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UNIGROUP OF NEW YORK - UNIX USERS GROUP - MAY 2018 ANNOUNCEMENTS ================================================================

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1. UNIGROUP'S MAY 2018 GENERAL MEETING
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Topic: IBM Power9 AIX+Linux+OpenPOWER Update and Trends
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Speaker: Ajit Gangaram, Client Technical Architect,
IBM Cognitive Systems <http://www.ibm.com>

When: Thursday, May 17th, 2018 (** Regular 3rd Thursday **)

Where: The Cooper Union <http://www.cooper.edu>
School of Engineering
41 Cooper Square (3rd Ave @ 7th St, bet. 6th & 7th Sts)
East Village, Manhattan
New York City
Meeting Room: To-Be-Determined (** New Building: TBD Floor **)

Time: 6:15 PM - 6:30 PM Registration
6:30 PM - 6:45 PM Ask the Wizard, Questions,
Answers and Current Events
6:45 PM - 7:00 PM Unigroup Business and Announcements
7:00 PM - 9:30 PM Main Presentation

Cost: See the Meeting+Membership Fee Schedule Below.


INTRODUCTION:
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Unigroup's May 2018 meeting will be on the new IBM Power 9 CPU
and its Systems Architecture, Operating Systems on Power
(AIX+Linux), the OpenPOWER initiative, and interesting
Cognitive/AI workload use cases.

Unigroup's Meeting Calendar:
17-MAY-2018: IBM Power9 AIX+Linux+OpenPower Update and Trends (IBM).
21-JUN-2018: Tentative: To-be-announced (Dell/EMC HPC Group).
19-JUL-2018: Tentative: Intel Processor Roadmap (Intel).

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SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS:
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Please RSVP as soon as possible, preferably at least 2-3 days
prior to the meeting date, so we can plan the food order.
RSVP deadline is usually the night before the meeting day.

Note: RSVP is requested for this location to make sure the guard
will let you into the building. RSVP also helps us to
properly plan the meeting (food, drinks, handouts,
seating, etc.) and speed up your sign-in at the meeting.
If you forget to RSVP prior to the meeting day, you may
still be able to show up and attend our meeting, however,
we cannot guarantee what building security will do if
you are "not on the list" (note: things tend to work out OK).

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MAIN PRESENTATION
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Topic: IBM Power9 AIX+Linux+OpenPOWER Update and Trends

Related Topics/Keywords
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IBM Power, CPU Architecture, Memory Architecture, I/O, PCIe Bus,
OpenCAPI, OpenPOWER, Low Latency, AIX, Linux, Cloud, Operating
Systems, Cognitive Systems, AI.

Introduction & Description of Talk:
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2018 will be the year that AI moves from hype to reality. In this
session, we explore how the death of Moore's Law and has presented
challenges in addressing compute requirements for new and emerging
workloads such as machine/deep learning (ML/DL), Open Source
Databases, etc. This presentation will be on the Power Processor,
System Architecture, Workload Accelerators - PCIe Gen4, OpenCAPI
and how IBM is collaborating with the Open source community to
bring innovation into systems. From a software perspective this
session will cover Cloud enablement on Power, What's new in AIX,
Linux on Power, Artificial Intelligence tools and enablement on
Power and if time permits we can talk about some interesting use
cases that customers are working on.

Presentation Outline
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- IBM Power Processor and Power Systems Architecture:
GPU enablements, details on cache, memory subsystem,
I/O, PCIe Gen4, OpenCAPI, Low latency.

- Operating Systems:
What's new in AIX, Linux on Power, SMT.

- Cognitive Systems:
AI Tools and technologies, Interesting AI use cases.

- Cloud Enablement:
How easy it is now to manage Power/AIX systems Open Source tools,
Open Source Databases, Cloud and Automation to reduce costs and
drive innovation.

References & Web Resources:
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IBM Power9 Processor
https://www.ibm.com/it-infrastructure/power/power9
https://ibm.co/2IeRxaA

IBM Power9 Servers
https://www.ibm.com/us-en/marketplace/small-enterprise-servers

IBM Cloud Private
https://www.ibm.com/us-en/marketplace/ibm-cloud-private

OpenCAPI - Open Coherent Accelerator Processor Interface
https://opencapi.org

OpenPOWER - Power Architecture Opened
https://openpowerfoundation.org

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Speaker Biography
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Ajit Gangaram is a Technical Specialist for IBM Power Systems.
In his role he drives solutions on Power Systems by articulating
the value of Power Systems and differentiating it from the
competition. Ajit's focus area includes Power Processor and
Systems Architecture, IO Accelerators, Unix and Linux Operating
Systems. Ajit's expertise is both in AIX for Enterprise solutions
and Cognitive Systems which is scale out systems running Linux for
new open source workloads - open source databases, Artificial
Intelligence - Machine and Deep learning, Analytics solutions with
Hortonworks, Spark and Industry solutions. Ajit is a mentor for
new hires at IBM and also has run training programs for technical
sellers in Solution Selling and Architectural Thinking.

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Company Biography
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IBM or "Big Blue" is a technology company and has several Business
Units... Cognitive and Cloud Solutions, Global Business Services
Technology Services, Systems Group and Global Financing. IBM is
an "Innovator" with innovations coming from IBM Research and other
business units. IBM is know for "Watson" Cognitive Solutions and
Cloud and is the leader in this space today.

For further information please visit: http://www.ibm.com

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Giveaways:
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Addison-Wesley Professional/Prentice Hall PTR, and O'Reilly have
been kind enough to provide us with review copies of some of their
books, which we will continue to raffle off as giveaways at our
meetings. The publishers always ask that the persons receiving
the books provide a review and/or feedback about their books.

Unigroup would like to thank both companies for the support
provided by their User Group programs.

As always, all of the books will be available for review at the
start of the meeting.

Note: Our book supply is currently running low, and we need to
restock.

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Fee Schedule:
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Unigroup is a Professional Technical Organization and User Group,
and its members pay a yearly membership fee. For Unigroup members,
there is usually no additional charges (ie. no meeting fees) during
their membership year. Non-members who wish to attend Unigroup
meetings are usually required to pay a "Single Meeting Fee".

Yearly Membership (includes all meetings): $ 50.00
Student Yearly Membership (with current! ID): $ 25.00
Non-Member Single Meeting Fee: $ 20.00
Non-Member Student Single Meeting (with! ID): $ 5.00

* Payment Methods: Cash, Check, American Express.
MasterCard, VISA, Discover (since 2013).

! Students: We are looking for proof that you are
currently enrolled in classes (rather than working
full-time), and as such, your Student ID should show
a CURRENT date. We have been presented Student IDs
containing NO dates whatsoever, and in the
current environment, perpetual/non-expiring access
to university facilities just does not feel right.
If your ID contains no date, please bring
additional proof of current enrollment. Thanks,

NOTE: Simply receiving Unigroup Email Announcements does
NOT indicate membership in Unigroup.

Members: Remember to bring your Unigroup membership card with
you to the meeting, to confirm your yearly renewal date!

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Food:
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Complimentary Food and Refreshments will be served.

This normally includes "wraps" such as turkey, roast beef,
chicken, tuna and grilled vegetables as well as assorted salads
(potato, tossed, pasta, etc), cookies, brownies, bottled water
and assorted SOFT beverages.

However, due to a continuing situation at our caterer, we are
planning to have: pizza (cheese+veggy), soda, water, cookies,
and brownies at this meeting.

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Directions:
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The Cooper Union <http://www.cooper.edu>
School of Engineering (*** New Building ***)
41 Cooper Square (3rd Avenue @ 7th St, between 6th & 7th Streets)
East Village, Manhattan
New York City, 10003
Meeting Room: ** (See Above, Room Changes Month-to-Month)

Located on the East side of Cooper Square. Look for the
new building with the non-traditional appearance.
Entrance is at the corner of 3rd Avenue and 7 Street.

Building lobby sign-in is required at the guard's desk.
Enter the building, check in with the guard at the lobby for
directions to Unigroup (the room varies from month-to-month).

Nearest mass transit stations are:
'6' to Astor Place (stops right at The Cooper Union),
then walk 1 block East and 1 block South.
'R' to 8th Street, then walk about 2 blocks East
then 1 block South.
'4/5/N/Q' to Union Square, then walk South and East.
or transfer to the downtown '6' to Astor Place.
'B/D/F/V' to Broadway-Lafayette, then walk North and East,
or transfer to the uptown '6' to Astor Place.

Free street parking in the area becomes available at 6pm.

There are also parking lots on Broadway, at (or just south of)
Astor Place (8th Street), across from the West side of
Cooper Square, as well as various others in the area.

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Please mark this meeting on your calendar and join us!
Please tell your friends about Unigroup!

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2. PRIOR MEETINGS
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** Formal Thank You's to our previous speakers will appear
in an upcoming announcement. Unigroup issues a "Thank You"
to all our speakers and sponsors!

Our thanks goes to The Cooper Union School of Engineering,
and its staff, for hosting our meetings.

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3. LOCAL TRADE SHOWS AND EVENTS
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a) ASIS Security Conference and Expo NYC
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Dates: Wed, May 16, 2018
Thu, May 17, 2018

Where: Javits Center
Midtown, NYC

For information and complimentary exhibits registration visit:
http://www.asisonline.org/nycexpo

b) HPC for Wall Street/Cloud/AI/Datacenter Show
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Date : Thu, Sep 13, 2018

Where: Roosevelt Hotel
Midtown, NYC

For information and complimentary registration visit:
http://www.flaggmgmt.com/hpc

c) SUSE Expert Day NYC
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Date: Tue, Sep 25, 2018

Where: Westin New York at Times Square
Midtown, NYC

For information and complimentary registration visit:
http://www.suse.com/promo/expert-days


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4. UPCOMING MEETINGS
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We have a series of meetings in the works:
- 2018????: Programming for Performance with GPUs.
- 2018????: New x86 and ARM Architectures.
- 2018????: The Latest C++ Standards, Part 2.
- 2018????: The State of the C++ Ecosystem.
- Planning: Popular Linux Distribution Round-Up and Comparison
(aka: Are there too many Linux Distributions?)
- Planning: Building a Data Server with ZFS
- Planning: Virtualization: KVM, Xen/XenServer, VirtualBox
- Planning: DNS / Dynamic DNS
- Planning: Fibrechannel and iSCSI Storage
- Planning: IPsec and VPNs (possibly 2 meetings)
- Planning: Cloud and Grid Computing
- Planning: Unix/Linux Authentication
- Planning: NO SPAM!
- Planning: Crypto / PKI / GPG-PGP
- Planning: The latest on *BSD (FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD)
- Planning: The latest on Solaris
- Planning: The latest on AIX
- Planning: Anti-Virus
- Unix/Linux/BSD Clusters and Clustered Databases
- Patching and Updating Unix/Linux/BSD (rpm. yum, yast, apt, etc.)
- Building Custom Kernels Unix/Linux/BSD
- Building a Firewall using FreeBSD and Linux
- LAMP Part 2 - PHP/Python
- Unix 40th+ Birthday Celebration
- Samba
- High Performance Internet Servers / Web Acceleration
- Unix Office Tools: Word Processors, Spreadsheets, Accounting Packages.
- GNU Development Environments
- Java and/or JavaScript Programming
- Web Development Frameworks

** Unigroup Needs Speakers!!
Please let us know about any other meeting topics that you may be
interested in. Potential speakers on Unix/Linux/BSD related
technology topics should please contact the Unigroup Board.

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5. UNIGROUP INFORMATION
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Unigroup is one of the oldest and largest Unix User's Groups serving
the Greater New York City Regional Area since the early 1980s.
Unigroup is a not-for-profit, vendor-neutral and member funded
volunteer organization. Unigroup holds regular and special event
meetings throughout the year on technical topics relating to the
Unix/Linux/BSD Operating Systems and User Communities. Unigroup
meetings tend to be focused towards System Administrators, Network
Administrators, and Software Developers.

Unigroup holds regular meetings planned for (at a minimum) the Third
THURSDAY of Odd Months. We generally try to hold Field Trip or
Vendor Specific Meetings on the Even Months, although we do have the
ability to hold monthly meetings at our regular meeting location.

Planned regular meeting dates are (usually 3rd Thursdays):
05/17/2018, 06/21/2018, 7/19/2018, 9/??/2018, 10/18/2018, ...
Also watch for Special Event meetings and "Field Trips" to the
facilities of local hardware and software vendors.

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If you have recently attended a meeting and you are not receiving
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Please Email the Board with any suggestions, especially potential
meeting topics and speakers. Unigroup welcomes contributions and
content suggestions for our newsletter. Unigroup is a volunteer
organization and we need your assistance! Please let us know if you
can help!

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-Rob Weiner
Unigroup Executive Director
unilist (-a_t-) unigroup.org
http://www.unigroup.org

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