This document provides information about an innovative liberal arts college, including its establishment in 2011, intake of 1,000 students and 100 staff since 2012, and motto of being "a community of learning, founded by two great universities, in Asia, for the world." It also discusses technology topics like exoskeletons, education ecosystems, cloud computing price reductions, homomorphic encryption, optical computing, server and storage hardware, open networking, open source lessons from Linux, virtualization, software-defined data centers, orchestration, and upcoming software-defined networking. Scientific computing topics covered include high performance, throughput and scalable computing.

1. K E E P I N N O VAT I N G
H AV E F U N
M A K E H I S T O RY
D A R W I N G O S A L
D E L L C I O R A L LY - 2 6 A U G U S T 2 0 1 5

3. Type: Liberal Arts College
Established: 2011
First Intake: 2012
Capacity: 1,000 students and 100 academic staff
Motto: A community of learning, founded by two great
universities, in Asia, for the world

4. R E D H AT S U M M I T 2 0 1 5

5. B U T W H Y ?

7. E X O S T R U C T U R E S T R AT E G Y
http://www.lockheedmartin.com/us/products/exoskeleton/FORTIS.html

8. https://www.gartner.com/doc/2526116/gaining-competitive-advantage-education-ecosystem

9. AWS reduced price 49 times since 2006

10. P
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11. P R I VA C Y I N C L O U D
Homomorphic Encryption
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homomorphic_encryption

12. O P T I C A L C O M P U T I N G
http://www.nature.com/scientificamerican/journal/v302/n1/full/scientificamerican0110-82.html

13. T E C H N O L O G Y S TA C K

14. S E R V E R H A R D WA R E

15. S E R V E R H A R D WA R E
Crazy cool
Crazy expensive

16. S E R V E R H A R D WA R E
Crazy cool
Crazy expensive
Good enough
Great price

17. D I S P O S A B L E - WA R E
Neodymium Dysprosium
http://www.techmetalsresearch.com/2011/07/seagate-rare-earths-and-the-wrong-end-of-the-stick/

18. V O LTA I R E
“Il meglio è nemico del bene”

19. V O LTA I R E
“Perfect is the enemy of good”

20. S T O R A G E H A R D WA R E

21. S T O R A G E H A R D WA R E

22. S T O R A G E S O F T WA R E

23. M A R C A N D R E E S S E N
“Software is eating the world.”
http://www.forbes.com/sites/adrianbridgwater/2015/04/24/if-software-is-eating-the-world-then-open-source-will-chew-it-up-and-swallow/

24. N E T W O R K H A R D WA R E

25. O P E N N E T W O R K I N G

26. O P E N H A R D WA R E
http://www.networkcomputing.com/networking/why-facebook-wedge-is-revolutionary/a/d-id/1297318

27. L E S S O N F R O M L I N U X
http://www.businessinsider.sg/linux-creator-linus-torvalds-tweets-2014-5/

28. L E S S O N F R O M L I N U X
http://www.businessinsider.sg/linux-creator-linus-torvalds-tweets-2014-5/

29. Y O U R K I N D E R G A R T E N T E A C H E R
“Share and play well with others.”

30. V I R T U A L I Z AT I O N T O C L O U D

31. V I R T U A L I Z AT I O N T O C L O U D

32. V I R T U A L I Z AT I O N T O C L O U D

33. S O F T WA R E D E F I N E D D ATA C E N T R E

34. S O F T WA R E D E F I N E D D ATA C E N T R E

35. V I R T U A L I Z AT I O N T O C L O U D

36. R H E L O S P

39. S O F T WA R E D E F I N E D S T O R A G E
S3/SWIFT HOST/HYPERVISOR iSCSI CIFS/NFS SDK
INTERFACESSTORAGECLUSTERS
MONITORS OBJECT STORAGE DAEMONS (OSD)
BLOCK STORAGE FILE SYSTEMOBJECT STORAGE

40. O R C H E S T R AT I O N

41. U P C O M I N G : S D N

42. PA R T 2 : S A A S

43. PA R T 3 : S C I E N T I F I C C O M P U T I N G
High Performance Computing

44. PA R T 3 : S C I E N T I F I C C O M P U T I N G
High Throughput Computing

45. PA R T 3 : S C I E N T I F I C C O M P U T I N G
High Scalable Computing

52. http://bit.ly/1h7NEmI
Kodak 1973
First Digital Camera
The first digital camera
was patented in 1978. But
Mr. Sasson was not
allowed to publicly talk
about it or show his
prototype to anyone
outside Kodak.

53. S T E V E N S A S S O N
“They were convinced that no one would ever
want to look at their pictures on a television set.”

54. S T E V E N S A S S O N
“Print had been with us for over 100 years, no one
was complaining about prints, they were very
inexpensive, and so why would anyone want to
look at their picture on a television set?”