[ale] ALE Central Mtg: Open invite to Pre Meeting dinner with Presenter (was [ANNC] ALE CENTRAL MTG. for Thurs., March 15th, 2012)

[Aaron Ruscetta]

Just a friendly reminder of our ALE Central Meeting tonight
with details repeated below.

Our presenter, Dr. Flavio Villanustre, is inviting us to
join him for a pre-meeting dinner gathering at the
Doc Chey's at Emory:
<http://www.doccheys.com/locations/emory.php>

We're welcome to join him any time between
4:15 and 7pm!

Also, Jim Kinney will be stepping in to moderate the
meeting as I have a family issue to cope with.

peace
aaron
ALE Events Coordinator (etc)


On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 3:18 PM, Aaron Ruscetta <arxaaron at gmail.com> wrote:
> Our highlight presentation at the ALE Central Meeting
> for 7:30pm on Thursday, March 15th, 2012 will be:
>
> LexisNexis® :
> Solving Big Data Problems with the
> Opensource  HPCC Systems™ Platform
>
> presented by Dr. Flavio Villanustre & Arjuna Chala,
> and featuring a Door Prize giveaway of
> a Nook Android E-Reader!
>
> Synopsis:
> -- HPCC (High Performance Computing Cluster) is an open source
> massive parallel-processing computing platform that solves
> Big Data problems. An overview of the HPCC Systems architecture
> and its major components including Thor, Roxie and ECL will be
> presented along with how this platform compares to other big data
> technologies like Hadoop. System requirements covering the
> supported Linux distributions will be reviewed.  Also included will
> be a demo of how this platform can integrate with Pentaho
> Spoon/Kettle for powerful data ETL capabilities.
>
> NOTE:
> - A courtesy RSVP from those attending is being requested.
> See the Meetup page at <http://tinyurl.com/hpccatale>
>
> Speaker Bios:
> -- Dr Flavio Villanustre --
> - VP Infrastructure & Products, HPCC Systems and LexisNexis -
>  Flavio is the Vice President of Infrastructure and Products. In this
> position, Flavio is responsible for Information and Physical Security,
> overall infrastructure strategy and new product development.
> Previously, Flavio was Director of Infrastructure for Seisint. Prior to
> 2001, Flavio served in a variety of roles at different companies
> including Infrastructure, Information Security and Information
> Technology. In addition to this, Villanustre has been involved with
> the Opensource community for over 15 years through multiple
> initiatives. Some of these include founding the first Linux User Group
> in Buenos Aires (BALUG) in 1994, releasing several pieces of software
> under different Opensource licenses, and evangelizing Opensource
> to different audiences through conferences, training and education.<strong>
> -- Arjuna Chala --
> - Architect Integrations, HPCC Systems and LexisNexis -
> Arjuna  is responsible for providing strategic and technology direction
> for the analytics and business intelligence components of the
> HPCC platform.
>
> About HPCC Systems™:
> - HPCC Systems™ from LexisNexis® Risk Solutions offers a proven,
> data-intensive supercomputing platform designed for the enterprise
> to process and solve Big Data analytical problems.  As a superior
> alternative to Hadoop and legacy technology, HPCC Systems offers
> a consistent data-centric programming language, two processing
> platforms and a single, complete end-to-end architecture for
> efficient processing. For more information, visit HPCC Systems
> at http://hpccsystems.com.
>
> =============
> We will be meeting at Emory Law School in our
> usual Gambrel Hall, room 1C venue.
> Meeting time frame is 7:30pm to ~9:30pm
> Directions to Emory Law School can be found at
> <http://mail.ale.org/?page_id=2">