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

[Shirley Entzminger]

 	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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