[NCSA] NC*SA Feburary 9th Meeting: Virtualization

[NC*SA Announcements List - Moderated]

*The next meeting of the North Carolina System Administrators
organization (NC*SA) is Monday, February 9th, 2009. 

Details about the meeting are provided in this note.  
**We hope to see you there!

                  NC*SA General Meeting
            7:00 pm Monday, February 9th, 2009
                    UNC-TV Conference Room
                Research Triangle Park, NC
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Note: We are trying something new. This month it will be a LiveStreaming session from LISA2008.

Session: *Virtualization*
Topics:   **
1)  STORM: Simple Tool for Resource Management
            Speaker: Mark Dehus and Dirk Grunwald, University of Colorado
            Pp. 109-119 of the Proceedings of the 22nd Large 
Installation System
            Administration Conference (LISA '08)
            (San Diego, CA: USENIX Association, November 9-14, 2008).
        
http://usenix.org/events/lisa08/tech/full_papers/dehus/dehus_html/index.html

2)  IZO: Applications of Large-Window Compression to Virtual Machine 
Management
            Speaker: Mark A. Smith, Jan Pieper, Daniel Gruhl, and Lucas 
Villa Real, IBM Almaden Research Center

3)  Portable Desktop Applications Based on P2P Transportation and 
Virtualization
        Speaker: Youhui Zhang, Xiaoling Wang, and Hong Liang, Tsinghua 
University

Sponsors:
UNC-TV- http://www.unc-tv.org
TriLUG  - http://www.trilug.org

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Directions: http://www.unctv.org/aboutus/directions.html

 >From I-40 East (Chapel Hill/Greensboro/Charlotte):

    * Take Exit 279B (Durham Freeway/Highway 147 North).
    * Take the second exit (Alexander Drive).
    * Turn left at the traffic light at the top of the exit ramp.
    * Cross over the bridge and take the second right
      (approximately .5 mile).
    * At this point, you should see signs for UNC-TV.**

[Note: If traveling I-40 East, you will see Exit 279A (To Alexander 
Drive/Durham Freeway South). Please do not take this exit as you will be 
on the opposite end of Alexander Drive from UNC-TV and increase your 
travel time.]

 >From I-40 West (Raleigh/RDU Airport)

   1. Take Exit 279B (Durham Freeway/Highway 147 North).
   2. Take the second exit (Alexander Drive).
   3. Turn left at the traffic light at the top of the exit ramp.
   4. Cross over the bridge and take the second right
      (approximately .5 mile).
   5. At this point, you should see signs for UNC-TV.**

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Our meetings are free and open to anyone with an interest in the topic
of the evening and/or system administration.  We will be providing food
and drink for the evening. If you have any questions please contact the
Steering Committee at:

ncsa-steer at ncsysadmin.org
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Directions to the meeting are available on the web at
http://www.ncsysadmin.org/directions.
-- 

Liyun Yu, PhD

System Specialist

Dept of Radiation Oncology

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Office: (919) 966-7704 ext 1

Email: liyunyu at med.unc.edu