[web-team] speaker info for the SVLUG August 2008 meeting

[Aniruddha Mulay]

Hello,

Over the weekend, Adam L Beberg, our speaker for Aug 2008 meeting
has sent the following info about his upcoming presentation.

IMO, this is going to be a great presentation.

Pl. update the website as and when you get a chance.
Regards,

(Ani)ruddha Mulay
volunteer, SVLUG
www.svlug.org


On Sat, 7/19/08, Adam L Beberg wrote:

a. presentation title
 
>From 325,000 Internet hosts to 1,600 cores on a card, and back again.
 
b. abstract
 
Technological and sociological issues on the scale of a 325k volunteer
node system like Folding at home. The upcoming infrastructure to take to
tens of millions of nodes with integrated storage - Storage at home on
Cosm. Issues in the design and tools for handling kilo-core systems
(SMP, Cell, GPU and beyond) without going insane while maintaining
portability and future-proof libraries - Thalweg.

In other words... how to write a vectored multi-core clustered
distributed system run by random people on the Internet that gets
science done, and other random musings.
 
c. speaker bio

Adam L. Beberg has been building distributed systems since 1990. He
founded Mithral Communications & Design in 1995, which is the home
of the Cosm distributed computing tools. In 1997 he was a founder and
president of distributed.net until 1999, during which RC5 was cracked
once and DES was cracked twice - the second time in 22 hours with the
additional help of the EFF's Deep Crack. In 1999 he met Vijay Pande and 
collaborated on Folding at home, leading to the use of Cosm as the network 
library in Folding at home. He was also honored as one of MIT Technology 
Review's TR100 top young innovators of 1999. He has worked and spoken 
extensively in the areas of distributed computing, storage, and computer 
security. With a B.S. in Computer Engineering from Illinois Institute
of Technology, he has been at Stanford since 2004 working on a
PhD in Vijay  Pande's lab working on next generation distributed
computing methodologies, after which he will find a nice day job
in academia and start his epic quest for tenure.