[nylug-talk] great meeting last night! FW: The NY Linux Users Group presents Dr. Srinidhi Varadarajan, CTO of Evergrid, on Workload Management for Linux

[Jim Gleason]

Special thanks to Srinidhi Varadarajan, Peter Haggerty and Natalie van
Unen of Evergrid for giving a very informative talk and raffling the
BOSE headphones at the New York Linux Users Group last night.

It was great to see over 40 people in attendance especially since it was
such a beautiful warm evening and there are many other things to do in
Manhattan!

Natalie has provided everyone with the Load Manager technical whitepaper
that can  speak to the questions on Evergrid's deployment process. It is
now posted on the website:

http://nylug.org/home/index.shtml

Lastly, Evergrid wants you to know they are happy to provide their
software for evaluation.  If anyone is interested, they can email
Natalie directly at natalie.vanunen at evergrid.com and she will
organize access to their customer download page. Please don't hesitate
to contact her with any follow up questions you may have and she will
put you in contact with the necessary parties who can respond to your
requests.

Thanks again for a great night!

- Jim Gleason 
President and Founder, NYLUG.org
Regional Sales VP, Qumranet Virtualization Solutions
jim.gleason at qumranet.com 
tel 347-200-6460
www.qumranet.com
www.nylug.org


-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Gleason [mailto:jgleason at nylug.org] 
Sent: Monday, May 19, 2008 3:23 PM
To: nylug-talk
Cc: Jim Gleason
Subject: The NY Linux Users Group presents Dr. Srinidhi Varadarajan, CTO
of Evergrid, on Workload Management for Linux 


Wednesday, May 28, 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:
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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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