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Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2012 09:11:32 -0400 To: [email protected] From: NYC*BUG Announcements <[email protected]> Subject: [announce] NYC*BUG this week Reply-To: [email protected] * This week's meeting on SMPng * Got arms? FreeBSD and NetBSD on the BeagleBone * Holiday Meeting: Be a Grinch. Gripes and Rants about Technology ******* October 3 @ 18:45 - Location: Suspenders How SMPng Works and Why It Doesn't Work The Way You Think, John Baldwin Modern x86 CPUs have hit a wall in frequency scaling and are now expanding sideways by adding more cores. Adding more cores does not magically multiply performance, however. John talks about some of the reasons that it doesn't. In 2000, FreeBSD launched a project to multithread its kernel to more fully take advantage of modern SMP machines. This talk will give an overview of that project's history and continuing work on improving scalability. About the speaker: John first started using FreeBSD in 1996 and has been an active kernel developer since 2000. He has worked for various companies that use FreeBSD including The Weather Channel and Yahoo!. John lives in New Jersey with his wife and three kids. ******* We are looking at doing an arm architecture hackfest. Our preferred hardware is the BeagleBone, although other hardware is certainly welcome. We're working out details and will have some more information in the near future. ******* The holidays are usually about giving back, and feeling warm and nice with family and friends. But then there's the Grinch. We all have it in us. Let it out of you. Give ten minutes to let others know what you "hate" and why. The cloud? Some scripting language or another? Specific standards, or the lack of? More details coming on this, but give it some thought. There's at least some things we all have our gripes about, and you'll have the opportunity to voice your opinion, and maybe find a sympathetic audience. _______________________________________________ announce mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nycbug.org/mailman/listinfo/announce </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] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
