[nylug-talk] The NY Linux Users Group presents Dr. Srinidhi Varadarajan, CTO of Evergrid, on Workload Management for Linux

[Jim Gleason]

Wednesday, April 30, 2008
6:30pm-8:00 PM
IBM
590 Madison Ave, 12th Floor
corner of 57th Street

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                   Dr. Srinidhi Varadarajan
                             - on -
                 Workload Management for Linux
               (plus raffle for BOSE Headphones)

We have covered many aspects of Linux clustering recently ranging from 
wiring, provisioning nodes and running jobs. Now that your cluster is getting 
useful work done, the next important step is to optimize workload control and 
maximize the efficiency of your system. Dr. Srinidhi Varadarajan, CTO of 
Evergrid, will discuss how their workload management technology for Linux, 
Load Manager, can deliver:

    1. Application consolidation, to maximize server utilization while 
delivering a predictable level of service.
    2. Detailed monitoring of application resource usage - without 
modification to either the OS or application and with negligible overhead.

Load Manager delivers fine grain control and monitoring of system resource
independently across CPU, memory, network read / write & storage read / 
write. As a user space technology, it is completely transparent to both the OS 
and application with minimal overhead (typically less than 1%). Load Manager 
enables multiple applications to be consolidated on a single server by 
placing users, groups or applications into Containers, and allocating 
resources to these Containers. It has a dynamic rebalancing system where 
unused system resources allocated to one Container can be reallocated to
other Containers on the same server, thereby maximizing server utilization 
while guaranteeing SLA.s. Srinidhi will discuss and demonstrate multiple 
use cases for both consolidating and monitoring applications using this 
technology today (supporting RHEL 3, 4 & 5, SLES 9 & 10), and discuss
how Load Manager will leverage the emerging Control Groups technology to 
deliver even greater functionality on upcoming distributions (RHEL 6 / SLES 11).

Your open source feedback is needed!
During the last 15 minutes of this meeting, Evergrid will open the floor 
to comments about which components could be open sourced and offer the most value to 
the community.

Raffle for BOSE Headphones:
At the conclusion of the meeting, Evergrid will be raffling off a pair of 
high-end BOSE headphones.

About Srinidhi Varadarajan:
Dr. Srinidhi Varadarajan is the CTO of Evergrid, as well as the Director 
of the Terascale Computing Facility and an Associate Professor in the Department 
of Computer Science at Virginia Tech. His research interests are in the 
area of high performance computer systems, in particular: fault tolerance 
in large-scale distributed systems, network emulation, network routing 
algorithms, compiler directed frameworks and parallel simulation 
algorithms. Srinidhi heads the Computing Systems Research Laboratory and 
serves as a core faculty in the Laboratory for Advanced Scientific
Computing and Applications

Meeting Location:
   Please note that this meeting will be held at IBM, 590 Madison Ave,
   12th floor, corner of 57th Street, and not at Google.  This is
   the building with the IBM logo on the front of the building.

Map:
   http://tighturl.com/m

Books!!!
   Our friends at Prentice-Hall kindly provide us with review copies
   of various new titles.  One of these could be yours, all you have
   to do is agree to review the book within a reasonable period of
   time.

Swag (Give Away):
   During/after the meeting... unusually terrific swag may be given
   away.

Stammtisch:
   After the meeting ... You may wish to join up with other NYLUGgers
   over at TGI Fridays located at 677 Lexington Avenue and 56th
   Street, second floor. Northeast corner.

Python Workshops:
   We are rounding up a group that wants to learn Python.  This would
   be a great time to attend our workshop.

   Those interested in working on the new NYLYG Web site are
   strongly encouraged to attend also.  Work has just begun on the
   new NYLUG Jobs site.

   The workshops meet every other Tuesday, at the NY Public Library,
   Hudson Park Branch.  66 Leroy St. NY NY from 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
   Next meeting is April 29th.
   See the calendar at: http://tighturl.com/fp

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