NYC LOCAL: Wednesday 6 February 2013 NYCBUG: John Baldwin on How SMPng Works and Why It Doesnt Work The Way You Think

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same-day-early="Unigroup has been invited to attend
the Solaris 11 event happening
TOMORROW (Wed) at the Oracle office in NYC (across the street
from the old Sun office), RSVP is required:

> From: Isaac Rozenfeld
> To: New York City OpenSolaris User Group & Unigroup
> Subject: [ug-nycosug] reminder - Fwd: Upcoming Solaris 11 event in NYC

> Date: WED, February 06, 2013
> Time: 8:30am - 4:30pm

> Location: Oracle Office NYC

> Event: Oracle NYC Solaris 11 Workshop - New York

> Registration & Info:
> http://www.oracle.com/webapps/events/ns/EventsDetail.jsp?p_eventId=160122

> re-sending - this is tomorrow! Please RSVP if you plan to attend.
> We have Oracle Solaris 11.1 media kits."

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Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2013 11:59:42 -0500
To: talk <ta...@lists.nycbug.org>, anno...@lists.nycbug.org
From: NYC*BUG Announcements <anno...@lists.nycbug.org>
Subject: [announce] NYC*BUG Upcoming

Wednesday 6 February 2013, 645 PM - Location: Suspenders

How SMPng Works and Why It Doesn't Work The Way You Think, John Baldwin

Modern x86 CPUs have hit a wall in frequency scaling and are now
expanding sideways by adding more cores. Adding more cores does not
magically multiply performance, however. John talks about some of the
reasons that it doesn't.

In 2000, FreeBSD launched a project to multithread its kernel to more
fully take advantage of modern SMP machines. This talk will give an
overview of that project's history and continuing work on improving
scalability.

About the speaker:
John first started using FreeBSD in 1996 and has been an active kernel
developer since 2000. He has worked for various companies that use
FreeBSD including The Weather Channel and Yahoo!. John lives in New
Jersey with his wife and three kids.

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March 6: Brett Wynkoop on Hacking the BeagleBone with FreeBSD

April 3: Brian Callahan on MIPS on OpenBSD
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