From announce at lists.nycbug.org Sun Mar 2 17:57:09 2008 From: announce at lists.nycbug.org (NYC*BUG Announcements) Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2008 17:57:09 -0500 Subject: [announce] Wednesday NYCBUG Message-ID: <47CB30C5.6090107@ceetonetechnology.com> March 05, 2008, Wednesday Jeffrey Mau on User Interfaces and How People Think 6:30pm, Suspenders Restaurant http://www.suspendersbar.com/location.php "User Interfaces and How People Think" will introduce concepts of designing software for different users by observing how they think about and do what they do. While much of design today focuses on the front-end of computer systems, there is opportunity to innovate in every area where a human interacts with software. Bio Jeffery Mau is a user experience designer with the leading business and technology consulting firm Sapient. He has helped clients create great customer experiences in the financial services, education, entertainment and telecommunications industries. With a passion for connecting people with technology, Jeff specializes in Information Architecture and Business Strategy. Jeff holds a Masters in Design from the IIT Institute of Design in Chicago, Illinois. From announce at lists.nycbug.org Wed Mar 5 10:02:15 2008 From: announce at lists.nycbug.org (NYC*BUG Announcements) Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2008 10:02:15 -0500 Subject: [announce] NYCBUG Tonight Message-ID: <47CEB5F7.2090309@ceetonetechnology.com> March 05, 2008, Wednesday Jeffrey Mau on User Interfaces and How People Think 6:30pm, Suspenders Restaurant http://www.suspendersbar.com/location.php "User Interfaces and How People Think" will introduce concepts of designing software for different users by observing how they think about and do what they do. While much of design today focuses on the front-end of computer systems, there is opportunity to innovate in every area where a human interacts with software. Bio Jeffery Mau is a user experience designer with the leading business and technology consulting firm Sapient. He has helped clients create great customer experiences in the financial services, education, entertainment and telecommunications industries. With a passion for connecting people with technology, Jeff specializes in Information Architecture and Business Strategy. Jeff holds a Masters in Design from the IIT Institute of Design in Chicago, Illinois. From announce at lists.nycbug.org Sat Mar 15 11:24:19 2008 From: announce at lists.nycbug.org (NYC*BUG Announcements) Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2008 11:24:19 -0400 Subject: [announce] Special NYCBUG meeting Thursday, March 20th Message-ID: <20080315152419.GB36315@shoeshine.sddi.net> March 20, 2008 Building a High-Performance Computing Cluster Using FreeBSD 6:30pm, Suspenders Restaurant http://www.suspendersbar.com/location.php Special NYC*BUG meeting with FreeBSD developer Brooks Davis Please note that this meeting is not on our normal first Wednesday of the month, and that we will not be adjusting our other meetings Since late 2000 we have developed and maintained a general purpose technical and scientific computing cluster running the FreeBSD operating system. In that time we have grown from a cluster of 8 dual Intel Pentium III systems to our current mix of 64 dual, quad-core Intel Xeon and 289 dual AMD Opteron systems. In this talk we reflect on the system architecture as documented in our BSDCon 2003 paper "Building a High-performance Computing Cluster Using FreeBSD" and our changes since that time. After a brief overview of the current cluster we revisit the architectural decisions in that paper and reflect on their long term success. We then discuss lessons learned in the process. Finally, we conclude with thoughts on future cluster expansion and designs. Bio Brooks Davis is an Engineering Specialist in the High Performance Computing Section of the Computer Systems Research Department at The Aerospace Corporation. He has been a FreeBSD user since 1994, a FreeBSD committer since 2001, and a core team member since 2006. He earned a Bachelors Degree in Computer Science from Harvey Mudd College in 1998. His computing interests include high performance computing, networking, security, mobility, and, of course, finding ways to use FreeBSD in all these areas. When not computing, he enjoys reading, cooking, brewing and pounding on red-hot iron in his garage blacksmith shop. Brooks' BSDCon 2003 paper is available at http://people.freebsd.org/~brooks/papers/bsdcon2003/fbsdcluster/ From announce at lists.nycbug.org Thu Mar 20 08:16:40 2008 From: announce at lists.nycbug.org (NYC*BUG Announcements) Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 08:16:40 -0400 Subject: [announce] NYCBUG Tonight: Brooks Davis Message-ID: <47E255A8.9040806@ceetonetechnology.com> March 20, 2008 Brooks Davis: Building a High-Performance Computing Cluster Using FreeBSD 6:30pm, Suspenders Restaurant http://www.suspendersbar.com/location.php Special NYC*BUG meeting with FreeBSD developer Brooks Davis Please note that this meeting is not on our normal first Wednesday of the month, and that we will not be adjusting our other meetings Since late 2000 we have developed and maintained a general purpose technical and scientific computing cluster running the FreeBSD operating system. In that time we have grown from a cluster of 8 dual Intel Pentium III systems to our current mix of 64 dual, quad-core Intel Xeon and 289 dual AMD Opteron systems. In this talk we reflect on the system architecture as documented in our BSDCon 2003 paper "Building a High-performance Computing Cluster Using FreeBSD" available at http://people.freebsd.org/~brooks/papers/bsdcon2003/fbsdcluster/ and our changes since that time. After a brief overview of the current cluster we revisit the architectural decisions in that paper and reflect on their long term success. We then discuss lessons learned in the process. Finally, we conclude with thoughts on future cluster expansion and designs. Bio Brooks Davis is an Engineering Specialist in the High Performance Computing Section of the Computer Systems Research Department at The Aerospace Corporation. He has been a FreeBSD user since 1994, a FreeBSD committer since 2001, and a core team member since 2006. He earned a Bachelors Degree in Computer Science from Harvey Mudd College in 1998. His computing interests include high performance computing, networking, security, mobility, and, of course, finding ways to use FreeBSD in all these areas. When not computing, he enjoys reading, cooking, brewing and pounding on red-hot iron in his garage blacksmith shop. From announce at lists.nycbug.org Mon Mar 31 09:21:16 2008 From: announce at lists.nycbug.org (NYC*BUG Announcements) Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 09:21:16 -0400 Subject: [announce] NYCBUG Wednesday April 2 on ZFS Message-ID: <47F0E54C.1050707@ceetonetechnology.com> Wednesday April 02, 2008 ZFS on FreeBSD 6:30pm, Suspenders Restaurant http://www.suspendersbar.com/location.php Ike & Yarema will tag-team this meeting. ZFS ? the breakthrough file system in FreeBSD 7 (ported from Sun's Solaris 10 Operating System) delivers virtually unlimited capacity, provable data integrity, and near-zero administration. However FreeBSD`s sysinstall(8) does not yet support installing the system onto anything more exotic than a commonly used UFS partition scheme. Furthermore, FreeBSD`s boot loader(8) cannot yet load the kernel and modules from ZFS. This meeting will cover installing FreeBSD 7.0 on ZFS as the root filesystem with a boot partition on a GEOM gmirror. Attendees are encouraged to read, download and try the zfsboot scripts at http://yds.CoolRat.org/zfsboot.shtml The rational behind the zfsboot script will be demystified and an install will be demonstrated. Anyone who brings a (minimum 1 Gig) USB thumb drive can go home with a bootable "root on ZFS" installer. Anyone who brings a hard drive can go home with FreeBSD installed on a ZFS root. Bios Yarema has been a FreeBSD administrator for more than a decade. A contributor to the FreeBSD ports collection. Likes to mouth off about his latest exploits with the OS only to be rewarded by getting "volunteered" to do a lecture at an upcoming NYC*BUG meeting. Ike has been orbiting NYCBUG since the beginning. Not only does he not think within the box, he doesn't even know there *is* a box. He used to give talks on jail(8) in New York, but since he`s been banned from it, he is forced to do them for other unsuspecting BSD users at conferences like AsiaBSDCon and EuroBSDCon.