Sharan Kalwani, president of SEMCO, will start the meeting and make general announcements.
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Election of Officers and Board Members-at-Large. Based on the nominations in the Dec 2023 meeting, ballots were mailed to all members. All ballots must be mailed in. The closing date for receipt of completed ballots is Jan 21, 2024.
The open positions are President, Vice President, Treasurer, Secretary, and two Board Members‑at‑Large. You can nominate any member including yourself for any of the positions. Please consider running for these positions.
When: Sunday, Jan 14, 2024 at 1:15 P.M.
Where: Meetings will be online until further notice.
Sig Computing Topic: New Chips on the Block
Presented by Sharan Kalwani
In the last 3 years (2020-2023), we have had several new chips – such as the IBM POWER10, (open source) RISC-V, Apple Silicon (M1, M2 and now M3) as well as a few AI-geared designs: AMD Instinct and of course not to forget – the NVIDIA GH200 (Grace CPU & Hopper GPU) – appear on the immediate horizon, all of which have excited the world of personal computing, embedded systems, high-performance computing and AI world. We will take an architectural look at the hardware of these new processors and share a little insight on what all this means for us.
Sharan Kalwani is an industry technology specialist with 25+ years of experience. He has degrees in both Engineering and Computer Science. He has worked in many diverse areas and is a sought after speaker at many conferences and seminars: such as Supercomputing, HPC Advisory Council, SIAM, Infiniband Trade Association, etc. Sharan is a senior member of IEEE, an Emeritus member of Michigan!UNIX/user group (mug.org), ACM and SEMCO. He enjoys teaching, holds an Adjunct Faculty position at several local educational sites. He has published one book “Linux and Internet Security” and is now working on his second text, about a new computer programming language. He is a recipient of the 2018 IEEE MGA Achievement award for his contributions to IEEE activities.
Also: Questions and Answers following the presentation.
When: Sunday, Jan 14, 2024 at 1:30 P.M.
Where: Meetings will be online until further notice. Click on the link shown above.
SIG-Linux Topic: No topic this month
Presented by Sharan Kalwani
This month the Sig Linux time is donated to Sig Computing, since their talk covers a vast spectrum of topics .
When: Sunday, Jan 14, 2024 at 3:00 P.M.
Where: Meetings will be online until further notice. Click on the link shown above.
The January 2024 SEMCO Meetings (except SIG-Programming) were recorded. Below are links to the video recordings:
Board Meeting mp4: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XgPKooK7Vieln0ogludarbJA4sgND9NQ/view?usp=sharing
SIG-Computing Meeting New Chips on the Block mp4: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1H1CbXxX85ec7aRDiBBBHIPtlHLELS3Fk/view?usp=sharing
SIG-Linux Meeting: No Meeting
Supporting files were used in the meetings. Below are links to the files:
SIG-Computing Meeting: New Chips on the Block PDF: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fqCF7traiXAR_zoQVsKIws_MtPPMa0jH/view?usp=sharing
SIG-Computing Meeting: New Chips on the Block Chat txt: https://drive.google.com/file/d/13OvXXmxPzUyaWbJSr9qdrQNTRPRKyYl7/view?usp=drive_link
SIG-Linux Meeting: No Meeting.