LinuxCon Europe + CloudOpen Europe: Full Schedule

8:00am BST

Continental Breakfast

Monday October 21, 2013 8:00am - 9:30am BST
Foyer

CloudOpen Europe LinuxCon Europe

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Monday October 21, 2013 10:10am - 10:30am BST
Pentland

CloudOpen Europe Keynote LinuxCon Europe

11:30am BST

Open Source's $59B Opportunity - Phil Odence, Black Duck Software

Enterprises benefit from the adoption of open source, but most are reluctant to use projects with no declared license. Recent research has revealed that 40% of OSS projects have no declared license; and of this significant number, 42% actually contain embedded licenses, which can be difficult to find, let alone review, without the proper tools. Imagine the potential value and productivity that could be unleashed if all open source projects were accessible to enterprises – Black Duck has estimated this opportunity at up to $59B. But how do enterprises evaluate projects without easily identifiable licenses? This session will discuss the importance of and methods to discover embedded licenses. Odence will provide market sizing for projects with embedded licenses and discuss the opportunity to capture value from projects which might otherwise be off-limits to enterprises.

Speakers

Phil Odence

VP of Business Development, Black Duck Software

Phil Odence is Vice President of Corporate and Business Development for Black Duck Software, with responsibility for corporate and business development activities and expanding Black Duck's reach, image and product breadth by developing partnerships across Black Duck's ecosystem ecosystem... Read More →

Monday October 21, 2013 11:30am - 12:20pm BST
Lennox 1

Business LinuxCon Europe

11:30am BST

Big Data for Good or Evil -- Lessons from the NSA PRISM Scandal - Jason Bloomberg, ZapThink

Heroic whistleblower or villainous traitor? Regardless of how you feel about Edward Snowden's release of confidential NSA documents, there are several important lessons from the entire NSA PRISM scandal that any organization dealing with Big Data can take to heart. Nobody is upset the NSA has stopped terrorist attacks. What we're all upset about is the fact that they are collecting information on everybody else -- especially non-US citizens. Lesson #1: It’s not just the data you want that are important, you must also worry about the data you don’t want. Other lessons include the increased role of metadata, the role Big Data analytics play in data governance, and dealing with issues over time. Big Data are here to stay, and Big Data sets only going to get more dangerous. We must learn the lessons of NSA PRISM to understand how to deal with Big Data pitfalls before we fall into them.

Speakers

Jason Bloomberg

President, ZapThink

Jason Bloomberg is President of ZapThink, a Dovel Technologies Company. He is a global thought leader in the areas of Cloud Computing, Enterprise Architecture, and Service-Oriented Architecture. He created the Licensed ZapThink Architect (LZA) SOA course and associated credential... Read More →

Monday October 21, 2013 11:30am - 12:20pm BST
Lowtheir

CloudOpen Europe

11:30am BST

(Tutorial) OpenStack Tour de Force - Florian Haas, hastexo

Call us crazy, but here is where we stand up an OpenStack cloud, from scratch, in two hours. First presented at OSCON 2013 and running full throttle through the basics of OpenStack, this fast-paced tutorial will whirl through authentication, image storage, networking, and compute at breakneck speed. Not for the faint at heart. A strong sysadmin or devops background is an excellent asset to bring along to this tutorial, but no prior knowledge of OpenStack is required. (If you do bring it to the table, though, it certainly won’t hurt.) Prior Puppet knowledge is also a plus, as this tutorial will use Puppet for automated deployment and configuration.

Speakers

Florian Haas

City Network

Florian runs the Education team at City Network, and helps people learn to use, understand, and deploy complex technology. He has worked exclusively with open source software since about 2002, and has been heavily involved in OpenStack and Ceph since early 2012, and in Open edX since... Read More →

Monday October 21, 2013 11:30am - 12:20pm BST
Tinto

CloudOpen Europe Operations

11:30am BST

A Detailed Look at the Cairo OpenGL Spans Compositor Performance - Bryce Harrington, Samsung

With Cairo seeing use in Wayland and in various embedded platforms, it's worthwhile to consider Cairo's OpenGL backend for providing hardware-accelerated 2D drawing support. The cairo-gl backend comprises three different compositors: MSAA, traps, and spans. This talk compares the rendering performance of the three compositors and takes a detailed look at specific performance bottlenecks in the spans compositor, how they can be improved, and for what applications one compositor would outperform the others.

Speakers

Bryce Harrington

Senior Open Source Developer, Samsung Research

Bryce is a Senior Open Source Developer at Samsung Research America's Open Source Lab. Prior to Samsung, Harrington was Canonical, Ltd.'s Technical Lead for the Ubuntu X.org team, focused on X.org maintenance for the Ubuntu distribution. He is also one of the founders of the Inkscape... Read More →

Monday October 21, 2013 11:30am - 12:20pm BST
Sidlaw

Developer LinuxCon Europe

11:30am BST

Application-Level Debugging and Profiling: Gaps in the Tool Ecosystem - Rosemary Francis, Ellexus

Introduction to Tizen & Architecture - Yoonsoo Kim, Samsung

Tizen is an open source, standards-based software platform supported by leading mobile operators, device manufacturers, and silicon suppliers. It can be used for multiple computing platforms including smartphones, In-vehicle infotainment (IVI), smart TV, notebooks, tablets, and more. In this session, we will outline the vision and goals of the project, and give pointers to the technical details, architecture and building blocks needed to develop Tizen OS based solutions. We'll also give you an understanding of the native and Web/HTML5 based development environment offered by Tizen.

Speakers

Yoonsoo Kim

Samsung

As a Tizen platform architect, Yoonsoo Kim is actively participating in architecture design, considering desired platform qualities such as security, performance, maintainability, testability, time-to-market, and etc. at Samsung Electronics Mobile R&D Office. He is also reviewing... Read More →

Monday October 21, 2013 11:30am - 12:20pm BST
Lammemuir 2

Tizen Mini-Summit

11:30am BST

(BoFs) New Storage Technologies and Linux: Shingled Drives and Persistent Memory

Linux faces challenges as we look to add support for new, very dense shingled drives and very high speed, low latency persistent memory technologies.

This event will bring together some of the key Linux kernel developers working in this area along with some of the industry people to give us updates on the new technologies and proposed interfaces. This is a discussion forum, not a presentation oriented session.

Attendance is open to anyone who is active in the storage and file systems in Linux.

Schedule:
11:00 - 11:15 - Introduction & Topic Review
11:15 - 12:50 - Persistant Memory Update: Status of Upstream Work on the Multi-Queue Layer, PMFS and PM Block Device12:50 - 14:20 - Lunch
14:20 - 15:10 - SMR Drives
15:20 - 16:10 - Providing GFS2 performance metrics with Performance Co-Pilot (PCP)
16:10 - 16:40 - Break16:40 - 17:30 - Cluster FS / NFS / Samba

Speakers

Red Hat

Ric Wheeler

Monday October 21, 2013 11:30am - 5:30pm BST
Moorfoot

Workshops & MiniSummits

12:30pm BST

The Disruptive Nature of Open Source Cloud - Alan Clark, SUSE

Over the coming year the impact of Cloud will exponentially accelerate. Cloud will prove to be one of the biggest disruptive forces that has hit the computing industry in the past decade. And while open source technologies have been a key enabler for this revolution, established proprietary vendors have keenly capitalized on this disruptive market leaving open source cloud scrambling to capture market share. The Cloud open source projects are now armed with tremendous industry backing, critical mass and huge momentum. With cloud computing having moved beyond compute, integrating technologies in storage, networking, security, management and automation, open source is ready to compete. It is an exciting time to be a part of open source cloud disruptive change. Come find out why.

Speakers

Alan Clark

CTO Office, SUSE

Monday October 21, 2013 12:30pm - 1:20pm BST
Lennox 1

Business LinuxCon Europe

12:30pm BST

Software Defined Networking in CloudStack - Hugo Trippaers, Schuberg Philis

Virtualization and Cloud Orchestration Software solved only part of the cloud puzzle. Where we are now able to effectively orchestrate compute and storage resource, more often than not the network engineer is still trying to keep up with his telnet or ssh based consoles. Software Defined Networking is one of the solutions that will bring the last infrastructure bit, networking, into the cloud era. This talk will start with a short background on software defined networking and than dive into the technical details. It discussed how SDN integration was done in cloudstack and the various implementations that are currently supported by there.

Speakers

Hugo Trippaers

Mission Critical Engineer, Schuberg Philis

The power of open source communities lies in the willingness to share knowledge: when people with different backgrounds work together, the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. As a mission critical engineer I have been working for Schuberg Philis for the past seven years. My... Read More →

Monday October 21, 2013 12:30pm - 1:20pm BST
Lowtheir

CloudOpen Europe Developer

12:30pm BST

TripleO: OpenStack on OpenStack - Monty Taylor, HP

Typical cloud deployments - be it Openstack, Eucalyptus etc - have a separate control layer installed and upgraded using separate tools (which might be hand-configured PXE + preseeding, Cobbler, Orchestra/MAAS, FAI etc). As a result you have two distinct provisioning systems in play, which allows for more user error and increased special cases in automation. Using Openstack’s bare-metal hypervisor, my team are building a fully self contained cloud, where the control layer for the cloud is itself deployed and upgraded via the same cloud API. Audiences should be anyone looking to deploy complex cloud applications, or anyone looking to deploy OpenStack. They should expect to leave the talk with all of their notions about large-scale application deployment stood soundly on their head.

Speakers

Monty Taylor

Red Hat

Monday October 21, 2013 12:30pm - 1:20pm BST
Monteith

CloudOpen Europe Operations

12:30pm BST

A Deep Look Into WebEngines: From the GET Request Up to the Screen Pixel - Adenilson Cavalcanti, Samsung Research America

Web Browsers are quickly becoming the most frequently used individual application in any modern desktop, following the same trend in mobile devices. They are growing in capabilities and performance, enabling an era of new webapps ranging from email to vehicle navigation and games. Current browsers are powerful enough to run even the Linux kernel in a Javascript PC emulator. Browsers are enabled by web engines, but have you ever questioned how they work? The objective of this talk is to present how a modern web engine works, following the several steps from the first user input to access a webpage up to the moment where content is rendered in the screen. Topics like multiprocess browser architecture, process sandboxing, content parsing and rendering will be covered. The web engine used for the discussion will be WebKit, with some examples drawn from Blink and Gecko.

Speakers

Adenilson Cavalcanti

Staff Engineer, ARM

Adenilson has a wide variety of experience with different programming languages and operating systems. He has special interests in Web Engines, *nix and embedded and mobile devices, where he is always looking for new ideas and opportunities to use FOSS in new and innovative ways... Read More →

Monday October 21, 2013 12:30pm - 1:20pm BST
Pentland

Developer LinuxCon Europe

12:30pm BST

Architectural Changes in NetworkManager - Pavel Šimerda, Red Hat Czech

Tizen 3.0 Open Governance - Thiago Macieira, Intel & Guy Martin, Samsung

"Tizen is an open source, standards-based software platform" says tizen.org, but there haven't been a lot of details up until recently. It's time now, with the Tizen 3.0 development starting, for the project to welcoming developers, artists, translators and other types of contributors to participate and improve Tizen, through a process modelled on existing Open Source projects and taking into account the needs of the companies making a business around it.

This session is meant to present and explain the Tizen development and governance model, starting with how an individual contributor can interact with existing developers, through the patch submission process all the way to how the Technical Steering Group and its working groups affect the project. It will also try to explain why this model was chosen and how it is helps the project achieve its goals. This session will be of interest to existing contributors as well as those who are thinking of starting to contribute to the Tizen project.ti

Speakers

Thiago Macieira

Engineer, Open Source Technology Center, Intel

Thiago Macieira holds a double degree in Engineering and an MBA. He has been involved in several Open Source projects for over 15 years and is an experienced C++ developer, having spent the better part of the last 10 years developing Qt and Qt-based software. He has been involved... Read More →

Guy Martin

Senior Open Source Strategist, Samsung Open Source Group

Guy is the Senior Open Source Strategist at Samsung.

Monday October 21, 2013 12:30pm - 1:20pm BST
Lammemuir 2

Tizen Mini-Summit

1:20pm BST

Lunch

Monday October 21, 2013 1:20pm - 2:50pm BST
On Your Own

CloudOpen Europe LinuxCon Europe Lunch

2:50pm BST

The Role of Legal Counsels in Focusing Open Source Compliance on Scaling and Execution - Ibrahim Haddad, Samsung Research America

Recent Advances in Linux Tracing - Elena Zannoni, Oracle

The many tracing tools available on Linux today provide a wide array of choices for the users. Deciding which of them to use to diagnose system problems on production systems can prove challenging. Various tools have various states of integration within the Linux kernel, and also within different Linux distributions. Bleeding edge features are often just being merged into the upstream Linux kernel. It takes often a long time for such features to be incorporated in commercial distributions. The required set up for the tools and their level of usability also vary significantly. This talk will cover the more popular and actively developed tracing areas focusing on their latest updates and will describe the infrastructure they rely on. An overview of the tracing tools (ftrace, perf, systemtap, DTrace for Linux, etc) will be included with some examples of usage of each.

Speakers

Elena Zannoni

Director of the Linux Tools and Languages Team, Oracle Corporation

Elena Zannoni is the manager for the Linux Toolchain and Tracing team at Oracle. The team covers the GNU toolchain and DTrace for Linux, among other things. Elena was one of the original GDB global maintainers and has spoken worldwide on topics related to tracing at many conferences... Read More →

Monday October 21, 2013 2:50pm - 3:40pm BST
Fintry

Developer LinuxCon Europe

2:50pm BST

(Tutorial) Gitify Your Life - Richard Hartmann, Globalways AG

While git was written to manage source code, it can do a lot more! From tracking personal notes to managing your website, wiki, and blog over tracking system and personal configuration files to managing videos, photos and other large files and making system backups, a lot of tools have been grown around the git ecosystem to help you manage your digital life. What we will talk about: etckeeper, git-annex, ikiwiki, mr, vcsh, zsh (vcs_info). What we will do: Everything I do will be presented via video projector. You are encouraged to take notes and follow along, but there will be scripts and snippets to start from and work with. What to bring/prepare: Laptop with Linux and Git installed, pre-installed, up to date versions of the tools mentioned, optionally USB drive or thumb drive, note-pad, pen, paper, etc, shell access to a unix server.

Speakers

Richard Hartmann

Project and Backbone Manager, Globalways AG

Richard is a project and backbone manager at Globalways AG, a German ISP & carrier. He is freenode and OFTC staff, a Debian Maintainer, on the Debian Trademark Team and currently in the process of becoming a full Debian Developer. He is the main developer of vcsh. His interests range... Read More →

Monday October 21, 2013 2:50pm - 3:40pm BST
Lammemuir 1

LinuxCon Europe Wildcard

2:50pm BST

Tizen Security - Ryan Ware, Intel

Speakers

Ryan Ware

Director & Security Researcher, Intel Corporation

Ryan Ware has worked at Intel for 20 years. During that time he has been in many different Intel organizations but always focused on product security related to Linux/*NIX systems. He has been in Intel's Open Source Technology Center for the past 7 years where he has been the lead... Read More →

Monday October 21, 2013 2:50pm - 3:40pm BST
Lammemuir 2

Tizen Mini-Summit

2:50pm BST

(Tutorial) Build a Global Big Data Application: Automate Cassandra Using Brooklyn - Aled Sage, Cloudsoft & Alex Heneveld, Cloudsoft

We show the creation and management of a Cassandra cluster, running across multiple availability zones and clouds. Best practices for application deployment in the cloud can be complex. Users want to use different cloud providers and APIs, and to run applications wide-area which is traditionally a headache. Users need automation, cloud-agnostic tools and a DevOps mindset. This tutorial addresses those challenges and gives a practical example of an application that demonstrates these principles. Fully automated one-touch deployment and ongoing policy-based management is provided by the open source Brooklyn project (brooklyn.io). Further examples using CouchDB and different cloud providers, while still maintaining the same management and control, show how this can be applied to a range of application architectures.

Speakers

Alex Heneveld

Co-founder & CTO, Cloudsoft

Alex Heneveld is one of the creators of Apache Brooklyn, and CTO and co-founder at Cloudsoft Corporation where he works with companies large and small to build their application management strategy. With the surprisingly controversial view that applications are more important than... Read More →

Aled Sage

VP Engineering, Cloudsoft

Aled Sage has over a decade’s experience developing distributed applications, mostly in the enterprise sector. Prior to his current role as VP Engineering at Cloudsoft, Aled was Chief Architect at Enigmatec Corporation. Aled is co-founder of Project Brooklyn - the Apache licensed... Read More →

Monday October 21, 2013 2:50pm - 4:40pm BST
Tinto

CloudOpen Europe

3:35pm BST

Tizen Dev Lab: Tizen Native API Development - Kamil Grondys

Speakers

Kamil Grondys

Monday October 21, 2013 3:35pm - 4:05pm BST
Lammemuir 2

Tizen Mini-Summit

3:50pm BST

Jenkins Case Study: A Comparison of Open Source and Commercial Static Analysis Solutions – A Case of Apples and Oranges - Zack Samocha, Coverity

There are numerous free open source static analysis tools on the market but what can they find that commercial static analysis solutions don’t – and vice versa? This session will examine the defects found in Jenkins using popular open source solutions like FindBugs and those found with commercial solutions. We’ll explore specific types of defects found by open source and commercial solutions and the areas of overlap. We’ll also explore the most common defects we’ve seen in open source code through our Coverity SCAN project which has analyzed hundreds of open source projects such as such as Linux, PHP, and Postgresql. In 2012 alone over 20,000 dangerous defects were fixed through the SCAN program. The session will explore how the combination of open source and commercial static analysis solutions can help you lower your risk of software failure.

Speakers

Zack Samocha

Senior Director of Products, Coverity

Zack Samocha is the Senior Director of Products at Coverity. In his current role he defines the company product strategy and manages the Coverity open source Scan program which has grown under his leadership to 500 projects and 1,000 active users. Zack initiated research comparing... Read More →

Monday October 21, 2013 3:50pm - 4:40pm BST
Lennox 1

Business LinuxCon Europe

3:50pm BST

OpenStack Development: The Infrastructure Behind the Infrastructure - James E. Blair, OpenStack Foundation

Have you ever wondered how hundreds of developers from different companies around the world can product quality software, with new features, on time? OpenStack is not only the fastest-growing open-source cloud project but is also a large-scale, complex system with a rapidly expanding code base and more than 1,000 contributors to date. Handling the quantity and pace of contributions is a huge challenge on its own. In this session, developers and project managers will look behind the scenes at the unique tools and processes the OpenStack Project Infrastructure team has developed to handle up to 200 contribution activities an hour.

Speakers

James E. Blair

IBM

Monday October 21, 2013 3:50pm - 4:40pm BST
Monteith

CloudOpen Europe Developer

3:50pm BST

MySQL in the Cloud, Colin Charles - Monty Program Ab

Today you can use MySQL in several clouds in what is considered using it as a service, a database as a service (DBaaS). Learn the differences, the access methods, and the level of control you have for the various cloud offerings: Amazon RDS, Google Cloud SQL, HPCloud DBaaS, Rackspace Openstack DBaaS. The audience level is intermediate users of people that want to use the database in the cloud. Expect to learn about the administration tools and ideologies behind DBaaS and the "locked-down" environment. Some considerations include: different backup strategies, planning for multiple data centres for availability, where do you host your application, how do you get the most performance out of the solution and most importantly What does this all cost?

Speakers

Colin Charles

Consultant, codership (galera cluster)

Colin Charles is a Consultant at Codership, the makers of Galera Cluster. Previously, Colin was on the founding team of MariaDB Server, and has been around the MySQL ecosystem including being an early employee at MySQL, and worked actively on the Fedora and OpenOffice.org projects... Read More →

Monday October 21, 2013 3:50pm - 4:40pm BST
Lowtheir

CloudOpen Europe Operations

3:50pm BST

Grand Unification of ACPI-Based Device Hot-Plug - Rafael J. Wysocki, Intel Corp.

One of the important features of ACPI is the ability to handle platform-specific out-of-band signaling of device hot-plug events, which in principle is possible for any device represented in the ACPI namespace. Moreover, dependencies between devices can be taken into account and platform-specific methods of device ejection may be provided. The Linux kernel has supported that interface for a long time, but in a limited way. In particular, it did not allow hot removal to fail gracefully and it did not really support hot-plug operations involving multiple devices of different types. Currently, an effort is under way to integrate ACPI-based device hot-plug support in the kernel into a consistent framework capable of handling all of the possible hot-plug scenarios. I will discuss the problems that had to be overcome, the progress already made and future development plans in that area.

Speakers

Rafael J. Wysocki

Software Engineer, Intel OTC

Rafael maintains the Linux kernel's core ACPI and power management code, including the core infrastructure for IO device PM, CPU PM and system suspend/hibernation. He works at Intel Open Source Technology Center as a Software Engineer focusing on the mainline Linux kernel. Rafael... Read More →

Monday October 21, 2013 3:50pm - 4:40pm BST
Pentland

Developer LinuxCon Europe

3:50pm BST

New Technology:HTML5 - Hisashi Hashimoto, Hitachi

New Technology:HTML5 is going to be used widely because of its powerful specification. A lot of browers are now supporting HTML5. It is a new technology, so that currently only few engineers can use this technology. Needs of such skillfull engineers are urgent and necessary from the point of Industry, such as automotive and others. We started the development of the certification program of HTML5 skill set. The purpose of this program is to encourge engineers to learn and and improve thier skill set, and increase number of skillfull engineers. In this presentation, I will provide why we started this program, how we develop, and timeframe.

Speakers

Hisashi Hashimoto

Senior Engineer, Hitachi

Hisashi Hashimoto has been working on the development and management of commercial operating systems based on UNIX since he joined Hitachi. His responsibilities encompass both workstations and mainframes. He also has extensive experience managing collaborative development with other... Read More →

Monday October 21, 2013 3:50pm - 4:40pm BST
Fintry

Developer LinuxCon Europe

3:50pm BST

Using Linux to Support a Specialized Supercomputer - Lev Iserovich, D.E. Shaw Research

D. E. Shaw Research has designed and built Anton, a specialized supercomputer that executes molecular dynamics simulations orders of magnitude faster than was previously possible. Although Anton’s specialized chips do not themselves run an operating system, attached PowerPC processors and an external x86 server run Linux, enabling functions such as data transfer, job management, compilation, and scheduling. This talk will describe some of the challenges faced when constructing systems software for a specialized supercomputer. It will include a discussion of how to write Linux drivers that access custom hardware, how to run and manage hundreds of Linux nodes as one logical entity, and how to maximize data throughput for such a system. The talk will also cover the development of tools for custom hardware bring-up and some of the lessons learned in the bring-up process.

Speakers

Lev Iserovich

Research Engineer, D. E. Shaw Research

Lev Iserovich develops systems software for the Anton series of specialized supercomputers at D. E. Shaw Research. Previously, he has worked on embedded systems software for telecommunications equipment at Ciena, Linux kernel optimization for video streaming at Ciprico Systems, and... Read More →

Monday October 21, 2013 3:50pm - 4:40pm BST
Sidlaw

Developer LinuxCon Europe

3:50pm BST

Tizen Dev Lab: Introduction to Tizen and Resources - Julio Staude, Intel

A quick overview of Tizen and Resources.

Speakers

Julio Staude

Tizen Community Manager - Spanish Communities, Intel

Monday October 21, 2013 3:50pm - 4:40pm BST
Lammemuir 2

Tizen Mini-Summit

4:05pm BST

Tizen Dev Lab: Tizen Design Principles - Julio Staude, Intel

A presentation on Tizen UI Elements.

Speakers

Lessons from Contributing to WebKit and Blink - Bruno de Oliveira Abinader, Samsung Electronics

Being one of the most successful open source projects to date, WebKit development process consists of a series of protocols and strict policies in order to obtain committer and reviewer status. Blink follows a similar approach with committers and scoped code owners, in a similar fashion as Linux Kernel does with its subsystem maintainers. Their open source success is due to not only solid support from major technology companies, but also to the high quality and automated testing performed on patches before submission. In this presentation, Bruno explains how the development process of both WebKit and Blink projects are - from submitting well-tested patches with strict policies to check, get review from community, and commit upstream via commit-queue system (including early warning system bots). This is a very practical talk with live demonstrations of patch submissions on both projects.

Speakers

Bruno de Oliveira Abinader

Senior Web R&D Engineer, Samsung Research America

Bruno is an open source enthusiast since 2005. Has experience with languages like C, C++ and Rust, among others. Has contributed to Maemo/MeeGo platforms and developed using UI toolkits like Qt and EFL. Passionate by new and creative technologies, specially when they are fit in the... Read More →

Monday October 21, 2013 4:50pm - 5:40pm BST
Fintry

Developer LinuxCon Europe

4:50pm BST

Thinking Beyond RDBMS : Building Polyglot Persistence Java Applications - Shekhar Gulati, Red Hat

Time has come to start thinking about multiple data storage solutions while building applications. A single application can use multiple data storage technologies depending on its use case -- right tool for right job. The session will start by introducing polyglot persistence to the audience. Next we will cover the pros and cons of Polyglot persistence. Then we will see how to build location aware Job search application using MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Redis, and Solr. The different data storage solutions are used to persist different types of data like MongoDB to store Job data along with its location, PostgreSQL to store User data, Redis as a cache for User objects and other goodies, and Solr as a full text search engine. Finally, the application will be deployed to OpenShift -- open source Platform as a Service.

Speakers

Shekhar Gulati

Principal OpenShift Developer Evangelist, Red Hat

Shekhar Gulati is Principal OpenShift Developer Evangelist working with Red Hat. He has 8 years of software web development experience. He regularly speaks at various conference and user groups around the world. Shekhar is an active writer and has written many technical articles for... Read More →

Monday October 21, 2013 4:50pm - 5:40pm BST
Pentland

Developer LinuxCon Europe

4:50pm BST

Lockdown: Serfs or Citizens in a Connected World? - Karsten Gerloff, Free Software Foundation Europe

We conduct an ever greater part of our lives through computers in their various shapes. We work on Free Software not only because it's great technology. It's much more than that: A community, and a tool to empower each one of us. Yet power flows both ways, and computers also empower governments and corporations, whose interests may not be aligned with our own. Where does that leave us? What opportunities do the machines in our lives create, and how do their limitations shape the future? In this session, we will discuss the complex links between technology and political power. Are we merely serfs of one digital overlord or another? Or are we citizens of a connected world? What rules will we create for our shared future?

Speakers

Karsten Gerloff

President, Free Software Foundation Europe

Karsten Gerloff is the President of the Free Software Foundation Europe. FSFE's mission as an independent not-for-profit organisation is to promote freedom in the information society through Free Software. Karsten works together with developers, activists, business leaders and high-level... Read More →

Monday October 21, 2013 4:50pm - 5:40pm BST
Lammemuir 1

LinuxCon Europe Wildcard

4:50pm BST

Tizen Dev Lab: Tizen Live Demo - Julio Staude, Intel

A Small Live demo so you can see the SDK in action!

Speakers

Julio Staude

Tizen Community Manager - Spanish Communities, Intel

Monday October 21, 2013 4:50pm - 5:40pm BST
Lammemuir 2

Tizen Mini-Summit

5:50pm BST

Attendee On-Site Reception & Booth Crawl - sponsored by Collabora

Monday October 21, 2013 5:50pm - 7:30pm BST
Strathblane Hall

Evening Event

5:50pm BST

(BoFs) SPDX - Phil Odence, Black Duck Software (Moderator)

SPDX(R) or Software Package Data Exchange(R) is Linux Foundation project and work group around an emerging industry standard for exchanging bill of materials, license and copyright information between partners in a supply chain. The effort is part of the foundation's Open Compliance Program and the goal is to achieve better compliance with minimized cost across the supply chain. A number of European companies are monitoring the effort, some of been more involved, and a few have started to work with SPDX. This roundtable discussion is aimed at providing information to anyone interested about the standard, the status and how to get involved at whatever level.

Speakers

Phil Odence

VP of Business Development, Black Duck Software

Monday October 21, 2013 5:50pm - 7:30pm BST
Tinto

LinuxCon Europe BoFs

8:00am BST

Continental Breakfast

Tuesday October 22, 2013 8:00am - 9:30am BST
Foyer

CloudOpen Europe LinuxCon Europe

8:30am BST

Registration

Tuesday October 22, 2013 8:30am - 6:00pm BST
Foyer

CloudOpen Europe LinuxCon Europe Registration

9:30am BST

Keynote: Gain the Competitive Edge with Next Generation Cloud Platforms - Mac Devine, Director of CloudFirst Innovation and CTO, IBM Cloud Services

The next generation of enterprise-class cloud platforms are inspiring confidence through innovative application development models, open infrastructures, DevOps, and attractive deployment options. However, platforms are also needed that provide extreme data security, facilitate collaboration across the ecosystem, and real time multi point data access. Audience will hear about how the next generation of cloud platforms can be a catalyst for service model transformation and business innovation.

Speakers

Mac Devine

Director of CloudFirst Innovation and CTO, IBM Cloud Services

Mac has 24 years of experience with networking and virtualization.Mac started and served as the Chief Architect of the zCloud Innovation team, became the WebSphere CTO for Cloud Computing, and then CTO for Cloud Partnerships and Client Innovations within IBM Corporate Strategy. Mac's... Read More →

Tuesday October 22, 2013 9:30am - 9:50am BST
Pentland

CloudOpen Europe Keynote LinuxCon Europe

9:50am BST

Keynote Panel: Next Generation Cloud Platforms - Moderated By Duncan Johnston-Watt, Founder & Chief Executive Officer, CloudSoft

Picking up where Mac Devine's keynote leaves off this panel will drill down on the key requirements of next generation cloud platforms and how these are already starting to radically alter our view of the cloud computing landscape.

Moderators

Duncan Johnson-Watt

CEO, BTP

Duncan is a regular keynote speaker, serial entrepreneur and technology pioneer with over 30 years experience in the software industry. His latest venture is BTP a leading digital provenance company and active member of the Hyperledger Foundation, CNCF, LF Energy and FINOS. Prior... Read More →

Speakers

Steve Chambers

CTO, Canopy Cloud

Steve joined Canopy in 2012 and is responsible for Canopy Cloud architecture, development and industry thought leadership. Steve aspires to help governments and organisations on their journey to the cloud, moving legacy IT out of their way of progress.Prior to Canopy Cloud, after... Read More →

Mac Devine

Director of CloudFirst Innovation and CTO, IBM Cloud Services

Rich Miller

Rich Miller is President of Telematica, Inc., a holding company and consultancy with a practice in product strategy and business development for cloud computing and networked technologies.Rich most recently served as CEO of Replicate Technologies, Inc., a provider of configuration... Read More →

Tuesday October 22, 2013 9:50am - 10:20am BST
Pentland

CloudOpen Europe Keynote LinuxCon Europe

10:20am BST

Keynote: Fueling Samsung R&D Innovation with Collaborative Open Source Development - Yannick Pellet, Vice President - Advanced Software Platform, Samsung Research America

The mission of Samsung’s Advanced Software Platform Lab’s in Silicon Valley is to create differentiating software that will drive the evolution of future platforms. As such it stands at the cross-road of open source, industry and academic research, and symbolizes Samsung’s new and open way to engage in research activities.

How does one find the sweet spot across industry, open source and academic R&D? What are the challenges? What are the benefits for the community? Where does the opportunity lie and how to materialize it?

In this talk, Yannick Pellet (VP, Advanced Software Platform Lab) will provide a discussion on the concrete steps that were taken into this direction with few examples of how this collaboration model is working out.

Speakers

Yannick Pellet

Vice President, Samsung

Yannick Pellet is the Vice President of the Advanced Software Platform group at Samsung Research America (Silicon Valley). Prior to Samsung, Yannick worked for Hewlett-Packard where he headed the software development function and developer relations for webOS and later on the OpenWebOS... Read More →

Tuesday October 22, 2013 10:20am - 10:40am BST
Pentland

CloudOpen Europe Keynote LinuxCon Europe

Joe Gordon is an SRE at Pinterest, where he works on search and performance.. Before that He spent the last 4 years working full time on the open source project, OpenStack. Where he focused on improving quality. He has spoken at, and co-chaired at OpenStack summits. And has given... Read More →

Tuesday October 22, 2013 11:10am - 12:00pm BST
Lowtheir

CloudOpen Europe Developer

11:10am BST

Bluetooth Smart Devices and Low Energy Support on Linux - João Paulo Rechi Vita, INdT

This presentation will cover a brief introduction on how the Bluetooth Low Energy technology works. Then it will present the current status of its support on Linux, including the profiles we're currently working on what can be expected to be finished on the near future. The currently available APIs and how to interact with Bluetooth Smart devices will be shown and there will be a few demos of Bluetooth Smart devices working with Linux.

Speakers

Tjaldur Software Governance Solutions

Tuesday October 22, 2013 11:10am - 12:00pm BST
Lammemuir 1

LinuxCon Europe Wildcard

11:10am BST

KVM provides a superior foundation for huge multi-tenant, cloud data centers. After giving an overview of why KVM, this session will draw from diverse live production examples to break down how KVM integrates with different tools and technologies to provide automated, cloud data centers. Along the way we will discuss learning experiences, problems overcome, and the outlook to the near future. We will discuss specific tools that are being used by customers with KVM today for cloud computing including oVirt, OpenStack, IBM products and more.

Speakers

Tony Gargya

Systems Management Architect, IBM

I am a systems management architect with a focus on systems management and virtualization in the IBM Systems and Technology Group. My focus is primarily on open source based projects and their integration with commercial products. I work closely with numerous clients to help them... Read More →

Tuesday October 22, 2013 12:10pm - 1:00pm BST
Lowtheir

CloudOpen Europe Operations

12:10pm BST

Securing Your Xen-Based Cloud - George Dunlap, Citrix

Xen is a mature enterprise-grade virtual machine with many advanced security features which are unique to Xen. For this reason it's the hypervisor of choice for the NSA, the DoD, and the new QubesOS Secure Desktop project. While much of the security of Xen is inherent in its design, many of the advanced security features, such as stub domains, driver domains, XSM, and so on are not enabled by default. This session will describe all of the advanced security features of Xen, and the best way to configure them for the Cloud environment. When the audience leaves, they should have a general framework to evaluate the security of their system, know the key security features of Xen, and have a basic framework of knowledge to help them make sense of the documentation. This talk will *not* go into mind-numbing detail about specific commands to type or configuration options.

Speakers

George Dunlap

Principle Software Engineer, XenServer

George Dunlap worked with the Xen project while a graduate student at the University of Michigan before receiving his PhD in 2006. He is currently working as Staff Software Engineer for Citrix on the open-source Xen team in Cambridge, England. He has done work in many areas of Xen... Read More →

Tuesday October 22, 2013 12:10pm - 1:00pm BST
Monteith

CloudOpen Europe Operations

12:10pm BST

Tuesday October 22, 2013 1:00pm - 2:30pm BST
On Your Own

CloudOpen Europe LinuxCon Europe Lunch

2:00pm BST

Network Virtualization Support in OpenDaylight, Kostas Katrinis, IBM

Network virtualization brings many of the same benefits of server and storage virtualization to networking such as logical isolation and multi-tenancy, independence from limitations of the underlying physical infrastructure and protocols, and the ability to rapidly deploy virtual networks for new workloads. Network virtualization is an important application of software-defined networking, and a number of virtualization technologies have been brought to OpenDaylight to support this important use case.

The virtualization projects proposed for OpenDaylight provide different virtual network models and also different implementations, based on OpenFlow, overlays and encapsulation, and also standard IETF protocols. In this session we will provide a brief overview of each virtualization project and also summarize their similarities, differences, and trade-offs. We will also discuss approaches for these technologies to interoperate within OpenDaylight and identify services and absractions that can serve multiple virtualization efforts while retaining flexibility for OpenDaylight users.

Speakers

Kostas Katrinis

Kostas Katrinis is a Research Staff Member in IBM Research - Ireland. He has been in communication networks research since 2001, taking on challenging problems across the stack, from transport-layer congestion control down to physical-layer aware optical networking solutions. He has... Read More →

Tuesday October 22, 2013 2:00pm - 2:50pm BST
Lammermuir 2

OpenDaylight Mini Summit

2:30pm BST

Keynote: Kernel Developer Panel: Core & Embedded - Greg Kroah-Hartman, Will Deacon, Sebastian Hesselbarth, Peter Zijlstra, Jon Corbet (Moderator)

For this panel we are bringing together core and embedded maintainers to discuss the state of the Linux kernel.

Moderators

Jonathan Corbet

Chief bozo, LWN.net

Tuesday October 22, 2013 2:30pm - 3:20pm BST
Pentland

CloudOpen Europe Keynote LinuxCon Europe

3:00pm BST

Virtual Tenant Networks (VTNs) - Network Virtualization on OpenDaylight, Peer Hasselmeyer, NEC

OpenDaylight Virtual Tenant Network (VTN) technology is a set of components that provide multi-tenant network virtualization with the OpenDaylight controller. Traditionally, configuring a network for multiple users and/or applications is a tough task as it requires the consistent configuration of a multitude of individual boxes. Rather than being fabric-centric, configuration is still mostly box-centric.

OpenDaylight’s VTN technology addresses this problem by abstracting from the physical infrastructure and its individual components. It integrates all networking resources into one big networking fabric and then slices them into virtual networks via a set of logical abstractions (vRouter, vBridge, vTunnel). The VTN components autonomously map between the logical and the physical planes. Users can design and deploy any desired network without knowing the physical network topology. A Northbound-API caters for the programmatic access to the virtualized network.

This presentation will discuss the VTN abstractions and the components providing them.

Speakers

Peer Hasselmeyer

Peer Hasselmeyer has many years of experience in the fields of distributed computing, Software-Defined Networking, and service-oriented architectures. He received a MS degree in Computer Science from the University of Colorado at Boulder, USA, and a Ph.D. from the Darmstadt University... Read More →

Tuesday October 22, 2013 3:00pm - 3:50pm BST
Lammermuir 2

OpenDaylight Mini Summit

3:20pm BST

Break

Tuesday October 22, 2013 3:20pm - 3:50pm BST
Foyer

Break CloudOpen Europe LinuxCon Europe

3:50pm BST

10 Ways to Ruin Your Cloud Experience (and How to Mitigate Them) - Nils Magnus, LinuxTag Association

Cloud computing and IaaS are powerful tools that hold many tempting promises. With Linux leading in this field, IaaS is often one of the first mission critical Linux deployments in enterprises. Doomed to do it right, implementing a Linux cloud is hard work, and you risk both your managment and users losing faith if you stumble into ten common pitfalls. Nils explains to engineering architects, operations engineers, and technical system managers how to circumvent common problems and comes up with hints to overcome them. His audience benefits from over 15 years' first-hand experience in designing secure and reliable infrastructure projects in data centers. Real-life examples from past and present project illustrate the challenges engineers and managers face on their way to the cloud.

Speakers

Nils Magnus

Cloud Architect, Open Telekom Cloud, T-Systems International GmbH

Nils designs scalable and reliable cloud security architecture as Cloud Architect for the Open Telekom Cloud at T-Systems International GmbH, Germany and has volunteered as program chair for the LinuxTag conference since 1996. He serves at the Board of Directory of LinuxTag Association... Read More →

Tuesday October 22, 2013 3:50pm - 4:40pm BST
Lowtheir

CloudOpen Europe Operations

3:50pm BST

Developing Cloud Infrastructure From Scratch: A Tale of an ISP - Andrey Korolyov, Performix LLC

There is a place aside from turnkey solutions like VMWare and do-as-you-want as OpenStack if you have enough programming power - build the completely new thing. Talk is about caveats and benefits of doing things such way: in Flops we had developed complete ISP cloud infrastructure based on OSS products such as KVM, Ceph, OpenVSwitch and Floodlight facing a couple of unique challenges during the process.

Speakers

Andrey Korolyov

Cofounder, Flops

Andrey Korolyov is a twenty-five year old engineer working currently both for Flops.ru as cofounder and for Mirantis as an employee, planning and implementing architecture in the first and doing stuff related to the Fuel product in second.

Tuesday October 22, 2013 3:50pm - 4:40pm BST
Monteith

CloudOpen Europe Wildcard

3:50pm BST

CRIU: Time and Space Travel Service for Linux Applications - Pavel Emelyanov, Parallels

Checkpoint-Restore is the technology that allows us to take a snapshot of running Linux processes and restore those processes in any other place and time. This opens various possibilities such as live migration, keeping HPC tasks safe from hardware problems, Cloud services load balancing and many other. Despite being very tempting feature to have, Linux lacked one for quite a long time. The Checkpoint-Restore In Userspace (CRIU) project is The One to make this technology real. This talk covers the project history, its dependence from and influence on the Linux Kernel and the Linux Kernel community and concentrates on usage scenarios that are now real with CRIU and that will be possible in the future. It will be interesting to anyone who knows Linux as user, but a certain level of system or kernel level programming experience would be required at some points.

Speakers

Pavel Emelyanov

Architect at server virtualization dpt, Odin

Pavel is a principal engineer at Odin working on company’s Cloud Server projects. He holds a PhD degree in Applied Mathematics from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. He now maintains CRIU and works on its integration with other Linux containers projects. His speaking... Read More →

Tuesday October 22, 2013 3:50pm - 4:40pm BST
Pentland

Developer LinuxCon Europe

3:50pm BST

The Kernel Report - Jonathan Corbet, LWN.net

The 2013 version of this popular talk describing the current state of kernel development and where it can be expected to go in the near future. There will be some technical content, but this talk is highly accessible to non-technical participants as well.

Speakers

Jonathan Corbet

Chief bozo, LWN.net

Tuesday October 22, 2013 3:50pm - 4:40pm BST
Sidlaw

Developer LinuxCon Europe

3:50pm BST

There are several issues with the way filesystem freeze works in Linux, among them: there is no check API, which means there is no easy way to know whether a filesystem is frozen or not; it is possible to umount a frozen filesystem despite the fact that there is no API to thaw an unmounted filesystem; it is not possible to freeze multi-device filesystems such as BTRFS; it does not play well with DM snapshot.

This presentation provides an overview of the current work to fix the filesystem freeze API, which should make an essential part of many backup and snapshot solutions much more robust.

Speakers

Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao

Fernando is a Linux developer based in Tokyo. His current interests include virtualization, data center bridging technologies, and high performance networking and storage systems. He is currently a principal software engineer at NTT Open Software Center and senior consultant at NTT... Read More →

Tuesday October 22, 2013 4:50pm - 5:40pm BST
Monteith

CloudOpen Europe

4:50pm BST

Synnefo: A Complete Cloud Stack Over Google Ganeti - Vangelis Koukis, Greek Research and Technology Network (GRNET)

Vangelis Koukis will introduce Synnefo [1]: a complete open source cloud stack written in Python/Django, providing Compute, Network, Image, Volume and Storage services, similar to the ones offered by AWS. Synnefo manages multiple Ganeti clusters at the backend for the handling of low-level VM operations and exposes the OpenStack APIs to users. Vangelis will talk about how decoupling the cloud layer from the cluster layer boosts stability and scalability. He will describe Synnefo's unified, content-addressable storage layer for files, images, and volumes, and how it enables thin, zero-copy cloning and snapshotting independently of the underlying storage technology, with support for live migrations. Finally, the talk will include a sneak peak at a large-scale deployment of Synnefo [2]. [1] http://goo.gl/BFaCB [2] http://goo.gl/aKUEb

Speakers

Vangelis Koukis

Technical Lead, ~okeanos cloud, GRNET

Vangelis Koukis is currently working at GRNET as the Technical Lead of the ~okeanos project, delivering a large scale, full-fledged public cloud service. He is also the Technical Lead of the Synnefo project. His speaking experience includes various open source (LinuxCon/CloudOpen... Read More →

Tuesday October 22, 2013 4:50pm - 5:40pm BST
Lowtheir

CloudOpen Europe Wildcard

4:50pm BST

'Tickless' Kernel: Practical Experiences - Christoph Lameter & Fernando Garcia

A standard Linux kernel is typically configured to interrupt an application 1000 times per second to check for things that the kernel may have to do. These interrupts cause the application to experience seemingly random latencies and variations in runtime.

As of Linux 3.10 the kernel has the ability to switch the tick off in certain situations. However, there are numerous gotchas right now that have to be considered. The functionality is almost ready but very difficult to use. Here we will talk about experiences with this functionality, what other measures can be used to reduce OS noise and discuss how we think a tickless kernel should be working in the future. A new benchmark will be used to show what improvements are possible.

Suggestions are wanted as to how to make it easier to use a tickless kernel. The system configuration is rather complex at this point.

Speakers

Fernando Garcia

Fernando has been involved for the last 5 years in various projects relating to high performance computing and low latency environments and is an expert in the configuration of systems for extremely noiseless operations.

Christoph Lameter

R&D Team Lead, Jump Trading LLC

Tuesday October 22, 2013 4:50pm - 5:40pm BST
Lennox 1

Developer LinuxCon Europe

4:50pm BST

Hunting Down Data Races in the Linux Kernel - Eugene A. Shatokhin, ROSA

Concurrency issues in the software, and data races in particular, may have devastating effects but are often quite hard to reveal. Hunting down such problems is especially important for the Linux kernel, which is inherently concurrent. Although there is a variety of tools to help reveal data races in the user-space code (Helgrind, DRD, ThreadSanitizer, etc.), there are only a few that can be applied to the kernel. In his presentation, Eugene Shatokhin will give an overview of such tools and the techniques they rely upon. Among other things, he will present KernelStrider, a component of KEDR Framework that collects data about the operation of the kernel modules in runtime. The data are then analyzed by an "offline" detector in the user-space to actually reveal the races. The results obtained so far as well as possible directions of future development will also be discussed.

Speakers

Eugene A. Shatokhin

Developer, ROSA

Eugene is currently working for ROSA (www.rosalab.com) where he is responsible for development and maintenance of the automated testing tools for ROSA Linux distros. Since 2010, he is a main developer of KEDR Framework, a collection of tools that detect various kinds of errors in... Read More →

Tuesday October 22, 2013 4:50pm - 5:40pm BST
Sidlaw

Developer LinuxCon Europe

4:50pm BST

Optimization and Evaluation of Ceph Distributed File System on TianHe-2 Supercomputer - Li Wang, NUDT

Ceph is a distributed object store and file system shipped with Linux kernel and OpenStack. In this presentation, Li Wang will give an introduction to their works on Ceph optimization and evaluation. The two features newly developed are inline data support and fallocate/punch hole support. The former speeds up the small file IO, while the latter enables sparse file support, which improves space efficiency in virtualization situation. The other two features ongoing/planning are client side transparent compression support as well as lightweight POSIX interface support based on flat namespace. In addition, Li Wang will present the detailed evaluation results of Ceph on TianHe-2 supercomputer manufactured by NUDT, which was topped the TOP500 list of fastest supercomputers in the world in June 2013. The evaluations cover throughput, scalability, and so on.

Speakers

Li Wang

Assistant Professor, NUDT

Li Wang is an assistant professor at National Laboratory for Parallel and Distributed Processing, NUDT. He received his PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from NUDT in 2009. His research interests are operating system, especially file system and networking, as well as compiler... Read More →

Tuesday October 22, 2013 4:50pm - 5:40pm BST
Pentland

Developer LinuxCon Europe

4:50pm BST

SSD and HDD Performance Testing - Christoph Mitasch, Thomas-Krenn

Solid-State Drives (SSDs) are a frequently discussed topic in current IT infrastructures. In many cases the investment of replacing hard drives is taken on the assumption that SSDs are generally faster. But it depends on various parameters whether or not this assumption is true for a specific system. This talk will dive into the topics of I/O performance and discuss I/Os per second, throughput and latency. It will also present the Open Source performance suite TKperf which uses the Flexible I/O Tester (Fio) in the background. Covering the needs described above it brings performance testing to a next level. TKperf implements the tests specified in the SNIA “Solid State Storage (SSS) Performance Test Specification (PTS) Enterprise v1.0”, fulfilling all of its reporting requirements.

Speakers

Christoph Mitasch

WebOps & KT Expert, Thomas-Krenn.AG

Christoph Mitasch works as a WebOps & KT expert at Thomas-Krenn.AG. He is working with Linux since 1998 and has in-depth knowledge in the area of high availability, data replication, web services and virtualization. Christoph studied "Computer- and Media-Security" at the University... Read More →

Tuesday October 22, 2013 4:50pm - 5:40pm BST
Fintry

LinuxCon Europe Operations

4:50pm BST

Linux and New Storage Challenges: Adapting to Faster and Larger Storage - Ric Wheeler, Red Hat

Linux is usually the first target for vendors with the most cutting edge types of storage and file system technologies. The community was the first to bring parallel NFS into production quality and has been at the bleeding edge of dealing with very high speed, low latency storage devices like PCI-e SSDs. This talk gives an overview of two new technologies at the opposite ends of the speed and capacity spectrum: DRAM class persistent memory and very dense "shingled" drives. The talk gives an overview of what the technologies are, what the ongoing work is in upstream and some of the choices we have in supporting these new devices. Finally, the talk will give an overview of how these new technologies are likely to be deployed both in traditional, enterprise servers and in the hardware that underpins modern cloud systems.

Speakers

Red Hat

Ric Wheeler

Tuesday October 22, 2013 4:50pm - 5:40pm BST
Lammemuir 1

LinuxCon Europe Wildcard

6:00pm BST

VIP Reception at Ghillie Dhu

Our speakers, media and sponsors are invited to join us at Ghillie Dhu for drinks, dinner and networking. Attendees may also purchase a pass to the event via their online registration form. Ghillie Dhu is located just a quick walk from the EICC. Maps will be provided onsite at check-in.

Tuesday October 22, 2013 6:00pm - 9:00pm BST
Ghillie Dhu 2 Rutland Place, Edinburgh, EH1 2AD

Evening Event

8:00am BST

Continental Breakfast

Wednesday October 23, 2013 8:00am - 9:30am BST
Foyer

CloudOpen Europe LinuxCon Europe

8:30am BST

Registration

Wednesday October 23, 2013 8:30am - 5:00pm BST
Foyer

CloudOpen Europe LinuxCon Europe Registration

9:30am BST

Keynote: Linux: Where Are We Going - Dirk Hohndel, Chief Linux and Open Source Technologist, Intel and Linus Torvalds, Fellow, The Linux Foundation

Linux creator Linus Torvalds will take the stage with Intel’s Chief Linux and Open Source Technologies Dirk Hohndel to discuss the latest technical advancements in the kernel.

Speakers

Dirk Hohndel

Chief Linux and Open Source Technologist, Intel

Dirk is Intel's Chief Linux and Open Source Technologist. He has been an active developer and contributor in the Linux space since its earlies days, among other roles, he worked as Chief Technology Officer of SuSE and as Unix Architect at Deutsche Bank. Dirk joined Intel in 2001... Read More →

Linus Torvalds

Fellow, The Linux Foundation

Linus Torvalds created the Linux kernel and oversaw open source development of the widely-used Linux operating system. Torvalds was born on December 28, 1969 in Helsinki, Finland. Torvalds enrolled at the University of Helsinki in 1988, graduating with a master's degree in computer... Read More →

Wednesday October 23, 2013 9:30am - 10:15am BST
Pentland

CloudOpen Europe Keynote LinuxCon Europe

10:15am BST

Keynote: Living in a Surveillance State - Mikko Hypponen, CRO, F-Secure

When Internet became commonplace in the mid-1990s, the decision makers ignored it. They didn't see it as important or in any way relevant to them. As a direct result, global freedom flourished in the unrestricted online world. Suddenly people all over the world had in their reach something truly and really global. And suddenly, people weren't just consuming content; they were creating content for others to see. But eventually politicians and leaders realized just how important internet is. And they realized how useful internet was for other purposes - especially for the purposes of doing surveillance on citizens. The two arguably most important inventions of our generation - the internet and the mobile phones - changed the world. However, they both turned out to be perfect tools for the surveillance state. And in a surveillance state, everybody is assumed guilty. What does this mean to us today? And is there anything we can do about it?

Speakers

Mikko Hypponen

Chief Research Officer, F-Secure

Mikko Hypponen is the Chief Research Officer of F-Secure in Finland. He has been working with computer security for over 20 years. His TED Talk on computer security has been seen by almost a million people and has been translated to over 35 languages. He has addressed the EU Parliament... Read More →

Wednesday October 23, 2013 10:15am - 10:35am BST
Pentland

CloudOpen Europe Keynote LinuxCon Europe

10:35am BST

Director, IT, The Linux Foundation

Konstantin has worked at the Linux Foundation over the past decade, providing both IT and security support to kernel.org and many other software projects. He lives in Montreal, Canada, with his wife, two children and several cats.

Wednesday October 23, 2013 11:15am - 1:05pm BST
Lennox 1

LinuxCon Europe Operations

11:35am BST

Analyzing all Kinds of Traces with the TMF Viewer - Alexandre Montplaisir, Ericsson

This talk will present the latest iteration of the Tracing and Monitoring Framework (TMF). TMF started as a collection of Eclipse plugins to analyze LTTng traces. Since then, it has evolved into a generic trace analysis framework, and can now even be installed as a stand-alone application based on the Eclipse Rich Client Platform.

Recent improvements to be demoed:

Standalone RCP, making it much easier for non-Eclispse users to install and use

Automatic trace type detection on import

Call stack view, automatically available for LTTng-UST traces with function entry/exit tracepoints

As well as a preview of upcoming features:

Data-driven definition of trace types and views

Trace synchronization

Index on disk

Speakers

Ericsson

Alexandre Montplaisir

Wednesday October 23, 2013 11:35am - 12:05pm BST
Harris Suite

Tracing Summit

12:05pm BST

Tracing Massively Parallel Processor Array, Xavier Raynaud, Kalray

On massively parallel devices, traditional debuggers are often inadequate to debug and understand complex interaction of components. Therefore, traces are often the only way to debug and understand programs running on such platforms.

This presentation will provide an overview of trace infrastructure on a Massively Parallel Processor Array (256 cores, 700 Giga operations per second, typical 5W power consumption) including:

a presentation of the hardware device characteristics

a presentation of the software framework for tracepoint definition, tracepoint activation, trace generation and acquisition

a presentation of the trace viewer, based on TMF (the Eclipse Tracing and Monitoring Framework)

Speakers

Kalray

Xavier Raynaud

Wednesday October 23, 2013 12:05pm - 12:30pm BST
Harris Suite

Tracing Summit

12:05pm BST

OPW: Bringing Women into the Linux Kernel - Moderated By Sarah Sharp

In 2006, the GNOME foundation started the FOSS Outreach Program for Women (OPW) in order to introduce more women to open source. Women who are accepted as OPW interns receive $5,000 to work on an open source project for three months. Women can apply to many different FOSS projects, like Debian, TOR, Perl, Wikimedia, and Wordpress.

This year, the Linux kernel joined OPW for the first time, and the response was amazing! We received 41 applications, and ended up taking seven interns. Come learn more about participating in the OPW program, either as a mentor, intern, or corporate sponsor.

Four of the Linux kernel OPW interns will give lightning talks on their projects. Laura Mihaela Vasilescu will talk about working on Intel ethernet drivers. Elena Ufimtseva will speak on hacking on the Xen subsystem. Xenia Ragiadakou will talk about adding trace events to USB host controller drivers. Tülin İzer will speak about parallelizing x86 boot processes.

Moderators

Sarah Sharp

Yocto/Embedded Developer, Intel

Sarah Sharp is a software engineer at Intel's Open Source Technology Center. Sarah is the author of the Linux kernel USB 3.0 driver, and is currently working as an embedded software developer with the Yocto Project. As the coordinator for the Linux kernel project within the FOSS Outreach... Read More →

Wednesday October 23, 2013 12:05pm - 12:55pm BST
Pentland

Developer LinuxCon Europe

12:05pm BST

It’s hard to escape the inefficiencies of the patent world. The amount of patent litigation has drastically increased, specifically in technologies based in computer software. Further, patent wars are extending beyond large corporations to startups and individual developers. Those in the open source world are encountering two options: fly under the radar and hope to avoid lawsuits or license often times dubious patented technology. Now, is the time to introduce another option and begin to protect your freedom to operate. The Linux Defenders program, supported by Open Invention Network (OIN), sets to provide healthy avenues for the Linux community to invent. The goal is to give innovators the leverage to proactively limit the resources that can be used by non-practicing entities (or trolls). In this talk, we will present practical community-based approach that make a difference.

Speakers

Andrea Casillas

Director, Linux Defenders, Open Invention Network

Prior to becoming Director of Linux Defenders at Open Invention Network, Andrea Casillas was a postgraduate fellow at the Institution for Information Law and Policy at New York Law School, Assistant Director of the Center for Information Law and Policy and the Director of Peer To... Read More →

Wednesday October 23, 2013 12:15pm - 1:05pm BST
Lammemuir 1

LinuxCon Europe Wildcard

12:30pm BST

Integrating Ftrace into the Perf Tools, Namhyung Kim, LG Electronics

The Linux perf tools and ftrace are main performance analysis tools in the Linux kernel. While they're focusing on different parts of the picture, they can share many things to do the job thanks to the libtraceevent (which also resides in the kernel).

In this presentation, I'll update and share current status of the integration work and discuss implementation issues to be resolved.

Speakers

Namhyung Kim

Wednesday October 23, 2013 12:30pm - 12:55pm BST
Harris Suite

Tracing Summit

12:55pm BST

Lunch

Wednesday October 23, 2013 12:55pm - 2:30pm BST
On Your Own

CloudOpen Europe LinuxCon Europe Lunch

2:30pm BST

Perf Tool Data File and Toggle Event, Jiri Olsa, Red Hat

The Perf Tool Data File

The presentation will give an overview about the perf data file format, its recent changes and related features like multiple file storage.

The Perf Toggle Event

The toggling event is an addition to the perf event interface which enables the user to setup an event which toggles (start or stop) another event. This way we are able to narrow down the measured context of any event (eg. setting up kprobes to set bounds for cycles event). There's working prototype soon to be sent out as RFC.

Speakers

Red Hat

Jiri Olsa

Wednesday October 23, 2013 2:30pm - 3:00pm BST
Harris Suite

Tracing Summit

2:30pm BST

What's New in Apache httpd 2.4 - Rich Bowen, Red Hat

The 2.4 release of the Apache web server is full of things that server admins have been asking for for many years, including scriptable configuration, more flexible access control syntax, simpler load balancing, improved performance, and much more. Rich Bowen from the web server documentation project shows you what's new and how you can start benefiting from it immediatey.

Speakers

Rich Bowen

Principle Evangelist, Open Source, AWS

Rich has been doing open source since before we called it that. He's a member and director at the Apache Software Foundation, and has been active on major open source projects including the Apache HTTP Server, Perl, PHP, Wordpress, and OpenStack. He's an Open Source Evangelist at... Read More →

Wednesday October 23, 2013 2:30pm - 3:20pm BST
Tinto

CloudOpen Europe

2:30pm BST

K Means Clustering Algorithm Using Hadoop in OpenStack - Deepak Mane, Tata Research Development and Design Center

In today’s world the growth rate of data is increasing tremendously. We need an efficient system to process a large of set of data with accurate and limited amount of time having automation, dynamic resource management, autoscaling features . We need an orchestration framework to build a system and process data in parallel ways . Current systems don’t have dynamic resource management and orchestration framework. This talk will discuss building a Hadoop cluster framework in OpenStack with Savanna – as well as automation framework and implementation of K means clustering algorithms in parallel ways.

Speakers

Deepak Mane

Cloud Architect, Tata Consultancy Services

Deepak S. Mane is a Performance/Cloud Consultant in Global Consulting practice - Performance Engineering Lab at Tata Research Development and Design Center (A Research wing of TCS). He has published 14 papers in Conference Seminars , and He is currently pursuing research in Cloud... Read More →

Wednesday October 23, 2013 2:30pm - 3:20pm BST
Monteith

CloudOpen Europe Operations

2:30pm BST

It Was Never About Innovation - John Mark Walker, Red Hat

Cloud computing as an industry phenomenon is built almost entirely on open source pieces, but ironically (or perhaps, perversely) is used to create proprietary services. This talk shows how the four software freedoms achieved a more level playing field for software users and developers and provided a solid foundation on which innovation flourished. Innovation was an interesting by-product, not something pursued. Unfortunately, the four software freedoms are not enough to compel open cloud services. The lessons learned from open source should be used to achieve a level playing field in cloud computing.

Speakers

John Mark Walker

Open Source Ecosystems Leader, Red Hat, Inc

John Mark is the ManageIQ Community Leader. For three years prior to his ManageIQ role, he was the Gluster Community Leader and is a long-time Open Source community advocate and strategist.

Wednesday October 23, 2013 2:30pm - 3:20pm BST
Lowtheir

CloudOpen Europe Wildcard

2:30pm BST

Case Study: How We Migrated The Enlightenment Project To Git - Tom Hacohen & Daniel Willmann, Samsung

The Enlightenment project's old SVN repository hosted many different applications, libraries, themes, and etcetera. Daniel Willmann and Tom Hacohen took upon themselves the task of migrating it to Git.

As part of that process, they tackled the lack of continuous integration by setting up Jenkins and complied to community to change Trac with Phabricator. They have both lived long enough to tell about it, and in this presentation they will present their notes, lessons, tips and process.

Speakers

Tom Hacohen

Senior Engineer, Samsung OSG

Tom has been using Linux since 2003. Previously a core developer and part of the leading team in SHR (Openmoko), he is currently a core developer for the EFL (www.enlightenment.org). He has contributed to other Open Source projects over the years, including: freesmartphone.org and... Read More →

Daniel Willmann

Daniel is a freelance IT professional with over 7 years of professional experience. He has worked on the OpenMoko project where he was first introduced to the EFL and was a core developer for freesmartphone.org. Other projects he is involved in include OpenBSC (osmocom.org) and the... Read More →

Wednesday October 23, 2013 2:30pm - 3:20pm BST
Lennox 1

Developer LinuxCon Europe

2:30pm BST

Qt Project - 2 Years Later - Thiago Macieira, Intel Corp.

October 21, 2013 marks the Qt Project's second anniversary. Launched in 2011 to be the home of the Qt libraries and frameworks under Open Source Governance, the Qt Project has seen quite a lot of change in these 2 years., good and bad. It lost its main sponsor and many doubted the project would continue, but it did, and it managed to release the first major release in 7 years (5.0), one more feature release and half a dozen patch releases. This presentation will review the principles of the project's governance, who the contributors are and how they work, the major changes that happened in the past two years and how they've influenced the project. It will explore the development process from patch to release and to maintenance / bug fixing, and will also show how non-code contributors participate.

Speakers

Open Source & Technology Strategist, HPE

Bruno Cornec has been managing various Unix systems since 1987 and Linux since 1993 (0.99pl14).Bruno first worked 8 years around Software Engineering and Configuration Management Systems in Unix environments.Since 1995, he is Open Source and Linux (OSL) Technology Strategist, Linux... Read More →

Wednesday October 23, 2013 2:30pm - 3:20pm BST
Lammemuir 1

LinuxCon Europe Wildcard

3:00pm BST

LTTng: Cloud Monitoring and Distribution Bug Reporting with Live Streaming and Snapshots, Mathieu Desnoyers, EfficiOS

The latest developments in LTTng include features relevant for use-cases ranging from Linux distribution bug report data collection to cloud monitoring. Amongst those features, we notably find the live streaming of traces over the network, which allows analysis of live traces as the are being gathered. We also find flight recorder tracing, with non-stop snapshot feature, which allows augmenting distribution bug reports with a trace of events that precede each bug. Those features will be presented, along with discussion of the project roadmap.

Speakers

Mathieu Desnoyers

CEO, EfficiOS Inc.

Wednesday October 23, 2013 3:00pm - 3:30pm BST
Harris Suite

Tracing Summit

3:20pm BST

Break

Wednesday October 23, 2013 3:20pm - 3:40pm BST
Foyer

Break CloudOpen Europe LinuxCon Europe

3:50pm BST

Integrating Event Stacktrace with Trace Data Collection, Martin Oberhuber, Wind River

Have you ever looked at a software trace thinking "if I just knew what line of code is responsible for this event, or which of my code is being interrupted by that context switch" ?

We have implemented a mechanism that allows collecting stack traces with predefined depth for selective events in a software trace. This allows exactly understanding the code path that's being taken, and can thus help understanding exceptional situations, unexpected latencies and deadlock conditions. Moreover, the turnaround-cycle from finding a problem to fixing it in the code is much faster than with traditional methods.

In my talk, I will explain

Motivation of our work (end user benefits of having stack traces), best shown with a live example

Data format (how did we mangle the stack traces into our tracing format, and could it go into CTF ?)

Symbol resolution and how TCF / Debugger provide a universal engine for symbol resolving along the way

Visualization and tooling

Intrusiveness of the solution.

Speakers

Martin Oberhuber

Wind River

Wednesday October 23, 2013 3:50pm - 4:25pm BST
Harris Suite

Tracing Summit

3:50pm BST

Introducing OSv: A New Open Source Operating System Designed for the Cloud - Avi Kivity & Glauber Costa Cloudius

A lot of the cloud discussion centers around which are the best hypervisors, and which management tools will simplify one's life the most. But is it the whole story? While addressing the problems from the lower and higher layers, the middle man -- the guest operating system -- is usually left behind.

In this talk will introduce OSv, a new, from-scratch operating system designed specifically for cloud deployments. We will showcase the operating system architecture and explain the performance and manageability improvements that can be expected.

Operating system developers, as well as application developers who deploy to the cloud may enjoy the talk. No special expertise is required.

Speakers

Glauber Costa

Biography coming soon.

Engineer, Open Source Technology Center, Intel

Wednesday October 23, 2013 3:50pm - 4:40pm BST
Sidlaw

Developer LinuxCon Europe

3:50pm BST

Identifying Kernel Messages in Low Cost - Hidehiro Kawai, Hitachi

Most of the kernel messages would be intended to know developers what's going on in the kernel, and they tend to be not friendly to users and machines. To improve this, Hidehiro Kawai is trying to add hash value for each kernel message to identify them easily. If this feature becomes available, users can consult external manuals by feeding the hash and know detailed information. Or a monitor tool can identify specific message in low overhead and trigger a fail-over or collect related information automatically. In this presentation, he explains the implementation of the first RFC patch set, on-going discussions (if there are), and how utilizing the feature in user space, while introducing a similar challenge 5 years ago and how addressed its objections.

Speakers

Hidehiro Kawai

Researcher, Hitachi, Ltd.

Hidehiro Kawai has been working at Hitachi since 2004 and developing Linux kernel and related tools. Currently, he is working for Linux enhancement in the field of control systems.

Wednesday October 23, 2013 3:50pm - 4:40pm BST
Pentland

Developer LinuxCon Europe

3:50pm BST

Tuning Linux for Your Database - Colin Charles, Monty Program Ab

Many operations folk know the many Linux filesystems like EXT4 or XFS, they know of the schedulers available, they see the OOM killer coming and more. However, appropriate configuration is necessary when you're running your databases at scale. Learn best practices for Linux performance tuning for MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Cassandra and HBase. Topics that will be covered include: filesystems, swap and memory management, I/O scheduler settings, using the tools available (like iostat/vmstat/etc), practical kernel configuration, profiling your database, and using RAID and LVM. There is a focus on bare metal as well as configuring your cloud instances in Amazon EC2.

Speakers

Colin Charles

Openness and transparency are keys to organizational success in the modern world. Innovation and progress are crowd-driven, and leadership today means being a steward of the community. I have been a proud disruptor of traditional and antiquated business practices and ideologies... Read More →

Wednesday October 23, 2013 4:50pm - 5:20pm BST
Monteith

CloudOpen Europe

4:50pm BST

Tracing Summit - Open Discussion, Where do we go from here?

Wednesday October 23, 2013 4:50pm - 5:30pm BST
Harris Suite

Tracing Summit

4:50pm BST

Containers and the Cloud: Do You Need Another Virtual Environment? - James Bottomley, Parallels

Containers have gained in acceptance as the platform for launching PaaS and SaaS services, but what about IaaS? This talk will cover the basics of containers, what they are, how they work and what advances have recently been made in Linux that allow containers to be the most versatile platform for cloud services.

Speakers

James Bottomley

James Bottomley is CTO of Server Virtualisation at Parallels with a current focus on Open Source container technologies and Linux Kernel maintainer of the SCSI subsystem, PA-RISC Linux and the 53c700 set of drivers. He has made contributions in the areas of x86 architecture and SMP... Read More →

Wednesday October 23, 2013 4:50pm - 5:40pm BST
Tinto

CloudOpen Europe

4:50pm BST

CloudStack Clients and Tools - Sebastien Goasguen, Citrix

Make Your Mobile Web App Go Hybrid with Apache Cordova - Shekhar Gulati, Red Hat

Should you learn a new skill set to develop mobile applications? Or can you use your existing skillset and convert your HTML5 + REST mobile web app to hybrid app? Learning a new skill set can be very frustrating and time consuming. In this session Shekhar Gulati, Principal OpenShift Evangelist, will walk through the steps you will need to convert an existing HTML5 + RESTful Web application to a Hybrid app using Apache Cordova. Apache Cordova is a platform for building native mobile applications using HTML, CSS and JavaScript. The Restful backend of the application will be running on OpenShift -- Red Hat's open source public Platform as a Service.

Speakers

Shekhar Gulati

Please note that a separate (free) registration is required to attend the Gluster Community Day. Please register at https://www.regonline.com/Register/Checkin.aspx?EventID=1320865.

Speakers

John Mark Walker

Open Source Ecosystems Leader, Red Hat, Inc

John Mark is the ManageIQ Community Leader. For three years prior to his ManageIQ role, he was the Gluster Community Leader and is a long-time Open Source community advocate and strategist.

Thursday October 24, 2013 10:00am - 11:00am BST
Melville Suite (Sheraton Grand Hotel)

Gluster Community Day

11:00am BST

Gluster for SysAdmins, An In-depth Look - Dustin Black

Please note that a separate (free) registration is required to attend the Gluster Community Day. Please register at https://www.regonline.com/Register/Checkin.aspx?EventID=1320865.

Speakers

Dustin L. Black

Principal Cloud Success Architect, Red Hat

Thursday October 24, 2013 11:00am - 12:30pm BST
Melville Suite (Sheraton Grand Hotel)

Gluster Community Day

1:30pm BST

Gluster and OpenStack, a Case Study - Udo Seidel

Please note that a separate (free) registration is required to attend the Gluster Community Day. Please register at https://www.regonline.com/Register/Checkin.aspx?EventID=1320865.

Speakers

Dr. Udo Seidel

Architect and Digital Evangelist, Dr.

Dr. Udo Seidel would have been a teacher for mathematics and physics if he would not have been infected by the Linux virus in 1996. After his PhD he worked as Linux/Unix instructor, sysadmin and senior solution engineer. Now he is a technology evangelist, architect and governor at... Read More →

Thursday October 24, 2013 1:30pm - 2:30pm BST
Melville Suite (Sheraton Grand Hotel)

Gluster Community Day

2:30pm BST

Gluster, QEMU, KVM and oVirt - Vijay Bellur

Please note that a separate (free) registration is required to attend the Gluster Community Day. Please register at https://www.regonline.com/Register/Checkin.aspx?EventID=1320865.

Speakers

Vijay Bellur

Senior Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat

Thursday October 24, 2013 2:30pm - 3:30pm BST
Melville Suite (Sheraton Grand Hotel)

Gluster Community Day

3:45pm BST

Developing Apps and Integrating with GlusterFS - Justin Clift

Please note that a separate (free) registration is required to attend the Gluster Community Day. Please register at https://www.regonline.com/Register/Checkin.aspx?EventID=1320865.

Speakers

Justin Clift

Aeolus Evangelist, Red Hat

Justin works for Red Hat as an Aeolus Evangelist for Aeolus.He has been contributing significantly to many Open Source software projects for over a decade, including PostgreSQL, OpenOffice, Salasaga, Libvirt, along with many others.

Thursday October 24, 2013 3:45pm - 4:45pm BST
Melville Suite (Sheraton Grand Hotel)

Gluster Community Day