Thursday 4 December 2003The doors to the Campus Safety Services Building will be open between 7:00 am and 10:00 pm. 7:30 Continental Breakfast 8:00 Peter Honeyman, CITI Introduction NFSv4 and High Performance File Systems: Positioning to Scale Position paper Presentation 8:30 Garth Gibson, Panasas and Carnegie Mellon NFS Extensions for Parallel Storage Position paper Presentation 9:15 Steve Fridella, EMC Elements of a Scalable Network File System Protocol Position paper Presentation 10:00 Break 10:30 Peter Corbett, Network Appliance pNFS: Extensions to NFSv4 to Support Data Distribution and Parallelism Position paper Presentation 11:10 Julian Satran, IBM Towards a Common Scalable Security Infrastructure for Storage Access Position paper Presentation 11:25 Michael L. Kazar, Spinnaker Networks NFS Clustering Position paper Presentation 11:45 Garth Gibson Object security == fine grain access enforcement Presentation 12:00 Lunch 13:20 Craig Everhart, IBM Standard Scalable Asynchronous Access to Data Position paper Presentation 13:50 Alexandros Batsakis, Johns Hopkins NFSv4 as the Building Block for Fault Tolerant Applications Position paper Presentation 14:30 Brian Pawlowski, Network Appliance; Spencer Shepler, Sun Microsystems; and David Black, EMC IETF process, progress, and politics 15:30 Break 16:00 Point of view David Pease, IBM Notes 16:30 Guided feedback Collect and summarize feedback with audience participation Requirements for parallel distributed file systems Is "good enough" good enough? How do we measure the semantic gap? How to reconcile the files view and the blocks view? How to distribute the block map? In named attributes? In FILE_LOCATIONS? In "op"s? Byte-range lock issues? Deprecated, in one opinion. Extend the delegation model? Technology trends and drivers Application space and issues Naming, reliability, and manageability Competitive technology: contrasts and alternatives Design proposals Implementation issues Next steps 18:00 Dinner 19:30 Focused discussion on protocol extensions for metadata 20:30 Break 21:00 Focused discussion on roadblocks to consensus 22:00 Adjourn
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