Jon 'maddog' Hall, talks about performance in GNU/Linux & Project Cauã
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MADDOG ON LINUX
Jon 'maddog' Hall, Executive Director of Linux International and author of various acclaimed Linux books will be sharing his expert knowledge at UKFast Campus on the 4th of March.
Maddog will be covering two main topics over the course of the evening, outlined below.
The first talk will be about Project Cauã, a program to help CS students cope with the financial pressures of university. As many young people and their families struggle to afford the rising costs of university such as tuition fees, living costs, books, transportation etc… students are often forced to work long hours alongside their degree in low paid jobs or even drop out of university all together in favour of paid work. Project Cauã allows students to control their own working hours and create a business that they can ultimately sell when they get out of University.
The other seminar will focus on performance in GNU/Linux and how a lot of the programs were designed and coded for small address spaces, single CPUs, single core CPUs, low or no cache and poorly optimizing compilers. Open source engineering organisation Linaro is sponsoring a contest to re-write some of these programs, with the aim of making them faster. Maddog’s talk will cover the performance issues themselves and give you information on how to get started with your competition entry.
5.45pm – Arrival & Drinks
6.15pm - Project Caua Overview
7.15pm - Break, Drinks & Food
7:45pm - Improving performance of GNU/Linux
8:45pm - Drinks & Networking
Note: The beer and pizza will kindly be provided by our sponsor UKFast. Please confirm attendance via this group so that we can gauge numbers for beer/food.