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At 03:49 PM 3/11/00 -0800, Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Someone posted here about the SGI event in Portland next Wed, and I
>forgot all about it, but it looks like I might be up there then, and was
>wondering if they could forward me the URL to it.
>
>Thanks,
>
>greg k-h
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
At 11:35 AM 3/9/00 -0800, Seth Cohn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>http://www.sgi.com/events/linuxu/locations.html#Portland
>
>Free seminar... got a call from SGI on it, and am passing it on.
>
>I won't have a chance to go (I just took a day for a seminar yesterday
>and work is too busy)
>
> Portland, OR - March 16
>
>The Portland Conference Center
>Bridges Ballroom
>300 N.E. Multnomah St.
>Portland, OR 97232
>503-239-9921
>
>Directions
>Register for this location
>Breakout Descriptions
>
> Agenda Topics
>
>Security in Linux
>Software Development Tools
>Linux for the Internet - Web Serving and Media Serving
>XFS/CXFS
>Networking and Clustering on Linux
>Linux 64
>
>
>
>
> Breakout Descriptions
> Check your location and agenda for available breakouts.
>
> Linux 64
> A discussion of the tools for developing applications for Linux on the
>IA-64 platform.
>
> Clusters and Networking on Linux
> Linux provides an excellent networking environment with various
>standards-based and
> proprietary products. These products are used both for general infrastructure
> networking use as well as for cluster interconnects. State-of-the-art and
>emerging
> technologies and standards within the networking space are discussed. Linux
> clustering solutions provide System Architects availability and
>scalability right-sized
> for their environment. Three classes of clusters are explored: High
>Availability clusters;
> Throughput clusters; and Capability clusters. These clusters ensure that
>problems are
> always solvable, large numbers of individual problems can be solved, and
>even the
> largest and most demanding problems can be solve.
>
> Linux for the Internet - Web Serving, E-Commerce, and Messaging
> This session addresses the issues of design, tuning, and reliability for
>Web Serving,
> E-Commerce, and Messaging on Linux. Also, how to build a system/site that
>is both
> highly available and high-performance.
>
> Security in Linux
> This talk addresses the current state of security features in Linux,
>touches on current
> efforts in the Linux community to improve those features, and outlines
>SGI's plans with
> regard to future direction.
>
> XFS and CXFS
> SGI is contributing the XFS file system to the Open Source Linux
>community using
> the copyleft GPL license. XFS is one of SGI's core competencies in
>high-performance
> computing. It is the most scalable, high-performance journal file system
>available
> today. This talk will review the advanced XFS features and how and why
>SGI will
> distribute it as an Open Source GPL file system for Linux
>
> The Clustered XFS file system from SGI, CXFS, provides a single-system
>view of file
> system from multiple heterogeneous hosts (Linux, NT, IRIX, etc.), sharing
>disks over a
> storage area network (SAN), such as a Fibre Channel fabric. The application
> programmer interface (API) for processes sharing disks from multiple
>hosts is the
> same as if they were on one multi-processor (SMP) host. This talk will
>describe the
> capabilities, efficiency, implementation methods, status, and plans for CXFS.
>
