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UNIGROUP GENERAL MEETING
MEETING INTRODUCTION
Unigroup is pleased to announce our March 2015 meeting, a rescheduling of our OCP/Open Compute Project meeting, which had to be postponed due to speaker unavailability last year...
Our speaker Penguin Computing, has planned a special trip to NYC
to present: "The Open Compute Project"
The Open Compute Project addresses the design of: Servers, Storage,
Data Center, Racks, Networking, and Hardware Management.
(Unigroup meetings have discussed aspects of the Open Compute
Project a number of times in recent years.)
About The Open Compute Project (from their web page):
The Open Compute Project Foundation is a rapidly growing community
of engineers around the world whose mission is to design and enable
the delivery of the most efficient server, storage and data center
hardware designs for scalable computing.
About our speaker: Penguin Computing provides products in these
areas: Linux Servers+Workstations, Network Switches+Storage,
and GPU+HPC Computing.
DIRECTIONS
PRESENTATION OUTLINE
Topic: The Open Compute Hardware Platform
Introduction & Description of Talk:
The Open Compute Hardware Platform, and the latest in server
hardware technology. More... To-Be-Announced.
Presentation Outline:
References & Web Resources:
SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY
Philip Pokorny / Chief Technology Officer / Penguin Computing
Philip Pokorny is responsible for all aspects of the Penguin Computing
hardware products. After joining the company in February 2001 as an
engineer, he has steadily taken on more responsibilities. He brings a
wealth of both customer and engineering experience to the design,
development and support of Penguin Computing products. Prior to
Penguin Computing, he spent 14 years in various engineering and system
administration roles with Cummins, Inc. and Cummins Electronics. At
Cummins, Pokorny participated in the development of internal network
standards, deployed and managed a multisite network of multiprotocol
routers and supported a diverse mix of office and engineering workers
with a variety of server and desktop operating systems. He has
contributed code to Open Source projects, including the Linux kernel,
lm_sensors and LCDproc. Philip graduated in 1987 from Rose-Hulman
Institute of Technology with BS degrees in Math and Electrical
Engineering, and a second major in Computer Science.
COMPANY BIOGRAPHY
For well over a decade Penguin Computing has been the leader in
developing open, Linux-based cloud and HPC solutions. With our
unmatched Linux expertise, Penguin Computing offers a comprehensive
portfolio of products, ranging from Linux servers and workstations
to integrated, turn-key HPC clusters and cluster management software.
Penguin Computing provides customized build-to-order server solutions
for enterprises and institutions with special hardware requirements.
We complement our hardware and software solutions with Penguin
Computing on Demand (POD) a public HPC cloud that provides virtual
supercomputing capabilities on-demand on a pay-as-you-go basis.
Penguin is a one-stop shop for HPC and enterprise customers,
providing solutions for a wide array of computing needs and user
profiles: HPC and Cloud Solutions, High-powered Workstations, Highly
Power-efficient Servers, and Private/Public/Hybrid Cloud Solutions.
Penguin has more than thirteen years of experience developing powerful
and efficient open solutions based on Linux, and has delivered
hundreds of HPC clusters, including for: Top 100 Supercomputers,
academia, government, life sciences, manufacturing, financial
services and web hosting.
Penguin's installed base includes more than 18,000 systems in over
40 countries. Solutions from Penguin Computing meet the needs of
the world's most demanding HPC and enterprise customers, including:
NASA, AOL, Caterpillar, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Life Technologies,
and The US Navy.
GIVEAWAYS
Addison-Wesley Professional/Prentice Hall PTR/Pearson, and O'Reilly
have been kind enough to provide us with review copies of some of
their books, which we will continue to raffle off as giveaways at
our meetings. The publishers always ask that the persons receiving
the books provide a review and/or feedback about their books.
Unigroup would like to thank both publishing companies for the support
provided by their User Group programs.
As always, all of the books will be available for review at the
start of the meeting.
FEE SCHEDULE
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its members pay a yearly membership fee.
For Unigroup members, there is usually no additional charges
(ie. no meeting fees) during their membership year.
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Members: Remember to bring your membership card with you to
the meeting, to confirm your yearly renewal date!
FOOD AND REFRESHMENTS
Complimentary Food and Refreshments will be served. This includes
"wraps" such as turkey, roast beef, chicken, tuna and grilled
vegetables as well as assorted salads (potato, tossed,
pasta, etc), cookies, brownies, bottled water and assorted beverages.
Our thanks go to Penguin Computing for sponsoring the food service for this meeting!
Please join us for this meeting, you won't want to miss it!
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Location:
The Cooper Union (http://www.cooper.edu)
School of Engineering (*** New Building ***)
41 Cooper Square (3rd Avenue @ 7th Street, between 6th & 7th Streets)
East Village, Manhattan
New York City, 10003
Meeting Room: ** (See Above, Room May Change Month-to-Month)
Located on the East side of Cooper Square. Look for the
new building with the non-traditional appearance.
Entrance is at the corner of 3rd Avenue and 7th Street.
Building lobby sign-in is required at the guard's desk.
Enter the building, check in with the guard at the lobby for
directions to the Unigroup Meeting Room.
Nearest mass transit stations are:
'6' to Astor Place (stops right at The Cooper Union),
then walk 1 block East and 1 block South.
'R' to 8th Street, then walk about 2 blocks East
then 1 block South.
'4/5/N/Q' to Union Square, then walk South and East.
or transfer to the downtown '6' to Astor Place.
'B/D/F/V' to Broadway-Lafayette, then walk North and East.
or transfer to the uptown '6' to Astor Place.
Free street parking in the area becomes available at 6pm.
There are parking lots on Broadway, at (or just South of) 8th
Street, across from the West side of Cooper Square, as well
as various others in the area.
The Open Compute Project
http://www.opencompute.org
Penguin Computing - Open Technologies:
http://www.penguincomputing.com/solutions/technology/open-technologies/
Penguin Computing - Open Compute Project Technologies:
http://www.penguincomputing.com/products/open-compute-project/tundra-openhpc/
http://www.penguincomputing.com/products/open-compute-project/ocp-design-19-standard-racks/
http://www.penguincomputing.com/products/open-compute-project/ocp-servers-storage-solutions/
http://www.penguincomputing.com/products/open-compute-project/penguin-open-bridge-rack/
http://www.penguincomputing.com/products/open-compute-project/tundra-openhpc/
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
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containing NO dates whatsoever, and in the
current environment, perpetual/non-expiring access
to university facilities just does not feel right.
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