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PRESENTED BY:
Adam L. Beberg, Stanford, University 
  
 TOPIC SUMMARY:
Technological and sociological issues on the scale of a 325k volunteer node 
system like Folding at home will be described. The upcoming infrastructure to 
use millions of nodes for integrated storage like Storage at home on Cosm will 
be discussed. We will learn about issues in the design and tools for handling 
kilo-core systems (SMP, Cell, GPU and beyond) without going insane while 
maintaining portability and developing future-proof libraries.


   ABOUT THE PRESENTER:
Adam L. Beberg has been building distributed systems since 1990. He founded 
Mithral Communications & Design in 1995, which is the home of the Cosm 
distributed computing tools. In 1997 he was a founder and president of 
distributed.net until 1999, during which RC5 was cracked once and DES was 
cracked twice - the second time in 22 hours with the additional help of the 
EFF's Deep Crack. In 1999 he met Vijay Pande and collaborated on 
Folding at home, leading to the use of Cosm as the network library in 
Folding at home. He was also honored as one of MIT Technology Review's TR100 top 
young innovators of 1999. He has worked and spoken extensively in the areas 
of distributed computing, storage, and computer security. With a B.S. in 
Computer Engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology, he has been at 
Stanford since 2004 working on a PhD in Vijay Pande's lab working on next 
generation distributed computing methodologies, after which he will find a 
nice day job in academia and start his epic quest for tenure. 


 NIFTY OF THE MONTH:
None this month.

 LOCATION:

   Symantec  (formerly Veritas Software Corp.)
   VCAFE Facility
   350 Ellis Street  (near E. Middlefield Road)
   Mountain View, CA 94043

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 MEETING REFRESHMENTS:

None planned for this meeting.

 POST-MEETING GATHERING:

   If you just can't get enough, a smaller group usually goes to a local
   restaurant/diner after the meeting.  We'll announce the restaurant
   selection at the meeting.


 We look forward to seeing you there!

-- 
Mark Weisler   PGP: 0x68E462B6  http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/

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