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Doors open, welcome and coffee |
09:15 |
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Linux and Parallel Processing: scalable performance for
free.
A few years ago more or less everybody was sure about one thing: parallel processing was the ONLY solution to our more and more demanding computational problems. Today, enthusiasm has been replaced by scepticism, as both the development cost of parallel software and the maintenance cost of a parallel machine has proven to be out of reach for most. Networks of powerful PCs, readily available (and maintained !) in most companies and universities, running public domain parallel operating systems like PVM or MPI, can offer cheap and yet truly scalable performance directly at your desktop. Now if we would just get this software development problem solved... |
09:45 - 10:45 |
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Coffee-break |
10:45 - 11:15 |
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Use a Linux box as gateway to the net.
Providing internet gateway services and mail server functionality to a workgroup of PCs running Windows 95. Doing Network Address Translation for the private LAN TCP/IP addresses, and Dial on demand for connections to the internet service provider. Using IP-Masquerade, ppp, diald, sendmail, pop3. |
11:15 - 12:15 |