<sigh> OK, I'll try to take good notes and post them here afterward if IBM has no problems with that at the meeting. No promises on whether that actually gets done (lots of other things happening in my life right now) nor how good the notes might be.
However, the handouts are generally posted at: https://extranet.lotus.com/zlinuxcouncil But your IBM'er has to sign you up for that web site, and invite you to the Council meetings. The target audience for the "Linux on System z Executive Advisory Council" is senior management. If I understood correctly they were targeting CEOs and CIOs, but have been letting technical managers such as myself show up. The sessions don't get down to the bits and bytes levels (for that, go to SHARE), but stay at a higher level; again targeted to their desired audience. I'll ask if I can post the session handouts somewhere that everyone can access. IBM might be wise to do that anyway, so that sysprogs can print them off to hand to their own management - particularly for customer sites where the invitees cannot or will not attend. Often, "insurrections" start from the bottom anyway. :-) Mike Walter Hewitt Associates Any opinions expressed herein are mine alone and do not necessarily represent the opinions or policies of Hewitt Associates. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: "The IBM z/VM Operating System" <IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU> 09/13/2007 07:41 AM Please respond to "The IBM z/VM Operating System" <IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU> To IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU cc Subject Re: z/VM and Linux in the news.... It would be VERY interesting to read the notes from the Chicago session -- and forward them on to (skeptical) management! Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: The IBM z/VM Operating System <IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU> 09/12/2007 02:44 PM Please respond to The IBM z/VM Operating System <IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU> To IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU cc Subject Re: z/VM and Linux in the news.... Thanks for the invite, Mike, but next week I will be in warm and sunny San Antonio (my favorite city) for the zExpo. Maybe you can attend the meeting in Chicago and post some notes....seems Mr. Teles is busy doing more with the mainframe than simply playing games. Mike Walter wrote: > Dave, > >> Come to New York at the end of the Month and you can ask the CEO of > Hoplon those questions your self. ;>) > > Why wait that long? If the suspense is too much, wrangle yourself an > invitation to the Linux on System z Executive Advisory Council meeting in > Chicago next week, Thursday September 25 (08:00-12:30). Chicago's a lot > closer to you than is New York. Anyone interested should contact their > IBM rep. > > From the invitation: > "We have an exciting Agenda for the half-day session. Our first speaker > is IBM VP Leslie Gordon who will discuss IBM's own consolidation project > announced in August where IBM will be taking the workload of 3,900 > distributed servers and consolidating those workloads onto Linux on System > z. Next up, Monte Bauman will be presenting System z Cost and Value > Modeling which was used for IBM's Project Big Green and can be used for > your consolidation projects. Last, but certainly not least, is Tarquinio > Teles, CEO of Brazil-based Hoplon. Mr. Teles will be presenting some of > the Linux on System z projects that Hoplon is doing in some areas a > diverse as media conference centers, high-performance financial analysis, > and most notable, the "GameFrame" where Hoplon has integrated the IBM Cell > with Linux for System z to produce an Internet gaming environment." > > Mike Walter > Hewitt Associates > Any opinions expressed herein are mine alone and do not necessarily > represent the opinions or policies of Hewitt Associates. > > > > "Bill Munson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent by: "The IBM z/VM Operating System" <IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU> > 09/12/2007 12:49 PM > Please respond to > "The IBM z/VM Operating System" <IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU> > > > > To > IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU > cc > > Subject > Re: z/VM and Linux in the news.... > > > > > > > Dave, > > Come to New York at the end of the Month and you can ask the CEO of > Hoplon those questions your self. ;>) > > Linux on System z Executive Advisory Council > > > IBM Corporation > 590 Madison Avenue, 12th Floor Room 1219 > New York City > Friday, September 28, 9 AM 12:30 PM > > Youre invited to join us for the next session of the Linux on System z > Executive Advisory Council. We launched this council in 2002 in order > to garner your insights and foster communications among the System z > Linux community. We are excited to welcome Tarquinio Teles, CEO of > Hoplon of Brazil which has embarked on a project to integrate the Cell > Broadband Engine with the IBM System z Mainframe . We will also discuss > z/VM as it compares to other virtualization technologies, System z > architecture as it compares to RISC architecture, and the major > announcement made by IBM to consolidate 3900 of its > own distributed servers to Linux on System z under z/VM from a business, > technical, and financial > perspective. > > Agenda > > 8:30 am Arrival and Continental Breakfast > 9:00 am Opening Remarks & IBM Major Project Green Server Consolidation > Len Santalucia, IBM Americas System z Linux Impact Team > 9:15 am Comparison of Virtualization Technologies > Reed Mullen, Software Prod Mgr System z Virtualization Technology > 10:15 am Architectural Comparison of System z vs RISC > Rory Canellis, Competive Intelligence Analyst, Systems z Marketing > 11:15 am BitVerse Financial Analysis Algorithym, Virtual Conferencing > Center, GameFrame on IBM System z Linux, z/VM & Cell BE Technologies > Tarquinio Teles, CEO of Hoplon > 12:00 pm Open Discussion with all speakers & Plan next session > 12:30 pm Close and Departure > > RSVP Andy Greco [EMAIL PROTECTED], (603)472-4169 or Len Santalucia: > [EMAIL PROTECTED], (212) 493-5957. > > > Bill Munson > VM System Programmer > Office of Information Technology > State of New Jersey > (609) 984-4065 > > President MVMUA > http://www.marist.edu/~mvmua > > > > Dave Jones wrote: >> (Sorry for the cross-posting, but I thought both lists would like to >> read about this....) >> >> Here's an interesting article about how Brazilian companies are using >> IBM mainframes in new and, shall we say, unique ways.... >> "Joe Clabby's Brazilian mainframe adventure travel log", >> ( > http://searchdatacenter.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid80_gci1271026,00.html?track=NL-576&ad=603746&asrc=EM_NLT_2178510 > ) >> (and watch out for line wrap on that long URL above....) >> >> It has some interesting additional information about how Hoplon >> Infotainment, the Brazilian online gaming outfit, is using an IBM >> mainframe and a cluster of Cel based blade servers to provide for a very >> rich and full featured gaming environment. And, as was suspected, z/VM >> is being used on the mainframe to provide virtual gaming environments on >> demand. One thing that I found a bit confusing was the statement >> ...."The primary advantage that IBM mainframe architecture delivers to >> Hoplon is cross-platform common memory management. By pooling memory >> across multiple mainframes, the company can better support the large and >> transient user populations that move in and out of various worlds and >> through various communities...." I wonder how they got z/VM to manage >> memory across multiple mainframes...I must have missed that SHARE >> presentation last month....:-) >> >> There is one bit of not-so-good news in the article....the writer points >> out how few people it takes to get and keep a z/VM system up and >> running...in one case 2, and another only 5. 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