October 29 2008 / Amsterdam

The Large Hadron Collider that has been put into production last September is expected to generate 15 petabytes (15 million gigabytes, or 1.7 million dual-layered dvds) of data a year. That's way beyond the point at which traditional methods of processing data are starting to fall apart. And it is by no means the only example of a problem that calls for non-traditional solutions.

In fact, many of these scalability challenges are also very real in developing some of the services TomTom provides. In this session, TomTom will provide an overview of the challenges in delivering services such as IQ Routes, talk about the benefits grid solutions have to offer in that regard, and talk about the application of GridGain in an online route planner that will be released soon.

After that, Quintor will deep-dive into Hadoop, one of the other important Java-based open source grid computing solutions, and the predominant open source map-reduce implementation. Their talk will include an overview on how to set it all up, and feature a live demonstration of using Hadoop for traffic simulations.

Date and time
Wednesday, October 29
17.30 PM – 22.00 PM

Location
The seminar will take place at the TomTom headquarters in Amsterdam:
Oosterdokstraat 114, 1011 DK Amsterdam (next to the Amsterdam Central Station).