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Computation Institute Presentation
"My Other Computer is a Data Center: The Sector Perspective on Big Data"

DATE: June 23, 2010
TIME: 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
SPEAKER: Robert L. Grossman, Laboratory for Advanced Computing, University of Illinois at Chicago
LOCATION: Argonne National Lab, TCS/Room 5C2 (5172), University of Chicago, Searle 240A, 5735 S. Ellis Ave.

Description:
The publication of a series of Google technical reports describing the Google File System, MapReduce and BigTable and the development of the Hadoop system and related projects that provided an open source implementation of this technology changed the way that scientists computed with big data. Today, developing systems to manage and analyze big data is an active area of research.

In this talk, we give an overview of some of this work. The Sector/Sphere system is one of the systems being developed for working with big data. It consists of a parallel programming framework called Sphere that enables arbitrary user defined functions to be executed over the data managed by the Sector distributed storage system. In this talk, we describe Sector and Sphere and some of the lessons that we have learned over the past several years using Hadoop, Sector/Sphere and related systems when working with big data.

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