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Time: May 22, 2012 from 7pm to 9pm
Location: Center for Innovation and Economic Development
Street: Corner of NW 6th St & W. University Ave
City/Town: Gainesville, FL
Website or Map: http://goo.gl/GuwkK
Event Type: meeting
Organized By: Dan Trevino
Latest Activity: May 21, 2012
The Gainesville Google Technology User Group will be meeting May 22,at 7:00 pm at the Center for Innovation and Economic Development (CIED) in the Imagination Room. Obulpathi N Challa, PhD candidate, will discuss the theory behind the Google File System and Map Reduce with examples in python.
Google File System:
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B3s1lBVi0FFkZTExYmU2NWItOWMzZS00OTQyLTgxODYtYjRkMWRmNzAwMThm/edit?pli=1#
Map Reduce: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B3s1lBVi0FFkWlNfc1VFWWFHTkE/edit#
Code and slides will be available after the meeting.
More information can be found here:
Gainesville GTUG & Meeting Info: http://gainesville.gtugs.org
CIED: http://dept.sfcollege.edu/cied/meeting.shtml , map: http://goo.gl/GuwkK
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