October 1, 2000
SCSI
Object Based Storage Device Commands (OSD) T10 - Working Draft, Revision
3 Released
On October 1, the T10 working draft of the SCSI Object Based Storage Device
Commands Set, Revision 3 was released. This SCSI command set is designed
to provide efficient peer-to-peer operation of input/output logical units
by an operating system using Object Based Storage commands. Objects designate
entities in which computer systems store data. The purpose of the OSD
abstraction is to assign to the storage device the responsibility for
managing where data is located on the device. A downloadable pdf version of this document is available.
Summer 2000
Intel Donation - http://www.intel.com
CMU's Parallel Data Lab would like to thank Intel for its recent generous
donation of 20 multiprocessor motherboards and 35 Pentium III CPUs that
we assembled into complete workstations. This link will take you to a page detailing the steps we took to build the
workstations using the Intel components.
Summer 2000
PDL Student Receives Scholarship
Our congratulations to Craig Soules,
a PDL graduate student working toward his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer
Engineering. He was named a "USENIX Scholar" by the USENIX
Association. As a part of this award, USENIX is supporting Craig's
tuition and stipend this year.
February 14, 2000
Hui Zhang Selected Sloan Foundation Fellow
Hui Zhang, Finmeccanica Assistant Professor
School of Computer Science and Department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering, has been selected as a Sloan Foundation Fellow. This is
a highly competitive program for junior faculty in six fields: chemistry,
computer science, economics, mathematics, neuroscience, and physics
with only 100 fellowships awarded per year. The fellowship provides
a $40,000 grant over a two-year period. Dr Zhang's research interests
focus on scalable solutions for Quality of Service and value-added distributed
services over the Internet. He is involved in several projects including
Darwin, Libra, Gemini, Indra, and an NSF Career Award Project. Please
see http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~hzhang for more information.
(from SCS-Today, Feb. 14, 2000)
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