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From: Evert Lammerts <Evert.Lammerts@sara.nl>
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Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 15:27:49 +0100
Subject: Lecture: Large-scale data processing with Hadoop MapReduce
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Who:		Dr. Jimmy Lin, University of Maryland,=20
When:		2 December 2011, 11.00 - 12.00
Where:	Amolf, 2nd floor, Science Park 104, Amsterdam
Directions:	http://www.amolf.nl/about-amolf/visitor/#c42

Register for this lecture at http://bghadoop.eventbrite.com/. Feel free to =
redistribute! Our capacity is limited to 65 registrants, so be sure to regi=
ster in time.


BiG Grid and Amsterdam Information Retrieval (AIR) present a guest lecture =
by Dr. Jimmy Lin on the processing of large datasets using the open-source =
MapReduce implementation Apache Hadoop. If you are curious to see how Hadoo=
p can help you with your processing needs, and are not afraid of some techn=
ical examples, then this should be a helpful and interesting talk for you.

Jimmy received his Ph.D. at MIT and is an associate professor at the Univer=
sity of Maryland, holding several positions. He is currently on sabbatical =
at Twitter. Jimmy is author of the book 'Data-Intensive Text Processing wit=
h MapReduce', the most exhaustive source of information on MapReduce curren=
tly available. (See http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~jimmylin/book.html)

Apache Hadoop is an open source data-processing framework that is able to l=
everage the power of very large clusters of commodity computers. It's today=
's most widely used software for distributed data processing and provides a=
 rich ecosystem of related tools, together with a large, enthusiastic, and =
helpful developer community. It has been used to win the 2009 edition of Ji=
m Gray's Sort benchmark, and it is the processing framework powering Watson=
, IBM's supercomputer that won the game-show Jeopardy earlier this year.

BiG Grid and SARA offer access to a prototype Apache Hadoop service to scie=
ntists in The Netherlands, and will have a production-level service ready b=
y the first quarter of 2012. This production service will offer more than 5=
00 cores of processing power, and 500 terabytes of storage capacity, and wi=
ll be made available for all scientists in The Netherlands. For more inform=
ation contact us at evert.lammerts@sara.nl.

More information on:
*	Dr. Jimmy Lin: http://ischool.umd.edu/content/jimmy-lin-0
*	Hadoop: http://hadoop.apache.org/
*	Hadoop @ BiG Grid: http://www.sara.nl/project/hadoop


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Evert Lammerts
SARA=20
Phone: +31 6 10558303, +31 20 5923017