<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><blockquote type="cite">From: John Bent <<a href="mailto:johnbent@lanl.gov">johnbent@lanl.gov</a>><br>To: hec-fsio <<a href="mailto:hec-fsio@lanl.gov">hec-fsio@lanl.gov</a>><br>Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 14:05:13 -0600<br>Subject: Three days left on hotel block for HEC-FSIO Aug 8-10 in Arlington, VA<br><br>All,<br><br>Just three days left to reserve a hotel block and six days left to register.<br><br>AGENDA:<br><br>Agenda is attached (also available <a href="http://goo.gl/ORLvt">http://goo.gl/ORLvt</a>) but allow me to also briefly advertise here (pls insert an implicit HPC before all topics):<br><br>Five panels:<br>1) measurement and understanding with Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau, Phil Carns, Xiaosong Ma, and Frank Mueller as panelists. Moderated by myself<br>2) metadata with Michael Bender, Walt Ligon, Aleatha Parker-Wood, and Galen Shipman as panelists. Moderated by Rob Ross<br>3) next generation IO with Alok Choudhary, Dries Kimpe, Carlos Maltzahn, and Raju Rangaswami as panelists. Moderated by Lee Ward<br>4) quality of service with Scott Brandt, Greg Ganger (subject to change), Mahmut Kandemir, and Ming Zhao as panelists. Moderated by Gary Grider<br>5) death of disk with Dave Anderson, Garth Gibson, Erik Riedel, Nisha Talagala, and Ted Wobber as panelists. Moderated by Steve Poole<br><br>Four survey talks (also including specifics about the speaker's personal research):<br>1) management and RAS by Erez Zadok<br>2) security by Peter Honeyman<br>3) archive by Ethan Miller<br>4) communications and protocols by John Chandy<br><br>Two breakout sessions:<br>1) management and RAS breakout offered in parallel with security breakout<br>2) archive breakout offered in parallel with communications and protocols<br><br>Four additional invited talks by Jack Dennis, Christopher Mitchell, Lee Ward, and Xiaodong Zhang.<br><br>Finally, short updates about ADIOS, HDF5, OrangeFS, PLFS, and YCSB++.<br><br>HOTEL:<br><br>The deadline to make reservations at the Westin Arlington Gateway Hotel is Friday, July 15. If you have not made your reservation yet, please go to <a href="http://www.starwoodmeeting.com/Book/hec2011">http://www.starwoodmeeting.com/Book/hec2011</a> no later than Friday, July 15.<br><br>If you are having problems with the link or received a "Block full" message, please call Whitney Koslik at (703) 537-4258.<br><br>REGISTRATION:<br><br><a href="http://institute.lanl.gov/hec-fsio/conferences/2011/HEC_FSIO_2011_Information_Sheet_Registration_Form.pdf">http://institute.lanl.gov/hec-fsio/conferences/2011/HEC_FSIO_2011_Information_Sheet_Registration_Form.pdf</a> by July 18.<br><br>Thanks,<br><br>John Bent<br></blockquote></div></body></html>