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A Reliable Effective Terascale Linear Learning System
We present a system and a set of techniques for learning linear predictors with convex losses on terascale datasets, with trillions of features (the number of features here refers to the number of non-zero entries…
MinuteSort with Flat Datacenter Storage
Panel Session | Big Data on Campus: Addressing the Challenges and Opportunities Across Domains
This panel session from the Cloud Computing Workshop 2012 included the following speakers: Cathryn Carson, D-lab AnnaLee Saxenian, UC Berkeley Arie Shoshani, Lawrence, Berkeley Laboratory Dennis Gannon, Microsoft It was chaired by Michael Franklin.
Session 2B: Computational Models and Applications (Cloud Futures Workshop 2012)
This session at Cloud Futures 2012 includes the following presentations: Enabling Cloud Interoperability with COMPSs-Daniele Lezzi, Barcelona Supercomputer Center McCloud: Monte Carlo Service in Windows Azure-Rafael Nasser, PUC-Rio Experiences Using Windows Azure to Calibrate Watershed…
Keynote: Large Scale Cloud Computing: Opportunities and Challenges
This keynote presentation at the Cloud Futures Workshop 2012 was delivered by Yousef Khalidi, distinguished engineer, Microsoft Corporation and chaired by Dennis Gannon, Microsoft Research Connections.
Session 2A: Social and Mobile Service (Cloud Futures Workshop 2012)
This session at Cloud Futures 2012 includes the following presentations: An Efficient Meet-Up Mechanism by Mashing-up Social and Mobile Clouds-Li-Chun Wang, National Chiao Tung University Scalable, Secure Analysis of Social Sciences Data on the Azure…
Plenary Session at Cloud Futures Workshop 2012 – Day 2
This session at the Cloud Futures 2012 includes the following presentations: Vision Paper: Towards an Understanding of the Limits of Map-Reduce Computation-Semih Salihogluz, Stanford University Twister4Azure: Parallel Data Analytics on Azure-Judy Qiu, Indiana University CumuloNimbo:…
Session 1A: Education (Cloud Futures Workshop 2012)
This session at the Cloud Futures Workshop 2012 includes the following presentations: InstantLab 2.0 – A Platform for Operating System Experiments on Public Cloud Infrastructure-Andreas Polze and Christian Neuhaus, University of Potsdam Case Study on…
Welcome and Keynote: Science in the Cloud
Recent trends in science have made computational capabilities an essential part of scientific discovery. This is often referred to as enhanced scientific discovery, or eScience. eScience has been an integral part of high energy physics…