June 12, 2016 – SIG-Computing: A Newbie’s Guide to Data Center Design & Planning, SIG-Linux: Technologies That Linux Will Be Involved In

General Announcements

Mike Bader, president of SEMCO, will start the meeting and make general announcements.

When: Sunday, June 12, 2016 at 1:30 P.M.
Where: Altair Engineering, Inc., 1820 E. Big Beaver Rd., Troy, MI 48083
Map to meetings at Altair Engineering

Data Center

SIG-Computing
Topic: A Newbie’s Guide to Data Center Design & Planning:

Sharan Kalwani, a super computing expert, and SEMCO member will discuss: What is a data center? How is data center different from any other commercial building? What is involved in a data center design? What are the future trends in data center design? How does this relate to all this stuff I keep hearing about the Cloud?

For short but very enlightening answers to all of these questions, attend this talk to find out more!
Data Centers have been around as long as we have had computing, During the different decades in the evolution of the computer, various soothsayers have predicted the death of the center, citing client-server computing, personal computing, etc. as indicators. As we all know forecasting in this industry is hazardous at best. If anyone tells you that mobile and tablet computing will sunset data centers – well they are wrong, as these technologies actually depend on enormous data (aka cloud) centers. Come and attend the talk, ask questions, engage in discussions, join up as a member during the session on this exciting topic at SEMCO’s monthly meeting.

Sharan Kalwani is currently the Director at the High Performance Computing Center, which is part of the Institute for Cyber-Enabled Research, Michigan State University.

Also: Questions and Answers following the presentation and during the social period before the SIG-Linux meeting. Snacks available during the social period.
When: Sunday, June 12, 2016 at 1:45 P.M.
Where: Altair Engineering, Inc., 1820 E. Big Beaver Rd., Troy, MI 48083
Map to meetings at Altair Engineering

SIG-Linux
Topic: Technologies That Linux Will Be Involved In:

Sharan Kalwani will discuss the many new innovations being driven by both Open Source and Linux-based technologies. This will be brief talk to take a look at many such ideas and innovations and what they mean to the Linux community. It is always hard to predict the future and this is going to be no different, but there are certain parallels that we can see and even touch, so it makes sense to figure out what the possibilities are.

Due to a work emergency, SIG-Linux chairman Brian Brodsky will not be able to do the previously scheduled digiKam presentation this month. Our thanks go to Sharan Kalwani for volunteering to do a presentation on short notice.

All are welcome.

When: Sunday, June 12, 2016 at 4:00 P.M.
Where: Altair Engineering, Inc., 1820 E. Big Beaver Rd., Troy, MI 48083
Map to meetings at Altair Engineering

Free Wi-Fi available.  Our thanks to Altair Engineering, Inc. for providing our meeting space!

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