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Join Steven Cerri, engineer, consultant, trainer and coach to engineers, for a morning of communication training. IEEE-CNSV member Larry Nagel will talk about the SPICE, the circuit simulation program he first developed while a student at UC Berkeley in the late 1960s. This talk will provide an overview of common programming methods in the cloud, including MapReduce, Hadoop, and Cascading. In this interactive presentation, Jacky Hood will show how service products have eclipsed object products in recent years. She will categorize engineering disciplines into gone, going, and growing. For the growing disciplines, she will explore how engineers and engineering consultants can quickly build on their education and experience to position themselves to profit from the services revolution.
KeyPoint Event: Successful Consulting
Thursday, April 23, 2009
This seminar is sponsored by KeyPoint Credit Union. It is specifically designed for anyone who is developing a consulting or contracts business. Note: This is not an IEEE-CNSV event. It is sponsored by KeyPoint Credit Union.
The Future of Cellular Infrastructure
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
This talk will outline the disruptive forces in the cellular industry as subscribers grow, cell phones become broadband-enabled, and revenue plans fall. These are having a great effect on network infrastructure and in particular backhaul. The deficiencies of current networks will be explored, and the future roles of different technologies discussed. Fusion-io CTO David Flynn will present technical details about how flash memory-based storage systems work, as well as how PCI Express is being used as a much faster access method for flash memory-based storage products. A panel of four CNSV members will explain how they market their consulting businesses. Each has an approach unique amongst the group. Come and discover something that may work for your own consulting business. The best way to get paid is to have a clear "collections-friendly" contract by which you and your client have shared expectations. If payment issues do arise, you may need to file a lawsuit. However, mediation or arbitration can provide a satisfactory resolution.
CNSV Event Details
Cloud Computing Paradigms: MapReduce, Hadoop, Cascading
Tuesday, May 19, 2009 7:00 PM
KeyPoint Credit Union
2805 Bowers Ave., Santa Clara, CA 95051
Chris K. Wensel, Scale Unlimited
Free to the public
No RSVP needed
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Presentation Slides

Cloud computing promises to make a significant impact on engineering computing paradigms and application design in a number of important arenas. Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud and subsequent Elastic MapReduce is only one of many providers offering cloud computing.

This talk will provide an overview of common programming methods in the cloud, including MapReduce, Hadoop, and Cascading. Hadoop is an open source implementation of the Google MapReduce processing model which has been widely embraced by startups and established companies like Yahoo! and Amazon. Cascading is another open source project which provides an alternative API to MapReduce, and which allows developers to rapidly create sophisticated applications on the Hadoop platform.


About the Speaker
Chris K. Wensel has been a Software and Systems Architect for over 15 years. He is the founder of Concurrent, Inc., and the originator of the Cascading data processing open-source project. He is also a Principal at Scale Unlimited, a professional services company offering commercial training and consulting for Hadoop and related scale-free architectures. Over the last seven years, Chris has deployed large and sophisticated data processing applications for use by companies providing geo-spatial, web content, and financial data services in both the traditional enterprise data-center and on Amazon EC2.
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