[UFO Chicago] UniForum Chicago: October General Meeting

[Uniforum Chicago]

UniForum Chicago is proud to announce the topic for the next General
Meeting on October 28, 2008: "Linux on the IBM Mainframe: zLinux" by
IBM. The meeting is free and open to the public and begins promptly at
7:00pm. Come join us in this technical discussion!

[President's Note: UniForum Chicago rarely allows vendors to speak,
but this is a unique product and IBM has promised to not make it a
sales presentation by having solid technical content.  The presenter
is not a salesman.]

Please see below for abstract and more information on location and
about UniForum.


ABSTRACT
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Linux on the IBM Mainframe: zLinux

IBM, SuSE, and Redhat continue to dedicate serious resources to
porting and maintaining Linux on the system Z (Mainframe) platform.
zLinux is NOT a "me too" port of Linux.  It is a complete and fully
functional port of Linux.  A big advantage of Linux on System z comes
from zVM (IBM's virtualization layer) and the mainframe's IO Bandwidth
capabilities.

IBM mainframe sales are on the rise.  This is partially due to zLinux.
 If you use Linux in the Enterprise you would be well advised to keep
appraised of zLinux to know when it might be the right solution for
you.

IBM is coming to Chicago to tell us what work loads run best on zLinux
with good, better and best fit examples and why.

Differences between System Z platform and Intel platform will be
highlighted with special attention paid to instruction set,
architecture, virtualization, and internal bandwidth.

zVM (the original virtual machine) will be compared to VMWare and
other hypervisors.

High level cost comparison using the RACE methodology will be presented.


ABOUT UNIFORUM CHICAGO
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UniForum Chicago is a non-profit organization that holds monthly
educational meetings every fourth Tuesday from 7pm to 9pm. This
provides a local forum in the Chicago area for open systems and UNIX
discussion and allows us to meet with  students and other
professionals in the field.

All meetings are open to members and non-members alike and are held at:

IIT - Rice Campus
Room 103
201 East Loop Road
Wheaton, IL 60187-8489

For more information about UniForum Chicago or for the latest meeting
topic contact info at uniforumchicago.org or visit our website at
http://www.uniforumchicago.org

If you would like to suggest a meeting topic or give a presentation at
one of our monthly meetings, please contact Michael Potter at
president at uniforumchicago.org