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The St. Louis GNU/Linux Users Group holds its meetings on the third Thursday
of every month. Meetings are free and open to everyone.
Next Meeting: Thursday,
September 16, 2010
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NEW Location:IT Enterprises, 4633 World Pkwy Cir, Berkeley, MO 63134NEW Location - We no longer meet at the Library!! |
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Topic:
Parallel Computing Using a Linux Cluster |
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Speaker:
Sanjiv K. Bhatia and George Gerules
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| Bio:
Sanjiv Bhatia works as an Associate Professor in Computer Science in the
University of Missouri -- St. Louis. His area of research is Image
Databases, Digital Image Processing, and Computer Vision. He has
published several papers on image databases, large texture generation
and its use in terrain modeling, and the application of knowledge-based
techniques to information retrieval. He is also involved in sensor
simulation and real-time target tracking. He regularly teaches classes
in Operating Systems and Parallel & Distributed Computing. He is a
member of ACM, Siggraph, and AAAI. He is also the former publisher
of SLUUG's newsletter.
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George Gerules has over 20 years of experience programming; this has
been mostly in C/C++, although he has programmed in Java as well as some
other languages that are now extinct. He has worked as a consultant
with Arthur Andersen in the Silicon Valley and as a programmer with
Mitek Industries in Chesterfield. Currently, he is pursuing the M.S.
degree in Computer Science at UM-St. Louis.
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| Background/Details/Abstract/Outline/Summary:
The clock speed of CPUs has been the big performance measure used by the processor manufacturers in the past. However, there are limits to the speed at which the electrons can move through the circuitry. Lately, the computer manufacturers have been emphasizing the use of multiple cores to increase the performance and the clock speed has actually dropped. The new paradigm to get better performance is based on parallel computing. There are a number of techniques to take advantage of multiple processors that include multicore, cluster computing, and grid computing. Cluster computing provides us with an inexpensive way to create a scalable parallel computer with open source software. In this presentation, we'll talk about some basic theory behind parallel processing and present a way to build a cluster using off the shelf hardware. - - - And...we are meeting in the room next to UMSL's IT Enterprise's Cluster. So take a peek! |
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| Basics:
The room is open and available from 6:30 PM to 9:00 PM.
The Basics segment will be followed at 6:45 PM by the usual introductions, announcements, current events of interest,
and a general CALL FOR HELP segment. Then we will go into the presentation of our main topic at about 7:00 PM.
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At 6:45 PM we start with introductions, announcements, current events of interest, and a general CALL FOR HELP segment. Then we will go into the presentation of our main topic sometime around 7:00 PM. |
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Previous Meetings:
See Meeting Notes