[LUAU] Open Source Pizza for Tuesday, June 19th - Jim Thompson, Netgate

[Julian Yap]

HOSEF is proud to present the following public lecture and presentation.
Please join us.

--==[ Linux in 2010 and beyond: The near-future of FOSS ]==--

http://www.hosef.org/civicspace/opensourcepizza/june2007
http://www.cyberpizzahawaii.com

Info: Tue, June 19 @ 5:50-7:30pm - University of Hawaii Manoa Campus:
Marine Science Building Auditorium, Room 114 - $8 if you want pizza
and drink

Speaker: Jim Thompson, CEO, Netgate

The roadmaps for both Intel and AMD show that 16 cores will be the norm
by 2010, pushed mostly by the continued march of Moore's law, and its
rough doubling of transistor count ever 18 months. 

Physics put an end to selling clock speed, while Intel's NetBurst
micro-architecture (found in the Pentium 4) fell flat on its face in
front of the steam-roller powered by AMD. Intel re-tooled and is now
shipping dual-core and quad-core processors. Fry's (in California) has a
2.4GHz quad-core + motherboard on sale for $499. Meanwhile AMD is
shipping its dual core, dual socket designs. 

Intel has shown an 80 core "technology demonstration" that has 20MB of
SRAM for each 3.1GHz core, and a mesh network interconnecting these
cores arranged in an 8 x 10 array. Total throughput is 1 trillion
floating point operations per second (1 Tflop). Intel says it
anticipates shipping a similar part in 2010. 

Are Free and Open Source operating systems up to the task here? Do C, C
++ and Java have a place in this near-future reality? Can commonly-used
"scripting" languages such as Perl, Ruby, PHP and Python 'scale' with
the coming onslaught of multi-core CPUs? 

Join HOSEF and Jim Thompson for a rollicking discussion on these topics
and others, including virtualization, ZFS (and the Linux community's
NIH), the death of Nvidia, the types of computers you'll be able to buy
in 2010 without bruising the budget.

About the speaker:

Jim Thompson was Director of Product Development at Vivato. Prior to
joining Vivato, Jim Thompson founded and served as the chief technology
officer at Musenki, a developer of secure, open-source wireless
networking products targeted at original equipment manufacturers,
wireless Internet service providers, and public access (hot spot)
providers. Prior to that, Mr. Thompson was the chief technology officer
and vice president of engineering at Wayport, where he designed and
built Everywire, a series of products created to bring Internet access
into public spaces. Prior to leaving Wayport, Jim architected and
championed Wayport's move to a 100 percent wireless network. Jim
Thompson was also founder and chief technology officer of Smallworks, an
Internet security technology supplier to Cisco, Sterling Commerce
(acquired by Computer Associates), Quadritek (acquired by Lucent),
Competitive Automation (acquired by @Home), Wells Fargo, Cadence and
Monsanto; Director of Engineering for Tadpole Technology; and Network
Operations Center Manager for Sun Microsystems.