The topic is next generation storage networking, leveraging innovative architectures, SSD, and business paradigms to deliver greater value to end users. The focus will be to discuss how and where SSD Flash has been used to deliver greater performance and higher density storage services, variety of features and functionality that have been enabled in new systems, and what are the benefits of these technologies over existing ones.

Summary: The Pluribus Networks (www.pluribusnetworks.com) F64 intelligent Top-of-Rack Server-Switch combines ultra-low latency switching with network virtualization and security features that scale to large fabrics without rip-and-replace. Our distributed Netvisor operating system allows the F64 to behave like a server, run network-centric apps in the Server-Switch, and has the programmability of UNIX. Pizza and beverages will be provided.

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Rutgers Discovery Informatics Institute (RDI2) is a new HPC institute created at Rutgers University in March of 2012. The centerpiece of this new institute is Excalibur, an IBM Blue Gene/P supercomputer with 2048 nodes (8192 cores). This talk will briefly introduce RDI2 and its mission at Rutgers University and then focus on the hardware architecture and software environment of the IBM Blue Gene/P.

Bio:

It's been a while since our last meeting! I hope everybody has had a good summer. I'll be glad for it to be over!

Mike Decandia of D.E. Shaw & Company, formerly of Vonage and other ventures (I'm winging it, it's late on Friday).

Mike is going to talk about job scheduling and queueing systems, features, tradeoffs, evaluations, their own requirements, and how they arrived at their current choice of LSF. Expect to see comparisons to Sun Grid Engine among others.

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We'll do the NJ PICC conference recap. At least two of us were there, one gave a presentation. We might have an interesting tool demo, and there'll be discussion about what was happening and what was interesting.

120 West 45th St, NY, NY, 39th floor.

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Since its founding in 2008, Knewton has been exclusively using AWS to power its adaptive learning platform. Peter Norton and Dave Zwieback will share the realities of running completely "in the cloud", and specific design patterns that improve scalability, availability, performance, and security in cloud-based systems. They'll cover topics such as EBS vs ephemeral (instance) storage; auto-scaling; automated deployment and configuration management; and decreasing instance boot time through AMI "stamping".

Riak is an open-source, distributed, replicated, fault-tolerant, horizontally-scalable key-value database made by Basho Technologies. Sean Cribbs will cover Riak's major features, why you want to use it, strategies for integrating it into your infrastructure, and end with a live demo of deploying and manipulating a cluster in the cloud by Sean Carey.

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Speaker: Thomas A. Limoncelli, Google NYC

Sysadmin teams and a software development teams have been known to
work closely together, not at all, or somewhere in between. What
happens when the barrier between such groups disappears and the two
teams become one? (The "DevOps" culture.) The recent trend has been
to incorporate “shared responsibility” for operational matters such as

Location:
120 West 45th St, 39th floor

Who We Are:
Data Center Solution(DCS) is segment of the Dell's Server Product Group with a specific focus on scale-out computing. The group was created back 2006 to focus on the Top 20 data centers in the world. From those leanings, Dell created the PE C Server product line which is the best of breed technologies from our work in the Top 20 data centers. The PE C line is focused on the next 1,000 data centers that want to become the next Twitter, Zynga, and Facebooks of the world.

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