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Internet Cafe Details Available
zOS Handspring Visor™ Contest Winners Announced
GREAT Tours Registration
Please vote and CMG2002 reminder
zOS Handspring Visor™ Winner
Bring a Friend to CMG2002 - Early Registration Deadline Approaching
CMG Graduate Fellowship Program
CMG2002 - Stay Online with our new Internet Cafe!
CMG2002 - Register NOW and win a COOL GIZMO!
CMG2002 - Online Preliminary Agenda and Conference Planner Released

Internet Cafe Details Available

Tuesday, November 26, 2002

Attendees will have three options for high speed Internet access at CMG2002.

1. Use terminals provided at the Internet Cafe
2. Connect your laptops to the ethernet LAN at the Internet Cafe
3. Wireless access within meeting rooms and some surrounding hallways

zOS Handspring Visor™ Contest Winners Announced

Tuesday, November 12, 2002

Congratulations to this year's Handspring Visor™ Winners:
September 20th - Micheal Kotik, NJ
October 4th - Ralph L. Gifford, PA
October 18th - Kevin I. Martin, IA
November 8th - Amy Spellman, TX

GREAT Tours Registration

Tuesday, October 22, 2002

If you are bringing a guest to the conference, the Great Program includes a fabulous set of tours. Signup forms will be up on the web this week and we ask that you sign up so that we can plan appropriately. Registration is required in advance for these tours in order to ensure the tours can go ahead as planned. Check out the tour descriptions at:
http://www.cmg.org/conference/cmg2002/great_tours.html
and please sign up as soon as possible, but no later than November 22, 2002.
Tour Registration Form (PDF 105K)

Please vote and CMG2002 reminder

Tuesday, October 15, 2002

ELECTIONS
Just a reminder that voting for CMG officers and directors closes on October 18, 2002. This is YOUR organization, please vote and send in your ballot by October 18th.

CMG2002 UPDATE
Early registration has been extended until November 8, 2002. Make your plans now and send in your registration early to save $$$$. Speaking of saving money, did you know that the standard hotel rate is only $89? and the government rate is only $55. Make sure you book by November 5, 2002.

CMG has put together an incredible group of speakers for this conference. The keynote speaker is Gary Bloom, Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer of VERITAS Software Corporation and there are over 100 other sessions for you to experience. To find out more about our speakers go to: http://www.cmg.org/conference/cmg2002/speakers.html

PARS Networking Receptions
CMG hosts the unique Performance Analysts' Relaxation Sessions (PARS), Monday through Thursday evenings. Take a breather, network with other attendees, and enjoy complimentary hors d'oeuvres and entertainment. This year CMG welcomes Don McMillan and Paul Revere and the Raiders.

Jaqui Lynch
General Chair, CMG2002

zOS Handspring Visor™ Winner

Friday, October 11, 2002

Of the over 160 people that stopped by CMG's booth at the OS/390 Conference, Fred T. Ohr of Clearwater, Florida, won the Handspring Visor Pro™. Fred is Chief Systems Programmer at Pinellas County Department of Management Information Services. He was given the prize on site.

Bring a Friend to CMG2002 - Early Registration Deadline Approaching

Tuesday, October 8, 2002

Bring a friend to CMG2002 and receive a token of CMG's appreciation! When you refer an individual who is a new CMG attendee or who has not attended CMG in the past two years you will receive an attractive and useful "packable" gift on-site in Reno.

To find out more go to: http://www.cmg.org/conference/cmg2002/bring_a_friend.html

CMG Graduate Fellowship Program

Tuesday, October 1, 2002

$8,000 Grant to be awarded December 2002

The Computer Measurement Group (CMG) announces plans to award a fellowship to a graduate student carrying out research in the areas of measurement, modeling, management or analysis of system and network performance. Potential topics of interest include Internet and web server performance, storage networking performance, and the performance of back end database and transaction processing systems.

This program is open to full time graduate students in Computer Science and related fields. A single fellowship grant of $8,000 will be awarded in December at the CMG 2002 Annual Conference in Reno, Nevada.

The fellowship grants may be used for standard educational purposes such as tuition, travel to professional conferences, research equipment and so on. Tax consequences, if any, are the responsibility of the recipient.

To apply for a CMG fellowship, email the following information [in pdf or MS/Word format] to by October 18, 2002:

1. Basic information: name, email address, university, year of graduate study, educational background (degrees, dates, institutions), relevant work experience.

2. Description of research project (2-3 pages) - goals, overall approach, techniques employed, difficult issues to be solved, reasons why this work is important.

3. Name and email address of faculty member who is supervising research and is willing to serve as a reference [faculty member will only be contacted if applicant is a finalist].

This year's fellowship recipient will be announced December 9, 2002 at the Opening Session of CMG 2002 in Reno, Nevada.

CMG2002 - Stay Online with our new Internet Cafe!

Wednesday, September 25, 2002

CMG is pleased to announce that an Internet Cafe will be available at our upcoming Performance Management conference Dec. 8-13 in Reno Nevada. With our "wired and wireless" Internet Cafe, you will have Internet access at your fingertips during your attendance at CMG2002, only a click away from the office or home.

CMG2002 is the 28th International Conference for the Resource Management and Performance Evaluation of Enterprise Computing Systems held by CMG, Inc. This conference brings together industry visionaries, technology experts and fellow attendees to share ideas and experiences in the performance optimization, resource management, and capacity planning fields. Join your peers and leaders in the computer measurement industry to learn about best practices and technology breakthroughs in the performance optimization, resource management, and capacity planning fields.

CMG2002 features more than 100 technical sessions presented by industry experts. The agenda encompasses performance and resource management for all platforms and architectures. There is a special focus on emerging storage networking technology, strategies for managing resources-on-demand, web and e-business, and more.

With our new Internet Cafe you can stay in touch while you are away. Please visit http://www.cmg.org/conference for conference details, full agenda and registration forms.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Jaqui Lynch, CMG2002 General Chair

CMG2002 - Register NOW and win a COOL GIZMO!

Friday, September 20, 2002

CMG wants you to know that if you register now for CMG2002 in Reno December 8-13, your name will be entered into a drawing for very excellent cool gizmo (like a Palm-type toy).

Drawings will be held bi-weekly until November 8th, so the sooner you register for the world’s best systems management conference, the better your chances are of winning. Go to: http://www.cmg.org/conference/cmg2002/registration.html and register now!

The real truth is that you win much more by attending the best IT technical educational event in the industry! CMG2002 consists of over 100 sessions geared for people with real problems that are seeking real solutions. Some of the very best speakers in the industry will enlighten you ... you will return back to your job responsibilities with new energy and confidence.

We look forward to seeing you in Reno, sharing common experiences and solutions, and having a GREAT time!

Minda Larson, President
The Computer Measurement Group, Inc.

CMG2002 - Online Preliminary Agenda and Conference Planner Released

Monday, September 2, 2002

As you may already know, these two applications have been live for a little over a month now. However, in case you haven't had a chance to check them out thoroughly, here is a brief description of their features.

The Preliminary Agenda is a database driven program which allows a user to browse the CMG2002 sessions by Day or Subject Area as well as Search the entries for specific words. You also have the option of viewing the results in detail (including abstracts, etc.) or in a concise grid format.

The Conference Scheduler program works alongside the Preliminary Agenda program. A user can create his/her own desired schedule for the conference, adding or subtracting sessions by clicking links in either program. All that is required from the user is an email address and a password to create an account, as well as having cookies enabled. At any time a user can choose to view their schedule, which is presented in a calendar-like format. This should help attendees plan their week at CMG2002 more effectively. Once the user decides on a schedule, he or she can download a file which would allow them to import this schedule in to their Palm or Windows CE device. Obviously any schedule that is created, is only tentative, as some sessions will move. These session changes will be effective immediately in the online version of the user's schedule.

Please experiment with these two programs, and feel free to send any comments or questions to .

http://cmg.org/conference/cmg2002/prelim.html
http://cmg.org/cgi-bin/conf_sched.pl

Rob Harrigan
CMG HQ - IT Specialist/Programmer I