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

["johnmalloy-2" <user=1291@nabble.blu.org>]

Can you please point to more info on Beansec? 


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John Malloy 
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From: gboyce <[hidden email]> 

> And you miss the MIT Flea, Beansec, BLU meetings and Mary Chungs. 
> 
> On Wed, 10 Oct 2007, Kristian Erik Hermansen wrote: 
> 
> > See what you guys are missing by being in Massachusetts :-P 
> > 
> > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- 
> > From: Walter Vannini 
> > Date: Oct 10, 2007 11:34 AM 
> > Subject: [svlug] ACCU meeting tonight 
> > To: SVLUG 
> > 
> > 
> > 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: 
> > Directions: 
> > Cost: Free 
> > More Info: 
> > 
> > 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 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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