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what="official UNIGROUP announcement"
rsvp="registration requested, see below"
entrance-fee="yes, see http://www.unigroup.org/unigroup-fees.html"
location="The Cooper Union School of Engineering, see below"
info="http://www.unigroup.org"
edits="some paragraphs removed so notice fits in mailboxen">

Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 21:32:10 -0400 (EDT)
From: Unigroup_of_NY <unilist(a)unigroup.org>
Subject: UNIGROUP 17-JUN-2010 (Thu): Intel Server Processor Roadmap

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UNIGROUP OF NEW YORK - UNIX USERS GROUP - JUNE 2010 ANNOUNCEMENTS
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1. UNIGROUP'S JUNE 2010 MEETING NOTICE
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When: THURSDAY, June 17th, 2010 (** Regular 3rd Thursday **)

Where: 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
Meeting Room: LL210_CS (LL=LowerLevel, Note: Room Changes Month-to-Month)
** Please RSVP **

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: Intel Server Processor Roadmap
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Speaker: Charles Milo,
Enterprise Technical Specialist, Enterprise Solution Sales
Intel Corporation <http://www.intel.com>

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INTRODUCTION:
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Perhaps the easiest thing to say about Unigroup's June 2010 General
Meeting is:
Intel is Coming! ... Intel is Coming!

Unigroup's Planned Meeting Calendar:
Thu 15-JUL-2010 (Regular 3rd Thursday meeting)
(No meeting in August)

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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: Intel Server Processor Roadmap

Summary:
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Charles Milo will be providing a technical presentation on Intel's
server roadmap, which includes details on Intel's Xeon 5600 (Westmere)
and Xeon 7500 (Nehalem-EX) server platforms. Charles will focus the
presentation on the impact these server technologies are having with
financial customers.

Detailed Outline:
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Xeon 5600 (Code name Westmere EP)
- Overview of the architecture
- Processor/platform features:
- Hyper-threading
- Turbo Mode
- Memory configurations
- Performance comparisons
- FSI Workloads / Benchmarks
- Virtualization
- Competitive Analysis

Xeon 7500 (Code name Nehalem EX)
- Overview of the architecture
- Processor/platform features:
- Hyper-threading
- Turbo Mode
- In depth memory configurations (Memory Bandwidth)
- Virtualization
- Competitive Analysis


References & Web Resources:
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Intel
http://www.intel.com

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Speaker Biography:
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Charles Milo is an Enterprise Technical Specialist with Intel
Americas. He has been at Intel 12 years and is a member of Intel
Americas Senior Staff. Charles covers many of the large financial
customers in the NYC area. Charles has been responsible for
technical presentations & trainings, benchmarking, performance
tuning and competitive analysis and software products and solutions
that support Intel architectures. Charles has been deeply involved
in understanding customer issues and provides feedback to Intel
architects on the next generation Intel processors. Due to his
outstanding knowledge of Intel systems, he has received three of
the most prestige awards from Intel, Intel's Customer Excellence
and Intel's Achievement Award and Intel's Hall of Fame Award.

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Company Biography:
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Intel Corporation was founded in 1968 and is based in Santa Clara,
California. The company designs, manufactures, and sells
integrated circuits for computing and communications industries
worldwide. Intel is best known for producing the microprocessors
used in notebooks, netbooks, desktops, servers, workstations,
storage products, embedded applications, communications products,
consumer electronics devices, and handhelds. In addition, Intel
offers NAND flash memory products primarily used in portable memory
storage devices, digital camera memory cards, and solid-state
drives; network processors used in networking equipment to manage
and direct data moving across networks and the Internet; software
products, including operating systems, middleware, and tools used
to develop, run, and manage various enterprise, consumer, embedded,
and handheld devices. Intel has been the driving force behind the
global technology revolution for more than 40 years. Today, Intel
is shaping the future with life-enhancing technologies that solve
real-world problems and inspire the next generation of innovators.

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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 have some Solaris Related CD-ROMs from our friends at the
local NYC Sun Microsystems Office.

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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.

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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
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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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):
7/15/2010, 9/??/2010, 11/18/2010, 1/20/2011, ...
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

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Jay Sulzberger <secretary(a)lxny.org>
Corresponding Secretary LXNY
LXNY is New York's Free Computing Organization.
http://www.lxny.org
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