From: William Kendrick 
Subject: Linux Users' Group of Davis, May 15 - Linux and Scientific Comp'ing
To: chris@dibona.com, info@nblug.org, board@brain.CS.Berkeley.EDU,
Date: Tue, 9 May 2000 21:27:19 -0700 (PDT)


For immediate release:
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LUGOD, The Linux Users' Group of Davis, will hold its next meeting on:

  Monday
  May 15, 2000
  6:30pm

The meeting will be held at:

  Z-World, Inc.
  2900 Spafford Street
  Davis, CA 95616


The topic will be "LINUX FOR SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING," presented by Bill Saphir
of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Mr. Saphir will discuss the uses of the Linux Operating System for
scientific computing, and speak about computer clusters.

A "cluster" is a network of computers which are working together (usually
in parallel) on a complex computation (such as rendering a 3D image or
solving a mathematical problem).  A cluster of off-the-shelf desktop PCs
can cheaply attain the power of an expensive, monolithic supercomputer.

Mr. Saphir currently works at the National Energy Research Scientific
Computing Center at Lawrence Berkeley Labs, where he is group leader of
the Future Technologies Group.  He has given talks at a number of
supercomputing conferences, NASA Ames, and many computer users groups.


For details on this meeting, maps, directions, public transportation
schedules, etc., visit:

  http://www.lugod.org/meeting/



LUGOD is a non-profit organization dedicated to the Linux Operating
System which meets twice a month in Davis, CA.  Please visit our website
for details:

  http://www.lugod.org/

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-bill!
root@lugod.org
http://www.lugod.org/