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  Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2012 09:11:32 -0400 
  To: announce@lists.nycbug.org 
  From: NYC*BUG Announcements  
  Subject: [announce] NYC*BUG this week 
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  * This week's meeting on SMPng 
  
  * Got arms?  FreeBSD and NetBSD on the BeagleBone 
  
  * Holiday Meeting: Be a Grinch.  Gripes and Rants about Technology 
  
  ******* 
  
  October 3 @ 18:45 - Location: Suspenders 
  
  How SMPng Works and Why It Doesn't Work The Way You Think, John Baldwin 
  
  Modern x86 CPUs have hit a wall in frequency scaling and are now 
  expanding sideways by adding more cores. Adding more cores does not 
  magically multiply performance, however. John talks about some of the 
  reasons that it doesn't. 
  
  In 2000, FreeBSD launched a project to multithread its kernel to more 
  fully take advantage of modern SMP machines. This talk will give an 
  overview of that project's history and continuing work on improving 
  scalability. 
  
  About the speaker: 
  John first started using FreeBSD in 1996 and has been an active kernel 
  developer since 2000. He has worked for various companies that use 
  FreeBSD including The Weather Channel and Yahoo!. John lives in New 
  Jersey with his wife and three kids. 
  
  ******* 
  
  We are looking at doing an arm architecture hackfest.  Our preferred 
  hardware is the BeagleBone, although other hardware is certainly 
  welcome.  We're working out details and will have some more information 
  in the near future. 
  
  ******* 
  
  The holidays are usually about giving back, and feeling warm and nice 
  with family and friends.  But then there's the Grinch.  We all have it 
  in us.  Let it out of you.  Give ten minutes to let others know what you 
  "hate" and why.  The cloud?  Some scripting language or another? 
  Specific standards, or the lack of? 
  
  More details coming on this, but give it some thought.  There's at least 
  some things we all have our gripes about, and you'll have the 
  opportunity to voice your opinion, and maybe find a sympathetic audience. 
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 Jay Sulzberger  
 Corresponding Secretary LXNY 
 LXNY is New York's Free Computing Organization. 
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 --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05 
  * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)