I need to read general@ more often. I just forward it myself. ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Hebert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, February 13, 2004 1:40 PM Subject: [brlug-general] Comp Sci lecture at 3pm today at LSU was Fwd: [Fwd:URGENT EVENT ALERT FOR IT COMMUNITY!]
> 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 > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > >
