Fwd: [svlug] ACCU meeting tonight (Google's MapReduce private lecture)

["Kristian Erik Hermansen" <user=152@nabble.blu.org>]

 See what you guys are missing by being in Massachusetts :-P 

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From: Walter Vannini <[hidden email]> 
Date: Oct 10, 2007 11:34 AM 
Subject: [svlug] ACCU meeting tonight 
To: SVLUG <[hidden email]> 


IMPORTANT: Please note below the different location and the need to 
give yourself some extra time to arrive. 

Feel free to forward this notice to anyone who is interested. 

When:      Wednesday, October 10, 2007 
Topic:     MapReduce: Parallel Processing for Huge Data 
Speaker:   Matt Austern 
Time:      7:00pm 
Where:     Google 
                Building 42 (Paramaribo on the 2nd floor) 
                1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy 
                Mountain View, CA 94043 
Map:       <http://tinyurl.com/783gq> 
Directions:<http://tinyurl.com/yorxol> 
Cost:      Free 
More Info: <http://www.accu-usa.org> 

IMPORTANT - Please note that this is a new location. 
Please give yourself extra time to get to the meeting. 
Google will be holding the Zeitgeist event and parking 
will be difficult to find. We recommend arriving at 
least a half hour earlier than you normally would. 
Also, you will have to check in at the building 42 
lobby, sign the visitor NDA, and be escorted by 
security to the Paramaribo meeting room. 

MapReduce is one of Google's main tools for large-scale 
distributed data processing. MapReduce users write map and 
reduce functions, while the framework handles such issues 
as data partitioning, work scheduling, inter-machine 
communication, and fault tolerance. 

The MapReduce computational model is a simple 
generalization of well known patterns from functional 
programming, but in practice it has turned out that many 
real world computations can be expressed in this form. 

Matt Austern is the author of "Generic Programming and the 
STL". He's the former chair of the C++ standardization 
committee's library working group, and is a moderator of 
comp.std.c++. Before working at Google, Matt was at Apple and 
before that at SGI. Matt received his PhD in physics from 
Berkeley in 1994, and participated in the discovery of the top 
quark. 

Upcoming ACCU talks 

Wednesday, November 14, 2007 
Jeff Johnson 
"GUI Bloopers: Avoiding Common UI Design Mistakes" 

Wednesday, December 12, 2007 
Ulrich Drepper 
"CPU Memory and Caches" 

The ACCU meets monthly. To suggest topics and speakers 
please email Walter Vannini via [hidden email] 

Walter Vannini 
<http://www.accu-usa.org/> 
<http://www.gbbservices.com/> 




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