[announce] ACLUG Meeting: Tuesday, Oct 2: Load Balancing & Clustering

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             Air Capital Linux Users Group of Wichita, KS
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EVENT SUMMARY 
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http://www.aclug.org/events/
                  
 * Tuesday, Oct 2 - Load Balancing & Clustering
 * Tuesday, Oct 16 - TBA

Contact:  info@xxxxxxxxx

MEETING LOCATION: 
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PLEASE NOTE OUR NEW MEETING DAY - EVERY OTHER TUESDAY BEGINNING SEPT 4

7:00/7:30 PM in Jabara Hall at Wichita State University (details below)
This event is free and open to the public.  Please forward this message to
anyone you feel may be interested in attending.


Aclug Meeting: Tuesday, Oct 2: Load Balancing & Clustering
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This meeting will cover load balancing & clustering. We  will try to 
discuss the following issues :

- Load balancing & its types.
- HA clusters. (High availability clusters).
- Introduction to LVS & MOSIX & Beowulf
- Differences b/w MOSIX and Beowulf 
- LVS & MOSIX implementation for Linux.
- Scheduling algorithms for LVS.
- Alternatives to Cluster computing.
  (this includes SGI/IRIX machines/OpenMP).
- Performance benchmarks for ASP,PHP,JSP,COM+,J2EE
  using clusters.

References :
 http://www.basit.yi.org/cluster.txt
 http://www.basit.yi.org/benchmarks.txt
 http://www.basit.yi.org/parellel-linux.pdf
 http://www.mosix.com
 http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org
 http://www.beowulf.org/

Tonight's guest speaker will be Basit Abdul.


MEETING SCHEDULE:
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Meetings are typically held every other Tuesday at 7:00/7:30pm in 260
Jabara Hall on the campus of Wichita State University.  A sign will be
posted outside Room 260 in the event that we need to meet elsewhere.
Details on the event schedule and upcoming events can be found at
http://www.aclug.org/events/; maps can be found at
http://www.aclug.org/maps/.

7:00PM to 7:30PM is reserved for open discussion. 7:30PM to 7:45PM we will
cover old and new business, and make announcements of upcoming ACLUG
events. 

Our regular presentation will begin after the announcements, at
approximately 7:45. Of course, if you can make it at 7, you're encouraged
to stay for the whole program.  You are welcome to arrive at either 7 or
7:30.

Further details will be posted to the aclug-announce mailing list; you can
subscribe for free at http://www.aclug.org/mailinglists/.


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