13th Annual Workshop & Retreat
October 17 - 19, 2005
AGENDA
MONDAY, OCTOBER 17: CMU/Nemacolin Woodlands
Welcome
Greg Ganger - Welcome & PDL Overview
Session I: Predicting and Predictability
Mike Mesnier - Relative Fitness Models for Storage
Matthew Wachs - Performance Insulation and Predictability
Session II: Database Storage and Scientific Applications
Minglong Shao - MultiMap: Preserving Disk Locality for Multidimensional
Datasets
Stratos Papadomanolakis - Efficient Query Processing for
Unstructured Tetrahedral Meshes
Julio Lopez - WaveDB: A Computational Database Systems for
Operating on Massive Wavefield
Session III: Short Talks on Works-in-Progress
Terrence Wong: Comparison-based Server Verification and the NFSv4
Tee
Adam Pennington: Using Self-Securing Devices for Better Intrusion
Detection
Andy Klosterman: Bulk Operations for Storage Management in Object-based
Storage Clusters
Jimeng Sun: Streaming Pattern Discovery in Multiple Time-series
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 18: Nemacolin Woodlands
Session IV: Tracking Performance and Metadata
Eno Thereska - A Framework for Informed Tuning in a Self-managing
System
Shafeeq Sinnamohideen - Scalability and Recoverability Ideas
for Metadata Services
Session V: Working with Lots of Objects
Raja Sambasivan - Preserving Filesystem Namespace Locality in
Object-based Storage
James Hendricks - Scalable Access Control in Object-Based
Storage
Session VI: Optimism and Versatility
Mike Abd-El-Malek - Lazy verification in fault-tolerant distributed
storage
John Strunk - Ursa Minor: Versatile Cluster-based Storage
Session VII: Short Talks on Works-in-Progress
Brandon Salmon: Selecting Data Encoding In Cluster-based Storage
Bianca Schroeder: Characterization of Failures in Computer Systems
John Strunk: Using Data Center Topology for Estimating Storage
Availability
Priya Narasimhan: Distributed Replication: Not Just for Breakfast
Anymore
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19: Nemacolin Woodlands
Session VII: Tracking What's Out There
David Andersen - Data-Oriented Transfer
Andrew Myers - The 4D Architecture for Network Management
and Control
Session VIII: Towards Better Communications
Alina Oprea - Space-efficient Block Storage Integrity
Craig Soules - Enhancing File Search With Context
CONTACTS
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School of Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University - CIC 2209
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FAX: (412)268-3010
Director, Parallel Data Laboratory
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University - CIC 2208
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PITTSBURGH, PA 15213-3891
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FAX: (412)268-6779