I have a MBP too with a mini-displayport. Big Door had adapters last month so I think we're good.
Thanks for volunteering to present on short notice. Any other takers? If not I can probably whip up a simple MapReduce demo, since that's an important one to cover for this topic imho. -- James On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 9:30 PM, John DeRosa <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm in. I'll put something together. > > It's been a while since I've attended one of these. (Sheepishly....) I'll > have my Mac laptop, do I need to bring a minidisplayport to xxxx adapter for > the projector? > > John > > On Jul 9, 2011, at 12:53 PM, James Cooper wrote: > > Hi John, > > I wouldn't worry too much about making anything shiny -- 10-15 minutes > total. I'm not planning on doing any slides for the Redis stuff. I'll > probably just: > > - do a 5 minute demo of a toy parallel app that uses Redis as a queue and > gets a few separate python processes going > - walkthrough of the code > - quick summary of uses cases I think it's a good/bad fit for > - Q&A > > I personally get a lot of value out of just seeing what it's like to write > something with these technologies, regardless of how trivial. > > What do you think? > > -- James > > On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 12:28 PM, John DeRosa <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I've used Celery extensively for the past year. But I'm not sure I can >> whip up a presentation by Wednesday..... What kind of presentation detail >> are folks looking for? >> >> John >> >> On Jul 9, 2011, at 9:41 AM, James Cooper wrote: >> >> Hi there, >> >> I volunteered to organize some speakers for next week's meeting. The >> topic is parallel computing -- i.e. how to get a bunch of machines/cores to >> do useful work at the same time without tearing your hair out. >> >> Anyone have experience with any of the following and would like to >> present? >> >> - Celery >> - MapReduce (using Hadoop / disco / mincemeat / etc) >> - PiCloud >> - Message queues (using STOMP or AMQP) (brokers might include RabbitMQ, >> HornetQ, ActiveMQ) >> - Amazon SQS/SNS >> - Redis (not a traditional message queue, but has atomic list primitives >> that provide queueing semantics) >> >> A very good list of options is available here: >> >> http://wiki.python.org/moin/ParallelProcessing >> >> _____ >> >> I've used SQS and Redis with Python on some production systems and could >> talk about that a bit. PiCloud might be worth looking at too (it's >> commercial, but has a pretty amazing instant gratification "wow" factor). >> >> A gentleman at last month's meeting volunteered to present on Celery, >> which would be good - that seems to be the hot project in this area now. >> >> Please email me or the list if you're interested in presenting! >> >> cheers >> >> -- James >> >> -- >> >> James Cooper >> Principal Consultant - Bitmechanic LLC >> http://www.bitmechanic.com/ >> >> >> > > > -- > > James Cooper > Principal Consultant - Bitmechanic LLC > http://www.bitmechanic.com/ > > > -- James Cooper Principal Consultant - Bitmechanic LLC http://www.bitmechanic.com/
