Could not attend, for geographical reasons - by chance, is the lecture repeated anywhere else in the coming few weeks?
Also, was there going to be a lecture about open source hardware? I vaguely recall something like that on previous announcement. Thanks, Z. On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 5:11 PM, Eli Billauer <e...@billauer.co.il> wrote: > On Monday, September 3rd at 18:30, Haifux will gather to hear a talk by > Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda: > > The Resource-as-a-Service (RaaS) Cloud > > Abstract > > Over the next few years, a new model of buying and selling cloud computing > resources will evolve. Instead of providers exclusively selling > server-equivalent virtual machines for relatively long periods of time (as > done in today's IaaS clouds), they will increasingly sell individual > resources (such as CPU, memory, and I/O resources) for a few seconds at a > time. We term this nascent economic model of cloud computing the > Resource-as-a-Service (RaaS) cloud, and we argue that its rise is the > likely culmination of recent trends in the construction of IaaS clouds and > of the economic forces operating on both providers and clients. > > The paper appeared in HotCloud 2012. Joint work with Muli Ben-Yehuda, > Assaf Schuster and Dan Tsafrir. The theoretical talk will be followed by a > code walk-through of patch to memcached which makes it an application that > can use the benefits of the RaaS cloud, which is joint work with Eyal > Posener. > > ==============================**==============================**===== > > We meet in Taub building, room 6. For instructions see: > http://www.haifux.org/where.**html <http://www.haifux.org/where.html> > > Attendance is free, and you are all invited! > > ==============================**==============================**====== > Future lectures: > > 24/09/12 What more can industry learn from open source?: Yael > Vaya-Talmor > 15/10/12 Adding Colors to Kademlia: Gil Einziger > 29/10/12 Israeli Digital Rights NPO: Zvi Devir > > > ==============================**==============================**====== > > We are always interested in hearing your talks and ideas. If you wish to > give a talk, hold a discussion, or just plan some event haifux might be > interested in, please contact us at webmas...@haifux.org > > -- > Web: http://www.billauer.co.il > > > ______________________________**_________________ > Linux-il mailing list > linux...@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/**mailman/listinfo/linux-il<http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il> > -- Sincerely, Steve http://www.words2u.net - GPS points and tracks (mainly in Costa Rica) http://www.words2u.net/recipes - Recipe collection
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