[svlug] ACCU meeting tonight

[Walter Vannini]

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 walterv at gbbservices.com

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