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                                     UUASC
                 Unix Users Association of Southern California
                                  June Meeting

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                               The IBM RS/6000 SP
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                            Monday, June 14, 7-9 pm
                                     I B M
                     600 Anton Bl, second floor, Costa Mesa
                  (NW corner of Anton and Avenue of the Arts)

The IBM RS/6000 SP is a Unix system that is currently the largest technical
computer in terms of processing power. It is also the machine that
defeated Kasporov in chess and held web serving records at one time. It is
a key component for many e-commerce environments such as Schwab and FedEx,
There are currently over 40 SPs installed in Southern California.

At the UUASC June meeting, John Engel of IBM will tell us about the
RS/6000 SP in some detail. He will explain the SP architecture and design
objectives, symmetric multi-processing (SMP) versus massively parallel
processing (MPP), parallel application execution on the SP (including
parallel databases), and Unix system management on the SP. He will also
give us examples of SP environments in e-commerce, data mining, server
consolidation, technical computing, etc.

John Engel is the IBM SP specialist in Southern California. He has been
with IBM for over ten years, supporting Unix products. Before IBM, he
was in software development in the aerospace industry.

The UUASC is for all persons using Unix either personally or professionally,
or interested in learning more about Unix. We recognize all varieties of
Unix, including (without prejudice) SCO, Linux, SVr4, Solaris, AIX, and BSD.
This is a good place to meet others with similar interests and broaden your
skills and knowledge. Generally, meetings include a technical presentation
on a hardware or software topic of current interest to the Unix community
and a round-table discussion of current topics of interest to the group.
We are always looking for interesting presentations and your suggestions
are most welcome.

Please join us this month and bring along your friends or co-workers. Also,
please forward this announcement to others who may be interested and feel
free to post it on BBSs, both electronic and physical. If you receive more
than one announcement by email, please let us know so we can keep our lists
current. Thanks for listening.

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        --------+----------+---Sunflower #     Enter from courtyard on
         South  |          |             #     west side of building.
         Coast  |      IBM |             #     Ask guard to take elevator
         Plaza  +----------+---Anton     #     to second floor. Free
                |          | parking     #     parking diagonally across
                |                        #     intersection. **
     405=================================#===
                |        Av of           #
             Bristol      Arts          55

   ** PARKING NOTE: Parking is only free if you leave after the lot
   closes for the evening. There are also other nearby lots which may
   have different closing times. Let us know your experience.

   ** BUILDING NOTE: Arrival after 7 pm may require waiting for the
   guard to admit you to the building. Push button and wait.

Check out the UUASC Web site at http://www.UUASC.org/. Many thanks to
Quik Internet (http://www.quik.com/) for sponsoring our site.
-- 
Dave Close, Compata, Costa Mesa CA  "Politics is the business of getting
dave@compata.com, +1 714 434 7359    power and privilege without
dhclose@alumni.caltech.edu           possessing merit." - P. J. O'Rourke