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Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 02:50:07 -0500 (EST) From: Unigroup_of_NY <[email protected]> Subject: Reminder: UNIGROUP Meeting 15-JAN-2009 (Thu): Linux/Unix Real-Time Messaging Reminder: Unigroup's meeting is tonight (Thursday). A technical summary of the talk was added below. ==================================================================== UNIGROUP OF NEW YORK - UNIX USERS GROUP - JANUARY 2009 ANNOUNCEMENTS ==================================================================== -------------------------------------- 1. UNIGROUP'S JANUARY 2009 MEETING NOTICE -------------------------------------- When: THURSDAY, January 15th, 2009 (** 3rd Thursday **) Where: The Cooper Union <http://www.cooper.edu> School of Engineering 51 Astor Place (8th Street, between 3rd and 4th Ave) East Village, Manhattan New York City Meeting Room: The Driscoll Room: 136E (1st Floor) ** Please RSVP ** Time: 6:15 PM - 6:25 PM Registration 6:25 PM - 6:45 PM Ask the Wizard, Questions, Answers and Current Events 6:45 PM - 7:00 PM Unigroup Business and Announcements 7:00 PM - 9:30 PM Main Presentation ------------------------------ Topic: Linux/Unix Real-Time Messaging ------------------------------ Speakers: Robert Ciampa, Vice President of Strategy, Dave Lauer, Senior Systems Engineer, Tervela Inc. <http://www.tervela.com> ------------------------------------------------------------------- SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS: --------------------- To REGISTER for this event, please RSVP by using the Unigroup Registration Page: http://www.unigroup.org/unigroup-rsvp.html This will allow us to automate the registration process. (Registration will also add you to our mailing list.) Please avoid emailed RSVPs. Please continue to check the Unigroup web site and meeting page, for any last minute updates concerning this meeting. If you registered for this meeting, please check your email for any last minute announcements as the meeting approaches. Also make sure any anti-spam white-lists are updated to _ALLOW_ Unigroup traffic! If you block Unigroup Emails, your address will be dropped from our mailing list. Please RSVP as soon as possible, preferably at least 2-3 days prior to the meeting date, so we can plan the food order. RSVP deadline is usually the night before the meeting day. Note: RSVP is requested for this location to make sure the guard will let you into the building. RSVP also helps us to properly plan the meeting (food, drinks, handouts, seating, etc.) and speed up your sign-in at the meeting. If you forget to RSVP prior to the meeting day, you may still be able to show up and attend our meeting, however, we cannot guarantee what building security will do if you are "not on the list". ------------------------------------------------------------------- MAIN PRESENTATION ----------------- Topic: Unix/Linux Real-Time Messaging Technical Summary: This will be a discussion of distributed, high-performance application design focusing on engineering deterministic performance in a demanding environment. We'll especially focus on how hardware messaging can offload some of the traditional bottlenecks, and how best to integrate this new approach with existing systems across the entire stack, from the network up to the application. Outline: This session will examine contemporary requirements for inter-process communications using real-time messaging. Though sockets and message-oriented middleware remain critical components for distributed computing, their inherent peer-to-peer characteristics may introduce several challenges as the computing ecosystem grows and becomes more distributed. This is especially critical in today's real-time, high performance data centers. In this context, real-time means deterministic, predictable performance. This is not just about faster performance, but also about the minimization of deviation and jitter, which can severely impact critical programs and threads. As firms increasingly identify the predictability of data distribution systems as being more essential than simply being fast, this distinction proves crucial. Many of today's existing messaging architectures are overwhelmingly software-based systems. While this may have served the industry well in the infancy of electronic market data distribution and trading, current market conditions and data trends are significantly changing the playing field. Routing topologies and consumption patterns in the financial services world are growing more complex for both market data and internally-published information. With demand for this data expanding throughout the enterprise, message distribution is no longer sufficient in workgroup-sized environments. Similar trends in the networking world led to the end of software-based switches and routers running on commodity hardware, thereby paving the way for the hardware fast path. The hardware fast path provides a next-generation foundation that eliminates the message transport bottleneck by: - Ensuring dedicated, pipelined hardware processing that is predictable up to nearly full utilization - Decoupling applications to free up processing capabilities and eliminate the cascading impact of any dissemination or consumption failures - Providing consistent performance regardless of data patterns By eliminating the most common sources of indeterminism and instability, next-generation systems enable more scalable, higher-performance messaging. This discussion will: - Highlight the areas where the hardware fast path is able to offload traditional bottlenecks from software-based Unix/Linux systems - Present real-world examples of methodologies used to optimize customer applications running on Unix/Linux systems and interactions with a hardware-based messaging platform - Detail how a next-generation architecture enables high-performance applications without the concerns or constraints of peer-to-peer and legacy messaging systems ------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: ----- 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 SOFT beverages. ** Note: We will be using our normal caterer for this meeting. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Directions: ----------- The Cooper Union <http://www.cooper.edu> School of Engineering 51 Astor Place (8th Street, between 3rd and 4th Ave) East Village, Manhattan New York City Room: The Driscoll Room: 136E (1st Floor) Located on the North side of Astor Place (8th Street), between 3rd & 4th Avenues. 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 Driscoll Room (1st Floor)... From the main entrance, keep going straight beyond the guard till the end of the hall, make a left, pass the elevators (on your left), keep going, and Room 136E will be on your right. Nearest mass transit stations are: '6' to Astor Place (stops right at The Cooper Union). 'R' to 8th Street, then walk about 2 blocks East. '4/5/6/R/N/Q' to Union Square, then walk South and East. 'B/D/F/V' to Broadway-Lafayette, then walk North and East. Free street parking becomes available at 6pm. There are also parking lots on Broadway at Astor Place. ----- Please mark this meeting on your calendar and join us! Please tell your friends about Unigroup! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ========================================================================= = For Unigroup Information, Events and Meeting Announcements be sure to = = visit our World Wide Web Home Page: = = http://www.unigroup.org = ========================================================================= For further information or to get on the Unigroup Electronic Mail Mailing List send an EMail message to: unilist (-a_t-) unigroup.org If you have recently attended a meeting and you are not receiving Email announcements, please send us an Email and we will make corrections to our lists. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -Rob Weiner Unigroup Executive Director unilist (-a_t-) unigroup.org http://www.unigroup.org </blockquote> Distributed poC TINC: Jay Sulzberger <[email protected]> Corresponding Secretary LXNY LXNY is New York's Free Computing Organization. http://www.lxny.org _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
