[ale] [ANNC] ALE-NW @ SPSU MTG. for Thurs, April 12, 7:30pm

[JD]

The next ALE-NW at SPSU meeting is being held Thursday, April 12, 2012 at 7:30pm in
room J131 of the Atrium (J) building on the SPSU campus.

The feature presentation will be:

LexisNexis® :
Solving Big Data Problems with the Opensource HPCC Systems™ Platform presented
by Dr. Flavio Villanustre & Arjuna Chala.

Synopsis:
– HPCC (High Performance Computing Cluster) is an open source massive
parallel-processing computing platform that solves Big Data problems. An
overview of the HPCC Systems architecture and its major components including
Thor, Roxie and ECL will be presented along with how this platform compares to
other big data
technologies like Hadoop. System requirements covering the supported Linux
distributions will be reviewed. Also included will be a demo of how this
platform can integrate with PentahoSpoon/Kettle for powerful data ETL capabilities.

Speaker Bios:
– Dr Flavio Villanustre –
- VP Infrastructure & Products, HPCC Systems and LexisNexis - Flavio is the Vice
President of Infrastructure and Products. In this position, Flavio is
responsible for Information and Physical Security, overall infrastructure
strategy and new product development. Previously, Flavio was Director of
Infrastructure for Seisint. Prior to  2001, Flavio served in a variety of roles
at different companies including Infrastructure, Information Security and
Information Technology. In addition to this, Villanustre has been involved with
the Opensource community for over 15 years through multiple initiatives. Some of
these include founding the first Linux User Group in Buenos Aires (BALUG) in
1994, releasing several pieces of software under different Opensource licenses,
and evangelizing Opensource to different audiences through conferences, training
and education.
– Arjuna Chala —
- Architect Integrations, HPCC Systems and LexisNexis - Arjuna is responsible
for providing strategic and technology direction for the analytics and business
intelligence components of the HPCC platform.

About HPCC Systems™:
HPCC Systems™ from LexisNexis® Risk Solutions offers a proven, data-intensive
supercomputing platform designed for the enterprise to process and solve Big
Data analytical problems. As a superior alternative to Hadoop and legacy
technology, HPCC Systems offers a consistent data-centric programming language,
two processing platforms and a single, complete end-to-end architecture for
efficient processing. For more information, visit HPCC Systems at
http://hpccsystems.com.

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For a campus map and a link to directions please see
http ://www.spsu.edu/visitspsu/campusmaps/index.htm
Parking in non reserved spaces in the P60 deck is best. building J, the Atrium
building, is a short distance east of the parking deck.
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