AGENDA
05 May 2003

Vendor Exposition Schedule

Monday, April 7

Breakfast, Sunset Ballroom Deck, 7:00 am – 8:30 am

Tutorials
Tutorials Chair, James Hughes

8:30 am – 10:00 am   LAN, SAN, MAN, WAN
Making an Intelligent Choice for your Storage
Silvano Gai . Andiamo
presentation

Break, Sunset Ballroom Deck, 10:00 am – 10:30 am

10:30 am – 12:00 pm   Management Interoperability and Extensibility
in Storage Area Networks
Roger Reich, VERITAS Software, Inc.
presentation

Lunch, Paradise Lawn, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm

1:30 pm – 3:00 pm   Encrypted Storage
James Hughes, StorageTek  
presentation

Break, Sunset Ballroom Deck, 3:00 pm – 3:30 pm

3:30 pm – 5:00 pm   Shared Storage Systems
Paul Rutherford, ADIC  
presentation

Welcoming Reception, Dockside & Bayview Rooms, 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Tuesday, April 8  

Breakfast, Sunset Ballroom Deck, 7:00 am – 8:30 am

   12:00 pm – 8:00 pm – Vendor Expo       

8:30 am – 10:00 am -- Welcome & Keynote
Welcome - Ben Kobler

Keynote - Greg Bishop, America Online
The New (Old) Challenges for Technology Infrastructure Today
Bio & Abstract
presentation

Break, Sunset Ballroom Deck, 10:00 am – 10:30 am

10:30 am – 12:00 pm – Grids
Session Chair, Jack Cole

Data Grids, Collections, and Grid Bricks
Arcot Rajasekar, Michael Wan, Reagan Moore, George Kremenek, Tom Guptill
San Diego Supercomputer Center
paper, presentation

Correct Modeling of Cache Replacement Policies in a Data-Grid
Ekow Otoo, Arie Shoshani
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
paper, presentation

A Centralized Data Access Model for Grid Computing
Phil Andrews, Tom Sherwin, Bryan Bannister
San Diego Supercomputer Center
paper, presentation

Lunch, Paradise Lawn, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm

1:30 pm – 3:00 pm -- Site Reports
Session Chair, Gene Harano

Building Cost-Effective Remote Data Storage Capabilities for NASA's EOSDIS
        Stephen Marley, Raytheon, Mike Moore, NASA GSFC, and Bruce Clark, EDS

paper, presentation

Archive Management: The Missing Component
        Howard J. Diamond
        National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service
          National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration  

paper, presentation

An overview of a large-scale data migration
         M. Lübeck, A. Valassi
               European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)

paper, presentation

Break, Sunset Ballroom Deck, 3:00 pm – 3:30 pm

3:30 pm – 4:30 pm -- Short Papers
Session Chair, Robert Chadduck

Towards Optimal I/O Scheduling for MEMS-based Storage
Hailing Yu, Divy Agrawal, Amr El Abbadi
Department of Computer Science, University of California, Santa Barbara
paper, presentation

A Case for the Global Access to Large Distributed Data Sets using Data Webs Employing Photonic Data Services
Robert L. Grossman, Yunlong Gu, Dave Hanley, Xinwei Hong, Jorge Levera, Marco Mazzucco
Laboratory for Advanced Computing, University of Illinois at Chicago
paper, presentation

Design and Implementation of Multiple Addresses Parallel Transmission Architecture for Storage Area Network
Bin Meng, Patrick B. T. Khoo, T. C. Chong
MCSA Group, NST Division - Data Storage Institute, Affiliated with the National University of Singapore
paper

Storage Devices, Local File System and Crossbar Network File System Characteristics, and 1 Terabyte File IO Benchmark on "Numerical Simulator III"
Naoyuki Fujita, Hirofumi Ookawa
National Aerospace Laboratory of Japan
paper

Views, Objects, and Persistence for accessing a High Volume Global Data Set
Richard T. Baldwin
US DOC NOAA National Climatic Data Center  
paper

NAS Switch: A Novel CIFS Server Virtualization
Wataru Katsurashima, Satoshi Yamakawa, Takashi Torii, Jun Ishikawa, and Yoshihide Kikuchi
Internet Systems Research Laboratories, NEC Corporation
paper

NSM: A Distributed Storage Architecture for Data-Intensive Applications
Zeyad Ali, Qutaibah Malluhi
Jackson State University
paper

Implementing and Evaluating Jukebox Schedulers Using JukeTools
Maria Eva Lijding, Sape Mullender, and Pierre Jansen
University of Twente
paper

Media Stability and Life Expectancies of Magnetic Tape for Use with IBM 3590 and Digital Linear Tape Systems
J. S. Judge, R. G. Schmidt, R. D. Weiss, Arkival Technology Corp.
G. Miller, Univ. Of New Hampshire
paper, presentation

The Fermilab Data Storage Infrastructure
Jon Bakken, Eileen Berman, Chih-Hao Huang, Alexander, Moibenko, Donald Petravick, Michael Zalokar
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
paper, presentation

High Bandwidth Scientific Data Management using Storage Area Networking: Lessons Learned at the Starfire Optical Range
Terry S. Duncan
Kirtland Air Force Base
paper, presentation

NCDC the "One Stop Shop" for all NEXRAD WSR-88D Level II Data Services
Stephen A. Del Greco
National Climatic Data Center  
paper, presentation

Reception and Poster Session, Dockside & Bayview Rooms, 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Wednesday, April 9  

Breakfast, Sunset Ballroom Deck, 7:00 am – 8:30 am

  8:00 am – 5:00 pm – Vendor Expo

8:30 am – 10:00 am -- iSCSI and SAN
Session Chair, P. C. Hariharan

Design of the iSCSI Protocol
Kalman Z. Meth, Julian Satran
IBM Haifa Research Lab  
paper, presentation

A Performance Analysis of the iSCSI Protocol
Stephen Aiken, Dirk Grunwald, Andy Pleszkun
University of Colorado
paper, presentation

Architectural Considerations and Performance Evaluations Of Shared Storage Area Networks at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Hoot Thompson, Patuxent Technology Partners
Curt Tilmes, Robert Cavey, Bill Fink, Paul Lang, Ben Kobler, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center  
paper, presentation

Break, Sunset Ballroom Deck, 10:00 am – 10:30 am

10:30 am – 12:00 pm – Panel
Session Co-Chairs, Richard Watson  (presentation), Paul Rutherford  (presentation)

Emerging Object/Active-Storage Technologies
Representatives from user, vendor, and research organizations will discuss the many critical challenges in achieving location-transparent, secure, and high-performance access to distributed storage resources.

 Reagan Moore, SDSC - GRID Perspective (presentation)
 Gary Grider, LANL - ASCI User Perspective (presentation)
 Garth Gibson, CMU, Panassas - Academic and Panasas Perspectives (presentation)
 Ethan Miller, UCSC - Academic Perspective (presentation)
 Julian Satran, IBM - IBM and Standards Perspectives (presentation)
 David Black, EMC - EMC Perspective (presentation)
 Dave Anderson, Seagate - Seagate and Standards Perspectives (presentation)

Lunch, Paradise Lawn, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm

1:30 pm – 3:00 pm -- Reliability
Session Chair, Jean-Jacques Bedet

Reliability Mechanisms for Very Large Storage Systems
Qin Xin, Ethan L. Miller, Darrell D. E. Long, Scott A. Brandt, University of California, Santa Cruz
Thomas Schwarz, Santa Clara University
Witold Litwin, Université Paris
paper, presentation

Software-based Erasure Codes for Scalable Distributed Storage
Joseph A. Cooley, Jeremy L. Mineweaser, Leslie D. Servi, Eushiuan T. Tsung
MIT Lincoln Laboratory  
paper, presentation

Towards an Object Store
Alain Azagury, Vladimir Dreizin, Michael Factor, Ealan Henis, Dalit Naor, Noam,
Rinetzky, Ohad Rodeh, Julian Satran, Ami Tavory, Lena Yerushalmi
IBM Haifa Research Laboratories
paper, presentation

Break, Sunset Ballroom Deck, 3:00 pm – 3:30 pm

3:30 pm – 4:45 pm -- Vendor Solutions
Session Chair, Ben Kobler

Design and Implementation of a Storage Repository Using Commonality Factoring
Eric Olsen, Jim Hamilton
Avamar Technologies
paper, presentation

Design and Implementation of Block Storage Multi-Protocol Converter
Irina Gerasimov, Alexey Zhuravlev, Mikhail Pershin, Dennis V. Gerasimov
TechnoMages, Inc
paper, presentation

IP SAN -- From iSCSI to IP-addressable Ethernet Disks
Peter Wang, Robert Gilligan, Henry Green, Jeff Raubitschek
Intransa, Inc.
paper, presentation

Enabling Advanced Data Management with Sun  StorEdge(TM) QFS/SAM-FS 4.0
Harriet Coverston
Sun Microsystems
paper, presentation

StorageNetworks' STORos^tm StorageManager Software
Jack Domme
StorageNetworks  

4:45 pm – 5:45 pm -- Extemporaneous Talks
Session Chair, Jim Hughes

Storage and Biometrics, Information Assurance
Jack Cole
presentation

Thursday, April 10

Breakfast, Sunset Ballroom Deck, 7:00 am – 8:30 am

  8:00 am – 2:00 pm – Vendor Expo

8:30 am – 10:00 am -- Network-Attached Storage
Session Chair, Ethan Miller

A Scalable Architecture for Clustered Network Attached Storage
Jonathan Bright, Bright Consulting Group
John A. Chandy, University of Connecticut  
paper

zFS - A Scalable distributed File System using Object Disks
O. Rodeh, U. Schonfeld, A. Teperman
IBM Labs, Haifa University  
paper, presentation

The Concept and Evaluation of X-NAS: a Highly Scalable NAS System
Yoshiko Yasuda, Shinichi Kawamoto, Atsushi Ebata, Jun Okitsu, Tatsuo Higuchi
Hitachi, Ltd.  
paper

Break, Sunset Ballroom Deck, 10:00 am – 10:30 am

10:30 am – 12:00 pm -- File Systems
Session Chair, Curtis Anderson

Using Multiple Predictors to Improve the Accuracy of File Access Predictions
Gary A. S. Whittle, Jehan-François Pâris, University of Houston
Ahmed Amer, University of Pittsburgh
Darrell D. E. Long, University of California, Santa Cruz
Randal Burns, Johns Hopkins University  
paper, presentation

Peabody: The Time Traveling Disk
Charles B. Morrey III, Dirk Grunwald
Dept. of Computer Science, University of Colorado, Boulder  
paper

SPIRAL: A Client-Transparent Third-Party Transfer Scheme for Network Attached Disks
Xiaonan Ma, A. L. Narasimha Reddy
Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Texas A&M University 
paper, presentation

Lunch, Paradise Lawn, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm

1:30 pm – 3:00 pm -- Storage Architectures
Session Chair, Merritt Jones

Effective Management of Hierarchical Storage Using Two Levels of Data Clustering
Ratko Orlandic
Department of Computer Science, Illinois Institute of Technology  
paper

A Simple Mass Storage System for the SRB Data Grid
Michael Wan, Arcot Rajasekar, Phil Andrews, Reagan Moore
San Diego Supercomputer Center  
paper, presentation

Efficient Metadata Management in Large Distributed Storage Systems
Scott A. Brandt, Lan Xue, Ethan L. Miller, Darrell D. E. Long
Storage Systems Research Center, University of California, Santa Cruz  
paper, presentation

End of Conference

updated: Monday, May 5, 2003
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