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| From | jeffj@panix.com (Jeff Jonas) |
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| Newsgroups | comp.os.linux.networking |
| Subject | NYC local user group meeting: UNIGROUP 17-SEP-2015 (Thu) |
| Date | 2015-09-10 05:08 -0400 |
| Organization | www.unigroup.org |
| Message-ID | <msrhat$b39$1@panix5.panix.com> (permalink) |
Unigroup is New York City's oldest user group
for Unix/Linux/BSD/Solaris/...
specializing in practical technical issues.
The next meeting focuses on high performance networking
so I hope it's of interest to folks in this newsgroup.
Please be aware of the meeting fee.
It's to pay for the catering (wraps, salads, dessert, beverages).
Yes, a nice full dinner is included with every meeting!
Please RSVP to http://www.unigroup.org/unigroup-rsvp.html
As a courtesy, Unigroup announces other meetings & groups of interest.
-- jeff jonas
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UNIGROUP OF NEW YORK - UNIX USERS GROUP - SEPTEMBER 2015 ANNOUNCEMENTS
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1. UNIGROUP'S SEPTEMBER 2015 GENERAL MEETING
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Topic: High Speed Interconnect Fabrics:
Infiniband & Ethernet: 100 Gbps and Beyond
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Speaker: Eitan Rabin,
Sr. Director, Advanced Support Solutions,
Mellanox Technologies Ltd <http://www.mellanox.com>
When: Thursday, September 17th, 2015 (** Regular 3rd Thursday **)
Where: The Cooper Union <http://www.cooper.edu>
School of Engineering
41 Cooper Square (3rd Ave @ 7th St, bet. 6th & 7th Sts)
East Village, Manhattan
New York City
Meeting Room: Tentatively: 502_CS (** 5th Floor **)
Time: 6:15 PM - 6:30 PM Registration
6:30 PM - 6:45 PM Ask the Wizard, Questions,
Answers and Current Events
6:45 PM - 7:00 PM Unigroup Business and Announcements
7:00 PM - 9:30 PM Main Presentation
Cost: See the Meeting+Membership Fee Schedule Below.
INTRODUCTION:
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Unigroup is pleased to announce our September 2015 meeting on
Infiniband and Ethernet High Speed Interconnection Fabrics. Current
architectures have these technologies running at 100 Gbit/s, with
roadmaps heading towards speeds of 100-400Gbit/s in the near future.
Our September 2015 speaker is from Mellanox Technologies, a
manufacturer of both High Speed Infiniband and High Speed Ethernet
products.
For October 2015, we are currently working on locking a topic+speaker.
For November 2015, we expect to have Unigroup's Intel Technical
Contact return, to continue our ongoing series of talks presenting
the latest Intel Processor Architecture Technology Roadmaps.
For January 2016, this meeting may happen 1 week earlier than normal,
due to easier classroom availability at that time. (Stay Tuned).
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SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS:
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Most Unigroup meetings are open to the public!
To REGISTER for this event, please RSVP by using the Unigroup
Registration Page:
http://www.unigroup.org/unigroup-rsvp.html
This will allow us to automate the registration process.
(Registration will also add you to our mailing list.)
Please avoid Emailed RSVPs.
Please continue to check the Unigroup web site and meeting page,
for any last minute updates concerning this meeting. If you
registered for this meeting, please check your Email for any last
minute announcements as the meeting approaches. Also make sure
any anti-spam white-lists are updated to _ALLOW_ Unigroup traffic!
If you block Unigroup Emails, your address will be dropped from
our mailing list.
Also, if you have an interest in Unigroup, be sure to receive
Unigroup information DIRECTLY from Unigroup, via direct receipt
of our Emails and by visiting the Unigroup Web Site. NO OTHER
SOURCE provides timely, accurate and complete Unigroup information.
Please RSVP as soon as possible, preferably at least 2-3 days
prior to the meeting date, so we can plan the food order.
RSVP deadline is usually the night before the meeting day.
Note: RSVP is requested for this location to make sure the guard
will let you into the building. RSVP also helps us to
properly plan the meeting (food, drinks, handouts,
seating, etc.) and speed up your sign-in at the meeting.
If you forget to RSVP prior to the meeting day, you may
still be able to show up and attend our meeting, however,
we cannot guarantee what building security will do if
you are "not on the list" (note: things tend to work out OK).
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MAIN PRESENTATION
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Topic: High Speed Interconnect Fabrics:
Infiniband & Ethernet: 100 Gbps and Beyond
Introduction & Description of Talk:
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Mellanox will present and discuss interconnect technologies. We
will review Infiniband and Ethernet technologies, implementation,
use cases, advantages, and future. We will review the latest products
and solutions from both hardware and software perspective, and discuss
relevance and implementations in Financial Services, big data and
analytics, and other use cases.
InfiniBand (IB) is a networking communications standard used in
high-performance computing, features very high throughput and very low
latency. It is used for data interconnect both among and within
computers. InfiniBand is also utilized as either a direct, or
switched interconnect between servers and storage systems, as well as
an interconnect between storage systems. It is the most commonly used
interconnect in supercomputers and high performance computing.
Mellanox and Intel manufacture InfiniBand host bus adapters and network
switches. Mellanox IB cards are available for Oracle Solaris, Red Hat
Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, Microsoft Windows,
HP-UX, VMware ESX. It is designed to be scalable and uses a switched
fabric network topology. As an interconnect, IB competes with Ethernet
and proprietary technologies. Alternative network transport
technologies include Fibre Channel and Ethernet. The technology is
promoted by the InfiniBand Trade Association.
Ethernet is a computer networking technology. It was commercially
introduced in 1980 and first standardized in 1983 as IEEE 802.3 and
has since been refined to support higher bit rates and longer link
distances. The Ethernet standards comprise several wiring and
signaling variants of the OSI physical layer. Ethernet data transfer
rates have been increased to the latest 100 gigabits per second
(Gbit/s), with 400 Gbit/s expected ~2017. Systems communicating over
Ethernet divide a stream of data into shorter pieces called frames.
Each frame contains source and destination addresses and error-checking
data so that damaged data can be detected and re-transmitted. As per
the OSI model, Ethernet provides services up to and including the data
link layer.
We will present and discussion interconnect technologies. We will
review Infiniband and Ethernet technologies, implementation, use cases,
advantages, and future. We will review the latest products and
solutions from both hardware and software perspective, and discuss
relevance and implementations in Financial Services, big data and
analytics, and other use cases.
Presentation Outline (as time permits):
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- Infiniband (IB) Technology Basics.
- Ethernet (ETH) Basics.
- Difference between IB and ETH technologies.
- Deterministic response, protocol/packet properties,
debugging problems.
- What standards are in effect for each.
- How the different vendor's products interoperate and interconnect;
our compatibility tests.
- IB with Unix (Solaris/HPUX/AIX/etc) + Linux + BSD, OS Drivers +
Kernel support, Best Practices.
- Roadmaps for the highest speeds ETH + IB.
- Anticipated implementation issues at highest speeds (issues with
physics of cables, for example).
- Use of High Speed Interconnects.
- When is IB the technology of choice, where ETH is preferred,
when to use a mix of both.
- Where is the bottleneck when using fastest interconnect.
- How are they deployed in datacenters, for clusters, for HPC,
for FSI, for storage, etc.
- Protocols:
- RDMA - Remote Direct Memory Access
- RoCE / ROCEv2 - RDMA Over Converged Ethernet
- IPoIB - IP over Infiniband
- iSCSI over IB/ETH (ISER) - Internet SCSI Block Storage
- FCoE - FibreChannel over Ethernet
- Components - HCA's & NIC's Switches Cables, Max cable lengths,
Types of Cabling, Copper vs Fiber Optics, MetroX.
- Features to look for and how to choose cards, cables, parts,
switches.
- Case studies for best practices and connectivity options (we may
not present all of these):
- Financial - IB - Real Time.
- Financial - ETH.
- HPC and Clusters - IB.
- Big-data / Analytics / Hadoop - ETH.
- Scalable Storage - example: ROCE in Ceph - ETH.
- Cloud and Virt - offloads of SRIOV and VXLAN to the NIC,
integration to OpenStack and VMWare.
- Hyper Converged - example: Nutanix - ETH.
- Large customers - Microsoft, search and advertising global
leader, social media global leader.
- Company Overview.
- Competitive / Comparison Product Info.
References & Web Resources:
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Wikipedia on RDMA:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_direct_memory_access
Wikipedia on RoCE:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RDMA_over_Converged_Ethernet
Ethernet Alliance (EA):
http://www.ethernetalliance.org
Infiniband Trade Association (IBTA):
http://www.infinibandta.org
Open Compute Project - SAI (Switch Abstraction Layer)
http://www.opencompute.org/wiki/Networking/SpecsAndDesigns
Open Fabrics Alliance (OFA):
http://www.openfabrics.org
Open Network Install Environment
http://www.onie.org
Mellanox Technology White Papers:
http://www.mellanox.com/page/white_papers
Mellanox Academy - Free Registration and some Free On-demand Classes
http://academy.mellanox.com
Mellanox Community - Tons of How-To's and Latest Users Contributed Material
http://community.mellanox.com/
Mellanox Products
http://www.mellanox.com/page/products_overview
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Speaker Biography
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Eitan Rabin is Sr. Director, Advanced Support Solutions at Mellanox.
Eitan has been with the company since year 2000. Eitan is currently
working out of our NYC office, supporting high priority projects,
advanced development customers, and FSI HFT low level solutions.
Prior to his current role, he served as Field Application Engineer
and as a Driver and Firmware Developer. He is a graduate of the
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology in Israel. Fun fact: Eitan
joined Mellanox as its first support engineer. The company now has
over 2000 employees and our support org is several hundred people
globally.
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Company Biography
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Mellanox Technologies (NASDAQ: MLNX) is a leading supplier of
end-to-end InfiniBand and Ethernet interconnect solutions and services
for servers and storage. Mellanox interconnect solutions increase
data center efficiency by providing the highest throughput and lowest
latency, delivering data faster to applications and unlocking system
performance capability. Mellanox offers a choice of fast interconnect
products: adapters, switches, software and silicon that accelerate
application runtime and maximize business results for a wide range of
markets including high performance computing, enterprise data centers,
Web 2.0, cloud, storage and financial services. Founded in 1999,
Mellanox Technologies is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California and
Yokneam, Israel. The company employs over 2000 people globally.
For information about Mellanox Technologies, please visit:
http://www.mellanox.com
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Giveaways:
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Addison-Wesley Professional/Prentice Hall PTR, and O'Reilly have
been kind enough to provide us with review copies of some of their
books, which we will continue to raffle off as giveaways at our
meetings. The publishers always ask that the persons receiving
the books provide a review and/or feedback about their books.
Unigroup would like to thank both companies for the support
provided by their User Group programs.
As always, all of the books will be available for review at the
start of the meeting.
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Fee Schedule:
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Unigroup is a Professional Technical Organization and User Group,
and its members pay a yearly membership fee. For Unigroup members,
there is usually no additional charges (ie. no meeting fees) during
their membership year. Non-members who wish to attend Unigroup
meetings are usually required to pay a "Single Meeting Fee".
Yearly Membership (includes all meetings): $ 50.00
Student Yearly Membership (with current! ID): $ 25.00
Non-Member Single Meeting Fee: $ 20.00
Non-Member Student Single Meeting (with! ID): $ 5.00
* Payment Methods: Cash, Check, American Express.
MasterCard, VISA, Discover (since 2013).
! Students: We are looking for proof that you are
currently enrolled in classes (rather than working
full-time), and as such, your Student ID should show
a CURRENT date. We have been presented Student IDs
containing NO dates whatsoever, and in the
current environment, perpetual/non-expiring access
to university facilities just does not feel right.
If your ID contains no date, please bring
additional proof of current enrollment. Thanks,
NOTE: Simply receiving Unigroup Email Announcements does
NOT indicate membership in Unigroup.
Members: Remember to bring your Unigroup membership card with
you to the meeting, to confirm your yearly renewal date!
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Food:
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Complimentary Food and Refreshments will be served.
This normally includes "wraps" such as turkey, roast beef,
chicken, tuna and grilled vegetables as well as assorted salads
(potato, tossed, pasta, etc), cookies, brownies, bottled water
and assorted SOFT beverages.
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Directions:
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The Cooper Union <http://www.cooper.edu>
School of Engineering (*** New Building ***)
41 Cooper Square (3rd Avenue @ 7th St, between 6th & 7th Streets)
East Village, Manhattan
New York City, 10003
Meeting Room: ** (See Above, Room Changes Month-to-Month)
Located on the East side of Cooper Square. Look for the
new building with the non-traditional appearance.
Entrance is at the corner of 3rd Avenue and 7 Street.
Building lobby sign-in is required at the guard's desk.
Enter the building, check in with the guard at the lobby for
directions to Unigroup (the room varies from month-to-month).
Nearest mass transit stations are:
'6' to Astor Place (stops right at The Cooper Union),
then walk 1 block East and 1 block South.
'R' to 8th Street, then walk about 2 blocks East
then 1 block South.
'4/5/N/Q' to Union Square, then walk South and East.
or transfer to the downtown '6' to Astor Place.
'B/D/F/V' to Broadway-Lafayette, then walk North and East,
or transfer to the uptown '6' to Astor Place.
Free street parking in the area becomes available at 6pm.
There are also parking lots on Broadway, at (or just south of)
Astor Place (8th Street), across from the West side of
Cooper Square, as well as various others in the area.
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Please mark this meeting on your calendar and join us!
Please tell your friends about Unigroup!
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2. PRIOR MEETINGS
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** Formal Thank You's to our previous speakers will appear
in an upcoming announcement. Unigroup issues a "Thank You"
to all our speakers and sponsors!
Our thanks goes to The Cooper Union School of Engineering,
and its staff, for hosting our meetings.
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3. LOCAL TRADE SHOWS AND EVENTS
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a) NYLUG (Linux User Group) Meeting
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Sep 16, 2015: Freedom in my Heart
For more information, visit the NYLUG Site: http://www.nylug.org
b) NYCBUG (BSD User Group) Meetings (Various)
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Sep 16, 2015: Ike Levy on OPNsense
Oct 07, 2015: TBA
Nov 19, 2015: Stephen R Bourne
For more information, visit the NYCBUG Site: http://www.nycbug.org
c) High Performance Computing for Wall Street Show
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Date: Mon, Sep 21, 2015
Where: Roosevelt Hotel
Midtown, NYC
For information and complimentary exhibits registration visit:
http://www.flaggmgmt.com/hpc
d) CEW - Customer Engagement World (formerly CETW)
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Dates: Wed, Nov 04, 2015 ??
Thu, Nov 05, 2015 ??
Where: Javits Center
Midtown, NYC
*** ?? The status of this show this year is UNKNOWN.
?? The last-known web site is currently an unconfigured
?? web server.
For information and complimentary exhibits registration visit:
http://cetworld.com ??
e) CCW - Content & Communications World / SATCON / NAB
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Dates: Wed, Nov 11, 2015
Thu, Nov 12, 2015
Where: Javits Center
Midtown, NYC
For information and complimentary exhibits registration visit:
http://www.ccwexpo.com
f) Interop New York
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The Interop NY site: http://www.interop.com/newyork
seems to indicate that there will NOT be an Interop NYC 2015.
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4. UPCOMING MEETINGS
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We have a series of meetings in the works:
- 20150917: High Speed Interconnects Fabrics: Infiniband & Ethernet
- 201511 : Intel Processor Architecture Technology Roadmaps
- 2015?? : What's new in the latest C/C++ Standards
- Planning: Popular Linux Distribution Round-Up and Comparison
(aka: Are there too many Linux Distributions?)
- Planning: Building a Data Server with Oracle/Sun ZFS
- Planning: Virtualization: KVM, Xen/XenServer, VirtualBox
- Planning: DNS / Dynamic DNS
- Planning: Fibrechannel and Infiniband Storage
- Planning: IPsec and VPNs (possibly 2 meetings)
- Planning: Cloud and Grid Computing
- Planning: Unix/Linux Authentication
- Planning: NO SPAM!
- Planning: Crypto / PKI / GPG-PGP
- Planning: The latest on *BSD (FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD)
- Planning: The latest on Solaris
- Planning: Anti-Virus
- Unix/Linux/BSD Clusters and Clustered Databases
- Patching and Updating Unix/Linux/BSD (rpm. yum, yast, apt, etc.)
- Building Custom Kernels Unix/Linux/BSD
- Building a Firewall using FreeBSD and Linux
- LAMP Part 2 - PHP/Python
- Unix 40th+ Birthday Celebration
- Samba
- High Performance Internet Servers / Web Acceleration
- Unix Office Tools: Word Processors, Spreadsheets, Accounting Packages.
- GNU Development Environments
- iSCSI, and other new peripheral technologies
- Java and/or JavaScript Programming
- Web Development Frameworks
** Unigroup Needs Speakers!!
Please let us know about any other meeting topics that you may be
interested in. Potential speakers on Unix/Linux/BSD related
technology topics should please contact the Unigroup Board.
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5. UNIGROUP INFORMATION
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Unigroup is one of the oldest and largest Unix User's Groups serving
the Greater New York City Regional Area since the early 1980s.
Unigroup is a not-for-profit, vendor-neutral and member funded
volunteer organization. Unigroup holds regular and special event
meetings throughout the year on technical topics relating to Unix
and the Unix/Linux/BSD User Community.
Unigroup holds regular meetings planned for (at a minimum) the Third
THURSDAY of Odd Months. We generally try to hold Field Trip or
Vendor Specific Meetings on the Even Months, although we do have the
ability to hold monthly meetings at our regular meeting location.
Planned regular meeting dates are (usually 3rd Thursdays):
09/17/2015, 10/15/2015, 11/19/2015, 12/2015 Party?, 01/14/2016?? ...
Also watch for Special Event meetings and "Field Trips" to the
facilities of local hardware and software vendors.
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= For Unigroup Information, Events and Meeting Announcements be sure to =
= visit our World Wide Web Home Page: =
= http://www.unigroup.org =
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For further information or to get on the Unigroup Electronic Mail Mailing
List send an EMail message to:
unilist (-a_t-) unigroup.org
To contact the Board of Directors of Unigroup, send an EMail message to:
uniboard (-a_t-) unigroup.org
If you have recently attended a meeting and you are not receiving
Email announcements, please send us an Email and we will make
corrections to our lists.
Please Email the Board with any suggestions, especially potential
meeting topics and speakers. Unigroup welcomes contributions and
content suggestions for our newsletter. Unigroup is a volunteer
organization and we need your assistance! Please let us know if you
can help!
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-Rob Weiner
Unigroup Executive Director
unilist (-a_t-) unigroup.org
http://www.unigroup.org
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