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Date: August 19, 2009 6:56:57 PM GMT+02:00
Subject: CERN Computing Colloquium announcement: August 21st, 2009 (fwd)
FYI
From: David Myers <David.Myers@cern.ch>
Date: 12 August 2009 09:06:03 GMT+02:00
To: "it-dep-full (All the members in IT Department in its extended
form)" <it-dep-full@cern.ch>
Subject: CERN Computing Colloquium announcement: August 21st, 2009
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Dear All,
The next Computing Colloquium will take place:
On: Friday , August 21st
At: 14:00
In: Main Auditorium
Title: Analyzing petabytes of data with Hadoop
Speaker: Mr. Jeff Hammerbacher, Chief Scientist, Cloudera
Abstract: The open source Apache Hadoop project provides a powerful
suite of tools for storing and analyzing petabytes of data using
commodity hardware. After several years of production use inside of
web companies like Yahoo! and Facebook and nearly a year of
commercial support and development by Cloudera, the technology is
spreading rapidly through other disciplines, from financial
services and government to life sciences and high energy physics.
The talk will motivate the design of Hadoop and discuss some key
implementation details in depth. It will also cover the major
subprojects in the Hadoop ecosystem, go over some example
applications, highlight best practices for deploying Hadoop in your
environment, discuss plans for the future of the technology, and
provide pointers to the many resources available for learning more.
In addition to providing more information about the Hadoop
platform, a major goal of this talk is to begin a dialogue with the
ATLAS research team on how the tools commonly used in their
environment compare to Hadoop, and how Hadoop could improve better
to serve the high energy physics community.
Short Biography: Jeff Hammerbacher is Vice President of Products
and Chief Scientist at Cloudera. Jeff was an Entrepreneur in
Residence at Accel Partners immediately prior to founding Cloudera.
Before Accel, he conceived, built, and led the Data team at
Facebook. The Data team was responsible for driving many of the
applications of statistics and machine learning at Facebook, as
well as building out the infrastructure to support these tasks for
massive data sets. The team produced two open source projects:
Hive, a system for offline analysis built above Hadoop, and
Cassandra, a structured storage system on a P2P network. Before
joining Facebook, Jeff was a quantitative analyst on Wall Street.
Jeff earned his Bachelor's Degree in Mathematics from Harvard
University and recently served as contributing editor to the book
"Beautiful Data", published by O'Reilly in July 2009.
The InDiCo link is here: http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=59791
With regards,
David Myers.
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