HeadStart and Compute 2009 features a set of technology tutorials aimed at
giving detailed, practical knowledge of the emerging and the most promising
advances in technology. If you want to attend, you need to *separately
register for the ones you want to attend <http://register.headstart.in/>*.
Jan 9th – Symposium on Cloud Computing, with presentations *by Google,
Yahoo, HP, Infosys, Rediff, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP Labs, University of
Monash*
[10 am – 5 pm] This tutorial covers many aspects of Cloud computing that
include architectural challenges of migrating to a cloud, review of products
that use the Cloud, technical issues faced in realizing software delivered
from Clouds, the impact of Cloud computing on enterprises and how software
is deployed in enterprises and a review of the technology platforms
available to implement applications delivered from the Cloud. This tutorial
also covers business aspects such as emerging business models, the
opportunity for startups and others, and the total cost versus return from
Clouds. See the
details<http://headstart.in/2008/11/20/dr-prasad-ram-cto-google-to-deliver-keyno\
te-in-cloud-computing-symposium/>here.
Jan 9th – Server virtualization, with presentations *by HP*
[10 am – 1 pm] Server virtualization is the buzz word in technology today.
This tutorial will give a brief overview of the partitioning and
virtualization technologies, and then cover in-depth the criteria for a
hardware to be virtualizable from the perspective of CPU, Memory and I/O,
and how early software techniques accomplished this. The tutorial will then
look at the hardware evolution in the CPU and Memory virtualization from
Intel and AMD and cover advances in I/O virtualization from chip vendors and
the PCI SIG. Finally, it will close with a brief look at future trends in
this space.
Jan 10th – Mobility, with presentations *by Honeywell*
[10 am – 1 pm] This tutorial will explore application areas and technologies
powering mobile devices that we use on our person such as mobile phones and
PDAs, at home, at work and otherwise. The application areas include
everything from mobile payment systems, transport and logistics, mobile
handhelds, home networks and industrial and building automation. The
tutorial will start with a talk on next generation mobile client platforms
followed by a survey of application areas and use cases which will then be
followed by a talk on technology infrastructure required to power mobility.
Jan 10th – Search and Social platforms, with presentations *by Yahoo, Google
and Infosys*
[3 pm – 6 pm] This tutorial does a survey of the state-of-art in search and
social network platforms and explores how social networks and search
platforms in the future may have to do with a lot with each other. For
example, in a search engine in the not too distant future, you may be able
to put in a query that requires results to be ranked by references from
people. Similarly, searching for people by not just interest areas but by
how influential they are in a particular area of interest should become
possible. All these use cases suggest that social graphs (exposed by social
networks) and link graphs (exposed by search engines) may be put to use
together to yield better search results and social features. See the
details<http://headstart.in/2008/12/13/learn-about-search-and-social-platforms-h\
eadstart-compute-2009/>here.
Venue :
9th and 10th of January 2009 at the NIMHANS Convention Center, Bangalore.
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