PDL EVENT

17th Annual WORKSHOP & RETREAT November 9 TO 11, 2009 AGENDA

We are pleased to welcome our PDL Consortium Member Companies
to the 17th Annual Parallel Data Lab Workshop and Retreat.

GENERAL INFORMATION

• RETREAT AGENDA
• Pittsburgh Accommodations
• Transportation
• Maps
• Pittsburgh Weather
• Workshop Venue
• Directions to Bedford Springs Resort
• 2008 Attendees
• Contacts

OUR NEWSLETTER

• 2009 PDL Fall Update
• 2009 PDL PACKET (pdf)

2009 RETREAT RESOURCES (Industry attendees, contact your Liaison for the username/password or for more information).

 

Pittsburgh Accommodations

If you are planning to arrive in Pittsburgh over the weekend preceding the retreat, PDL has several rooms on hold at each of the hotels listed below. When you call the hotel to make reservations, tell them that you'd like a room booked for the PDL Retreat (or quote the appropriate code listed below). You may also book extra nights at the preferred rate if you request them at the time of your booking. If there are any problems or questions, please contact Karen Lindenfelser at 412-268-6716.

Accommodations are available at the following hotels:
TIP: There have been times when your corporate rate beats the rate we were able to secure.

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Transportation

Most of the hotels we have listed above have shuttle transportation to CMU available. Please request that you be dropped off on the west end of Frew Street, then refer to the attached map for directions to the Singleton Room in Roberts Hall.

There are several options available for getting to and from the airport:

Rental Car: Available at the airport from all the major companies.

Taxi Service (approximately $50 each way)

• Yellow Cab: 412-665-8100
• People's Cab Co.: 412-681-3131

Limousine Service
If you need airport/CMU/airport services, I'd be happy to arrange this for you -- Karen

Airport Sedan Service (Larry Waite)
Advance reservations are required, $55 each way
Contact Larry Waite, 412-401-LIMO (5466)

Majesty Transportation (Nicole or Stephanie)
Advance reservations are required; $50 each way
www.majestytransportation.com, 412-462-4858 or 1-888-546-6048

Express Shuttle USA (one way $22-$25, round trip $40-$46). More info on the web.
Leaves the airport inbound toward CMU starting at 9:00 a.m. every hour until 10:00 p.m. Monday through Friday and starting at 10:00 a.m. running until 4 p.m. on Saturdays and 2:00 p.m. on Sundays every two hours. Leaves the hotels listed below on the hour (M-F) starting at:

• Holiday Inn: 5:50 a.m., no reservation required
• Wyndham Garden: 6:00 a.m., no reservation required
• Hampton Inn: 6:05 a.m., reservations required
• does not schedule stops at the Shadyside Inn

Airport Shuttle(PATransit 28X - Airport Flyer) (approximately $2.50 each way)
Leaves CMU from the corner of Forbes and Morewood Avenues every 20 minutes starting at
5:00 a.m., last shuttle at 10:40 p.m. Shuttle leaves the airport from the baggage level starting at 5:45 a.m. approximately every 20 minutes.

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MAPS

• Campus Map showing the location of Roberts Hall and the Singleton Room
• Location of the CIC Building
• Directions to CMU from the airport
• Map of walk from Holiday Inn to CMU campus (about a 15 minute walk)
  

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Bedford Springs Resort

Bedford Springs Resort is a four season, historically significant destination located on 2,200-acres. It began welcoming guests over 200 years ago when the mineral springs of Bedford Springs, PA became known as a source of rejuvenation. The resort is approximately 90 miles east of Pittsburgh.

CMU Retreat attendees and guests will travel to Bedford Springs on Monday, November 9 and return Wednesday, November 11. We will provide bus transportation to the resort on Monday and back to Pittsburgh and the Pittsburgh International airport on Wednesday afternoon.

Participants of the retreat will be members of the PDL Consortium and invited guests. Information on becoming a member of the consortium is available from Karen Lindenfelser, Bill Courtright (PDL Executive Director), or Greg Ganger (PDL Director).

Click to view a map and print driving directions.

Directions from the Pittsburgh International Airport to Carnegie Mellon University.

Bedford Springs' page of directions.

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Retreat Agenda

Agenda details will be added as the event approaches.

Have a look at last year's agenda.

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2008 PDL Workshop Attendees

Hugo Patterson, Data Domain
Sazzala Reddy, Data Domain
Sorin Faibish, EMC
Patrick Eaton, EMC
Bobby Johnson, Facebook
Phillip Liu, Facebook
Don Beaver, Google
Deborah Weisser, Google
Chris Colohan, Google
Jeff Stewart, Google
Tomohiro Kawaguchi, Hitachi America
Kentaro Shimada, Hitachi Systems Dev. Lab
Arif Merchant, HP Labs
Brad Morrey, HP Labs
Alistair Veitch, HP Labs
Roger Haskin, IBM
Julian Satran, IBM Haifa Research Lab
Michael Kozuch, Intel Research Pittsburgh
Lily Mummert, Intel Research Pittsburgh
Shimin Chen, Intel Research Pittsburgh
John Bent, Los Alamos National Lab
Gary Grider, Los Alamos National Lab
James Nunez, Los Alamos National Lab
Jerry Fredin, LSI
Brian McKean, LSI
Rama Kotla, Microsoft Research
Dushyanth Narayanan, Microsoft Research Cambridge
Jeff Prem, NetApp
Rich Sanzi, NetApp
Thierry Cruanes, Oracle Corp.
Sue Lee, Oracle Corp.
Paul Nowoczynski, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
Erik Riedel, Seagate Technology
Alma Riska, Seagate Technology
Bob Thibadeau, Seagate Technology
Mark Carlson, SNIA (Sun Microsystems)
Craig Harmer, Symantec
Darren Shou, Symantec
Orran Krieger, VMware

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Contacts:

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