Monthly Archives: February 2012

Mar 8th Meeting: Gluster File System

Date: March 8th, 2012
Time: 7pm
Place: EE1 Building (Electrical Engineering)
Room 403
University of Washington Campus
Directions: http://www.ee.washington.edu/about/contact.html
Subject: Gluster File System
Presenter: Anand Babu (AB) Periasamy

AB will provide an overview of global file systems and discuss how the Gluster global filesystem deals with the technical issues of meta data, locking, speed, and redundacy.

As CTO and Co-founder, AB sets the vision and strategy for the Gluster product platform. Prior to Gluster, AB served as CTO at California Digital Corporation, where his work led to the scaling of the commodity cluster computing to supercomputing class performance. He drove the adoption of
cluster computing and GNU/Linux at enterprise data centers and helped close strategic accounts at CDC. In 2004, AB led the development of the world’s second fastest Supercomputer “Thunder”, for Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. AB also serves on the board of “Free Software Foundation -
India”. He is the author / contributor of various other Free Software projects like GNU FreeIPMI (Intelligent Platform Management Interface), GNU Garp (Gratuitous ARP Daemon), bios-config (edit/replicate CMOS parameters), librpci/hdb (RPC interpose for GNU Hurd) and Hymn/PlayFair (iTunes ripper), GNU Freetalk (Scheme extensible messenger for Jabber, Google talk), and Freehoo (Scheme extensible messenger for YahooIM). He holds a Computer Science Engineering degree from Annamalai University, Tamil Nadu, India.

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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.

Registration for Cascadia IT Conference 2012 is now open!

Registration is now open for Cascadia IT Conference 2012 on March 23 & 24.

http://www.casitconf.org/casitconf12/Registration/

Deadline for Early Bird discount: Wednesday March 7th.

The full conference schedule is available now:

http://www.casitconf.org/casitconf12/schedule/

Featuring great tutorials such as:

Tom Limoncelli: Time management for System Administrators

Mike Pennacchi: Deep Packet Inspection using Wireshark

Nadine Miller: Technical Resume Writing

Aleksey Tsalolikhin: Sysadmin Basics: Power Editing with vi

and many more.

Register early!
We expect sessions to fill up as rooms have limited capacity.

Feb 9th Meeting: Multibooting from a USB flash drive

Date: February 9th, 2012
Time: 7pm
Place: EE1 Building (Electrical Engineering)
Room 403
University of Washington Campus
Directions: http://www.ee.washington.edu/about/contact.html
Subject: Multibooting from a USB flash drive
Presenter: Harvey Friedman

Harvey will be talking about how to multi-boot systems from a USB drive
and the reasons you may want to do this. This is a useful technique
for Sys Admins who are in a small-medium support teams.

Harvey is a Univ of Wash pensioner who still does sys admin part-time,
short term, so far not at UW. I am co-leader of Univ of Wash Retirement
Association Computer Interest Group.

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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.