[Vms.sig-hu] OpenVMS Pearl - Tuesday June 2nd - Turin Polytechnique (fwd)

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Dátum: Tue, 1 Jun 2004 10:54:41 -0400
Feladó: Skonetski, Susan <susan.skonetski at hp.com>
Címzett: Skonetski, Susan <susan.skonetski at hp.com>
Tárgy: OpenVMS Pearl - Tuesday June 2nd  - Turin Polytechnique

Dear Folks,

I thought that you might really like the attached.

Warm Regards,
Sue

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From: Belloni, Massimo 
Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2004 12:31 PM
To: Gorham, Mark; Skonetski, Susan
Cc: Mezzano, Vittorio
Subject: Turin Polytechnique curse plan 

Hello,

As promised, here is the plan of the "IT Installation" course which will
start at the Turin Polytechnique (http://www.polito.it/index.en.html) in
the next academic year.

It is divided in two levels of depth (for PhD students and for the
others), and has been sponsored directly by the Polytechnique vice
Chancellor (prof. Marco Mezzalama). The content has been decided by 
the
teacher themselves: we were not involved in that. 

I'm sure you will appreciate it, as well as the Polytechnique appreciate
our help so much to have this structure so HP (and OpenVMS) 
centered. 

These information can be made PUBLIC, and when the offical courses
booklet will be ready, I'll send you copies (sorry, it will be in
Italian only).

Best regards,
Massimo Belloni

HP Services - Data Center Solutions
Technology Consultant - OpenVMS Ambassador - MCSE

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The following is from a word document please let me know if you need it
in word.
Sue
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Politecnico di Torino- IT Installations Course

Main Goals
This module introduces the student to specific problems of IT
Installations, analysis and sizing techniques for server systems under
different types of high workload.
This module will give an introduction to server architectures and
multiprocessor systems. It will focus on  cluster systems and shared
filesystem problems, introducing "Mission Critical" and  "Business
Continuity" concepts. Some issues to be kept in mind when sizing and
managing Data Centers will be analyzed.
Different types of installations will be considered during exercises in
classroom, laboratory and data centers: from number crunching to I/O
intensive with references to real cases.

Program
[26h]	[50h]

Processors for multiprocessing				
	[2]
[2]
  - Alpha processors architecture
  - Opteron and Itanium 

Server Architectures and Multiprocessor Systems		
	[4]
[8]
  - SMP 
  - MPP Hardware: SMP cells Crossbar Switchced and partitioning
  - MPP Software: Grid of  SMP cells and dedicated networks 
  - Memory routing and EV7 toroidal architecture 

Cluster & Shared FileSystem
[4]	[9]
  - Fault tolerance & High Availability
  - High performance
  - Disaster Recovery
  - Cluster Interconnect & Grid (SCSI, Myrinet, Quadrics,
Infiniband,...) 

Operating Systems, NUMA & process scheduling		
	[4]
[8]
  - OpenVMS
  - Tru64
  - Linux
  - A case of study: Galaxy

Storage
[2]	[3]
  - Disks, NAS,SAN

Server Farm
[4]	[10]
  - Data Center Power & Cooling
  - Backup: library, virtual tape, optics, tape
  - Load Balancing
  - Tuning & Monitoring

Sizing rules and cases of study				
	[6]
[10]
  - Web / mail 
  - Database
  - Number crunching
  - Archive and retrieval (PetaBytes)

Laboratory and exercises
The exercises will follow the class topics and will be held in
classroom, laboratory and in external data centers, also with the
cooperation of externals experts.