PDL EVENT

21st Annual PARALLEL DATA LAB RETREAT October 28-30, 2013 INFO & AGENDA

We are pleased to welcome our PDL Consortium Member Companies
to the 21st Annual Parallel Data Lab Workshop and Retreat.

GENERAL INFORMATION

• RETREAT AGENDA
• Pittsburgh Accommodations
• Transportation
• Maps & Directions
• Pittsburgh Weather
• Workshop Venue
• Directions to Bedford Springs Resort
• VLIS Job Fair
• 2012 Attendees
• Contacts
  
  
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• HELPFUL TIPS

OUR NEWSLETTER

• 2013 PDL Fall Update (pdf)
• 2013 PDL PACKET (pdf)

2013 RETREAT RESOURCES
(Industry attendees, contact your Liaison for the username/password or for more information)

Retreat Agenda

Have a look at last year's agenda.

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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.

Your room reservations for the nights of the Retreat itself (Oct. 28 and 29) will be taken care of by us, so you will only need a room at one of the following hotels if you are arriving early and staying past the Retreat.

Please make your reservations as early as possible, as there are several Pittsburgh events that may also make rooms scarce.

TIP: There have been times when your corporate rate beats the rate we were able to secure.

Accommodations are available at the following hotels:

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Transportation

Once in Oakland, 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.

Please make your own transportation arrangements from the airport to your hotel / CMU. There are several options available for getting to and from the airport:

Rental Car: Available at the airport from all the major companies (not really recommended for the Retreat since we depart CMU to go to a resort that is about two hours away)..

Taxi Service (~$60 each way)

• Yellow Cab: 412-321-8100
• Cab Service: 412-855-4484

Limousine Service
The following driver services cost approximately $65 - $80 dollars one way (includes tip). The drivers do accept credit card payments. When you contact these services, they will most likely need your full flight info (date / time / flight number) and your cell phone number.

Airport Sedan Service (Larry Waite)
Advance reservations are required, ~$65.00 each way
Contact Larry Waite, 412-401-LIMO (5466)

Gateway Limo
Rates: $66.00 from the airport to Downtown, Oakland, Shadyside, and Squirrel Hill (sedan). The rate for a van, a 14 passenger vehicle, is $78.00 per hour. Mention CMU when making a reservation.
Call the office at 412-782-5800 (phones answered 24/7) for reservations.
Email: amydemeri@comcast.net

Harper's Transportation
Harper1084@verizon.net - 412-531-1940

Classy Cab – SUV cabs
http://www.classycab.com/index.htm
Phone 412-322-5080
Fax 412-322-5085

Supershuttle - book online

Airport Shuttle (PATransit 28X - Airport Flyer) ($3.25 each way, exact change)
Leaves CMU from the corner of Forbes and Morewood Avenues every 20 minutes starting at 4:25 a.m., last shuttle at 10:55 p.m. Shuttle leaves the airport from the arrivals level, door #6, starting at 5:20 a.m. approximately every 30 minutes.

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MAPS & DIRECTIONS

Directions to the Singleton Room in Roberts Hall

The Singleton Room, surrounded by the Seagate Technology Atrium, is located on the fourth floor of Roberts Engineering Hall (REH). REH is behind and connected to Hamerschlag Hall and may be approached from two directions:

Through Hamerschlag Hall
Enter the front doors of Hamerschlag Hall from the campus mall. (Hamerschlag is the building with the cupola on top at the west end of campus.) Proceed to the staircase or the elevator at the end of HH first floor. Go down to level "B." Follow signs to REH. You will enter the Atrium next to Singleton.

From outside REH
Pass in front of Scaife Hall and follow the sidewalk on to the covered walkway above the service road. Proceed through the door into REH. The Singleton room will be on your left.

Campus 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)
• Parking is available along Frew Street
  

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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, October 28 and return Wednesday, October 30. 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.

Bedford Springs' page of directions.

Directions from the Pittsburgh International Airport to Carnegie Mellon University.

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VLIS Job Fair, Oct. 30, 2013

Recently, a new Big Data Systems track has been developed in one of our local Masters degree programs. The students involved can do a 6-month coop-style internship as the final stage of the degree. To help create matches for both those completing the degree in December (and thus seeking full-time jobs) and those looking for 2014 internships, we are organizing a special job fair to occur at CMU right after the PDL Retreat. Retreat attendees can take the bus back to campus to participate. Details will follow soon.

We expect that approximately 100 MS students from VLIS and CSD will be participating.  Arrangements are being made and an information website will soon be available.

2012 PDL Workshop Attendees

Christopher Provenzano, Actifio
Erik Riedel, EMC
Hyong Shim, EMC
Tom Ambrose, Emulex
John Dobyns, Emulex
Hugo Patterson, Entrepreneur
Amitanand Aiyer, Facebook
Domas Mituzas, Facebook
Afshin Daghi, Fusion io
Swami Sundararaman, Fusion io
Arif Merchant, Google
Nauman Rafique, Google
Toby Smith, Google
Hironori Emaru, Hitachi America, Ltd.
Yoshi Masuoka, Hitachi Ltd.
Satoshi Oshima, Hitachi Ltd.
Goetz Graefe, HP Labs
Kim Keeton, HP Labs
Alistair Veitch, HP Labs
Kalyan Das, Huawei Technologies
Shuyi Shao, Huawei Technologies
Shaoyong (Edward) Wang, Huawei Technologies
Michael Kaminsky, Intel / Cloud Computing ISTC
Michael Kozuch, Intel Corporation
Sanjay Kumar, Intel
Babu Pillai, Intel / Cloud Computing ISTC
Dulloor Subramanya Rao, Intel Labs
Gary Grider, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Christopher Mitchell, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Aaron Torres, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Nitin Agrawal, NEC Labs
Cristian Ungureanu, NEC Labs
Jeff Heller, NetApp
Joe Moore, NetApp
Jeff Prem, NetApp
Jiri Schindler, NetApp
Sumanta Chatterjee, Oracle
Brian Hirano, Oracle
Srikanth Ramamurthy, Panasas
Yang Seok Ki, Samsung Electronics
Chanik Park, Samsung Electronics
Dongchul Park, Samsung
Dave Anderson, Seagate Technology
Mike Miller, Seagate Technology
Bruce Moxon, STEC
Reza Sadri, STEC
Tudor Dumitraș, Symantec Research Labs
Petros Efstathopoulos, Symantec Research Labs
Curt Kolovson, VMware
Sandeep Uttamchandani, VMware
James Malina, Western Digital
William Boyle, Western Digital

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