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Deadlines for submitting to testing, scalability conferences

Monday, April 02, 2007 at 2:41:00 PM
Posted by Amanda Camp, Software Engineer

Some of the most interesting conversations I've had working in the
Kirkland office have been sitting around the lunch table. Bringing
together smart people working on tough problems and encouraging them
to brainstorm seems to generate the most innovative new ideas.

The fact is Googlers love to discuss new ideas, and not just with each
other. That is why we we're planning two conferences to share ideas.
We want to hear about what other people in the technical community are
doing to face the same hard problems we work on. Our Seattle
conference on scalable systems is in June, and our second annual Test
Automation Conference will take place New York in August.

There's still time to submit a proposal for either one. The Testing
Automation Conference deadline for submissions is Friday, April 6
(email gtac-EMAIL REMOVED).

As for the Seattle Scalability Conference, if "Beowulf" doesn't remind
you of English literature, or you didn't know "Selenium" is also an
element, you're just the person we're waiting to hear from. Here's a
list of some of the topics we'd be interested in (you may have
others):

Scalable algorithms:

Parallelization techniques (fully automatic or programmer-***isted)
Programming models and languages for multiprocessor systems (e.g.,
transactional memory, systems of communicating objects)
Algorithms that function in the face of system failures (flaky
hardware, os bugs, network failures)
Scalable systems:

Managing large computation clusters (configuration, upgrade, repair,
status monitoring)
Managing failure (automatic failure detection/diagnosis/repair)
Opportunities and challenges of multi-core architecture
Job management systems/schedulers for large compute clusters
If you have an interesting approach or an exciting new solution to any
of these, send an outline of your 45-minute presentation to
EMAIL REMOVED by Friday, April 20.