[svlug] ACCU Wednesday 'Pregel: a system for large-scale graph processing' Matt Austern

[Walter Vannini]

When:      Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Topic:     Pregel: a system for large-scale graph processing
Speaker:   Matt Austern
Time:      6:30pm doors open
        7:00pm meeting begins
Where:     Symantec
        VCAFE building
        350 Ellis Street (near E. Middlefield Road)
        Mountain View, CA 94043
Map:       <http://tinyurl.com/334rv5>
Directions: VCAFE is accessible from the semicircular courtyard between Symantec buildings <http://tinyurl.com/2dccgc>
Cost:      Free
More Info: <http://www.accu-usa.org>

Matt will introduce us to Pregel, a framework for expressing graph algorithms on large scale graphs.

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.

Meetings are open to the public and are free of charge.

---- Upcoming ACCU talks -----

Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Hugh Williams
"A Tour of a Modern Search Engine"

Wednesday, December 8, 2010
Andrei Alexandrescu
"Three cool things about D"

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The ACCU meets monthly. Meetings are always open to the public and are free of charge. To suggest topics and speakers please email Walter Vannini via walterv at gbbservices.com