Re: [Haifux] Lecture Suggestion - Disco Project, an open source Map-Reduce framework based on Erlang and Python (mostly Python :-) )

2009-01-14 Thread Eran Sandler
Thanks for the explanation Orna :-) It would also be interesting to have a lecture on Hadoop just to show another Map-Reduce implementation out on the wild and also to compare Disco to Hadoop. I guess an additional follow up lecture on Hadoop can work but I'm less familiar with it (and all of its

Re: [Haifux] Lecture Suggestion - Disco Project, an open source Map-Reduce framework based on Erlang and Python (mostly Python :-) )

2009-01-14 Thread Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda
In short, this is the method google use for parallel processing. Every operation which needs to be parallel is divided into a mapping stage (where each worker does something on their own data, and produces a result) and a reduction stage, where the results of the map are collected into a meaningful

Re: [Haifux] Lecture Suggestion - Disco Project, an open source Map-Reduce framework based on Erlang and Python (mostly Python :-) )

2009-01-14 Thread guy keren
can you explain, briefly, what map-reduce is, so those not in the know (like me) will be able to decide if this is interesting? ;) thanks, --guy Eran Sandler wrote: > Hi all, > > It's been a while since I've posted to Haifux (or Linux-IL for that > matter) but I am watching the mailing list f

Re: [Haifux] Lecture Suggestion - Disco Project, an open source Map-Reduce framework based on Erlang and Python (mostly Python :-) )

2009-01-14 Thread Sorana Fraier
I am interested too. I would like to hear a lecture about Mono as well. On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 7:49 PM, Hai Zaar wrote: > -- > Zaar > > > > On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 7:32 PM, Eran Sandler wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > It's been a while since I've posted to Haifux (or Linux-IL for that > matter) > >

Re: [Haifux] Lecture Suggestion - Disco Project, an open source Map-Reduce framework based on Erlang and Python (mostly Python :-) )

2009-01-14 Thread Hai Zaar
-- Zaar On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 7:32 PM, Eran Sandler wrote: > Hi all, > > It's been a while since I've posted to Haifux (or Linux-IL for that matter) > but I am watching the mailing list from time to time and due to personal > reasons found myself as a Haifa citizen for the past year (and prob

[Haifux] Lecture Suggestion - Disco Project, an open source Map-Reduce framework based on Erlang and Python (mostly Python :-) )

2009-01-14 Thread Eran Sandler
Hi all, It's been a while since I've posted to Haifux (or Linux-IL for that matter) but I am watching the mailing list from time to time and due to personal reasons found myself as a Haifa citizen for the past year (and probably for a couple more years :-) ). Somewhere in 2004 I even did a lectur

Re: [Haifux] Welcome2Linux?

2009-01-14 Thread Amichai Rotman
OK, thanks! I don''t know anyone at the Technion. Can you tell me who to talk to to get another room? Thanks again! .::. Amichai Rotman UIN#: 6401746 Registered Linux User#: 201192 [http://counter.li.org/] Registered Ubuntu User #12851 [http

Re: [Haifux] Welcome2Linux?

2009-01-14 Thread Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda
Hi Amichai, Haifux Calendar is not really "wide open" - actually, it is booked until May, which is four months from now. However, regular Haifux lectures are only every other week. During W2L we usually stop all Haifux activity, and give weekly lectures. This hurts the club's activity. If you (or

Re: [Haifux] Welcome2Linux?

2009-01-14 Thread Amichai Rotman
Orna, I understand your point and agree with it, nevertheless, I believe there are a lot of skilled programmers and super users out there that tend to think Linux is no more than an old "dos window for geeks', unusable for the desktop user (i.e - them, while not doing sudo stuff) and so on... I w