[svlug-announce] SVLUG General Meeting, October 3rd, CPU Memory and Caches

[Mark Weisler]

Join the Silicon Valley Linux Users Group (SVLUG) this coming Wednesday to 
learn about memory and cache management. This should be of particular interest 
to programmers.

The presentation this month has considerable technical depth as you will see 
if you look at the URL below. Thus, we hope to start the meeting (fairly) 
promptly to allow time for this talk and for discussion.

 WHEN:

   Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
   7pm-9pm

MAIN PRESENTATION:
TOPIC:
CPU Memory and Caches

PRESENTED BY:
Ulrich Drepper
  
 TOPIC SUMMARY:
 
One underestimated and misunderstood problem of programming in general, and 
parallel programming in particular, can have a dramatic effect on 
performance: CPU memory and caches. The talk will give an overview over how 
memory actually works, how caches are utilized, the associated costs, and a 
few tips for using memory and caches more efficiently. This presentation 
accompanies the paper currently published by the Linux Weekly News: 
http://lwn.net/Articles/250967/

   ABOUT THE PRESENTER:
Ulrich Drepper is one of the early Linux users. He maintains C libraries for 
the last 12 years. He currently works for Red Hat where he looks after all 
kinds of low-level technology.


 NIFTY OF THE MONTH:
 None this meeting due to the large scope of the presentation.

 LOCATION:

   Symantec  (formerly Veritas Software Corp.)
   VCAFE Facility
   350 Ellis Street  (near E. Middlefield Road)
   Mountain View, CA 94043

   Directions on how to get there are listed at:
   http://www.svlug.org/directions/veritas.php

   We've tried our very best for these directions to be accurate.
   If you have any improvements to make, please let SVLUG's volunteers know!
   webmaster {at} svlug -dot- org


 MEETING REFRESHMENTS:

Robert Half Technology (http://www.roberthalftechnology.com) will be 
graciously providing refreshments for this meeting.


 POST-MEETING GATHERING:

   If you just can't get enough, a smaller group usually goes to a local
   restaurant/diner after the meeting.  We'll announce the restaurant
   selection at the meeting.


 We look forward to seeing you there!
-- 
Mark Weisler 
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our 
people need it sorely on these accounts." ---Mark Twain---
PGP: 0x68E462B6  http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/
tel. (831) 531-2916
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