----- Original Message ----- From: "BRTC News" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <undisclosed-recipients:> Sent: Friday, February 13, 2004 1:34 PM Subject: URGENT EVENT ALERT FOR IT COMMUNITY!
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!
