Beowulf Users Group meeting is scheduled for January 13, 2004 3 - 5 pm at the Northrop Grumman Information facility in McLean, Virginia.

Sun Microsystems will provide an in-depth presentation regarding their success to date and future strategy to become one of the world leaders in Beowulf systems. The presentation will cover current and planned features of Sun Grid Engine, http://wwws.sun.com/software/gridware/linux/ as well as the new Sun Fire V60x Compute Grid Rack System. Sun has installed a number of Linux Beowulf Clusters on the Top 500 List in 2003 ( see # 63 ) . Sun will tell us how they plan to add many more Clusters to the list in 2004. There will also be a detailed discussion of Sun's AMD Opteron strategy. Harry Foxwell and John Meyer will be the speakers from Sun.

The address is:

Northrop Grumman Information Technology
7575 Colshire Drive, 2nd floor
McLean, VA 22102.

DIRECTIONS:

- I-495 CAPITAL BELTWAY via exit number 46B VA-123/ Dolley Madison Blvd. (toward McLean).
- Turn right onto Colshire Drive
- Northrop Grumman is on the right, the parking deck is located in the rear.

Meeting location is: 2209W/2210W

Please register (at no cost) online at:

http://www.bwbug.org

If you have any questions please contact Michael Fitzmaurice (703 205-3132 or myself at (703) 205-3104.