[Crib-list] Speaker: GRZEGORZ MALEWICZ (Google) -- Computational Research in Boston Seminar -- Friday, October 3, 2008 (fwd)

[Shirley Entzminger]

T O D A Y . . .

 		COMPUTATIONAL RESEARCH in BOSTON SEMINAR


DATE:		Friday, OCTOBER 3, 2008
TIME:		12:30 PM
LOCATION:	Building 32, Room 144   (Stata Center)

Pizza and beverages will be provided at 12:15 PM outside room.


TITLE:		MapReduce at Google

SPEAKER:	GRZEGORZ MALEWICZ  (Google)


ABSTRACT:

Google processed over 400 PB of data using the MapReduce system in September of 
2007 alone.  The MapReduce model enables rapid expression of a wide range of 
computations.  Its implementation masks failures and scales to tens of 
thousands of cores.  As a result, the system is the foundation of 
high-performance computing at Google.  The talk will overview the MapReduce 
system.

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Bio

Grzegorz Malewicz received the BA degrees in computer science and in applied 
mathematics in 1996 and 1998, respectively, and the MS degree in computer 
science in 1998, all from the University of Warsaw.  He received the PhD degree 
in computer science from the University of Connecticut in 2003.  He is an 
engineer at Google.  He has had internships at the AT&T Shannon Laboratory 
(summer 2001) and Microsoft Corp. (summer 2000 and fall 2001).  He visited the 
Supercomputing Technologies Group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
(academic year 2002-2003), and was a visiting scientist at the University of 
Massachusetts, Amherst (summer 2004) and Argonne National Laboratory (summer 
2005).  He was an assistant professor at the University of Alabama, where he 
taught computer science from 2003 until 2005.  His research focuses on 
high-performance parallel and distributed computing, experimental and 
theoretical algorithmics, combinatorial optimization, and scheduling.  His 
research appears in top journals and conferences and includes a singly authored 
SIAM Journal on Computing paper that solves a decade-old problem in distributed 
computing.

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