Events
Austin Sun Users Group 2009 Kickoff Mixer
February 18, 2009
Dave and Buster's Austin
9333 Research Blvd # A600
Austin, TX 78759
(512) 346-8015
6:00PM - 9:00PM
Please join us to kickoff the new year with the Austin Sun Users Group. We meet on the 3rd Wednesday of every other month. This is a great opportunity to network with your peers in the Austin area.
We're taking a break from the technical sessions so we can all get a chance to get to know each other better and have some fun. Join us for drinks, games and door prizes! Bring a guest who registers as a new member and receive a free game card.
We always welcome your input regarding topics and speakers. If you'd like to become involved in ongoing planning, please consider becoming a board member. Send an email to austinsug@austinsug.org to indicate your interest.
Thanks to Lumenate (www.lumenate.com) for sponsoring this meeting.
6:00 PM To 9:00 PM
Registration, Food, Drinks and Games, Networking
Please send an RSVP email to austinsug@austinsug.org
Everyone who attends will be entered for a drawing for an iPod touch - anyone who registers and comments on the website will get another entry. The prize is to be given away at the next meeting in April.
A DVD/BlueRay (winners choice) BBC Planet Earth Series will be given way during this event.
Also miscellaneous door prizes will be given out throughout the event.
Free game cards will be given away to attendants and their guest if the guest registers as a new member.
We have the pool table area reserved. Food & beverages will be provided.
Do you use what you already have to prevent attackers from taking control over your system ? In this technical overview, the details of how Solaris implements Role Based Access Control, privileges and authorizations will be discussed. You will learn how these technologies work with each other, and other Solaris security features. Time permitting, discussions of other access control mechanism such as Mandatory Access Control (with Solaris Trusted Extensions) and ZFS Access Control Lists will be discussed.
Thanks to Continental Resources Inc. for sponsoring this meeting!
AGENDA
06:00 - 7:00 pm – Meet and greet, Pizza & Drinks
07:00 - 8:30 pm – Presentation
08:30 - 9:00 pm – Q&A, Networking
FEATURED SPEAKER
Mark Thacker
TACC (Texas Advanced Computing Center) is a super computer right here in our own backyard at the University of Texas Austin. As of the June 2008 top 500 list, TACC is number 4 overall. Come hear a talk from Tommy Minyard, Assistant Director/Research Associate from the TACC about how they are utilizing Sun hardware in one of the most advanced supercomputers on the planet.
Thanks to Lumenate and LSI for sponsoring this meeting!
AGENDA
06:00 - 7:00 pm – Meet and greet, Pizza & Drinks
07:00 - 8:30 pm – Presentation
08:30 - 9:00 pm – Q&A, Networking
FEATURED SPEAKER
Tommy Minyard, TACC
Thanks to Sigma Solutions for sponsoring this meeting!
AGENDA
06:00 - 7:00 pm – Registration, Pizza & Drinks, Networking
07:00 - 8:30 pm – Presentation: Storage 101
08:30 - 9:00 pm – Q&A, Networking
FEATURED SPEAKER
Daniel Whicker, Systems Engineer, Sigma Solutions
Thanks to Continental Resources for sponsoring this meeting!
FEATURED SPEAKER
Jonathan Miller
Lead Cluster Quality Assurance Developer
Sun Microsystems, Inc. (formerly of MySQL AB)
The computer industry has always had a fixation with megahertz. CPU cycle times. Clock speed. Sun's UltraSPARC processor has been obsessed with something entirely different: maximizing the throughput of real-world applications and workloads. What's the difference? Put it this way--it doesn't do you much good to have the world's fastest car on a jammed freeway. With traditional processor technology, blazing-fast microprocessors are held back by memory bottlenecks. But with chip multithreading (CMT), the revolutionary technology behind Sun's Throughput Computing strategy, it's like having more lanes open on the freeway. Let me explain how it works and how you will benefit from this technological innovation today and in the future.
Thanks to Lumenate for sponsoring this meeting!
AGENDA
06:00 - 7:00 pm – Registration, Pizza & Drinks, Networking
07:00 - 8:30 pm – Presentation: Innovation Matters: Multi-Core Multi-Thread in your DataCenter
08:30 - 9:00 pm – Q&A, Networking
FEATURED SPEAKER
Tom Broussard
Senior SPARC Technologist
Sun Microsystems
Sun currently offers many different types of server virtualization technologies - Solaris 10 Containers, Logical Domains, Dynamic System Domains. In addition, VMware is certified and sold by Sun. Very soon, xVM will be added to list. Come hear all about xVM technology.
Thanks to Agilysys for sponsoring this meeting!
FEATURED SPEAKER
Nils Nieuwejaar
Solaris Engineer, Sun Microsystems
Come see Solaris 10 DTrace in action from THE DTrace guru himself. Jarod Jenson is Chief Systems Architect for a consulting company that he founded called Aeysis. He has been solving real world performance problems for companies even before Solaris 10 was released. He will be doing a 100% hands-on presentation of what DTrace can do for you. You won't want to miss this one!
Thanks to Forsythe Solutions Group for sponsoring this meeting.
AGENDA
06:00 - 7:00 pm – Registration, Pizza & Drinks, Networking
07:00 - 8:30 pm – Presentation: Solaris 10 Dtrace
08:30 - 9:00 pm – Q&A, Networking
FEATURED SPEAKER
Jarod Jenson
Chief Systems Architect
Forsythe Solutions
Have you heard of Vmware, Solaris Zones, Dynamic System Domains, Xen and Logical Domains (LDOMs)? How do you make sense of all these? What works well for certain applications, what combinations should I avoid, and why? This presentation will address all of these questions and more.
Thanks to Sigma Solutions for sponsoring this meeting.
AGENDA
06:00 - 7:00 pm – Registration, Pizza & Drinks, Networking
07:00 - 8:30 pm – Presentation: Virtualizing Solaris
08:30 - 9:00 pm – Q&A, Networking
FEATURED SPEAKER
Scott Gaspard
Technical Specialists
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
