MIT: Independent Activities Period: IAP

IAP 2013



Building Blocks for Building Large Scale Analytics Software Systems

Andrew Lamb, 6-2 02, MEng 03

Jan/10 Thu 06:00PM-07:00PM 32-141

Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Prereq: interest in large scale analytic software systems

In this talk, Andrew Lamb will talk about the choices made when building a large scale, commercial, distributed database system. Topics will include topology, disk layout, processing pipelines, and computation models. The talk will last for about 30 minutes followed by Q&A with the speaker. If there is sufficient interest, a group dinner will follow the talk.

Sponsor(s): Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Student Information Processing Board
Contact: Andrew Lamb, aalamb@alum.mit.edu