7th Annual Workshop & Retreat
November 8 - 10, 1999

Agenda

Monday, November 8

Carnegie Mellon

Welcome: David Nagle
Demos and Poster Session

Nemacolin Woodlands

SESSION I: Active Systems
Erik Riedel
Active Disks
David Petrou
Abacus: Adaptive Function Migration in an Active Storage System
Khalil Amiri
Automatic Placement in Abacus

SESSION II: Networking
Chris Sabol
Effective Gigabit Storage Networking
Garth Goodson
Flexible, Portable, Efficient Application-Level Networking
Andy Myers
Publisher-Centric Replication on the WWW
Mor Harchol-Balter
Connection Scheduling in Web Servers

Panel Session
What are the major research issues in NAS?

Reception/Poster Session

Tuesday, November 9

Nemacolin Woodlands

SESSION III: Storage Session One
Greg Ganger
Storage Research Directions
John Strunk
Self Securing Storage Systems
Jiri Schindler
Automated Disk Drive Characterization

SESSION IV: MEMS
Rick Carley
Highly Integrated Information Processing and Storage Systems?
Steve Schlosser
Designing Systems with MEMS-Based Storage

SESSION V: Work in Progress
Intelligent Network Management - Charles Hardin
Low Start-Up Latency for the NASD Video Server - Stavros Harizopoulos
Semantic Issues in Multiprotocol Network File Systems - Edward Hogan

SESSION VI: Prefetching
Todd Mowry
Memory Forwarding: Enabling Aggressive Layout Optimizations by Guaranteeing the Safety of Data Relocation
Fay Chang
Automatic I/O Hint Generation through Speculative Execution

Wednesday, November 10

Nemacolin Woodlands

SESSION VII: Storage Session Two
Garth Gibson
NASD Technology Transfer: Report on the OBSD Standards Effort
Jim Zelenka
The EDRFS File System for NASD
David Nagle
NASD Security Performance
Seth Goldstein
PipeRench: Architectures, Compilers, and Cryptography