When:
Friday, January 27, 6:30pm - 9:30pm
Where:
UTS Broadway
SLUG's monthly meeting featuring talks and SLUGlets. Meetings are
open to the general public, and free of charge.
Room 2.4.06 (Building 2, Level 4, Room 6), at UTS Broadway (There is a
map of UTS available at http://www.uts.edu.au/about/mapsdirections/bway.html).
General Talk: Reudiger Berlich - Grid Computing
This is about building a huge, worldwide compute infrastructure, mainly
for the upcoming experiments of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN /
Geneva. These will produce about 10 petabyte of data per year, which are
being accessed by 6000 physicists worldwide. The current Grid
infrastructure, in the context of the European Union initiative EGEE,
comprises about 14,000 CPUs, all running under Linux.
Special Interest Talk: Reudiger Berlich - ROOT Toolkit
This is a graphical analysis toolkit comprising several million lines of
code. As it is based around a C++ _interpreter_, it can be used for
virtually any purpose. Just link your own libraries with the interpreter
and access the functions from you C++ scripts. ROOT is one of the
largest open source projects (sureley after Apache and the Linux kernel,
but still ...), but still mostly unknown outside the physics community.
I perceive the benefit of ROOT to the OSS community to be potentially
large, so I would like to do some dissemination work for this project.
As usual, SLUGlets will be running in room 02.05.38 during the 2nd half of the
meeting for those who do not wish to attend the 2nd talk.
IMPORTANT: People planning to attend dinner this month *must* RSVP to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] for us to get approximate numbers.
6:30pm: Doors Open
6:45pm: The Usual Suspects
Q&A - Introduction to SLUG + "What has Linux done for/to me lately?" + SLUG
News & Discussion
7:00pm (approx): General Talk
General Talk: Reudiger Berlich - Grid Computing
8:00pm (approx): Break
Refreshments in the foyer, for a small covering charge.
8:20pm (approx): Split into two groups for:
* Special Interest Talk: Reudiger Berlich - ROOT Toolkit
* SLUGlets: quick talks and discussion of Linux and Free Software.
9:30pm (approx) Dinner
Dinner - arrangements TBA. (Remember to RSVP!!)
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