<div dir="ltr"><div>Thanks, Shankar. I've uploaded your slides to the BLU server, and posted the meeting video. <br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Mar 22, 2024 at 9:34 PM Shankar Viswanathan <<a href="mailto:shankar.viswan@gmail.com">shankar.viswan@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hi Jabr,<br>
<br>
I uploaded the slides from my talk to my Google drive folder:<br>
<a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CI8-Je08D7K5HDSJ7cHd4j_eLvlFUNC7/view?usp=sharing" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CI8-Je08D7K5HDSJ7cHd4j_eLvlFUNC7/view?usp=sharing</a><br>
<br>
Please feel free to share it on the BLU website.<br>
<br>
Hope the talk was useful.<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
Shankar<br>
<br>
On Wed, Mar 13, 2024 at 9:16 PM John Abreau <<a href="mailto:abreauj@gmail.com" target="_blank">abreauj@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
> Ok, thanks, Shankar. I've updated the calendar.<br>
><br>
><br>
> On Wed, Mar 13, 2024 at 7:38 PM Shankar Viswanathan <<a href="mailto:shankar.viswan@gmail.com" target="_blank">shankar.viswan@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> I forgot to confirm this -- I can indeed do the talk next week.<br>
>><br>
>> -Shankar<br>
>><br>
>> On Thu, Nov 2, 2023 at 11:50 PM John Abreau <<a href="mailto:abreauj@gmail.com" target="_blank">abreauj@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> ><br>
>> > Thanks, Shankar. I've added it to the BLU calendar, tagged as UNCONFIRMED.<br>
>> ><br>
>> > <a href="http://blu.org/cgi-bin/calendar/2024-mar" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://blu.org/cgi-bin/calendar/2024-mar</a><br>
>> ><br>
>> > Unconfirmed events show up, marked as unconfirmed, on the side panel of the home page, and are not listed in the calendar index.<br>
>> ><br>
>> > <a href="http://blu.org/cgi-bin/calendar/2024" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://blu.org/cgi-bin/calendar/2024</a><br>
>> ><br>
>> ><br>
>> > On Thu, Nov 2, 2023 at 10:43 PM Shankar Viswanathan <<a href="mailto:shankar.viswan@gmail.com" target="_blank">shankar.viswan@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> >><br>
>> >> Yes, pencil me in for March 20th -- I'll confirm it by early January.<br>
>> >><br>
>> >> -Shankar<br>
>> >><br>
>> >> On Sun, Oct 29, 2023 at 10:23 PM John Abreau <<a href="mailto:abreauj@gmail.com" target="_blank">abreauj@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> >> ><br>
>> >> > Thanks, Shankar. I'll post the slides to the BLU website.<br>
>> >> ><br>
>> >> > Our next available meeting is March 20th. Can I schedule your Proxmox and TrueNAS talk for then?<br>
>> >> ><br>
>> >> ><br>
>> >> > On Sun, Oct 22, 2023 at 10:17 AM Shankar Viswanathan <<a href="mailto:shankar.viswan@gmail.com" target="_blank">shankar.viswan@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> >> >><br>
>> >> >> Hi Jabr,<br>
>> >> >><br>
>> >> >> Attached is the slide deck from my portion of the presentation last<br>
>> >> >> week. You can post it on the BLU site.<br>
>> >> >><br>
>> >> >> I am currently putting together a NAS and homeserver machine at home<br>
>> >> >> to replace my old setup. I am going to use Proxmox and TrueNAS scale<br>
>> >> >> for it -- I am documenting some of my steps along the way, so that I<br>
>> >> >> can use it for a future BLU talk. You can pencil me in for some<br>
>> >> >> meeting next year for which you don't have a speaker lined up already.<br>
>> >> >><br>
>> >> >> Thanks,<br>
>> >> >> Shankar<br>
>> >> >><br>
>> >> >> On Sun, Oct 15, 2023 at 8:27 PM John Abreau <<a href="mailto:abreauj@gmail.com" target="_blank">abreauj@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> >> >> ><br>
>> >> >> > Thanks, Kurt! I've updated the calendar.<br>
>> >> >> ><br>
>> >> >> ><br>
>> >> >> ><br>
>> >> >> ><br>
>> >> >> ><br>
>> >> >> > On Sun, Oct 15, 2023 at 10:15 AM Kurt Keville <<a href="mailto:kurt.keville@gmail.com" target="_blank">kurt.keville@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> >> >> >><br>
>> >> >> >> How does this sound, Jabr (not to be confused with<br>
>> >> >> >> <a href="https://wiki.debian.org/Jabber" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.debian.org/Jabber</a> )<br>
>> >> >> >><br>
>> >> >> >> We have a third presentation from the SCC teams (BU and UCSD), quite<br>
>> >> >> >> ad hoc at this point but they will be ready. They have done this<br>
>> >> >> >> before, most recently at<br>
>> >> >> >> <a href="http://blu.org/meetings/2021/04/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://blu.org/meetings/2021/04/</a><br>
>> >> >> >> <a href="https://www.studentclustercompetition.us" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.studentclustercompetition.us</a><br>
>> >> >> >><br>
>> >> >> >> They will talk about and indeed solicit advice for their ARM / Ubuntu<br>
>> >> >> >> servers to optimize benchmarks, in particular. the HPCchallenge<br>
>> >> >> >> suite... and MLperf...<br>
>> >> >> >> <a href="http://hpcchallenge.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://hpcchallenge.org</a><br>
>> >> >> >> Can anyone get Jon Masters to attend? He might have some ARM advice...<br>
>> >> >> >><br>
>> >> >> >> Your first draft of verbage was pretty good. I would go with something like..<br>
>> >> >> >><br>
>> >> >> >> There are new hardware processes and programming paradigms that<br>
>> >> >> >> promise to dramatically improve process yields and performance. CXL<br>
>> >> >> >> will unlock academic research computing disciplines that currently<br>
>> >> >> >> have no solution path. These include deeply recursive codes and<br>
>> >> >> >> applications that require large memory blocks. Unified Acceleration<br>
>> >> >> >> (UXL), was announced last month at the Linux Foundation Open Source<br>
>> >> >> >> Summit with the goal of delivering a multi-architecture and<br>
>> >> >> >> multi-vendor software ecosystem for all accelerators based on open<br>
>> >> >> >> source standards. And Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express (UCIe) is<br>
>> >> >> >> helping to build an open ecosystem of chiplets for on-package<br>
>> >> >> >> innovations.<br>
>> >> >> >><br>
>> >> >> >><br>
>> >> >> >> On Thu, Oct 12, 2023 at 3:26 AM John Abreau <<a href="mailto:abreauj@gmail.com" target="_blank">abreauj@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> >> >> >> ><br>
>> >> >> >> > Hi, Kurt.<br>
>> >> >> >> ><br>
>> >> >> >> > Any updates on the more precise verbage for the BLU calendar, and the potential third speaker and topic? We're a week away from the meeting.<br>
>> >> >> >> ><br>
>> >> >> >> > Thanks!<br>
>> >> >> >> ><br>
>> >> >> >> ><br>
>> >> >> >> > On Mon, Oct 9, 2023 at 9:50 AM Kurt Keville <<a href="mailto:kurt.keville@gmail.com" target="_blank">kurt.keville@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> >> >> >> >><br>
>> >> >> >> >> I can give you some more precise verbage soon... and updating my slides this week. Also, I may have a third presenter; one of my collaborators. It still won't get us to 2 hours but it will be valuable. Will know that soon.<br>
>> >> >> >> >><br>
>> >> >> >> >> BTW, is the website down? It might just be my connection but I can get to it.<br>
>> >> >> >> >><br>
>> >> >> >> >> On Sun, Oct 8, 2023 at 12:48 AM John Abreau <<a href="mailto:abreauj@gmail.com" target="_blank">abreauj@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> >> >> >> >>><br>
>> >> >> >> >>> How's this for the BLU calendar? Is this accurate?<br>
>> >> >> >> >>><br>
>> >> >> >> >>> "Short Takes: Compute Express Link (CXL) in High Performance Computing; and the 2022 Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express (UCIe) Standard for Chip Design"<br>
>> >> >> >> >>><br>
>> >> >> >> >>> "Kurt discusses Compute Express Link (CXL). CXL promises to unlock academic research computing disciplines that currently have no solution path. These include deeply recursive codes and applications that require large memory blocks."<br>
>> >> >> >> >>><br>
>> >> >> >> >>> "Shankar discusses Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express (UCIe). UCIe is a new open industry standard that establishes a universal interconnect at the package-level for computer chips."<br>
>> >> >> >> >>><br>
>> >> >> >> >>> -----------------------------------------<br>
>> >> >> >> >>><br>
>> >> >> >> >>> The above is somewhat generic. Can Kurt and Shankar provide details that more closely reflect their presentations?<br>
>> >> >> >> >>><br>
>> >> >> >> >>> Thanks!<br>
>> >> >> >> >>><br>
>> >> >> >> >>><br>
>> >> >> >> >>> On Sat, Oct 7, 2023 at 10:43 PM Shankar Viswanathan <<a href="mailto:shankar.viswan@gmail.com" target="_blank">shankar.viswan@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> >> >> >> >>>><br>
>> >> >> >> >>>> TrueNAS is indeed derived from FreeNAS. But now TrueNAS has two separate products:<br>
>> >> >> >> >>>> * TureNAS Core: the original FreeBSD based product<br>
>> >> >> >> >>>> * TrueNAS Scale: New product based on Debian<br>
>> >> >> >> >>>><br>
>> >> >> >> >>>> Both use OpenZFS as the default storage filesystem. TrueNAS Scale is more easily installed on a variety of hardware given its Linux driver support, TrueNAS Core is more restricted to components that have good FreeBSD drivers. Both products are fully open-source and have "enterprise" support available. I am leaning towards using TrueNAS Scale for my NAS -- mostly because I am more familiar with Debian and the fact that I have a few KVM-based VMs that I'd like to move over to this machine. It is possible to do this with the Bhyve hypervisor on FreeBSD but I'd rather take the easier migration path.<br>
>> >> >> >> >>>><br>
>> >> >> >> >>>> -Shankar<br>
>> >> >> >> >>>><br>
>> >> >> >> >>>><br>
>> >> >> >> >>>> On Sat, Oct 7, 2023 at 5:44 PM Brian DeLacey <<a href="mailto:bdelacey@gmail.com" target="_blank">bdelacey@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> >> >> >> >>>>><br>
>> >> >> >> >>>>> Looks like TrueNAS is derived from / renamed FreeNAS - though I get the sense their higher end / enterprise products might be new / different codebases?<br>
>> >> >> >> >>>>><br>
>> >> >> >> >>>>><br>
>> >> >> >> >>>>><br>
>> >> >> >> >>>>> Brian<br>
>> >> >> >> >>>>><br>
>> >> >> >> >>>>><br>
>> >> >> >> >>>>> On Sat, Oct 7, 2023 at 5:25 PM John Abreau <<a href="mailto:abreauj@gmail.com" target="_blank">abreauj@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> >> >> >> >>>>>><br>
>> >> >> >> >>>>>> Is TrueNAS related to FreeNAS, or is it an entirely separate project?<br>
>> >> >> >> >>>>>><br>
>> >> >> >> >>>>>><br>
>> >> >> >> >>>>>> On Sat, Oct 7, 2023 at 10:22 AM Brian DeLacey <<a href="mailto:bdelacey@gmail.com" target="_blank">bdelacey@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> >> >> >> >>>>>>><br>
>> >> >> >> >>>>>>> TrueNAS looks super interesting - <a href="https://www.truenas.com/truenas-core/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.truenas.com/truenas-core/</a> - and I am months behind in coming up with a solution to stow the growing gigabytes (terabytes) of family photos!<br>
>> >> >> >> >>>>>>><br>
>> >> >> >> >>>>>>> <a href="https://www.truenas.com/truenas-core/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.truenas.com/truenas-core/</a><br>
>> >> >> >> >>>>>>><br>
>> >> >> >> >>>>>>> Startling statistics in the nice video the TrueNAS site hosts - something like 90% of all data has been created in the last two years? Wowza!<br>
>> >> >> >> >>>>>>><br>
>> >> >> >> >>>>>>> Brian<br>
>> >> >> >> >>>>>>><br>
>> >> >> >> >>>>>>><br>
>> >> >> >> >>>>>>> On Sat, Oct 7, 2023 at 10:05 AM Shankar Viswanathan <<a href="mailto:shankar.viswan@gmail.com" target="_blank">shankar.viswan@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> >> >> >> >>>>>>>><br>
>> >> >> >> >>>>>>>> Unfortunately I don't have anything concrete at the moment. I am thinking of building a new NAS machine based on TrueNAS Scale - I can perhaps talk about that experience at a future BLU meeting.<br>
>> >> >> >> >>>>>>>><br>
>> >> >> >> >>>>>>>> -Shankar<br>
>> >> >> >> >>>>>>>><br>
>> >> >> >> >>>>>>>><br>
>> >> >> >> >>>>>>>> On 10/6/23 09:03, Kurt Keville wrote:<br>
>> >> >> >> >>>>>>>><br>
>> >> >> >> >>>>>>>> Maybe. Let me look through my recent slides.<br>
>> >> >> >> >>>>>>>><br>
>> >> >> >> >>>>>>>> On Thu, Oct 5, 2023, 9:33 AM Brian DeLacey <<a href="mailto:bdelacey@gmail.com" target="_blank">bdelacey@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> >> >> >> >>>>>>>>><br>
>> >> >> >> >>>>>>>>> I'm hoping Kurt or Shankar is!!!!<br>
>> >> >> >> >>>>>>>>><br>
>> >> >> >> >>>>>>>>> I'm doing stuff (still) with Go / NOSTR but most recently TypeScript - and of all things leveraging a bit of ChatGPT for my own cognitive scaffolding (with all the hazards that presents.)<br>
>> >> >> >> >>>>>>>>><br>
>> >> >> >> >>>>>>>>> When people are ready to talk about AI - please sign me up. Should do a background chat, and a hands-on session. And should tie in Facial recognition please. (Some very good stuff coming out on this now ...)<br>
>> >> >> >> >>>>>>>>><br>
>> >> >> >> >>>>>>>>> Brian<br>
>> >> >> >> >>>>>>>>><br>
>> >> >> >> >>>>>>>>><br>
>> >> >> >> >>>>>>>>> On Wed, Oct 4, 2023 at 5:40 PM John Abreau <<a href="mailto:abreauj@gmail.com" target="_blank">abreauj@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> >> >> >> >>>>>>>>>><br>
>> >> >> >> >>>>>>>>>> Hi, Brian and Kurt.<br>
>> >> >> >> >>>>>>>>>><br>
>> >> >> >> >>>>>>>>>> Are you guys working on anything that you could present at this month's BLU meeting on October 18?<br>
>> >> >> >> >>>>>>>>>><br>
>> >> >> >> >>>>>>>>>> --<br>
>> >> >> >> >>>>>>>>>> John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix<br>
>> >> >> >> >>>>>>>>>> Email: <a href="mailto:abreauj@gmail.com" target="_blank">abreauj@gmail.com</a> / WWW <a href="http://www.abreau.net" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.abreau.net</a> / PGP-Key-ID 0x920063C6<br>
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>> >> >> >> >>>>>>>>>><br>
>> >> >> >> >>>>>>>><br>
>> >> >> >> >>>>>><br>
>> >> >> >> >>>>>><br>
>> >> >> >> >>>>>> --<br>
>> >> >> >> >>>>>> John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix<br>
>> >> >> >> >>>>>> Email: <a href="mailto:abreauj@gmail.com" target="_blank">abreauj@gmail.com</a> / WWW <a href="http://www.abreau.net" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.abreau.net</a> / PGP-Key-ID 0x920063C6<br>
>> >> >> >> >>>>>> PGP-Key-Fingerprint A5AD 6BE1 FEFE 8E4F 5C23 C2D0 E885 E17C 9200 63C6<br>
>> >> >> >> >>>>>><br>
>> >> >> >> >>><br>
>> >> >> >> >>><br>
>> >> >> >> >>> --<br>
>> >> >> >> >>> John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix<br>
>> >> >> >> >>> Email: <a href="mailto:abreauj@gmail.com" target="_blank">abreauj@gmail.com</a> / WWW <a href="http://www.abreau.net" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.abreau.net</a> / PGP-Key-ID 0x920063C6<br>
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>> >> >> >> >>><br>
>> >> >> >> ><br>
>> >> >> >> ><br>
>> >> >> >> > --<br>
>> >> >> >> > John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix<br>
>> >> >> >> > Email: <a href="mailto:abreauj@gmail.com" target="_blank">abreauj@gmail.com</a> / WWW <a href="http://www.abreau.net" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.abreau.net</a> / PGP-Key-ID 0x920063C6<br>
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>> >> >> ><br>
>> >> >> ><br>
>> >> >> ><br>
>> >> >> > --<br>
>> >> >> > John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix<br>
>> >> >> > Email: <a href="mailto:abreauj@gmail.com" target="_blank">abreauj@gmail.com</a> / WWW <a href="http://www.abreau.net" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.abreau.net</a> / PGP-Key-ID 0x920063C6<br>
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>> >> ><br>
>> >> ><br>
>> >> ><br>
>> >> > --<br>
>> >> > John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix<br>
>> >> > Email: <a href="mailto:abreauj@gmail.com" target="_blank">abreauj@gmail.com</a> / WWW <a href="http://www.abreau.net" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.abreau.net</a> / PGP-Key-ID 0x920063C6<br>
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>> ><br>
>> > --<br>
>> > John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix<br>
>> > Email: <a href="mailto:abreauj@gmail.com" target="_blank">abreauj@gmail.com</a> / WWW <a href="http://www.abreau.net" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.abreau.net</a> / PGP-Key-ID 0x920063C6<br>
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> --<br>
> John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix<br>
> Email: <a href="mailto:abreauj@gmail.com" target="_blank">abreauj@gmail.com</a> / WWW <a href="http://www.abreau.net" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.abreau.net</a> / PGP-Key-ID 0x920063C6<br>
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