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

[Michael K Dolan]

Jim, the meeting date says Wed April 30th... in the past.

If you send me a DeLorean and some plutonium I'll try to be there ;-)

Mike



nylug-talk-bounces+mdoln=us.ibm.com at nylug.org wrote on 05/19/2008 02:41:24
PM:

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> [nylug-talk] The NY Linux Users Group presents Dr. Srinidhi
> Varadarajan, CTO of Evergrid, on Workload Management for Linux
>
> Jim Gleason
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> 05/19/2008 02:47 PM
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> 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
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>    time.
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>    away.
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>    Street, second floor. Northeast corner.
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> Python Workshops:
>    We are rounding up a group that wants to learn Python.  This would
>    be a great time to attend our workshop.
>
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>    new NYLUG Jobs site.
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