[Storage-research-list] Fwd: FW: Draft call for (more) nominations -- comments soliticied

[John Bent]

Excerpts from john wilkes's message of Wed Apr 20 11:41:17 -0600 2011:
> hi John,
> 
> And please can you explain the purpose of the hec-fsio list, and kits
> relationship to PROBE?  I assume it has broader applicability than the PROBE
> project, but the list description is missing from majordomo (or, rather,
> tautologous).
>
Hey John,

Thanks for pointing out the need for this introduction and also for
realizing and pointing out that HEC-FSIO is much larger than the PRObE
project.

HEC-FSIO is a community of researchers interested in file systems and
I/O (FSIO) for large supercomputers (High-end computers: HEC).  Some of
you on the mailing list may not actually be interested in HEC-FSIO but
you're on the list bec we hope you'll join the community.

There is a committee, comprised of government types like myself, which
does the following: 

One, we periodically meet and create documents describing what we
believe are the large challenges in this area (e.g
http://institutes.lanl.gov/hec-fsio/docs/HEC-FSIO-FY09-Workshop-Document.pdf).

Two, we use these documents to help funding agencies write RFP's and we
help in the subsequent selection of proposals.  

Three, we organize an annual workshop where we have invited keynote
speakers, panel sessions, talks from funded proposals, and solicit the
community's help in creating next year's document describing our large
challenges. We update our list of outstanding challenges annually so we
can reappraise and ask the community for help making sure we're aware of
all related work and don't ask researchers to reinvent any wheels.  

Four, we have this mailing list which we sometimes repurpose for related
announcements such as the one about PRObE. 

More information about HEC-FSIO is available here:
http://institutes.lanl.gov/hec-fsio/

While I have the attention of you who are still reading, I'll take this
opportunity to remind you (I say remind because I hope you received my
previous email about this) about this year's workshop.  Formal
invitations and the registration link will be sent at the beginning of
the summer but you can mark your calendars now:

Monday August 8 starting at 9 AM through
Wednesday August 10 ending at noon
in Arlington, VA

Previous workshops' agendas and presentations are available:
http://institutes.lanl.gov/hec-fsio/conferences/

Hope this helps.  I'll take an edit pass at the majordomo list
description to expand it a bit beyond "This is the majordomo list
description for hec-fsio at lanl.gov."
-- 
Thanks,

John