SGI User Group coming to San Antonio

Just over the email transom today from reader Davin Chan (VP of the SGIUG), a pointer to news of the 7th annual SGI User Group Conference coming up in San Antonio, TX from Oct 21-23. From Davin’s email

SGI’s chief engineers will be at the conference to give technical presentations including on UV, containerized data centers and data center efficiency.

Keynotes for the conference will include
SGI Directions
Mark Barrenechea, President & CEO, SGI

Needle Amongst the HayStacks: Analytics and Mining Sharded Datasets
S. Ryan Quick, Principal Architect, EBAY/PAYPAL

Technology Trends
Dr. Eng Lim Goh, Senior Vice President & CTO, SGI

You can find more information about the program at http://sgiug2009.com/sgiug_2009_program.html. The conference actually looks pretty interesting, from a technical perspective.