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NEPS workshop agenda

Thursday 4 December 2003

The doors to the Campus Safety Services Building will be open between 7:00 am and 10:00 pm.

 7:30	Continental Breakfast

 8:00	Peter Honeyman, CITI
	Introduction
	NFSv4 and High Performance File Systems: Positioning to Scale
	Position paper
	Presentation

 8:30	Garth Gibson, Panasas and Carnegie Mellon
	NFS Extensions for Parallel Storage
	Position paper
	Presentation

 9:15	Steve Fridella, EMC
	Elements of a Scalable Network File System Protocol
	Position paper
	Presentation

10:00	Break

10:30	Peter Corbett, Network Appliance
	pNFS: Extensions to NFSv4 to Support Data Distribution and Parallelism
	Position paper
	Presentation

11:10	Julian Satran, IBM
	Towards a Common Scalable Security Infrastructure for Storage Access
	Position paper
	Presentation

11:25	Michael L. Kazar, Spinnaker Networks
	NFS Clustering
	Position paper
	Presentation

11:45	Garth Gibson
	Object security == fine grain access enforcement
	Presentation

12:00	Lunch

13:20	Craig Everhart, IBM
	Standard Scalable Asynchronous Access to Data
	Position paper
	Presentation

13:50	Alexandros Batsakis, Johns Hopkins
	NFSv4 as the Building Block for Fault Tolerant Applications
	Position paper
	Presentation

14:30   Brian Pawlowski, Network Appliance; Spencer Shepler, Sun Microsystems;
	and David Black, EMC
	IETF process, progress, and politics

15:30	Break

16:00	Point of view
	David Pease, IBM
	Notes

16:30	Guided feedback
	Collect and summarize feedback with audience participation

	Requirements for parallel distributed file systems

		Is "good enough" good enough?
		How do we measure the semantic gap?
		How to reconcile the files view and the blocks view?
		How to distribute the block map?
			In named attributes?
			In FILE_LOCATIONS?
			In "op"s?
		Byte-range lock issues?
			Deprecated, in one opinion.
		Extend the delegation model?

	Technology trends and drivers
	Application space and issues
	Naming, reliability, and manageability
	Competitive technology: contrasts and alternatives
	Design proposals
	Implementation issues
	Next steps


18:00	Dinner

19:30	Focused discussion on protocol extensions for metadata

20:30	Break

21:00	Focused discussion on roadblocks to consensus

22:00	Adjourn
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