Tag: big data

  • Free workshop: high performance computing and XSEDE, 4/11-12

    4/11-12: UMBC will host a free workshop on high performace computing and XSEDE in room 120 of the Meyerhoff Building on the UMBC campus, starting at Noon on Thursday April 11 and ending at 4:00pm on Friday, April 12. Advanced registration is required and space is limited.

  • talk: Integration of HBase and Lucene for real-time big data analysis, 1pm Fri 2/22

    1pm Fri 2/22: UMBC PhD student Yin Huang will talk about his research on the Integration of HBase and Lucene for real-time big data analysis at 1:00pm on Friday February 22 in room 227 of the ITE building at UMBC.

  • NIST Workshop on Big Data, 13-14 June

    NIST will hold a free Big Data Workshop 13-14 June 2012 to explore key national priority topics in support of the White House Big Data Initiative. The workshop is being held in collaboration with the NSF sponsored Center for Hybrid Multicore Productivity Research, a collaboration between UMBC, Georgia Tech and UCSD.

  • Privacy Engineering

    We've starting to see advertisements for a new kind of position: privacy engineer. If you've seen the classic movie, The Graduate, you'll remember the conversation that recent college graduate Benjamin Braddock has with a friend of his father, who says "I just want to say one word to you. Just one word. … Are you…

  • talk: Correlation Aware Optimizations for Analytic Databases

    1pm Fri 3/9: Hideaki Kimura of Brown University talks about solving the computing challenges of big data analytics. He will describe a novel data correlation-aware approach to indexing, replication, and data placement which makes big data analytics faster and more scalable. 1:00pm on Friday March 9 in ITE325b, UMBC.

  • talk: Programming Model for Data Intensive Parallel Applications

    A Scalable, Fault Tolerant Programming Model for Developing Data Intensive Parallel Applications Tyler A. Simon Faculty Research Scientist UMBC Center for Hybrid Multicore Productivity Research 1:00pm Friday 17 February 2012, ITE 325b Future exascale computing systems will have to execute a single program on the order of 10^8-10^9 individual, low powered processing elements. These processors…