Date: Saturday, March 15, 2008
Time: 2pm - 5:30pm
Location: Univ of Westminster Campus
Street: New Cavendish Street
City/Town: London
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We've currently got three speakers lined up:
- Karanbir Singh — automated systems provisioning with Cobbler and CentOS. A
brief intro to cobbler itself and then a live demo on setting up real machines
and Xen + VMware virtual machines.
Cobbler is a Linux boot server that allows for rapid setup of network
installation environments. With a simple series of commands, network installs
can be configured for PXE, reinstallations, and virtualized installs using Xen
or KVM. Cobbler uses a helper program called 'Koan' (which interacts with
Cobbler) for reinstallation and virtualization support.
- Matthew King — A beginner's introduction to Asterisk. An explanation of
SIP, IAX, Zap, and how they work in an Asterisk dialplan. He will also be
covering common pitfalls in Asterisk installation.
- John Hearns & Mark Kenton — Beowulf Clustering
Some of the history behind High Performance Computing (HPC) with Linux,
and how it has come to dominate the supercomputing market.
Mark and John will be showing how Streamline Computing build, install
and monitor some of the most powerful compute clusters in the UK. These
are used in fields as diverse as astrophysics, high energy physics,
computational chemistry, fusion research, medical research, car engine
design, aerodynamics, jet engine design and crash modelling.
We will demo our Linux Cluster Monitoring Appliance, which does
lights-out management and health monitoring for clusters and discuss our
new SAFE deployment framework for clusters and general purpose server
farms.
There should, again, be time to fit in a few lightning talks after the last
speaker, should anyone wish to talk about a favourite topic in 10 minutes or
less.
As usual, the meeting will adjourn to a local pub.
