NC*SA meeting TONIGHT -- 6pm, Dreyfus Auditorium, RTP

["Amy K. Kreiling" <kreiling@cs.unc.edu>]

**NOTE:  This meeting is TONIGHT!  My apologies for not getting this out
	 sooner.  Illnesses and technical difficulties were rampant last
	 week.  I hope you'll still be able to attend -- it will be a
	 great program!


The next meeting of the North Carolina System Administrators & Managers 
organization (NC*SA) will be Monday, May 20, at 6pm.  Details 
about the meeting, our technical program and directions to our meeting 
location are provided in this note.  We hope to see you there!!


                             North Carolina 
                  System Administration Interest Group

		   Sun Microsystems New Product Review

                        Monday, May 20, 1996 
			  Dreyfus Auditorium
	 	      Research Triangle Institute
                       Research Triangle Park, NC 
                          

                       5 PM - Steering Committee
                       6 PM - General Session


On April 16th, Sun Microsystems introduced server products based
on many new design innovations and technologies.  As a major
participant in the world-wide UNIX community, Sun servers and
workstations are installed in many of our companies and institutions.
With this in mind, the NCSA Users Group has asked one of our local
Sun Microsystems sales representatives and active NCSA participants,
Eric Melvin, to give a technically-oriented presentation on the
new innovations incorporated into the new Enterprise server and
Ultra 2 workstation products.

Discussed will be system design innovations such as:

- The new Gigaplane(TM) system bus with its wide bus, high frequency,
  and efficient design.

- A balanced I/O architecture.

- Hot-swap system components that enable greater system up-time by
  allowing on-line maintenance, requiring fewer system boots, and
  simplifying service.

- Solstice(TM) SyMON(TM) monitoring tool, which improves system up-time
  by monitoring system status and notifying system administrators and
  service providers of system problems.  SyMON also performs problem
  diagnosis and predicts failures of key components.

Also discussed will be how these system design innovations are incorporated
into the entry-level departmental system Enterprise 3000, the departmental
server Enterprise 4000, and the rack mount data center server Enterprise 5000
and Enterprise 6000.


Our meetings are free and open to anyone with an interest in the topic of
the evening.  We will be providing food and drink for the evening. 
If you have any questions, please contact:

  Amy K. Kreiling          
  Dept. of Comp. Science  
  UNC - Chapel Hill      
  135 Sitterson Hall    
  Chapel Hill, NC  27599  
  (919) 962-1843         
  kreiling@cs.unc.edu   


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Directions to Research Triangle Institute

    From I-40 west of RTP (e.g. Chapel Hill):

	Get onto I-40 heading east.  Follow I-40 to the NC-147 - Durham
	Freeway - North (towards Durham).  Stay in right lane.  Shift
	right as soon as possible after merging with traffic coming off
	I-40 westbound.  Exit to the right at the next exit (Cornwallis
	Road).  At top of exit, turn to the left.  (If you turn right and
	cross over the bridge, you are going the wrong direction.)  After
	turning left onto Cornwallis, shift immediately to the right
	lane.  Take the second right onto East Institute Drive.
	Take the second right off of East Institute Drive.  Dreyfus 
	Laboratory will be the first building on your right.  Use
	the parking lot in front of the Lab and enter at the main
	entrance. 

   From I-40 east of RTP (e.g. Raleigh):

	Get onto I-40 heading west.  Follow I-40 to the NC-147 - Durham
	Freeway - North (towards Durham).  Shift to rightmost lane
	as soon as possible  Exit to the right at the next exit (Cornwallis
	Road).  At top of exit, turn to the left.  (If you turn right and
	cross over the bridge, you are going the wrong direction.)  After
	turning left onto Cornwallis, shift immediately to the right
	lane.  Take the second right onto East Institute Drive.
	Take the second right off of East Institute Drive.  Dreyfus 
	Laboratory will be the first building on your right.  Use
	the parking lot in front of the Lab and enter at the main
	entrance. 

   From north of RTP (e.g. Durham):

	Get onto NC-147 - Durham Freeway - south.  Exit at the Cornwallis
	Road exit.  At the top of the exit, turn left to cross over the
	bridge.   After turning left onto Cornwallis, shift immediately
	to the right lane.  Take the second right onto East Institute Drive.
	Take the second right off of East Institute Drive.  Dreyfus 
	Laboratory will be the first building on your right.  Use
	the parking lot in front of the Lab and enter at the main
	entrance.