Monthly Archives: February 2013

Compositional hierarchical scheduling analysis: from real-time to real-life

Posted on February 27, 2013 by Smalltalk organizer 01

When: Wednesday, 2013-Feb-27, 11h30-12h00 Where: FCUL-DI, room C6.3.05 Presenter: João Craveiro Abstract In this smalltalk, I’ll briefly introduce to you the essential concepts behind compositional analysis of hierarchical scheduling frameworks, with easy to grasp metaphors to help you understand them. … Continue reading →

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Hadoop Map-Reduce in Cloud of Clouds

Posted on February 18, 2013 by Smalltalk organizer 01

When: Tuesday, 2013-Feb-18, 11h30-12h00 Where: FCUL-DI, room C6.3.38 Presenter: Pedro Costa Abstract: MapReduce is a framework for processing large data sets largely used in cloud computing. MapReduce implementations like Hadoop can tolerate crashes and file corruptions, but there is evidence … Continue reading →

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Programming Multicores Safely

Posted on February 12, 2013 by Smalltalk organizer 01

When: Tuesday, 2013-Feb-12, 2013, 11h30-12h00 Where: FCUL-DI, room C6.3.05 Presenter: Tiago Cogumbreiro Abstract: The key to develop parallel applications in a scalable way lays in using synchronization mechanisms at the “right” level of abstraction. Languages and libraries come bundled with … Continue reading →

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Resilient and Real-Time Wireless Communications

Posted on February 5, 2013 by Smalltalk organizer 01

When: Tuesday, 2013-Feb-05, 11h30-12h00 Where: FCUL-DI, room C6.3.38 Presenter: Jeferson Souza Abstract: Wireless communications are susceptible to numerous sources of interferences such as external electromagnetic waves, obstacles in communication path, or even glitches in the network device circuitry. These kind … Continue reading →

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