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

["Gregory Boyce-3" <user=138@nabble.blu.org>]

 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 
> 
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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]> 
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> 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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