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UNIGROUP GENERAL MEETING
MEETING INTRODUCTION
Unigroup's May 2018 meeting will be on the new IBM Power 9 CPU and its Systems Architecture, Operating Systems on Power (AIX+Linux), the OpenPOWER initiative, and interesting Cognitive/AI workload use cases.
Unigroup is pleased to welcome back our speaker, Ajit Gangaram from IBM, who had co-presented the IBM Power 8 Architecture to Unigroup back in June 2014.
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DIRECTIONS
Location:
The Cooper Union (http://www.cooper.edu)
School of Engineering (*** New Building ***)
41 Cooper Square (3rd Avenue @ 7th Street, between 6th & 7th Streets)
East Village, Manhattan
New York City, 10003
Meeting Room: ** (See Above, Room May Change 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 7th 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 the Unigroup Meeting Room.
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/N/Q' to Union Square, then walk South and East.
or transfer to the downtown '6' to Astor Place.
'B/D/F/V' to Broadway-Lafayette, then walk North and East.
or transfer to the uptown '6' to Astor Place.
Free street parking in the area becomes available at 6pm.
There are parking lots on Broadway, at (or just South of) 8th
Street, across from the West side of Cooper Square, as well
as various others in the area.
PRESENTATION OUTLINE
Topic: IBM Power9 AIX+Linux+OpenPOWER Update and Trends
Related Topics/Keywords:
IBM Power, CPU Architecture, Memory Architecture, I/O, PCIe Bus, OpenCAPI, OpenPOWER, Low Latency, AIX, Linux, Cloud, Operating Systems, Cognitive Systems, AI.
Introduction & Description of Talk:
2018 will be the year that AI moves from hype to reality. In this session, we explore how the death of Moore's Law and has presented challenges in addressing compute requirements for new and emerging workloads such as machine/deep learning (ML/DL), Open Source Databases, etc. This presentation will be on the Power Processor, System Architecture, Workload Accelerators - PCIe Gen4, OpenCAPI and how IBM is collaborating with the Open source community to bring innovation into systems. From a software perspective this session will cover Cloud enablement on Power, What's new in AIX, Linux on Power, Artificial Intelligence tools and enablement on Power and if time permits we can talk about some interesting use cases that customers are working on.
Presentation Outline:
References & Web Resources:
IBM Power9 Processor
https://www.ibm.com/it-infrastructure/power/power9
IBM Power9 Servers
https://www.ibm.com/us-en/marketplace/small-enterprise-servers
IBM Cloud Private
https://www.ibm.com/us-en/marketplace/ibm-cloud-private
OpenCAPI - Open Coherent Accelerator Processor Interface
https://opencapi.org
OpenPOWER - Power Architecture Opened
https://openpowerfoundation.org
IBM Power CPU Family Meltdown/Spectre Information
https://www.ibm.com/blogs/psirt/potential-impact-processors-power-family/
SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY
Ajit Gangaram is a Technical Specialist for IBM Power Systems. In his role he drives solutions on Power Systems by articulating the value of Power Systems and differentiating it from the competition. Ajit's focus area includes Power Processor and Systems Architecture, IO Accelerators, Unix and Linux Operating Systems. Ajit's expertise is both in AIX for Enterprise solutions and Cognitive Systems which is scale out systems running Linux for new open source workloads - open source databases, Artificial Intelligence - Machine and Deep learning, Analytics solutions with Hortonworks, Spark and Industry solutions. Ajit is a mentor for new hires at IBM and also has run training programs for technical sellers in Solution Selling and Architectural Thinking.
COMPANY BIOGRAPHY
IBM or "Big Blue" is a technology company and has several Business Units... Cognitive and Cloud Solutions, Global Business Services Technology Services, Systems Group and Global Financing. IBM is an "Innovator" with innovations coming from IBM Research and other business units. IBM is know for "Watson" Cognitive Solutions and Cloud and is the leader in this space today.
For further information please visit: http://www.ibm.com
GIVEAWAYS
Addison-Wesley Professional/Prentice Hall PTR/Pearson, 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 publishing 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.
Note: Our book supply is currently running low, and we need to restock.
FEE SCHEDULE
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: $ 20.00
Non-Member Student Single Meeting (with! ID): $ 5.00
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FOOD AND REFRESHMENTS
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 beverages.
** However, due to a continuing situation at our caterer, we are planning to have: pizza (cheese+veggy), soda, water, cookies, and brownies at this meeting.
IBM will be sponsoring the food service for this meeting, Thanks IBM!
Please join us for this meeting, you won't want to miss it!
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