Monthly Archives: March 2011

4/14 Meeting: Allen Institute Large Data Pipeline

Date: April 14th, 2011
Time: 7pm
Place: EE1 Building (Electrical Engineering)
Room 403
University of Washington Campus
Directions: http://www.ee.washington.edu/about/contact.html
Subject: Allen Institute Data Pipeline
Presenter: Brian Youngstrom

Brian will be talking about the large data pipeline we have built during to
support the creation of the various atlases at www.brain-map.org. Some
of the challenges include processing 1tb+/day of raw data and managing
the lab metadata to keep everything organized.

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Brian received a BS in Computer Science in 1999 from Weber State Univ.
Have been doing sysadmin work since 1996 and working with mostly linux
hosts since 2001. he joined the Allen Institute in 2004, just weeks
before their first public release.

As always, there will be dinner sponsored by Silicon Mechanics. Check them out at http://www.siliconmechanics.com/

There will also be several CACert assurers present.

The meeting will be at the Electrical Engineering building on the
University of Washington Campus, aka EE1. Directions are linked to the
EE Department’s web site above. Parking is $5 after 5pm.

Next Meeting: Email Migration Tips and Tricks

Date: March 10th, 2011
Time: 7pm
Place: EE1 Building (Electrical Engineering)
Room 403
University of Washington Campus
Directions: http://www.ee.washington.edu/about/contact.html
Subject: Email Migration Tips and Tricks
Presenter: Ski Kacoroski

This talk covers the lessons learned while migrating 2500 users to a new email server for the Northshore School District (NSD). Email server migration consists of data and process inventory and clean up, selecting the new email server, initial data migration, running a pilot test, final data migration, and post migration tasks. This presentation will cover these aspects, what worked and did not work, and what should have been done differently to make the migration run smoother using examples from migrating the email server at NSD.

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Chris “Ski” Kacoroski has been a systems administrator since 1982, worked at the Northshore School District since 2002, and a member of LOPSA’s board since 2009. When not dealing with technology, he enjoys spending time with his family and volunteering for King County Search and Rescue.

As always, there will be dinner sponsored by Silicon Mechanics. Check them out at http://www.siliconmechanics.com/

There will also be several CACert assurers present.

The meeting will be at the Electrical Engineering building on the
University of Washington Campus, aka EE1. Directions are linked to the
EE Department’s web site above. Parking is $5 after 5pm.