Austin Sun Users Group Meeting
October 15, 2008

DATE & LOCATION

Wednesday October 15th 6-9PM 
Sun Microsystems 
Building 8 - Longhorn Conference Room 
5300 Riata Park Court Austin, TX 78727 

Solaris Security : User and Process Rights Management

Do you use what you already have to prevent attackers from taking control over your system ? In this technical overview, the details of how Solaris implements Role Based Access Control, privileges and authorizations will be discussed. You will learn how these technologies work with each other, and other Solaris security features. Time permitting, discussions of other access control mechanism such as Mandatory Access Control (with Solaris Trusted Extensions) and ZFS Access Control Lists will be discussed.

We always welcome your input regarding topics and speakers. If you'd like to become involved in ongoing planning, please consider becoming a board member. Send an email to austinsug@austinsug.org.

Thanks to Continental Resources Inc. for sponsoring this meeting!

AGENDA 

06:00 - 7:00 pm – Meet and greet, Pizza & Drinks
07:00 - 8:30 pm – Presentation
08:30 - 9:00 pm – Q&A, Networking

FEATURED SPEAKER
Mark Thacker


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Austin Sun Users Group Meeting

August 20, 2008

DATE & LOCATION

Wednesday August 20th 6-9PM
Sun Microsystems
Building 8 - Longhorn Conference Room
5300 Riata Park Court Austin, TX 78727

"TACC and Sun"

TACC (Texas Advanced Computing Center) is a super computer right here in our own backyard at the University of Texas Austin. As of the June 2008 top 500 list, TACC is number 4 overall.  Come hear a talk from Tommy Minyard, Assistant Director/Research Associate from the TACC about how they are utilizing Sun hardware in one of the most advanced supercomputers on the planet.

We always welcome your input regarding topics and speakers. If you'd like to become involved in ongoing planning, please consider becoming a board member. Send an email to austinsug@austinsug.org.

Thanks to Lumenate (www.lumenate.com) and LSI (www.lsi.com) for sponsoring this meeting!

AGENDA

06:00 - 7:00 pm – Meet and greet, Pizza & Drinks
07:00 - 8:30 pm – Presentation
08:30 - 9:00 pm – Q&A, Networking

FEATURED SPEAKER

Tommy Minyard
TACC


Austin Sun Users Group Meeting
June 18th, 2008

DATE & LOCATION

Wednesday June 18th 6-9PM
Sun Microsystems
Building 8 - Longhorn Conference Room
5300 Riata Park Court Austin, TX 78727

"Storage 101"


We always welcome your input regarding topics and speakers. If you'd like to become involved in ongoing planning, please consider becoming a board member. Send an email to austinsug@austinsug.org.

Thanks to Sigma Solutions for sponsoring this meeting!

AGENDA

06:00 - 7:00 pm – Registration, Pizza & Drinks, Networking
07:00 - 8:30 pm – Presentation: MySQL 101
08:30 - 9:00 pm – Q&A, Networking

FEATURED SPEAKER

Daniel Whicker
Systems Engineer
Sigma Solutions

You can view the presentation here

Austin Sun Users Group Meeting
April 16th, 2008

DATE & LOCATION

Wednesday April 16th 6-9PM
Sun Microsystems
Building 8 - Longhorn Conference Room
5300 Riata Park Court Austin, TX 78727

"MySQL Clustering"


We always welcome your input regarding topics and speakers. If you'd like to become involved in ongoing planning, please consider becoming a board member. Send an email to austinsug@austinsug.org.

Thanks to Continental Resources for sponsoring this meeting!

FEATURED SPEAKER

Jonathan Miller
Lead Cluster Quality Assurance Developer
Sun Microsystems, Inc. (formerly of MySQL AB)

You can view the presentation here

Austin Sun Users Group Meeting
February 20th, 2008

DATE & LOCATION

Wednesday February 20th 6-9PM
Sun Microsystems
Building 8 - Longhorn Conference Room
5300 Riata Park Court Austin, TX 78727

"''Innovation Matters: Multi-Core Multi-Thread in your DataCenter"

The computer industry has always had a fixation with megahertz. CPU cycle times. Clock speed. Sun's UltraSPARC processor has been obsessed with something entirely different: maximizing the throughput of real-world applications and workloads. What's the difference? Put it this way--it doesn't do you much good to have the world's fastest car on a jammed freeway. With traditional processor technology, blazing-fast microprocessors are held back by memory bottlenecks. But with chip multithreading (CMT), the revolutionary technology behind Sun's Throughput Computing strategy, it's like having more lanes open on the freeway. Let me explain how it works and how you will benefit from this technological innovation today and in the future.

We always welcome your input regarding topics and speakers. If you'd like to become involved in ongoing planning, please consider becoming a board member. Send an email to austinsug@austinsug.org.

Thanks to Lumenate for sponsoring this meeting!

AGENDA

06:00 - 7:00 pm – Registration, Pizza & Drinks, Networking
07:00 - 8:30 pm – Presentation: Innovation Matters: Multi-Core Multi-Thread in your DataCenter
08:30 - 9:00 pm – Q&A, Networking

FEATURED SPEAKER

Tom Broussard
Senior SPARC Technologist
Sun Microsystems


Austin Sun Users Group Meeting
October 17th

DATE & LOCATION

Wednesday October 17th 6-9PM
Sun Microsystems
Building 8 - Longhorn Conference Room
5300 Riata Park Court Austin, TX 78727

ASUG Membership Drive Contest!!!

1.Everyone who attends this meeting will receive a FREE OpenSolaris T-shirt!
2.The person who brings the most new ASUG attendees (minimum of 3) will win a
Bose® SoundDock® System for the iPod® ($300 value)!*



* In the event of a tie, we will randomly draw the winner.  All others will receive prizes of lesser value.

xVM: x86 virtualization for Solaris

Sun currently offers many different types of server virtualization technologies - Solaris 10 Containers, Logical Domains, Dynamic System Domains.  In addition, VMware is certified and sold by Sun.  Very soon, xVM will be added to list.  Come hear all about xVM technology.

We always welcome your input regarding topics and speakers. If you'd like to become involved in ongoing planning, please consider becoming a board member. 

Thanks to Agilysys for sponsoring this meeting.

AGENDA

06:00 - 7:00 pm – Registration, Pizza & Drinks, Networking
07:00 - 8:30 pm – Presentation: xVM: x86 Virtualization for Solaris
08:30 - 9:00 pm – Q&A, Networking

FEATURED SPEAKER

Nils Nieuwejaar, Solaris Engineer, Sun Microsystems


We had a great turnout for this meeting - over 30 people.  Nils did a great job with the presentation.  Unfortunately, no one qualified to win the SoundDock.  We were planning to have the next meeting in December.  However, we will be taking a break and the next meeting will occur in February.

Austin Sun Users Group Meeting on August 15th

DATE & LOCATION

Wednesday August 15th 6-9PM
Sun Microsystems
Building 8 - Longhorn Conference Room
5300 Riata Park Court Austin, TX 78727

"Solaris 10 DTrace"
Come see Solaris 10 DTrace in action from THE DTrace guru himself.  Jarod Jenson is Chief Systems Architect for a consulting company that he founded called Aeysis.  He has been solving real world performance problems for companies even before Solaris 10 was released.  He will be doing a 100% hands-on presentation of what DTrace can do for you.  You won't want to miss this one!

We always welcome your input regarding topics and speakers. If you'd like to become involved in ongoing planning, please consider becoming a board member. More details on the board of directors will be provided at a later date.

Thanks to Forsythe Solutions Group for sponsoring this meeting.

AGENDA

06:00 - 7:00 pm – Registration, Pizza & Drinks, Networking
07:00 - 8:30 pm – Presentation: Solaris 10 Dtrace
08:30 - 9:00 pm – Q&A, Networking

FEATURED SPEAKER

Jarod Jenson, Chief Systems Architect, Forsythe Solutions

Wednesday, April 18, 2007

LOCATION

Sun Microsystems
Building 8 - Longhorn Conference Room
5300 Riata Park Court Austin, TX 78727

We had a great turnout to this meeting - 30 total.  The feedback based on the evaluation forms was overwhelmingly positive.
Everyone liked the live demo of ZFS along with the presentation.  We'll try make sure there is some kind of hands-on
component of the presentations for future meetings.  Also, we had some good suggestions for future topics: DTrace,
NFSV4, SMF, Solaris 10 security, SAN, Zones, Niagra, clustering,

Thanks to Lumenate for sponsoring this meeting.

AGENDA

06:00 - 7:00 pm – Registration, Pizza & Drinks, Networking
07:00 - 8:30 pm – Presentation: Solaris 10 ZFS Deep Dive
08:30 - 9:00 pm – Q&A, Networking

FEATURED SPEAKER

Jeff Blanchard Systems Engineer Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Here are some pictures from the meeting.

Tuesday, February 27th, 2007

Official launch of the Austin Sun Users Group On Tuesday, February 27th, 2007 on the University of Texas campus, the Austin Sun Users Group was born.

All of the photos are compliments of Travis Campbell from AMD. Thanks Travis! Travis wrote about our meeting at the LOPSA blog.


I'm the bald guy looking down at the paper and Bob Netherton (our presenter) is on my right. Based on the look on my face, it looks like I hadn't had enough caffeine yet. :^)


We had a great time eating pizza off of paper towels (yours truly forgot to get plates), learning more about the new features in Solaris 10 11/06 and discussing logistics for the group.

Originally, we were going to use the ASUG acronym for the group. However, someone pointed out that the Austin SAS Users Group already uses it so we'll have to come up with a different one. If you have a good idea, shoot me an email at feedback@austinsug.org We made lots of decisions regarding the group.

Here's a summary:

We will meet from 6-9pm on the 3rd Wednesday of every other month. Since our first meeting was in February, that puts the next one on April 18th.

The regular meeting place will be Building 8 of the Sun Austin campus at the intersection of Parmer Lane and Riata Vista. The address is 5300 Riata Park Court Austin, TX 78727.

Each meeting will have the general agenda:

•     6:00-7:00pm: Food, drinks, networking
•     7:00-8:30pm: Presentation/content
•     8:30-9:00pm: Q&A,offline discussions from presentation, more networking

Initial list of topics:

•     Solaris on non-Sun HW
•     Lights Out Mgmt
•     CoolStack/SAMP - MySQL, Postgres
•     DTrace Deep Dive
•     Solaris Performance
•     SMF Deep Dive
•     Niagra
•     Virtualization - x64 and SPARC
•     Resource Management

 
Expenses for meetings will be picked up via sponsors. In return, sponsors will have 10 minutes at the beginning of each meeting to educate the members on who they are. If you are interested in being a sponsor for future meetings, please complete a Sponsor Registration form.

A big thank you goes out to all attendees of our first meeting - our charter members! We are excited about the formation of this group and we hope that it will add value to the Sun user community in Austin. We are in the process of planning the topic for the next meeting. As soon as the details are nailed down, I'll post them to this site. That's it for now!