To: lwn@lwn.net Subject: Nashua GNHLUG Meeting 25 April 2001 Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 13:01:52 -0400 From: Jeffry Smith <smith@mclinux.com> The Nashua Chapter of the Greater New Hampshire Linux Users Group announces their April meeting: When: Wednesday, 25 April, 2001 Where: Martha's Exchange, 185 Main St, Nashua, NH, 2nd Floor Time: 19:00 (Dinner @ 18:00, RSVP offline please) Who: Brian Waite of CSPI (see http://www.fastcluster.com) Topic: "Archetecture of an Embedded Supercomputer". CSPI builds Quad PowerPC based VME boards that now support Linux. With these boards CSPI builds clusters that are extremely dense, about 1 terraFLOP in an 2' X 8' rack. Brian has been porting Linux to this hardware and also developing the boot methodology such that a system of 200+ G4 processor can come up in only a couple minutes. Please RSVP to Paul Lussier (pll@missioncriticallinux.com) by 24 April if you plan on coming for dinner he can make appropriate arrangements.