UK Unix User Group LISA/Winter Conference and Tutorial: High-Availability and Reliability Bournemouth, UK, Wednesday 25th and Thursday 26th February 2004

http://www.ukuug.org/events/winter2004/

The main theme of the conference is High-Availability and Reliability, with topics including large-scale email services, High-Availability Linux, storage replication, MySQL, and choosing reliable hardware. The conference starts in the afternoon of Wednesday, 25 February and will be preceded by a half-day tutorial on High-Availability Linux clusters, and the Heartbeat cluster monitoring software. This is being given by Alan Robertson and Lars Marowsky-Bree, who will both also deliver talks in the main conference.

Lars currently works as technical lead and developer for the SUSE Labs. His main areas of expertise are high-availability and cluster related topics, ranging from storage (multi-pathing, RAID, and replication) over network load balancing to cluster infrastructure service, resource management and administration.

Alan, who is now based at IBM's Linux Technology Center, has been an active developer and project leader for High-Availability Linux for several years. He maintains the Linux-HA project web (www.linux-ha.org), and has been a key developer for the open source Heartbeat program.

The technical talks of the conference run from the Wednesday afternoon and will finish late afternoon on the Thursday. The provisional programme includes:

Matt Asay Open Source Capitalism: Innovation Business Models (Novell) for an Innovative Development Methodology

David Axmark MySQL High-Availability Features (MySQL)

Mark Baker and javaGMA: A lightweight implementation of Matthew Grove the Grid Monitoring Architecture (University of Portsmouth)

Matthew Bloch Getting the best from your server with (Bytemark Hosting) User-Mode Linux

Peter T. Breuer NetRAID (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)

Tim Chown IPv6 Deployment Status (University of Southampton)

Julian Field MailScanner (University of Southampton)

Tony Finch Scaling up Cambridge University's email service (University of Cambridge)

Niall Mansfield Experiences with the Sobig worms and (UIT Cambridge Ltd) how we combatted them (and other Spam)

Lars Marowsky-Bree High-Availability Cluster Design and (SUSE LINUX AG) Set-up

Stephen Mayo Hardware for high-availability (Hewlett-Packard)

Richard J. Moore Preparing Linux for the Enterprise (IBM Linux technology Centre)

Philipp Reisner Storage Replication with DRBD (LINBIT Information Technologies GmbH)

Alan Robertson Heartbeat (IBM Linux Technology Centre)

Steve Whitehouse Cluster filesystems (ChyGwyn Ltd)

The event is open to both members and non-members of the UKUUG. Bookings must be received by 18 February 2004, and a discounted early booking rate is available until 23 January 2004. A limited number of free and subsidised places is available for those who would otherwise be unable to attend.

See http://www.ukuug.org/events/winter2004/ for booking information and full details of the programme including abstracts and speaker biographies.

For further information, contact: Jane Morrison UKUUG Secretariat PO Box 37 Buntingford Herts SG9 9UQ

Tel: 01763 273 475 Fax: 01763 273 255

office@ukuug.org www.ukuug.org

The UKUUG was formed to represent users of UNIX and Open systems in the UK. It uniquely caters for the needs of people in this area and is completely independent of specific hardware and software vendors. Any profits are used to further the activities of the organisation.

Provisional dates for Linux 2004 conference in Leeds: 29th July - 1st August 2004