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