From tclug at lizakowski.com Wed Sep 5 12:20:38 2007 From: tclug at lizakowski.com (Jeremy) Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2007 12:20:38 -0500 Subject: [tclug-announce] TCLUG Meeting Announcement - Sept 5 with Amazon.com In-Reply-To: <200708271146.36997.Jeremy@lizakowski.com> References: <4c4ad4df0704200525t21568452m6dfb8503e3221bcf@mail.gmail.com> <200708011443.06231.tclug@lizakowski.com> <200708271146.36997.Jeremy@lizakowski.com> Message-ID: <200709051220.39309.tclug@lizakowski.com> The next TCLUG meeting is tonight! Virtualization was voted the most popular topic at the monthly meetings. In response, we found a speaker that has an interesting take on virtualization: Mike Culver from Amazon.com will be visiting TCLUG to give a presentation on their scalable computing platform and web services! This includes a service called EC2. EC2 allows you to upload a special Linux image (based on Xen I believe), and run it on a cluster. You can rent the cluster by the boxen-hour, and the servers can dynamically allocate machines themselves (e.g. a webserver cluster can increase it's size to adapt to traffic). The presentation will also cover a storage clustering service, the Amazon Mechanical Turk, and other topics. It should be very interesting. The description below has full details. Date: Wed, Sept 5th Time: 6:30 - 8:00 pm University of Minnesota Minneapolis campus, EE/CSci Building , Room: 3-210 200 Union St SE, Minneapolis 55455 Topics: Intro Main presentation Amazon Web Services (scalable computing) Mike Culver, Web Services Evangelist, Amazon.com (AWS) General Q&A and discussion As time may permit Adjourn to local restaurant or coffee shop Links: aws.amazon.com/ec2 aws.amazon.com/s3 aws.amazon.com/mturk ----------- Detailed Description ------------ What's possible in a post Web 2.0 world? Innovation continues at a mind-bending pace, and this presentation will showcase some thought-provoking new directions that Web Services are headed in. The presentation will provide an overview of Amazon Web Services, including a Web Service named Mechanical Turk that allows computers to make requests of people, an online storage service, a Virtual Server service, and more. There will also be a demo showing how to set up the virtual server. But mostly this will be an opportunity to have a discussion about innovation and entrepreneurial tools. Amazon spent ten years developing a world-class technology and content platform that powers Amazon web sites for millions of customers every day. Most people think "Amazon.com" when they hear the word; however developers are excited to learn that there is a separate technology arm of the company, known as Amazon Web Services or AWS. Using AWS, developers can build software applications leveraging the same robust, scalable, and reliable technology that powers Amazon's retail business. AWS has now launched ten services with open APIs for developers to build applications, with the result that over 265,000 developers have registered on Amazon's developer site to create applications based on these services.. About the Speaker Mike Culver joined the Developer Relations Group of Amazon Web Services in May, 2006. Mike brings with him fifteen years of technology leadership experience, including at companies such as Microsoft. In addition Mr. Culver has a strong background running an IT organization, with over a decade of experience in the Electrical Wholesale Distribution industry. As a Web Services Evangelist at Amazon, he helps developers take advantage of disruptive technologies that are going to change the way we think about computer applications, and the way that businesses compete. From goeko at Goecke-Dolan.com Fri Sep 28 14:51:09 2007 From: goeko at Goecke-Dolan.com (Brian Dolan-Goecke) Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 14:51:09 -0500 Subject: [tclug-announce] Penguins UnBound Meeting Saturday 9-29-2007 Message-ID: <46FD5B2D.3050005@Goecke-Dolan.com> We are having another PenguinsUnbound.net meeting Saturday September 29. (this coming Saturday) at TIES, 1667 Snelling Ave. N., St. Paul, MN 55108 from 10:00 to 12:00. See the web site http://www.penguinsunbound.com for directions and more info. I will talk about Virtualization with OpenVZ, and dip a toe into KVM (Kernel Virtual Machine) for a There will be time, and I would be happy to answer any and all questions. Thank, hope to see you there. ==>brian.