Personal note from Jay Sulzberger: Jim Gleason is the founder of NYLUG, and he is one of the original team of advocates and coaches who, ten years ago, helped Big Blue out of the closet and into the light and sun of Free Software.
This meeting is an important meeting, and, even if you have never thought about watts and bits, come on down and meet Jim Gleason. Full official notice below. Jay Sulzberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Corresponding Secretary LXNY LXNY is New York's Free Computing Organization. http://www.lxny.org <blockquote> From: Jim Gleason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: NYLUG Announcements <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 09:45:01 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [nylug-announce] NYLUG Presents: Jim Gleason on The Green Data Center & New Energy SIG Wednesday, August 29th, 2007 6:30pm-8:00 PM Google 76th 9th Ave., between 15th and 16th St. 4th Floor, enter near 16th Street ** RSVP Closes at 2:30pm the day before the meeting (sharp!) *** Please RSVP for EVERY meeting at this time. Register at http://rsvp.nylug.org/ Check in with photo ID at the lobby for badge. Latecomers can sign in, but it means having to sign in and possibly wait a bit. PLEASE NOTE: There are no other procedures involved in attending NYLUG meetings other than those described here. (you are not required to enter into any agreements to attend) Jim Gleason (IBM Corporation) -on- The Green Data Center Driven with a 10-to-1 price performance improvement over Unix-based "big iron" systems, Linux x86 servers have transformed the world's IT infrastructure. Over the last ten years, compute capacity has been gained by adding higher-density Linux servers to a data center; and then, the difficult tasks of power and thermal management were handed off to the data center administrator. This is no longer feasible. Energy consumption in data centers has doubled since 2000 and they are fast approaching the limits of their power and cooling capacities. By way of comparison, an average home consumes approximately 1 watt per square foot of power and a typical office uses 10 watts/square foot; but a corporate data center consumes 200 watts per square foot or more. In the US, data center infrastructure comprises 1-2% of overall national electrical usage. This is the equivalent of five 1,000 MW power plants. And by the way, demand is _not_ decreasing. The rising cost of a kilowatt further compounds the problem. The cost to cool a server now exceeds the cost to purchase it. In many cases, extra electricity isn't available at any price. Some utilities, especially those in crowded urban areas, are telling customers that power feeds are at capacity and they simply have no more power to sell. Not only do power-constrained environments inhibit business growth, they also emit millions of tons of greenhouse gases every year. Whether you are discussing energy or discussing climate, you are really talking about the same thing. The question is, how can corporations meet their increasing demands for more electricity and protect the climate at the same time? Speaking from first-hand experience, Jim Gleason of IBM Corp., will explain all of the modern approaches for reducing data center operating costs, including virtualization and techniques for optimizing server utilization. A broad range of technologies will be covered, such as phase-change "cool storage," power management software and "hot spot" reduction, that improve cooling and minimize the carbon footprint of data centers. In addition, Jim will discuss other IBM initatives to improve the nation's electrical grid and IBM Research efforts involved in transforming renewable energy, including solar power. Lastly, the floor will be opened up to discuss collective lessons learned from open source software development and distributed computing, and how this knowledge may factor into the possibility of distributed energy and micropower. New! Energy 2.0 User Group -------------------------- Attention Energy Geeks! NYLUG will be creating one of the first "Energy 2.0" user groups in the New York area. Similar to the MIT Energy Club, this special interest group will host technical speakers and hold social events for members of the community who wish to interact and make an impact in the emerging energy sector space. An announcement on the first event will be made at this meeting. Further Information: * IBM: The Green Data Center http://ibm.com/systems/optimizeit/cost_efficiency/energy_efficiency * IBM: Virtualization Curbs Data Center Energy Costs http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/virtualization/view/081307.html * Press Release: IBM Launches "Big Green Linux" Initiative http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/22006.wss * The MIT Energy Club http://web.mit.edu/mit_energy About Jim Gleason Responsible for the introduction of the first mission-critical Linux clusters to Wall Street investment banks ten years ago, Jim Gleason began to observe energy and heat issues in these data centers soon thereafter and has focused his efforts on these concerns ever since. Currently Jim works in IBM's Financial Services Sector Industry Solutions unit. IBM's "Project Big Green" is a $1 billion per year initiative with the goal of focusing IBM expertise and resources to reduce data center energy consumption and transform the world's business infrastructures into "greener" data centers. Jim is also the founder of the New York Linux Users Group, which is sponsored by and holds its meetings at Google's facilities in downtown Manhattan. Meeting Location Please note that this meeting will be held at Google, 76 9th Ave, 4th floor, between 15th and 16th Streets, and not at IBM. This is the old Port Authority Building, and takes up the entire block. You want the entrance nearest 16th Ave. Map http://tighturl.com/u4 Free Refreshments! Google is also graciously providing refreshments during the meeting. Books!!! Our friends at Prentice-Hall kindly provide us with review copies of various new titles. One of these could be yours, all you have to do is agree to review the book within a reasonable period of time. Swag (Give Away) During/after the meeting... unusually terrific swag may be given away. Stammtisch After the meeting ... Many of us have been meeting over at the Hog Pit starting around 8:15-8:30. http://www.hogpit.com 22 Ninth Avenue at 13th Street, New York, New York 10014 Python Workshops Our Python workshops will now be focusing their energy on building the new NYLUG web site. All are welcome, from beginners to old hands, and there's work for non-coders too. The workshops meet every other Tuesday, at the NY Public Library, Hudson Park Branch. 66 Leroy St. NY NY from 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM Next meeting is August 28. See the calendar at: http://tighturl.com/fp Please see our home page at http://www.nylug.org for the HTMLized version of this announcement, our archives, and a lot of other good stuff. ______________________________________________________________________ Hire expert Linux talent by posting jobs here :: http://jobs.nylug.org nylug-announce mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://nylug.org/mailman/listinfo/nylug-announce </blockquote> _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
