From lgj at usenix.org Fri Aug 14 00:04:00 2009 From: lgj at usenix.org (Lionel Garth Jones) Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 15:04:00 -0700 Subject: USENIX HotPar '10 Call For Papers Now Available Message-ID: <899924BA-0195-42E6-B59F-28A8A08F9528@usenix.org> The Program Committee for the 2nd USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Parallelism (HotPar '10) invites you to submit position papers. HotPar '10 will bring together researchers and practitioners doing innovative work in the area of parallel computing. HotPar recognizes the broad impact of multicore computing and seeks relevant contributions in all fields, including application design, languages and compilers, systems, and architecture. We request submissions of position papers that propose new directions for research of products in these areas, advocate non-traditional approaches to the problems engendered by parallelism, or potentially generate controversy and discussion. Submissions are due January 24, 2010. More information and submission guidelines are available at http://www.usenix.org/hotpar10/cfpa We look forward to receiving your submissions! Sincerely, Geoff Lowney, Intel David Patterson, University of California, Berkeley HotPar '10 Program Co-Chairs hotpar10chairs at usenix.org From lgj at usenix.org Thu Aug 20 17:55:26 2009 From: lgj at usenix.org (Lionel Garth Jones) Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 08:55:26 -0700 Subject: USENIX SustainIT '10 Call For Papers Now Available Message-ID: <4266379E-3750-4C4F-A637-A59833B7939F@usenix.org> The Program Committee for the the First USENIX Workshop on Sustainable Information Technology (SustainIT '10) invites you to submit your papers. Increasingly, designers of computer systems ranging from small mobile devices to massive datacenters are concerned with sustainable design, including both power and life-cycle costs; these costs should include manufacturing, operation, and disposal of IT systems. We seek papers that evaluate energy-related issues and their aforementioned trade-offs, present novel new ideas, challenge and/or debunk past and present practices, and more. We especially encourage papers that discuss not just energy issues but also how they interact with other dimensions in a sustainable manner. The scope of this workshop is broad, covering research, theory, hardware, software, applications, techniques, etc.--all related to making computing systems greener. Topics of interest related to energy-sustainable computing include but are not limited to: * Energy vs. performance, cost, reliability, usability, security, etc. * Evaluations of long-term total costs of ownership (TCOs, e-waste, growth rates, recycling, etc.) * Total Impact of Ownership (TIO) in the long run (even decades-long) * Workload reduction techniques (e.g., compression, dedup) * Application of virtualization, cloud computing, clustering, and workload management * Hardware-based techniques (e.g., new electronics, clock-gating, disaggregation) * Firmware-based techniques (e.g., APM, ACPI) * Right-sizing techniques (e.g., DVFS, DRPM) * Use of FLASH and other novel storage media * Impact of storage hardware and software stacks * Application-optimization techniques (e.g., compiler-based) * Theory, algorithms, and simulated results * Energy and energy-related metrics (e.g., $$$, Energy-Delay, PUE) * IT services and techniques to manage energy and reduce costs * Sustainability and life-cycle analysis * Practical energy technologies for the developing world * Datacenter techniques (e.g., blade servers, low-power CPUs) * Software-based techniques at all levels, from OS/kernel to applications * Evaluation and modification of business processes to reduce the environmental impact * Economics of energy-efficienct software and hardware design * New datacenter cooling and energy-management issues and designs, including use of renewable energy sources * Thermal and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) models for software and hardware co-design Please submit your work by November 9, 2009. More information and submission guidelines are available at http://www.usenix.org/sustainit10/cfpa SustainIT '10 will take place February 22, 2010, in San Jose, CA. It will be co-located with the 8th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '10), which will take place February 23-26, 2010. We look forward to receiving your submissions! Sincerely, Ethan L. Miller, University of California, Santa Cruz Erez Zadok, Stony Brook University SustainIT '10 Program Co-Chairs sustainit10chairs at usenix.org From jim at well.com Tue Aug 25 19:01:24 2009 From: jim at well.com (jim) Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 10:01:24 -0700 Subject: BayPIGgies meeting Thursday August 27, 2009: Intro to wxPython Message-ID: <1251219684.6819.58.camel@jim-laptop> BayPIGgies meeting Thursday August 27, 2009: Introduction to wxPython NOTE BayPIGgies meets at the Symantec Vcafe, at Symantec's location at 350 Ellis Street in Mountain View. http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&ie=UTF8&fb=1&split=1&gl=us&ei=w6i_Sfr6MZmQsQOzlv0v&hl=en&t=h&msa=0&msid=116202735295394761637.00046550c09ff3d96bff1&ll=37.397693,-122.053707&spn=0.002902,0.004828&z=18 Tonight's talk is * Introduction to wxPython by Tony Cappollini Meetings start with a Newbie Nugget, a short discussion of an essential Python feature, specially for those new to Python. Tonight's Newbie Nugget: List Comprehension LOCATION Symantec Corporation Symantec Vcafe 350 Ellis Street Mountain View, CA 94043 BayPIGgies meeting information is available at http://baypiggies.net/new/plone ------------------------ Agenda ------------------------ ..... 7:30 PM ........................... General hubbub, inventory end-of-meeting announcements, any first-minute announcements. ..... 7:35 PM to 7:35 PM ................ Newbie Nugget: List Comprehension ..... 7:35 PM to 8:55 PM ................ Title: Introduction to wxPython by Tony Cappellini wxPython presents the wxWidgets open source cross-platform GUI library to Python programmers. Tonight's talk presents essential issues of using wxPython. ..... 8:55 PM to 9:20 PM ................ Mapping and Random Access Mapping is a rapid-fire audience announcement of topics the announcers are interested in. Random Access follows immediately to allow follow up individually on the announcements and other topics of interest. From jim at well.com Thu Aug 27 02:35:51 2009 From: jim at well.com (jim) Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:35:51 -0700 Subject: BayPIGgies meeting Thursday August 27, 2009: NEW: Managing Software Developers Message-ID: <1251333351.9073.41.camel@jim-laptop> BayPIGgies meeting Thursday August 27, 2009: Managing Software Developers There's a last minute change in the BayPIGgies meeting: Alex Martelli will present his thoughts on managing a software development team. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Martelli Title: Managing Software Developers by Alex Martelli Managing software development projects can benefit from some approaches that are rather different from most traditional management techniques. Software developers operate with their own particular mindset, culture, and reward system. To motivate and inspire a top programming team, one type of ideal manager is a technical peer who can jump into the code and work hands-on, together with the developers, to solve thorny problems. Such technical involvement can keep a project moving forward and help the manager build credibility and trust within the team. In this talk, Alex Martelli discusses some common management myths, and shares some immediately useful advice for anyone involved in managing software development projects. NOTE BayPIGgies meets at the Symantec Vcafe, at Symantec's location at 350 Ellis Street in Mountain View. http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&ie=UTF8&fb=1&split=1&gl=us&ei=w6i_Sfr6MZmQsQOzlv0v&hl=en&t=h&msa=0&msid=116202735295394761637.00046550c09ff3d96bff1&ll=37.397693,-122.053707&spn=0.002902,0.004828&z=18 BayPIGgies meeting information is available at http://baypiggies.net/new/plone