• NYC local event: UNIGROUP 19-MAY-2016 (Thu) Meeting: Dense Computing Ar

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    UNIGROUP OF NEW YORK - UNIX USERS GROUP - MAY 2016 ANNOUNCEMENTS ================================================================

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    1. UNIGROUP'S MAY 2016 GENERAL MEETING
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    Topic: Dense Computing Architectures:
    Why It Pays to Think in Terms of Moonshot
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    Speaker: Isaac Rozenfeld,
    Enterprise Architect,
    Hewlett Packard Enterprise <http://www.hpe.com>

    When: Thursday, May 19th, 2016 (** 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: 502_CS (** 5th 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 2016 meeting will be on Dense Computing
    Architectures and HyperScale Computing, as seen with systems
    such as HPE's Moonshot Architecture.

    Unigroup has a couple of interesting meetings in the works on
    the following topics: Using Object Storage, The Latest C/C++
    Standards, and The State of the C++ Ecosystem.
    Stay tuned for those announcements.

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    MAIN PRESENTATION
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    Topic: Dense Computing Architectures:
    Why it pays to think in terms of Moonshot

    Related Topics/Keywords
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    Dense Computing Architectures, High-Density Computing/Servers,
    HyperScale Computing/Servers, Ultra-Converged Infrastructure,
    Blade Servers, High Performance Computing and Clusters,
    Many Cores-per-CPU with many CPUs-per-Server.

    Introduction & Description of Talk:
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    In this session we are going to share why leading Wall
    Street customers have started to move to HPE Moonshot for
    running both: core business infrastructure as well as
    revenue-generating applications. This session discusses the
    unique characteristics of the Moonshot platform, its appeal
    to technology buyers and end-users alike and how HPE
    Moonshot simplifies private cloud deployments.

    Will review a range of essential transformative technologies
    comprising HPE Moonshot and share various lessons learned
    from some of the recent adopters. Come hear about the
    most-efficient and cost-effective ways to deliver business
    services to an organization that is looking to improve
    agility and performance, while reducing cost and risk.

    Specific cases covered are: Dedicated and Hosted Virtual
    Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), and Big Data analytics for
    High Performance Computing (HPC). This talk covers the
    current state of HPE Moonshot and gives insights into the
    future direction of technologies and products.

    Presentation Outline
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    - Why Moonshot?
    - What is Moonshot?
    - Deployment/use case examples.
    - Citrix XenDesktop.
    - Citrix XenApp.
    - Big Data analytics w/Cassandra.
    - Coming attractions.

    References & Web Resources:
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    HPE Moonshot Product Page:
    http://www.hpe.com/us/en/servers/moonshot.html

    HPE Moonshot System - Product Guide (pdf):
    http://h20195.www2.hp.com/v2/getpdf.aspx/4AA4-6076ENW.pdf

    HPE Moonshot Deployment Example Technical White Paper (pdf):
    http://www.datastax.com/wp-content/uploads/resources/partners/WP-Deploying-DSE-Max-on-HPE-Moonshot-and-ProLiant-DL360-Gen9-Servers.pdf

    PCWorld Article HPE Moonshot Arm Servers (2015):
    http://www.pcworld.com/article/3005300/morgan-stanley-kicks-tires-on-arm-servers-wants-a-rival-for-intel.html

    Moonshot Article from Forrester Blog (2014):
    http://blogs.forrester.com/richard_fichera/14-09-29-new_arm_based_moonshot_servers_from_hp_exemplify_workload_specific_computing

    Moonshot Announcement from ZDNet (2013):
    http://www.zdnet.com/article/hp-launches-project-moonshot-powered-with-intels-atom-at-first

    Moonshot Announcement from TechAZine (2013):
    http://www.techazine.com/2013/04/14/hp-releases-moonshot-platform-for-high-density-low-power-servers

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    Speaker Biography
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    Isaac Rozenfeld is a Strategic Relationships Technologist
    with Hewlett Packard Enterprise in New York, where he shares
    responsibility for the success of large financial services
    clients. He offers a wealth of experience in technology and
    financial services industries with background in product
    management, applied engineering and professional services
    consulting. Previously with VCE, Oracle and Sun, Isaac has
    served as a principal product manager for Solaris UNIX
    focusing on strategic enterprise cloud attributes and
    capabilities. Isaac holds a Bachelor of Science degree in
    Computer Science with a focus on Business Administration and
    Liberal Arts from City University of New York. He is a
    patent holder and enjoys "connecting the dots" on twitter
    @hypervisaac. Isaac is also a Unigroup Member and Unigroup
    Board Member.

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    Company Biography
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    Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company (HPE) is an American
    multinational information technology enterprise company,
    founded 01-November-2015, as part of the now-split
    Hewlett-Packard company.

    HP Enterprise is a business-focused organization with four
    divisions: Enterprise Group, which works in servers,
    storage, networking, consulting and support; Services;
    Software; and Financial Services.

    The split was structured so that the old Hewlett-Packard
    changed its name to HP Inc., and spun off Hewlett Packard
    Enterprise as a newly-created company. HP Inc., which
    retained the old HP's personal computer and printing
    business, retained the old HP's stock-price history and the
    original NYSE ticker symbol for Hewlett-Packard, while HP
    Enterprise trades under its own ticker symbol, "HPE."

    For information about Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE),
    please visit:
    http://www.hpe.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.

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    Fee Schedule:
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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.

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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) Cloud Expo / @Things Expo / DevOps Summit / BigData Expo
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    Date: Tue, Jun 07, 2016
    Wed, Jun 08, 2016
    Thu, Jun 09, 2016

    Where: Javits Center
    Midtown, NYC

    For information and registration visit:
    http://www.cloudcomputingexpo.com

    *** Note: There are complimentary registration codes active
    on the event site for early-bird registrations.
    Act quickly, they expire soon!

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    4. UPCOMING MEETINGS
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    We have a series of meetings in the works:
    - 2016????: Using Object Storage.
    - 2016????: What's new in the latest C/C++ Standards.
    - 2016????: 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 Oracle/Sun 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: 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):
    05/19/2016, 06/16/2016, 07/21/2016, 09/15/2016, 10/20/2016, 11/17/2016...
    Also watch for Special Event meetings and "Field Trips" to the
    facilities of local hardware and software vendors.

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    Unigroup Executive Director
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