This is the homepage for the Fall 2006 Systems Lunch. The Systems Lunch is a lunchtime seminar on topics in systems. This semester's seminar focuses on expressing and exploiting parallelism. The seminar takes place every week on Tuesday from 12:00 to 1:30 in Levine 315. Lunch is served.

Date	Presenter	Paper	Slides
2006/09/19	Micah	Birrell's "An Introduction to Programming with Threads"	Threads
2006/09/26	Drew	The ALPBench Benchmark Suite for Complex Multimedia Applications	Media Workloads and DLP
2006/10/03	Geoff	The Development of Erlang
		More Erlang papers
2006/10/10	Colin	Modern Concurrency Abstractions for C#
		More C? information
2006/10/17	Peng	MIT's Cilk project
2006/10/31	Usa	X10
2006/11/07	Brian	Chapel
2006/11/14	Diana	IBM/Sony Cell
2006/11/21	Jeff	MapReduce
2006/11/28	Anne	DeWitt/Gray overview paper
2006/12/05	Grigoris	The Gamma database machine and system
		Supplemental reading: Chapter on parallel DBMSs in "Distributed Database Systems" by Ozsu and Valduriez.
2006/12/12	Nick	Bigtable
TBD	Tingting	MICRO practice talk

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