[ug-discuss] [Tuesday] The Seventh Meeting of the Sydney Open Solaris User Group

[Alan Hargreaves]

Date: Tuesday, May 23 [Note the changed Date due to State of Origin]
Time: 6:30pm
Location: Sun Solution (formerly iForce) Centre. Ground floor 33 Berry 
St, North Sydney

Speaker
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Nathan Kroenert
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     Why Niagara is almost as good as Rare Steak.

         This talk will look at Niagara from a different perspective;
         That of someone who is more accustomed to working on the much
         larger enterprise systems. We'll look at some of the strongest
         and weakest points of the architecture, have a poke at one of
         the boxes in real life and discuss why optimisation can have
         such a positive impact on these (and other) systems.

         I'll try to avoid spending too much time on the usual
         'coolthreads/power/coolness/reduced AC/reduced space'
         ranting... We all know how well these boxes stack up...

         If there are specific aspects you might like to see covered,
         whack them onto sosug at googlegroups.com and if I can, I'll
         include them in the talk.

         [Nathan will also be demonstrating this stuff on a T1000]

Notes
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     * The security and safety folks have asked me to ensure that people
       visiting the iForce Centre sign in when they arrive and sign out
       when they leave. This is a safety issue so we know who is in the
       building. The sign in book is at the front desk inside the glass
       doors.
     * The main doors lock at about 6:00pm, so we'll make sure that we
       have someone near them to allow entry to the building.
-- 
Alan Hargreaves - http://blogs.sun.com/tpenta
Staff Engineer (Kernel/VOSJEC/Performance)
Product Technical Support (APAC)
Sun Microsystems