Events 07/08
Events from 07/08!
Christmas Meal on Fri 30th November 2007
6pm Fri 30 Nov
Wing Wah's website for further details.
Read more >>Guest Talk on Wed 28th November 2007
2pm Wed 28 Nov
IT resource 'sprawl' is everywhere, servers are procured for separate projects and under-utilised, the end effect is an environment that consumes administration time, much 'wattage' and generates a lot of hot air! The industry response is a call to 'consolidation', that is, to gather many 'small' workloads into larger servers, increasing utilisation and thus improving cost-efficiency, all in all a good approach but this requires excellent negotiating skills to arrange maintenance 'windows' with seventy different users -a difficult task at the best of times- however, near-zero downtime systems such as the 'mainframe' can help remove this problem, but within the 'UNIX' and Linux world, this was a difficult problem to resolve. This lecture discusses the technologies taken from the mainframe environment that allow UNIX servers to support the operations required for large scale consolidation to reduce server sprawl, power costs, etc by providing the ability to move running workloads between separate physical servers without any 'service' interruption.The discussion covers the technologies required for this capability and their operation, including: The POWER hypervisor virtualisation layer, virtual processors, virtual I/O (network and disk), live partition mobility, application mobility and operating system requirements.
Read more >>Gaming Session on Fri 23rd November 2007
8pm Fri 23 Nov
If you want to come please sign up. If the event is not cancelled by Friday 1 pm it will happen.
Read more >>Progcomp on Fri 23rd November 2007
8pm Fri 23 Nov
This will be a 48 Hour Event, similar to a LAN party with submissions due at 10am, 2pm and 8pm on Saturday and Sunday. Members are required to bring their own machines, preferably laptops or low powered desktops.
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