9th Annual Workshop & Retreat
November 5 - 7, 2001
AGENDA
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 5: Carnegie Mellon
Greg Ganger: Welcome
Ken Gabriel, CMU: Silicon that Hears and Makes Sound
Posters & Open Discussion
Nemacolin Woodlands
SESSION I: Maximizing Disk Performance
Jiri Schindler - Matching File System Policies to Disk Characteristics
Chris Lumb - Freeblock Scheduling Outside of Disk Firmware
SESSION II: Survivable Storage Systems
Jay Wylie - Analyzing Survivable Storage Systems
Vijay Pandurangan - Performance Tuning in Survivable Storage Systems
Poster Session and Reception
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 6: Nemacolin Woodlands
SESSION III: Decentralized FS Design
Garth Goodson - A Survivable NFS File System
John Griffin - Timing-accurate Storage Emulation
SESSION IV: Storage Networking
Aditya Akella - Congestion Management and Service Differentiation
Andy Klosterman - Distributed File System Measurements and Load Balancing
Ted Wong - Decentralized Reconfiguration of Threshold Schemes
SESSION V: Database Systems
Shimin Chen - Improving Database Index Performance through Prefetching
Stavros Harizopoulos - Affinity Scheduling in Staged Database Systems
SESSION VI: Maximizing Disk Performance II
Angela Demke Brown - Taming the Memory Hogs
Poster Session & Reception
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 7: Nemacolin Woodlands
SESSION VII: System Robustness
Mike Bigrigg - Program Analysis for Robust Information System
Bianca Schroeder - Improving Performance of Web Servers Under Overload
SESSION VIII: Storage-Embedded Security
John Strunk - Detection, Diagnosis, and Recovery with Self-Securing
Storage
Craig Soules - A Fine-grained Versioning System For Self-Securing
Storage
Feedback Session
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