Hi folks, Hopefully this will be of interest to some; if not apologies for the unsolicited event notices. (1) http://www.apple.com/education/hedwebcast/ Bill Van Etten is joining a panel with the Apple Xserve product manager Doubg Brooks and a few other people to talk about Xserve + XRAID + Mac OS X server as they are used in life science biocomputing. This is a 'webcast' with the following dates/times: Tuesday, June 10, 2003 10:00-11:00 am PST (1:00 EST, 12:00 noon CST, 11:00 am MST) Extended Q&A session to follow from 11-11:30 am PST. (2) Adam Moscowitz roped me into giving a presentation at the upcoming BBLISA meeting in Boston/Cambridge this week (http://www.bblisa.org). The BBLISA presentations are generally pretty technical and draw local sysadmins and systems managers for discussions and networking. The last talk I attended there was a great one from a NetApp engineer who spoke about the NAS/SAN convergence stuff that happens under the hood in NetApp's DataOnTap filer OS. Very cool. Anyway- Adam wants me to talk about 2 main areas: 'compute farming in biotech' as well as the various distributed resource management layers (DRM) that we use. I'm probably going to stick mostly to talking about how Sun GridEngine and Platform LSF work at the expense of a more general intro to all the various DRM implementations out there. I'm not sure how the talk be structured-- it depends if the audience is more interested in the IT/clustering stuff or the software DRM layer. Here is the info for that talk. Wednesday, June 11, 2003 7-9pm, MIT Building E51, Room 149 URL: http://www.bblisa.org/calendar/2003-06-11.html Let me know if you plan to attend. There may be a pre-meeting dinner gathering at Mary Chung's on Mass Ave. -Chris -- Chris Dagdigian, <dag@sonsorol.org> BioTeam Inc. - Independent Bio-IT & Informatics consulting Office: 617-666-6454, Mobile: 617-877-5498, Fax: 425-699-0193 PGP KeyID: 83D4310E Yahoo IM: craffi Web: http://bioteam.net