[Crib-list] SPEAKERS: Oren J. Falkowitz (CEO / sqrrl) and Adam Fuchs (CTO / sqrrl) -- "Computational Research in Boston and Beyond Seminar (CRIBB)" -- Friday, Aug. 3, 2012 -- TIME: 12:00 Noon in Bldg. 32, Room 124 (Stata Center)

[Shirley Entzminger]

            COMPUTATIONAL RESEARCH in BOSTON and BEYOND SEMINAR


DATE:           Friday, August 3, 2012
NOTE TIME:	12:00 Noon
LOCATION:       Building 32, Room 124 (Stata Center)
                 (32 Vassar Street, Cambridge)

          (Pizza and beverages will be provided outside Room 32-124
           at 11:45 AM.)


SPEAKERS:       Oren J. Falkowitz (CEO / sqrrl)
                 Adam Fuchs (CTO / sqrrl)


TITLE:          Completing the Big Data Ecosystem: sqrrl and Accumulo


ABSTRACT:

In a world where mastery of big data leads to competitive advantage, 
adaptability and scalability are the new driving factors for analytical 
infrastructure. Founders of the Apache Accumulo project have recently 
launched sqrrl, a Boston based startup. sqrrl's mission is to support and 
drive Accumulo and to provide a secure, scalable, and efficient discovery 
analytic layer on top of Accumulo, exposing the new design patterns that 
Accumulo brings. This talk will discuss the technology and techniques of 
Accumulo and exemplify them through an application development 
perspective.

Apache Accumulo, originally developed by the National Security Agency and 
now an Apache Software Foundation project, builds upon Google's Bigtable 
design to provide a scalable, lightly-structured database capability 
complementing the ubiquitous Hadoop environment. The core capabilities of 
Accumulo include cell-level security, flexible schemas, bulk I/O, and 
linear scalability beyond trillions of entries and petabytes of data. 
These new capabilities lead to techniques that unlock the power of Big 
Data, but don't fit into traditional database design patterns.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA


For more information, please visit...

                          http://math.mit.edu/crib