ACM Monthly TechTalk - Hadoop - An OpenSource framework for very Large Scale Distributed-Computing and Storage November 20, 2007

Hadoop implements a map-reduce framework which companies like Yahoo and Google
are using extensively. But it is used not only for search but also lot
of other large scale computation projects.
You can read more about Hadoop at http://lucene.apache.org­/hadoop/

Speaker: Devaraj Das, Yahoo

Title: Overview of Hadoop (an Apache Open Source framework for very
Large Scale Distributed-Computing and Storage)

Talk Outline:
1. Motivation for Hadoop & history
2. Distributed File System Overview
3. Map Reduce Overview
4. Real world production setup examples especially at Yahoo
5. How to Use the product & How to contribute to the project
6. Q & A

About the Speaker:
Devaraj Das is the Engineering Manager of the Hadoop team in Yahoo!
Bangalore. Devaraj has been working on Hadoop for nearly 1.5 years and
is also an Apache Software Foundation Committer. Prior to Yahoo,
Devaraj was with HP for 8.5 years, where he worked on JVM, Web
Application Server, Security and Grid Computing technologies. Devaraj
has a Master's degree from IISc and a Bachelor's degree from BITS,
Pilani.

Date & time: Tuesday, 20th November. 6.00pm - 7.00pm.

Venue: Computer Society of India, Bangalore Chapter,
NO.201, IInd Floor, MBC Complex, Infantry Road,
Bangalore-560001.
Phone: 22860461/22862215.

Official Website: http://acmbangalore.org