Tomorrow evening I’ll be giving a talk in the “Sterling Hou Lecture Series” at Mizzou, as part of the annual Engineering Week. Here’s the description:
Commodity Computing & the Quest for Scale
Two drivers seemingly at fundamental odds with each other –the desire to do stuff in ever-increasing volumes and the desire to do it cheap – are colliding in computing as we speak.While those desires may seem as old as the industry, what is new is that for the first time advances in software architectures, network interconnects, commodity processors, & business models are enabling both fundamentally new approaches to age old problems and entirely new economic communities. In this talk we will examine the nature of these advances and consider some of the current and future opportunities.
As in many aspects of life much of the change is fomented through conflict … maybe it’s because anything less makes it hard for most folks to get moving, who knows?
No matter, it’s very clear that we’re just beginning to see the hazy outlines of what the next few years in computing and the net might hold, and that in all likelihood we’ve barely scratched the surface.
Definitely looking forward to this. Mizzou was a great place to get started in computing … I had the run of an image-analysis lab, writing device drivers and generally wreaking barely-controlled havoc while trying to wring every last infitesmal bit of performance out what we had (which made it easy to understand the old-school Scotty in those days).
If you’re in the general area it’d be great to see you. Details are in the flier.
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