Apologies to folks too far to attend,
but we have a web site that you may find useful too!
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UNIGROUP OF NEW YORK - UNIX USERS GROUP - MAY 2012 ANNOUNCEMENTS
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1. UNIGROUP'S MAY 2012 MEETING NOTICE
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When: Thursday, May 17th, 2012 (*** 3rd Thursday ***)
Where: The Cooper Union <http://www.cooper.edu>
School of Engineering (*** New Building ***)
41 Cooper Square (3rd Ave @ 7th St, bet. 6th & 7th Sts)
East Village, Manhattan
New York City
Meeting Room: 506_CS (5th Floor)
** Please RSVP ** (Note: Room Changes Month-to-Month)
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.
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Topic: The Hunt for the Lowest Network Latency
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Speaker: Jason Tesarz,
Senior Director of Engineering,
TorreyPoint <http://www.torreypoint.com>
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INTRODUCTION:
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Unigroup's May 2012 General Meeting will be a discussion about
Network Latency in Financial Trading Systems... where to look for
it, how to monitor it, and what you can do to mitigate it.
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SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS:
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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 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".
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MAIN PRESENTATION
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Topic: The Hunt for the Lowest Network Latency
Introduction & Description of Talk:
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TorreyPoint will be giving a talk on low latency networks and
measurement, geared towards Financial Trading System environments.
Topics to include: where latency can occur and things that can be
done to mitigate it.
Detailed Outline:
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- Executive Summary
- Outlook for the next 12 months
- Environments:
- Investment Banks
- Market Makers & Brokers
- HFT Hedge Funds
- Exchanges & ECN's
- Electronic Trading Systems
- Market Analysis
- Market outlook next 12 months
- Accelerating Control
- Open Market Data Platforms
- Clearing House Data Centers
If time permits, TorreyPoint may describe the inner workings of
Juniper Routers and their JUNOS Operating System, and how this
relates to a low latency environment:
- Routing
- Switching
- Security
- SDK
- One Operating System
- One Release Train
- One Modular Software Architecture
- Space
- Pulse
References & Web Resources:
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TorreyPoint High Frequency Trading Network Latency Sources Chart:
http://torreypoint.com/images/Solutions/tp_si_hf_trading_081711.pdf
TorreyPoint:
http://www.torreypoint.com
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Speaker Biography:
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Jason Tesarz, Senior Director of Engineering, TorreyPoint:
Jason leads the engineering team for TorreyPoint and has a diverse
background working with Service Providers, Enterprises and
Financials. He is a recognized expert in deploying and managing
projects related to low latency networks, especially in a HFT
environment. In addition, Jason has worked with numerous financial
institutions on projects related to audit and regulatory compliance
and has in-depth and intimate knowledge of data center and NAC
deployment.
Jason comes to TorreyPoint after Defigo Systems, a company he
co-founded, was acquired by TorreyPoint in January 2011. Jason's
networking career started while still a high school student, as a
Quality Assurance Engineer at Healtheon. Jason's career continued
to grow and evolve and he has held several networking positions
with various companies including, working as a Quality Assurance
Engineer at Neoteris and as a Sr. Security Consultant for Juniper.
Jason attended State University of New York at Buffalo and has
certifications in JNCIA-AC, JNCIS-FWV, JNCIA-SEC, JNCIS-ER,
and JNCIA-ES.
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Company Biography:
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Torrey Point Group LLC is a thriving Information Systems
Consultancy providing customers with design, implementation and
support for their next generation networks. The company's
"best-in-class" philosophy drives our business direction and
extends across our people, our vendor partners and our processes.
TorreyPoint's innovation in network and security architecture,
deployment and managed services results in secure, scalable and
transparent networks that solve business problems and increase
operational efficiency. Through a legacy of success in Education,
Financial Services, Gaming & Hospitality, Government, Technology,
Service Provider, Transportation and Utilities, we have gained
the critical domain expertise needed to optimize our clients'
network performance.
TorreyPoint has been "Enabling the Innovation Economy" since 2005.
This privately held company is headquartered in Sunnyvale,
California with locations in New York, Boston, Denver, Phoenix,
Philadelphia, Chicago and Dallas.
For information about TorreyPoint, visit:
http://www.torreypoint.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.
We hope to have some Solaris 11 DVD/CD-ROMs from our friends at
the local NYC Oracle/Sun Office.
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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.
! 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
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.
TorreyPoint will be sponsoring the food service for this meeting.
Thanks TorreyPoint!
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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.
'4/5/6/R/N/Q' to Union Square, then walk South and East.
'B/D/F/V' to Broadway-Lafayette, then walk North and East.
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).
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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!
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3. LOCAL TRADE SHOWS AND EVENTS
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a) LOPSA-PICC : The Professional IT Community SysAdmin Conference NJ 2012
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** PICC IS STARTING TODAY! **
Dates: Fri, May 11, 2012
Sat, May 12, 2012
Where: Hyatt Regency Hotel
New Brunswick, NJ
For information and complimentary online registration visit:
http://www.picconf.org
** This is the local System Administration Conference which is
put on by our friends from the local LOPSA NJ Chapter.
Here are the latest announcements regarding PICC:
: Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2012 15:59:13 -0400 (EDT)
: From: Tom Limoncelli
: Subject: Overflow hotel announced! East coast LOPSA-PICC
: Sysadmin Conference, May 11-12, 2012, New Brunswick, NJ
:
: Due to the overwhelming turn-out we have filled the hotel! This is a first!
:
: The committee has arranged an overflow hotel nearby:
: The Heldrich
: 10 Livingston Avenue New Brunswick, NJ 08901
: Reservations: 866.609.4700
: Main: 732.729.4670
:
: We apologize for the inconvenience but the need for an overflow
: hotel is only a reflection of the high quality presentations
: (and food) that is making this event the most talked about,
: community-run, sysadmin conference of 2012!
:
: Register for PICC: http://www.picconf.org/registration/#event
: (NOTE: Tutorial seats are running out! Register NOW!)
:
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: About the conference...
:
: East coast LOPSA-PICC Sysadmin Conference, May 11-12, 2012, New Brunswick, NJ
: "the most talked about, community-run, sysadmin conference of 2012"
:
: Register now and avoid the rush! http://picconf.org Space is limited!
:
: Registration is open for the 2012 LOPSA PICC conference, May 11-12, 2012 at
: the Hyatt Regency hotel in New Brunswick, NJ. Sysadmins and IT workers
: from Maine to Virginia are expected to attend the most talked about,
: community-run, sysadmin conference of 2012! We're excited to announce
: our slate of speakers and world-class tutorials for 2012. Complete
: details at http://picconf.org
:
: Conference summary:
:
: FRIDAY is all about world-class training:
:
: -- Daytime: Long-format tutorials by world-class instructors: PowerShell,
: Puppet, Amazon Web Services, WordPress, DNSSEC, IPv6 and much,
: much more! http://www.picconf.org/picc12-training-classes
: -- DINNER: Dinner and reception for all attendees.
: -- EVENING: OPENING KEYNOTE (Bill Cheswick, "Rethinking Passwords")
: -- Late: "Birds of a Feather" sessions.
:
: SATURDAY adds invited speakers on a wide variety of topics:
:
: -- Tutorials and invite talks such as:
: -- Learn how Google does backups, how Etsy manages DevOps, and how
: Mozilla has radically revamped their software release process.
: -- Windows users will love the talks on MS Small Business Server
: and tutorials on PowerShell (requested back for a 2nd year).
: -- Linux users will love the talks about high performance computing,
: the Ganeti free virtualization project, and advanced
: monitoring techniques.
: -- DevOps will be impressed by speakers from "the big three"
: configuration management vendors: CFEngine, Chef, and Puppet.
: -- Cloud computing training from speakers with "from the trenches" experience.
: (Speaker list: http://www.picconf.org/picc-12-talkspapers )
: -- CLOSING KEYNOTE: Rebecca Mercuri on "The Black Swan and Information Security"
:
: LAST YEAR'S attendees said:
:
: -- "The talks were all technical; no marketing hype, no sales people!"
: -- "Small enough to have a community feeling, big enough to draw big name speakers."
: -- "Next year I'm sending my entire team!"
:
: REGISTER soon. Your boss will approve!
:
: Priced right! Being a non-profit, community-based conference the
: registration fee is what you'd pay just to travel to the big conferences.
: We bring world-class speakers to you; saving you money and travel time.
: Registration packages from $334 to $621 (with extreme discounts for
: students and unemployed). Save up to $125 by registering before Friday,
: March 30, 2012!
:
: For more information and to register visit http://picconf.org
:
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: PICC (The Professional IT Community Conference) (http://picconf.org) is a
: production of The New Jersey chapter (http://lopsanj.org) of the League of
: Professional System Administrators (LOPSA) (http://lopsa.org). This is our
: 3rd annual conference and will be held May 11-12, 2012 at the Hyatt Regency
: hotel in New Brunswick, NJ.
b) Cloud Expo & Big Data Expo NY 2012
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Dates: Mon, Jun 11, 2012
Tue, Jun 12, 2012
Wed, Jun 13, 2012
Thu, Jun 14, 2012
Where: Javits Convention Center, NYC
For information visit:
http://cloudcomputingexpo.com
Note: Register for CloudCamp (below) for complimentary admission!
For information visit:
http://www.CloudComputingExpo.com
c) CloudCamp NYC @ CloudExpo 2012
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Date: Mon, Jun 11, 2012 05:30pm - 09:30pm
Where: Javits Convention Center, NYC
For information and complimentary online registration visit:
http://www.cloudcamp.org
Note from CloudCamp: Free Pass to Cloud Expo: All CloudCamp
attendees will automatically receive a complimentary
VIP Gold pass which is good for access to all sessions,
all tracks, on all days. (Note: VIP Gold passes do not
include Luncheons or CloudExpo's Cloud Computing Bootcamp)
d) High Performance Computing Linux for Wall Street 2012
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Date: Mon, Apr 02, 2012
Where: Roosevelt Hotel, NYC
For information and complimentary online registration visit:
http://www.flaggmgmt.com/linux
e) High Performance Computing for Wall Street 2012
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Date: Wed, Sep 19, 2012
Where: Roosevelt Hotel, NYC
For information and complimentary online registration visit:
http://www.flaggmgmt.com/hpc
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4. UPCOMING MEETINGS
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We have a series of meetings in the works:
- Planning: AMD Processor Roadmap
- Planning: DNS / Dynamic DNS
- Planning: Building a Data Server with Oracle/Sun ZFS
- Planning: Oracle/Sun VirtualBox
- Planning: IPsec and VPNs (possibly 2 meetings)
- Planning: Trading with the FIX Protocol
- Planning: Real-Time Hardware Acceleration: FPGAs, DSPs and GPUs
- Planning: Cloud and Grid Computing
- Planning: Fibrechannel and Infiniband
- Planning: Unix/Linux Authentication
- Planning: NO SPAM!
- Planning: Crypto / PKI / GPG-PGP
- Planning: Anti-Virus
- Planning: The latest on *BSD (FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD)
- Unix/Linux/BSD Clusters and Clustered Databases
- Patching and Updating Unix/Linux/BSD (rpm. yum, yast, etc.)
- Building Custom Kernels Unix/Linux/BSD
- Linux Clustering Part 3: Beowulf
- 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
** 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):
5/17/2012, 6/??/2012, 7/19/2012, 9/20/2012, 11/15/2012, ...
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
