SPARC - (S)un (P)rofessionals' (A)ssociation of (R)ichmond (C)omputer users

DATE: Thursday, February 6, 2003

TIME: 4:00pm - 6:00pm

MEETING SPONSOR: Sun Microsystems

February's Topic:  Performance Management & Tuning

While the health care industry has well-established protocols for the triage, diagnosis, and treatment of patient complaints, resolution of system performance complaints often seems to take a path that lacks any recognizable process or discipline.  This presentation draws from the well-known lessons and concepts of health care  delivery to present perspectives for systematically addressing system performance complaints with predictable and accurate results.

Bob Sneed is a member of the Systems Engineering team in Sun's Performance and Availability Engineering (PAE) group.  He stays immersed in system performance and availability topics, especially those involving Oracle, the Solaris I/O stack, and storage technologies.  Prior to joining Sun in 1997, he worked variously as a Sun ISV, a Sun reseller, and a Sun customer.  His early career experiences in realtime industrial controls and software portability engineering helped shape his perspectives on performance and reliability issues.

Sun will be sponsoring the February meeting with refreshments and fun door prizes.

The Sun user community in Richmond is growing, and you are an important part of it! We look forward to your participation in the User's Group and are confident that you will find it technically enriching. Bring an associate. Just RSVP, below.

Location:

GE Financial Assurance, in the PFS Building (6630 West Broad St) on the sixth floor in the Boundaryless Room.

GE Financial Assurance is located on West Broad Street in the Brookfield Office Park. After turning at the light on Broad Street and entering the Brookfield Complex, you should stay in the left lane and turn left at the stop sign. Follow the road around past the Richmond Sheraton to the 6630 building towards the back of the campus. Turn left for Visitor Parking. Additional parking is located on the far side of the building as well. Please enter at the front main entrance.

For directions to 6630 West Broad St. go to the following URL:
http://maps.yahoo.com/py/ddResults.py?Pyt=Tmap&tarname=&tardesc=&tarhash =&taraddr=6630+West+Broad+St&tarcsz=Richmond,+VA+23230-1702&newtcountry=us&newcountry=us&doit=1

RSVP:

Please send an email RSVP at RSVP@RichmondSparc.org. You can also RSVP via the web site. We need to have a list of attendees for the Security Guards at GE Financial Assurance.

SEE YOU THERE!!!

You can also RSVP via the web site.

For additional information about the Richmond SPARC Users Group, please visit http://www.RichmondSparc.org - We hope to see you there!