Last year I was just observing the revolution when I spoke of inverting the CPU model into a rented hourly service for machine images. Now Amazon is asking “Who needs a search engine packed as an AMI? I say, who doesn’t? We’ve been watching desktop search happen in every company from [...]
I am a certified dork because papers about boarding airplanes interest me.
Analog Concurrency: Boarding a Plane Linked from the above in the comments is this paper: Novel Approaches to Airplane Boarding (PDF Link)
Google is holding a conference in Seattle about scalability They are accepting papers now and will open up registration in a while. The conference will take place June 23, 2007 at Google’s Seattle office.
If you have a great new idea for handling a growing system or an innovative approach to [...]
It’s time to re-examine those long running batch jobs. Could you partition the data to allow for MapReduce? I bet you can. I know I’ve always wanted an affordable way to fire up 30 servers and run MapReduce operations against giant datasets, it’s confirmed; I’m a dork.
Tom White sent [...]
Digipede Evangelista Kim Greenlee will be giving a talk on concurrency and software development at the .NET Developer Association Monday on the Microsoft campus. dan ciruli’s West Coast Grid
If I didn’t already have plans Monday, I’d be at this talk. Sure it’s over in Redmond, but it sounds really interesting.
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