MEETING INTRODUCTION
At last year's SIFMA show, Novell showed off their SUSE Real-Time Linux Kernel and demonstrated how various financial applications benefited from the reduction in latency that it can provide (imagine the speed improvements possible by reducing the latency inherently found between parallel and/or clustered applications). At the March Unigroup meeting, hosted by Novell, we hope to learn about the Real-Time Linux Kernel, its features, and how it may be tuned to provide performance enhancements for various real-world applications.
Unigroup's next meeting will be in May 2009, topic to be announced.
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DIRECTIONS
Location:
Novell, Inc.
1177 Avenue of the Americas, 35th Floor
Midtown, Manhattan, NY 10036
Located on the West side of 6th Avenue, between W45th & W46th Streets.
PRESENTATION OUTLINE
Topic: Implementing Low Latency Systems, with the SUSE Real-Time Linux Kernel
Meeting Outline:
Innovative enterprises today are increasingly using Linux-based real time operating systems and commodity off the shelf components to cost effectively create ultra low latency environments. Based on the popular SUSE Linux Enterprise platform, SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time is fully supported real time operating system specifically engineered to reduce the latency and increase the reliability and predictability of time-sensitive mission-critical applications and processes. It is a very flexible solution that incorporates a large number of variables and knobs that can be turned to dedicate resources and/or increase throughput. Please join us for both dinner and entertainment - a interactive technical session covering topics like CPU shielding, thread priorities, and I/O tuning, things you can use to create a high throughput, highly predictable and responsive system. Bring your notebooks and your questions, and get some hands on experience with setting up and configuring SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time.
(comming soon) Here is a PDF of the presentation materials: Unigroup Field Trip: Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Real-Time (SLERT) Tuning Presentation
Web Resources
Novell SUSE Linux
http://www.novell.com/linux
SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY
(to-be-announced)
COMPANY BIOGRAPHY
For information about Novell, please see the http://www.novell.com.
GIVEAWAYS
We hope to have Novell/SUSE DVDs available at this meeting.
FEE SCHEDULE
Unigroup is a Professional Technical Organization and User Group, and its members pay a yearly membership fee. For Unigroup members, there is usually no additional charges (ie. no meeting fees) during their membership year. Non-members who wish to attend Unigroup meetings are usually required to pay a "Single Meeting Fee".
Yearly Membership (includes all meetings): $ 50.00
Student Yearly Membership (with current! ID): $ 25.00
Non-Member Single Meeting: $ 20.00
Non-Member Student Single Meeting (with! ID): $ 5.00
* Payment Methods: Cash, Check, American Express.
! Students: We are looking for proof that you are
currently enrolled in classes (rather than working
full-time), and as such, your Student ID should show
a CURRENT date. We have been presented Student IDs
containing NO dates whatsoever, and in the
current environment, perpetual/non-expiring access
to university facilities just does not feel right.
If your ID contains no date, please bring
additional proof of current enrollment. Thanks,
NOTE: Simply receiving Unigroup Email Announcements does NOT indicate membership in Unigroup.
FOOD AND REFRESHMENTS
Complimentary Food and Refreshments will be served. Novell will be sponsoring and providing the food service for this meeting. Thanks Novell!
Please join us for this meeting, you won't want to miss it!
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