[Fwd: TCSA meeting October 19]

[Clay Fandre <clay@fandre.com>]

For all of you that missed the talk on GFS a few months ago, here's your
second change. All TCLUG members are invited to this TCSA meeting this
Thursday night. Seating might be limited, so you should probably get
there a little early.

And for all of you beer drinkers, the TCSA usually goes out for a few
afterwards.

Dave Bianchi wrote:
> 
> The Twin Cities System Administrators (TCSA) group meets monthly to
> discuss topics of interest to system and network administrators in
> the Twin Cities area of Minnesota.  The meetings are free and open to
> the public.  Check out our web site at http://www.tcsa.org/
> 
> TCSA meetings are on the third Thursday of each month at 7:00 pm.
> 
> Next Meeting:
> 
>   Topic:        GFS and Linux Storage Clustering
>   Speaker:      Matthew T. O'Keefe, Sistina Software
>   Date/Time:    October 19, 2000  7:00 pm
>   Location:     University Park Plaza Office Building (Onvoy)
> 
> Synopsis:
> 
>   The Global File System (GFS) is a shared disk cluster file
>   system for Linux.  GFS supports journaling and recovery
>   from client failures.  GFS cluster nodes physically share
>   the same storage by means of Fibre Channel or shared SCSI
>   devices.  The file system appears to be local on each node
>   and GFS synchronizes file access across the cluster.  GFS
>   is fully symmetric, that is, all nodes are equal and there
>   is no server which may be a bottleneck or single point of
>   failure.  GFS uses read and write caching while maintaining
>   full UNIX file system semantics.
> 
>   This talk will describe GFS and how it can be used to build
>   storage clusters based upon shared storage, and the impact
>   of storage clustering on application-level web and file
>   services.
> 
>   More information about GFS can be found at
>   http://www.globalfilesystem.org/
> 
> About the Speaker:
> 
>   Matthew O'Keefe received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering
>   from Purdue University in 1990.  He taught and performed
>   research in storage systems and simulation at the University
>   of Minnesota until 2000, when he founded Sistina Software, a
>   company specializing in Linux storage management software.
> 
> We will meet at University Park Plaza Office Building (Onvoy office),
> 2829 University Ave. SE, in a conference room on the first floor of
> the building.
> 
> Tentative Meeting Schedule
> 
>   November 16, 2000  LISA paper preview, Steven Levy
>   December 21, 2000  Cancelled
>   January 18, 2001   LISA 2000 Highlights
> 
> Directions to University Park Plaza (Onvoy):
> 
> The Onvoy office is at University Park Plaza Office Building, 2829
> University Ave. SE.  It is a white-concrete, 9-story, hexagonal
> building (previously occupied by Group Health).  The windows are
> distinctive, shaped somewhat like TV screens.  University Park Plaza
> is on the north side of University Ave. (across from the Octopus Car
> Wash), about 3 blocks east of the intersection of Washington Ave. and
> University Ave. or about 3 blocks west of KSTP-TV.
> 
> - From the South (35W)
> 
> Proceed north on 35W, exiting onto Interstate 94 East.  Continue in
> the far left lane on Interstate 94 East to the Highway 280 exit.
> Remain on Highway 280 until University Ave.  Turn left on University,
> proceed 7 blocks west to SE 29th Ave.  The building is on your right.
> 
> - From the North (35W)
> 
> Proceed south on 35W, exiting onto Highway 280 South.  Continue on
> Highway 280 until the University Ave. exit.  Turn right on University.
> Continue 7 blocks west to SE 29th Ave.  The building is on your right.
> 
> - From the West (94/394)
> 
> Proceed east on 94, cross the Mississippi river and continue in the far
> left lane on Interstate 94 East to the Highway 280 exit.  Remain on
> Highway 280 until University Ave.  Turn left on University, proceed
> 7 blocks west to SE 29th Ave.  The building is on your right.
> 
> - From the East (94)
> 
> Proceed west on 94, continue in the far right lane to the Highway 280
> exit.  Remain on Highway 280 until University Ave.  Turn left onto
> University, proceed 7 blocks to SE 29th St.  The building is on your
> right.
> 
> - Parking
> 
> Free parking is available in the visitor lot off SE 29th Ave. and in
> front of the building along University Ave.
> 
> - Web map is at: http://www.onvoy.com/about_offices_upp.html
> 
> For more information on TCSA, check out our web site:
> 
>   http://www.tcsa.org/
> 
> To subscribe to the TCSA mailing list (from a Unix system):
> 
>   echo "subscribe tcsa" | mailx majordomo@tcsa.org
> 
> For any other information, please send email to:
> 
>   info@tcsa.org
> 
> or contact:
> 
>   Dave Bianchi  651-644-7843
> 
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> Dave Bianchi         Collective Technologies
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