[Baypiggies] concurrency talk

[Shannon -jj Behrens]

I think MapReduce should definitely be covered.  I think a lot more
people are going to care about distributed computing than parallel
computing.  At least, that's been my experience at my last three
companies.

-jj

On 9/17/07, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
> I was thinking of E as well, but then I realized that E supports
> *distributed* computing, which isn't quite the same field as
> *parallel* computing. I'm not sure it's useful to increase the field
> even more by adding distributed computing -- then you'd have to add
> MapReduce and many other paradigms as well.
>
> On 9/17/07, jim stockford <jim at well.com> wrote:
> >
> >     maybe add E to the list (below Erlang)?
> >
> >     could the discussoin also include likely new CPU
> > designs, PCB designs, embedded and desktop and
> > server systems as well.
> >
> >
> > On Sep 17, 2007, at 2:48 AM, Shannon -jj Behrens wrote:
> >
> > > Someone hinted at this idea earlier, but it might be fun to have an
> > > overview discussion on a bunch of different concurrency techniques.
> > > We could have a bunch of speakers, each speaking for 15 minutes on a
> > > specific topic.  For instance:
> > >
> > > * Processes
> > > * Threads (kernel and green)
> > > * Parallel programming vs. distributed computing
> > > * IO bound vs. CPU bound
> > > * Asynchronous
> > > * Twisted
> > > * Stackless
> > > * Actors
> > > * Erlang
> > >
> > > We wouldn't actually try to cover how to use each of these.  Rather,
> > > the goal would be to explain what it is and what are its advantages
> > > and limitations.  That'd be a fun talk to give assuming we can keep it
> > > shallow enough to cover everything but deep enough to make sense.
> > >
> > > Happy Hacking!
> > > -jj
> > >
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