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Monday, June 28
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10:30 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
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Monday
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GURU SESSIONS
Bart is the faculty advisor to the Portland State Aerospace
Society (PSAS). PSAS has been using
Linux as the embedded OS for launch control, flight
sequencing, and in-flight telemetry in the extremely
unforgiving environment of their 12-foot-high supersonic
rocket. Bart has also been involved with the efforts of
Keith Packard and Carl Worth in developing the Linux/X
infrastructure for embedded devices in conjunction with the
handhelds.org project.
The session will be fun-filled and informative for embedded
Linux novices and experts alike. Session focus will be on
cost-effective, practical Linux solutions for a variety of
embedded environments.
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12:00 p.m.–1:30 p.m. Lunch (on your own)
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1:30 p.m.–3:00 p.m.
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Monday
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GURU SESSIONS
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Tuesday, June 29
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10:30 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
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Tuesday
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GURU SESSIONS
Steve Rees is a Senior Performance Manager in DB2 development at
the IBM Toronto Lab, focusing on transaction processing performance
on Linux. He's been part of DB2 development for twelve years and
has been working on performance for the last six. He still likes getting
bits under his fingernails.
This session will deal with various aspects of performance as
related to commercial database systems for Linux. This includes
the technical challenges of producing high-performance, high-quality
code on Linux, as well as performance questions customers may face
when deploying a large database system on Linux.
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12:00 p.m.–1:30 p.m. Lunch (on your own)
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1:30 p.m.–3:00 p.m.
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Tuesday
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GURU SESSIONS
NFS is increasingly deployed in performance-sensitive environments,
where numerous new issues are confronted relative to "traditional"
workgroup-style deployments. Tom will discuss goals, issues, and
tunings that may be relevant to NFS. Also, he and his audience will explore
new transport-level developments that NFS will be taking advantage
of in the near future.
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3:00 p.m.–3:30 p.m. Break |
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3:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m.
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Tuesday
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GURU SESSIONS
Lessons from the Trenches: Enterprise Wireless LANs
Philippe Joubert, ReefEdge Networks
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Philippe Joubert is the Director of Engineering at ReefEdge Networks.
In this session Philippe will discuss
the common pitfalls of WLAN deployments and how
they can be avoided. Topics of discussion include
security, mobility, management, deployment, support,
and network design.
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Wednesday, June 30
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10:30 a.m.–12:00 p.m. |
Wednesday
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GURU SESSIONS
Greg is a core developer for Rocks, a high-performance Linux cluster
distribution developed at SDSC. "As we give this talk, we
will build a new cluster on the fly and in front of the crowd." Participants in Greg's Guru session will walk away with an
appreciation of how easy it can be to build and deploy high-performance
parallel machines.
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12:00 p.m.–1:30 p.m. Lunch (on your own) |
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1:30 p.m.–3:00 p.m. |
Wednesday
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GURU SESSIONS
Gerald Carter has been a member of the Samba Team since 1998.
He is employed by Hewlett-Packard as a Software Engineer,
where he works on Samba-based print appliances and acts as
the release coordinator for the Samba project.
He is currently working on a guide to LDAP for system administrators
with O'Reilly Publishing and is the author of Teach Yourself
Samba in 24 Hours from Sams Publishing.
Gerald holds a master's degree in computer science from
Auburn University, where he was also previously
employed as a network and systems administrator.
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3:00 p.m.–3:30 p.m. Break |
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3:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m. |
Wednesday
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GURU SESSIONS
Dan is a serial entrepreneur who has built a number
of successful startup companies. Many technologists
think they have come up with the "next great new
thing," but have no idea about the venture funding process.
This discussion will focus on how to organize and
present your ideas and what VCs look for when they invest. |
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Thursday, July 1
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10:30 a.m.–12:00 p.m. |
Thursday
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GURU SESSIONS
Lustre is the only Linux cluster fileystem to be
POSIX compliant and to be released under the GNU
General Public License (GPL). Lustre powers
four of the top five Linux-based supercomputers
in the world. Phil, as a major implementer of Lustre,
will be here to discuss using issues regarding cluster
filesystems.
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12:00 p.m.–1:30 p.m. Lunch (on your own) |
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1:30 p.m.–3:00 p.m. |
Thursday
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GURU SESSIONS
David has been a system administrator at the University
of Wisconsin Computer Science Department since 1991,
serving as Associate Director of the Computer Systems
Lab since 1995, guiding a staff of 8 full-time sysdamins
and supervising up to 12 student sysadmins at a time.
His experiences in this capacity include working with other
groups on campus; providing technical leadership to the group;
managing the budget; dealing with vendors;
dealing with faculty; and training students.
As a consultant, he has dealt with a variety of
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Friday, July 2
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10:30 a.m.–12:00 p.m. |
Friday
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GURU SESSIONS
Jamey has been part of the IPv6 world since its
inception. His session is a buffet of choice
material, from "practical IP network issues" to talking
about "cool network stuff to make satcom work
better in BSD too."
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12:00 p.m.–1:30 p.m. Lunch (on your own) |
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1:30 p.m.–3:00 p.m. |
Friday
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GURU SESSIONS
Mike is an old-time IP developer, SW technic, and
VoIP fanatic. He will describe his experiences
in trying to bring this technology up and run it.
Multiple open-source VoIP solutions that are
available will be discussed, as will using UNIX
as a VoIP-to-PSTN gateway. |
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