Just received this. --- John Hebert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From John Hebert Fri Feb 13 11:38:51 2004 > Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 13:38:51 -0600 > From: John Hebert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [Fwd: URGENT EVENT ALERT FOR IT COMMUNITY!] > >
> ATTACHMENT part 2 message/rfc822 name=URGENT EVENT ALERT FOR IT COMMUNITY! > Subject: URGENT EVENT ALERT FOR IT COMMUNITY! > Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 13:34:25 -0600 > From: "BRTC News" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sorry for this last minute reminder. We just > recently got word of this...hopefully "better late > than never"... > > LSU's Computer Science Department has an impressive > speaker that will be giving a seminar TODAY at 3pm > in 152 Coates Hall. > > David Patterson has been Professor of Computer > Science at U.C. Berkeley since 1977. He is one of > the pioneers of both Reduced Instruction Set > Computers (RISC) and Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive > Disks (RAID), which are widely used. He co-authored > five books, including two with John Hennessy, that > have been popular in graduate and undergraduate > courses since 1990. He served as chair of the > Computer Science Department at U.C. Berkeley, the > ACM SIG in computer architecture, and the Computing > Research Association. He currently serves on the > Presidential Information Technology Advisory > Committee, Microsoft's Trusted Computing Academic > Advisory Board, and IBM's Autonomic Computing > Advisory Board. His work was recognized by education > and research awards from ACM and IEEE, by fellowship > in both societies, and by membership in the National > Academy of Engineering. > > Patterson's current research project-- Recovery > Oriented Computing (ROC)-- assumes that human > mistakes, software bugs, and hardware failures are > facts to be coped with rather than problems to be > solved. It explores measuring and improving speed of > recovery to cope with these facts. > > Abstract of topic: > > It is time to broaden our performance-dominated > research agenda. A four order of magnitude increase > in performance over 20 years means that few outside > the CS&E research community believe that speed is > the only problem of computer hardware and software. > If we don't change our ways, our legacy may be > cheap, fast, and flaky. Recovery Oriented Computing > (ROC) takes the perspective that hardware faults, > software bugs, and operator errors are facts to be > coped with, not problems to be solved. By > concentrating on Mean Time to Repair rather than > Mean Time to Failure, ROC reduces recovery time and > thus offers higher availability. Since a large > portion of system administration is dealing with > failures, ROC may also reduce total cost of > ownership. ROC principles include design for fast > recovery, extensive error detection and diagnosis, > systematic error insertion to test emergency > systems, and recovery benchmarks to measure > progress. If we embrace availability and > maintainability, systems of the future may compete > on recovery performance rather than just processor > performance, and on total cost of ownership rather > than just system price. Such a change may restore > our pride in the systems we craft. > > The original notice comes by way of > http://bit.csc.lsu.edu/news/patterson.html > > > Hope you can free up some time this afternoon to > make it to the meeting. What a great opportunity > for the Capital Region IT community! > ===== John Hebert Official BRLUG Linux Curmudgeon Open Source Ankle Biter __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance: Get your refund fast by filing online. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html
