advanced computing for sustainable future
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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 @
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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
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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
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