Final Program for SAN-1

Saturday, February 2, 2002

7:30 Breakfast

8:45 Welcome Comments

9:00 - 10:00 Keynote address - Pankaj Mehra

• Pankaj Mehra is Principal Member of Technical Staff at Compaq Computer Corporation, and the Chief Technical Officer of IntelliFabric Inc., a startup company developing software solutions for managing shared, system-area fabrics. Until recently, Pankaj served as co-chair of the InfiniBand Management Working Group. He obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Pankaj has held research and teaching positions at NASA Ames Research Center, IIT Delhi (India) and IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. He has written two books and dozens of papers on various aspects of computing technology, focusing primarily on the performance of parallel and distributed systems. Over the past eight years, Pankaj has served as a technology consultant to the venture community and to numerous systems and software companies. He is a member of Tau Beta Pi and a recipient of the 1999 Daytona Terabyte Sort Trophy.

10:00 - 10:15 Break

10:15 - 11:45 Session I

• Implementation and Evaluation of an Active Storage System Prototype. Xiaonan Ma and A. L. Narasimha Reddy (Texas A&M University)
• The Optimistic Direct Access File System: Design and Network Interface Support. Kostas Magoutis (Harvard University)
• Impact of Next-Generation I/O Architectures on the Design and Performance of Network Servers. Enrique V. Carrera, Muralidharan Rangarajan, Ricardo Bianchini and Liviu Iftode (Rutgers University)

11:45 - 1:30 Lunch

1:30 - 3:00 Session II

• NIC-Based Atomic Remote Memory Operations in Myrinet/GM, Darius Buntinas (The Ohio State University), Dhabaleswar K. Panda (The Ohio State University), and William Gropp (Argonne National Laboratory)
• Active SANs: Integrating Computation and Communication. Craig Ulmer, Chris Wood, and Sudhakar Yalamanchili (Georgia Institute of Technology)
• Performance Impact of Using ESP to Implement VMMC Firmware. Sanjeev Kumar and Kai Li (Princeton University)

3:00 to 3:30 Break

3:30 to 4:30 Session III

• Mendosus: A SAN-based Fault-Injection Test-Bed for the Construction of Highly Available Network Services. Xiaoyan Li, Richard Martin, Kiran Nagaraja, Thu D. Nguyen, Bin Zhang (Rutgers University)
• VMI 2.0: A Dynamically Reconfigurable Messaging Layer for Availability, Usability, and Management. Scott Pakin and Avneesh Pant (National Center for Supercomputing Applications)

Questions? Contact Mark Heinrich or Evan Speight