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Greetings, As previously announced, the New England Users of VM Spring Meeting will be held at Lombardo's in Randolph, Massachusetts on May 18, 2004. As usual, we will be providing a sumptuous luncheon with your choice of Roast Prime Rib or New England Turkey Dinner. We must confirm our luncheon choices to Lombardo's by Monday, May 10 - so if you have not registered for the Spring Meeting please do so NOW so that you may have a choice in what you prefer for lunch. Registration is FREE if you register online at www.neuvm.org : http://www.neuvm.org/register.php If we do not receive your registration by MONDAY MAY 10th we will provide lunch, but you may not have a choice of entr�e. The same applies to walk-in registrations, we will accommodate you on a first-come/first-served basis and there is a $25 fee for walk-in registrations. We've got a terrific meeting lined up with some great presentations: Linux on z/VM Performance Measurement and Tuning Barton Robinson, Velocity Software, Inc. Measuring and tuning Linux on VM required melding two different mindsets, neither of them that work on their own. This presentation will discuss how to find the problems, and how to solve them with the best of today's technology and understanding. A brief discussion on performance instrumentation and associated "challenges" for VM and Linux will be provided. User Experience: Tomcat on SuSE z/Linux Gerard Shockley, Boston University The presentation is geared toward new sites running on z/Series and performs a brief introduction of z/Series strategy and platform strengths, and demonstrates an actual project flow and technical details on activating Tomcat with SSL support and a servelet application. Included in the discussion are system administration skill sets required for z/LINUX and how one begins to port to z/LINUX. VM Advanced Network Services: A New Reference Architecture Proposal for VM TCP Services David Boyes, Sine Nomine Associates Over the last decade or so, VM TCPIP has gotten some new function, but overall, the state of the VM TCPIP implementation is essentially one that has been overtaken by the explosion of the Internet into popular culture. With the coming of Linux, and the need for re-architecting the IP services provided for CMS to face a more hostile environment than the Internet of 1988, a new way of deploying and configuring IP services on VM is needed. What this presentation attempts to do is present a internal Sine Nomine research proposal for a new VM TCPIP architecture that provides a refreshed and updated implementation of the existing network services, new functions to improve the state of VM's network capabilities, and to ease the integration and deployment of Linux systems in server farms. We'll cover the proposal for the new architecture, point out how it uses some of the latest function in z/VM to dramatically simplify configuring a new VM instance, and spend some time discussing how this approach can benefit classic CMS shops as well as new VM users. z/VM Platform Update: What's New In z/VM 5.1 Reed Mullen, IBM What's new with z/VM? Catch the latest breaking news on z/VM product enhancements. This session will provide a high level overview of the new z/VM Version 5 product announcement. ? z/VM V5.1 offers new leading-edge virtualization capabilities in addition to a new pricing model that will help enterprises more easily exploit the on demand capabilities of zSeries virtualization technology. The value of Linux on z/VM will receive particular attention. A look to the future of z/VM development will also be provided. We'll have some great "freebies" courtesy of our friends at IBM as well! Looking forward to seeing you all at Lombardo's - please take a minute to register today. :) Michael Coffin New England Users of VM (NEUVM) 289 Park Street - PMB 123 Stoughton, Massachusetts 02072 Voice: (781) 344-9837 FAX: (781) 344-7683 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.NEUVM.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
