Advanced Computingfor Sustainable Future

Anoop Thomas MathewProfoundis Labs

@atmb4u

6th October, 2013IEEE All India Computer Society SC 2013

@atmb4u Co-Founder and CTO @ Profoundis Labs Avid open source user since 2003 Contributed to linux kernel and cpython IEEEXtreme judge for last 2 years Organized IEEE R10 SC '09 in Singapore spoken at

➢ PyCon 2013➢ FOSSMeet 2013➢ PyCon 2012➢ Fifth Elephant 2012➢ FOSSMeet 2011A

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Published a paper?Participated IEEEXtreme?Regular in coding competitions?Have a company on your own?Any wannabe Entrepreneurs around?Created something useful on your own?Given a thought on how these things work?

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What happens @

Profoundis

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6 people Almost an year and a half old Social Media aggregation and analytics space 3 live products 30 million data points and counting for itestifyit with 367 clients Technology Partnership with 5 companies including Vodafone Manages one of the Top 5000 website Is a part of Microsoft Accelerator, Startup Chile, Startup Village,

BlackBox.vc Lots of late night coffees, bean bags, highs and lows, lots of free time.

Sustaining Solution

is a necessity

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Murphy's Law works!

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Design Solution, not Code.

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NO quick fixes

lasts forever- Might take some extra time

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Brahma & Vishnuas

Science & Technology

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Brahma & Vishnuas

Science & Technology

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Scalabilityis key to

Sustainability

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Prototyping works

●Fake it till you make it!●MVP is to start rolling

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Efficiency matters

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Simpler Solutions works better

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Passion is most important;

and it keeps you persistent.

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In the beginning,

“You won't have a clue on what you are doing!”

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It's always okay to ask , (provided you've done your homework)

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“Learn anything in 20 hours” – Josh Kaufman

● 4 steps➢ De-construct➢ Unplug➢ Self-correct➢ Practice for 45 mins x 30 days

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IEEE!➢Professional➢Engineer's➢Scientific ➢Community

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My experience with

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are we

scientific enough?

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We are still using models

●Based on Von Neumann Machines●Which are Turing Machines●Derived from Intel 4004

of 1960's

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Courtesy: Bret Victor: The Future of Programming

coding

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coding direct manipulation of data

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procedures

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procedures

goals and constraints

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text dump data

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text dump data

spatial representations

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sequential

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sequential massively parallel algorithms

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sequential massively parallel algorithms

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Are you kidding me?

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What else should we do?●Pick a specific field of interest●Start learning●Ask questions●Form small groups and collaborate●Solve your own problems●Search for areas require improvement

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Don't be blinded!Think of better way of doing things.

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➢ be Curious➢ be Persistent➢ be Vocal➢ be Social➢ be Focused

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Thank You!(happy to help!)

@atmb4u