[CLUE-Talk] [co-sage] February Meeting Announcement (fwd)

[Randy Arabie]

Here is a meeting announcement that I thought may be of interest 
to some on this list.

I've been to a few of the CO-SAGE meetings and found them very 
informative.

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Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2002 10:15:33 -0700
From: Kirk Rafferty
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Subject: [co-sage] February Meeting Announcement

The next CO-SAGE meeting will be Wednesday, February 13, 6:30pm at Level3. 

Directions to Level3 are at
http://www.co-sage.org/sections.php?op=viewarticle&artid=1

TITLE:  Building and Using a Personal Beowulf

SPEAKER:  Willem A. (Vlakkies) Schreuder

DESCRIPTION:

The talk is aimed at individuals or small groups with the need for a
personal supercomputer on a limited budget, rather than a large
organization with a six figure computer budget.

The talk is the Cliff Notes version of the full day tutorial by the same
name given at the Annual Linux Showcase and LISA 2001, with a few extras
facilitated by not having to get hardware through airport security.  The
full day talk is available at
http://www.prinmath.com/beowulf/pb/index.htm

The first half of the talk covers some background about what a Beowulf
system is,  different  distributions and how parallelism can be used to
speed up every day tasks. The second half covers how to use the Scyld
"Label Side Up" Edition to build a  Beowulf system from borrowed
hardware.  The third half covers sysadmin tasks to customize the stock
system to local needs.

The talk includes a live demonstration using a 4 processor Beowulf
cluster and
10 Scyld Beowulf CD-ROMs to be given away courtesy of USENIX.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER:

Vlakkies Schreuder is president of Principia Mathematica in Lakewood.
He holds a Ph.D in Computational Fluid Dunamics and is also persuing a
second Ph.D in Parallel Systems at CU Boulder.  He has been solving
practical problems in mathematical modeling in academia and private
industry for about 20 years, and has been a UNIX sysadmin for more than
15 years.  He uses his personal Beowulf to solve problems in software
development, computational fluid dynamics, data analysis, scientific
visualization and animation.

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Cheers!

Randy

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