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Well folks, Motorboat is being nuetered. Today, Wednesday June 25th 2008 is the last day he will be a complete man cat.

Erin and I went to Boston for a bit of vacation and for the RedHat summit. Here are some photo’s.

The Stata center at MIT.

Erin riding a duck in Boston Commons.

Fenway.

Chinatown.

The RedHat folks decided to change the times of the seminars up and rather than at 1015 things started at 0900. Unbeknownst to me I was a little late to the first seminar.

Dynamic Grid Computing With Red Hat Enterprise MRG & Amazon EC2
Bryan Che

Enterprises today are running more and more distributed applications and workloads and requiring additional computing power. However, they also increasingly need management flexibility and to cut down in their power and space usage. The recent rise of cloud-based infrastructure services like Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) helps address some of these issues, but there are challenges in adopting these types of services–particularly for grid or distributed applications.

Red Hat Enterprise MRG is a new high performance distributed computing platform from Red Hat that integrates Messaging, Realtime Linux, and Grid technologies. MRG’s grid scheduler includes the ability not only to submit jobs to local or remote grids in an enterprise’s data center but to cloud-based infrastructure like Amazon EC2 as well. Whether enterprises are looking to add computing capacity on-the-fly to existing grids or to provision dynamically entirely new grids, Red Hat Enterprise MRG and Amazon EC2 offer tremendous flexibility and efficiency in addressing today’s computing demands.

Understanding Application Memory Performance
Ulrich Drepper

Introduction of ways to discover a program’s memory performance.

Here is day two at the summit.

Network Performance: 10GB Ethernet
Mark Wagner

Performance of 10GB Ethernet in Red Hat Enterprise Linux, MRG, and virtualization environments.

Database Performance and Scaling
Sanjay Rao

Optimizing database performance and scalability with Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Making the Best of the Global File System
Curtis Zinzilieta

Best practices and performance tuning guidance for users of Red Hat’s Global File System.

GNU Compiler and GCC Update
Tom Tromey Jason Merill

Recent enhancements to the GCC toolchain.

Introduction to Frysk
Andrew Cagney

An introduction to the Frysk graphical debugger with real world examples.

At the 2:45 pm slot the GCC presentation was fairly short and I was able to check our Frysk as well.

Red Hat Enterprise MRG Overview
Carl Trieloff

This presentation provides an overview of the the three MRG components and what can be achieved with them.

Here are the seminars that I attended today at the RedHat Summit.

RHEL Kernel Performance Optimization – Part I and II
John Shakshober & Larry Woodman

An in-depth session covering the tools, tips and tricks of performance measurement and tuning of the RHEL kernel

How to Make Good RPM Packages
Tom Callaway

A journey into the design and construction of manageable and flexible RPM packages.

Laptop Power Management
Richard Hughes

Laptop power management is improving. In this session, you’ll learn what can be done to make batteries last longer and how to make suspend work successfully in a modern Linux desktop. The presentation will show what infrastructure we have developed, what we are doing now, and what the future will allow us to do.

Securing your Red Hat Enterprise System
Steve Grubb

This presentation outlines ways and means to ensure that your Red Hat deployments are highly secure.