Re: Special Speaker, Dave McAllister, May 21 and 22.

[Chester <chester@langin.com>]

Hey, this looks cool and it's at a time I can attend.
I'll plan on coming from Carbondale.

--Chester Langin-------------------------------------------
<http://www.cs.siu.edu/~langin>  <mailto:langin@cs.siu.edu>
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On Thu, 3 May 2001, Kara Pritchard wrote:

> 
> Hey everyone, we've got a special speaker, Dave McAllister coming to the
> area the week of May 21, sponsored by SILUG.
> 
> On Monday May 21 at 7:00pm, Dave will be giving a presentation on Linux
> clusters at the normal meeting place of the St Louis Linux Users Group at
> Indian Trails Library.
> 
> 		St. Louis County Library, Indian Trails Branch
>                    8400 Delport Drive (at Midland)
>                    St. Louis, MO 63114-5904
>                    314.428.5424
> 
> You can find directions and such at stllinux.org. This is a special
> meeting event, not a regular LUG meeting, and it is being sponsored by
> SILUG, so I would like as many SILUG members present as possible.
> 
> Let's organize a carpool/caravan. Harry Treece (sorry to point you out),
> but if you will attend (PLEASE!) can you be lead contact on a caravan or
> carpool from Carbondale? If so, post so that Carbondale members can
> contact you for arrangements. I'm going to have my hands full by
> chauferring Dave, so who in Fairview Heights will coordinate the local
> caravan? Last time we attempted this, it fell apart, so let's try again :P
> 
> ------
> 
> On Tuesday, May 22 at 7:00pm Dave will be speaking at the Linux Users of
> Central Illinois (LUCI) regular LUG meeting at 7:00pm in Springfield,
> Illinois. It is approximately 1.5 hours from Fairview Heights to the
> Springfield location, if you opt to travel there. For meeting location and
> directions, visit http://www.luci.org/.
> 
> ------
> 
> On Wednesday, May 23 I am planning another informal dinner for SILUG
> members at Emporer's Wok as we did with Peter Salus' visit. With dinner
> finishing up early, we can retire to my home for a quieter chat session
> with Dave, as well as a SILUG social. Egenera has agreed to sponsor the
> buffet dinner, and as soon as I get a firm budget from them, I will know
> how many 'freebies' we'll have available. For afterward, I wouldn't mind
> having a finger foods, desserts, beer and soda social, open to everyone,
> including those unable to attend dinner. If I can get volunteers for
> carry-in, that'd be extremely helpful. Please, please be rude and
> volunteer your spouses if nothing else ;)
> 
> -------
> 
> Okay, that's the general schedule for the week. If you think your company
> or work group would be interested in a special visit or meeting with Dave,
> please let me know. Dave is also meeting with large technical groups and
> with business people that week to discuss large data center solutions
> using Linux clusters and mass storage networks as well.
> 
> Below is Dave's BIO and his presentation abstract.
> 
> Look forward to seeing you at the events that week :)
> 
> -------
> 
> About Dave:
> 
> Currently Director of Strategic Technologies for Egenera, Dave McAllister is
> best known in open source circles for bringing Linux into SGI as a main
> product line, McAllister has presented on several Linux tours and keynotes,
> both in the U.S and internationally. A respected figure in the Open Source
> world, Dave is active in Linux International, and the Linux Professional
> Institute. He holds degrees in mathematics and chemistry from Old Dominion
> University and has done graduate work in computer science.
> 
> About the presentation:
> 
> Clustering in the Enterprise: What works, What we need.
> 
> As Linux and Open source have taken the internet world, several attempts to
> bridge high availability and clusters to the needs of commercial concerns
> have arisen. These attempts run the gamut from Load Balancing to Failover,
> and in fact may be the best way to build such systems. However, each
> available solution has both strengths and weaknesses; depending on your
> business needs, will influence your choice of a viable solution. This
> discussion will cover the highlights of each approach, and look at the
> idealized hardware concept.
> 
> 
> Please make every attempt to make this meeting, so we can justify making
> more arrangements with special event speakers. I've known Dave for a few
> years now, and is a very interesting individual in the Linux community.
> Definitely worth your time!
> 
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