CluStor'06

Thursday, September 21, 2006

Welcome & Wakeup & Warmup Coffee 12-13

Begin: 13:00

Opening of the Workshop (13:00-13:10)

• Thomas Ludwig, Rob Ross (10)

Resource Management (13:10-14:00)

• Thomas Ludwig (15+5)
  Research on Parallel File Systems in Heidelberg
• Julian Kunkel (20+10)
  Migration and Load Balancing Within PVFS2

Coffee Break 14:00-14:20

Performance Evaluation (14:20-16:55)

• Lars Schneidenbach (30+15)
  Analysis of the BMI/TCP Module
• Michael Kuhn / Christian Lohse (20+10)
  File Systems for Mass Storage of Image Data in Bioinformatics
• Coffee Break 15:35-15:55
• Julian Kunkel (20+10)
  Performance Analysis of Parallel File Systems
• Stephan Krempel (20+10)
  Connecting MPI-IO Calls to Their Corresponding PVFS2 Disk Operations

Coffee Break 16:55-17:15

Future Development of PVFS (17:15-18:00)

• Rob Ross (30+15)
  t.b.d.

Dinner: 8pm

Friday, September 22, 2006

Begin: 8:30am

System Design (8:30-9:15)

• Angelos Bilas (30+15)
  Scalable Storage Systems & Efficient Remote Block-level I/O

Coffee Break 9:15-9:30

Fault Tolerance (9:30-11:45)

• Alejandro Calderón Mateos (30+15)
  Fault tolerant support for parallel file systems in clusters
• Sebastian Kalcher (30+15)
  ClusterRAID: Reliable Mass Storage on Unreliable Cluster Components
• Peter Sobe (30+15)
  Redundancy Schemes for Distributed Storage

Coffee Break 11:45-12:00

Highest Performance I/O Systems (12:00-12:45)

• Christoph Biardzki (30+15)
  HLRB2 I/O-Subsystem: Design and First Experiences

Discussion about common future activities (12:45-13:30)

End: 13:30

Lunch: 13:30pm

Optional Demo Session: 3-5pm