Google: Tech Talk & Lunch

Date:  Tuesday, April 1, 2008

Where & When:
1pm Tech Talk, Clayton campus: Lecture room H5, Menzies building (11), ground floor (campus map)

Agenda:MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters

Anthony Baxter, Google software engineer and Python release manager, will be discussing MapReduce, an abstraction developed by Google to process large amounts of raw data in a fraction of the time. The data is so large; it must be distributed across thousands of machines. Anthony will cover how it is used by Google engineers to perform simple computations while hiding the details of parallelization, data distribution, load balancing and fault tolerance for a range of products, from Local Search to Maps and many others.

2pm Light lunch with Google engineers

Target audience:
All FIT students, especially students with an interest in computer science or software engineering. This is also open to students who study within FIT as a part of double degrees.

Numbers are limited. if you are thinking of attending, please register your interest at: www.google.com.au/monash-talk