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IBM has announced plans to exhibit as a Gold level sponsor at the 2007 SouthernCalifornia Linux Expo. The Southern California Linux Expo, will be held at the LosAngeles Airport Westin Hotel on February 9-11, 2007. This will be IBM's fifth yearthe participating in the conference.
IBM will be be showcasing their IBM Blue Gene supercomputer, the number one systemin the world. Additionally, attendees will be able to see and learn about IBM BladeCenters, Linux on Power pSeries platform, and the most recent addition to IBM's lineup the Cell processors, and System Z mainframes.
IBM and Linux can help your business expand beyond the limitations of proprietaryvendor software and hardware and offer the enterprise computing qualities of UNIXwith cost-effective hardware choices, from x86 servers to 64-bit computing andsupercomputers. There are now more than 12,000 IBM Linux customer engagementsworldwide, allowing customers to reduce their computing costs with solutions rangingfrom webserving, ERP to the world's largest supercomputers. IBM has the largest andmost complete portfolio of Linux hardware, middleware and services solutions. Inaddition, more than 600 developers in the Linux Technology Center have been workingas peers directly and successfully in various open source communities since 1999.They are proud of their many contributions that have helped accelerate Linuxacceptance worldwide.
In addition to their expo floor demonstrations, an IBM representative will beparticipating in the conference call for papers. Vara Prasad, a Reliability,Availability and Serviceability (RAS) Architect at IBM's Linux Technology Center,will present on the topic of performance analysis in Linux. The existing tools inthe Linux operating system have either narrow focusor significant performance overhead in production environments. The session willfocus on SystemTap, a new dynamic performance analysis tool that is available inLinux distributions that can be used to analyze systemic problems all the way fromapplications to the operating system.
About the Southern California Linux Expo:
The Southern California Linux Expo is the premier grass roots Linux and Open SourceSoftware conference in the United States. SCALE 5x their 5th annual event will beheld on February 9-11, 2007 at the Westin Los Angeles Airport Hotel. SCALE includesseminars by well-known speakers, tutorials for beginners, and an exhibit hall withboth vendor booths and non-commercial booths.
Those wishing to attend this year's conference can register via the SCACLE websiteat http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/ order/ . For a free exhibit hall pass use thepromotional code "free" or for a discounted full access conference use thepromotional code "IBM07"The Southern California Linux Expo, is a non-profit organization currentlycomprised, but not limited to, members of the USCLUG, UCLALUG, and SCLUG. For moreinformation see http://www.socallinuxexpo.org
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