[Gllug] Big Buck Bunny 1080p

[Gary Pownall]

On 12 May 2011, at 09:12, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:

> On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 04:28:14PM +1200, David L Neil wrote:
>> On 05/12/2011 01:33 AM, John Hearns wrote:
>>> On 11 May 2011 11:42, Gary Pownall<gary.pownall at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>> Fpund this gorgeous animation on youtube based on opensource software: Blender, Gimp and Ubuntu.
>>> 
>>> The guy who looks after the Cinepaint fork of Gimp, Robin Rowe, gave a
>>> talk to GLLUG several years ago.
>>> 
>>> (I now feel quite old.)
>> 
>> now don't go letting us grey-beards down like that!
>> 
>> From the takes-one-to-know-one school of thought:
>> What you mean is: it has been so long since you organised a GLLUG talk,  
>> that maybe it's time to jump back in and show the young bucks how it  
>> should be done!?
>> (with style, flair, and panache - whoever they are)
>> 
>> - how Linux is adapting to the multi-core, multi-processor future
>> - tuning Linux so efficiently that it squeaks
>> - when to move from multiple OTS systems to a rack, ... to blades, ...  
>> to a cluster?
>> - aligning database techniques, eg partitioning, sharding (even RDBMS cf  
>> NoSQL) to hardware configuration/technology choices (eg above)
>> - uses for parallel processing even when you're not splitting the atom
>> - gotchas/issues when sharing buses, RAM, HD arrays/SANs, ...
>> - management software for a 'multi' environment
>> - programming languages and tools in a 'multi' environment
>> - what the sci-community can teach business people moving into Business  
>> Analytics and other heavy number-crunching/'big-data' applications
> 
> Come on, you're not being buzzword compliant.  Nothing about "clouds" ...?
> 
Nimbus. . . cirrus. . . cumulus. . .

> Rich.
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