[Liverpool] Meeting next week

[Tony Burrows]

Didn't spot that.  It does sound interesting as a talk though.

*Title  : The Raspberry Pi Cloud*

Speaker: *Dr Posco Tso*, School of Computing, Liverpool John Moores
University

 Data Centres used to support Cloud services often consist of tens of

thousands of networked machines under a single roof.  The significant
capital outlay

required to replicate such infrastructures is a major obstacle to practical

implementation and evaluation of research in this domain.



Currently, most research into Cloud computing relies on either limited
software simulation,

or the use of a testbed environment with a handful of machines.  The
introduction

of the Raspberry Pi, a low-cost, low-power single-board computer, has made

the construction of miniature Cloud Data Centres more affordable.



In this talk, Dr Tso will describe a Raspberry Pi Cloud, a scale model of a

Data Centre composed of clusters of Raspberry Pi devices.  The Pi Cloud
emulates

every layer of a Cloud stack, ranging from resource virtualisation to
network

behaviour, providing a full-featured Cloud Computing research and
educational
environment.


Time and location are:

Venue  : The Foresight Centre,

                University of Liverpool,

                1, Brownlow Street, Liverpool, L69 3GL

                Tel: 0151 794 8060



Date   : Wednesday 4th March 2015

Time   : 18:00 (Buffet) for 18:30 (AGM), 18:45 (Talk)

 For directions to the venue, see map at

http://www.foresightcentre.co.uk/Pages/Article.aspx?id=292

 Parking, Take a ticket from the machine on entry.

As usual, an excellent buffet will be available from 18:00pm.

*The talk is free and open to non-BCS members, bring your friends and
colleagues. *
Only BCS Members may participate in the AGM, of course - please bring your
BCS membership card.


It might be interesting to go to it.  We can always adjourn to the pub
later.

Tony
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