Carlo Techniques for node classification. We will also talk about research in Cellular Automata for node classification in grids and clusters. This will be hosted by the CMG.org Southwest regional meeting.
http://regions.cmg.org/regions/swcmg/index.html
Dominique Heger will give a talk on Parallel Filesystems on Jan 11, 7:00pm at San Antonio Linux Users Group.
For more information on location and details, please see http://satlug.org
We have a new ZFS primer! ZFS is an exciting new filesystem from the Solaris and OpenSolaris crews.
ZFS highlights:
· Provable data integrity
· Detects and corrects silent data corruption
· Immense capacity (128-bit file system!)
· Simple administration
· Performance
· RAID-Z
Please check it out at http://fortuitous.com/en/resources/primers/
-Phil
CMG 2006 in Reno was a huge success. Phil and Dom each presented a paper. Meeting with some of the brightest people in the performance and capacity planning area not only helps us to augment our own network, but also gives us new ideas on how to get customers better focused on the importance of [...]
Its now official!
We have 2 papers accepted in this years CMG International conference in Reno Nevada:
http://cmg.org/cgi-bin/agenda_2006.pl?action=more&token=6011
and
http://cmg.org/cgi-bin/agenda_2006.pl?action=more&token=6044