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Apologies for the late notice for this presentation (next week!). Also
please note the change in venue.

	UniForum NZ Special Wellington Regional Meeting

When:	Wednesday, 3 December, 5:30-7:30pm

Where:	Level 5, Walsh Wrightson Tower
	94-96 Dixon St, Wellington

Who:	John Mashey
	Silicon Graphics Inc, USA

What:	InfraStress: the other Year 2000 problem?

Dr. John Mashey is a Chief Scientist in Silicon Graphics R&D. He is an
ancient UNIX person, having started work on it at Bell Labs in 1973. He
has worked on and managed projects in both commercial and technical
computing, helped design the MIPS RISC architecture, and has chaired
technical conferences on operating systems and CPU chips. He was one of
the founders of the SPEC benchmarking group, was an ACM National
Lecturer for 4 years, and Guest Editor for IEEE Micro. He has given
more than 500 public talks on software engineering, RISC design,
performance benchmarking, and supercomputing.

Abstract:
Data is growing faster than ever, with a sudden uptick now expected in
disk storage in late 1998.  The combination of Big Data and the Net is
already creating, and will create much more stress on the infrastructure
(i.e., InfraStress) of computing: interconnect bandwidths, I/O systems,
operating systems, disk file systems, backup, networking, where the
infrastructure is unable to change as fast as the subsystems (CPUs,
DRAM, disks). The talk examines various technology trends expected over
the next few years, tries to pinpoint the likely stress periods and
reasons, and looks at some of the potential solutions to the problems,
as well as business oppportunities that result from them.

There's part of this stuff to be found at
http://www.sgi.com/Products/hardware/servers/techtalk.html

Light refreshments will be provided by Silicon Graphics Ltd.

All welcome

For further information, contact Ray Brownrigg (0-4-472-1000)
FAX 0-4-495-5118 or email ray@isor.vuw.ac.nz
or
Dave Demmocks			dave@bolly.auckland.sgi.com
Silicon Graphics Ltd		Phone      (64)(9)302 9450
PO Box 34-627 Birkenhead 	Fax        (64)(9)309 4120
Level 1, 9 City Road		Batphone  (64)(21) 635 555
Auckland New Zealand		MS INZ-3880  VM (970) 3464
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Ray Brownrigg <ray@isor.vuw.ac.nz>	http://www.isor.vuw.ac.nz/~ray