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HPC USER FORUM STORAGE PANEL April 15, 2008 Norfolk, VA

HPC USER FORUM STORAGE PANEL April 15, 2008 Norfolk, VA. MODERATOR / PANELISTS. Moderator: Steve Finn, BAE Systems Vendor Panelists User Panelists DDN – Jeff Denworth BP – Keith Gray EMC – Sorin Faibish PSC – Nick Nystrom HP – Kent Koeninger IDC – Dan Lee IBM – John Palmer

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HPC USER FORUM STORAGE PANEL April 15, 2008 Norfolk, VA

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  1. HPC USER FORUM STORAGE PANEL April 15, 2008Norfolk, VA

  2. MODERATOR / PANELISTS • Moderator: Steve Finn, BAE Systems • Vendor PanelistsUser Panelists • DDN – Jeff Denworth BP – Keith Gray • EMC – Sorin Faibish PSC – Nick Nystrom • HP – Kent Koeninger IDC – Dan Lee • IBM – John Palmer • Mellanox – Gilad Shainer • NetApp – Michael Eisler • Panasas – Garth Gibson • SGI – Eric Eastman • Sun – RB Hooks III

  3. QUESTION 1 • 1. What are your estimates for media density for Disk and Tape and potential for use of Flash Memory? How would Flash be used in a block oriented environment?

  4. QUESTION 2 • 2. What is your best prediction for NFSv4.1 standard finalization, time frame and availability of full pNFS support for file, block and object? What are the major hurdles and issues, if any, that must be overcome in order to achieve the goal?

  5. QUESTION 3 • 3. What are your views on future storage interconnect FCoE vs. IB vs. iSER vs. iWARP for HPC?

  6. QUESTION 4 • 4.The future of Lustre?: What are SUN's plans/commitment regarding support of Lustre with other vendor hardware?

  7. QUESTION 5 • 5. Where do you see applicability in HPC for intelligent storage solutions such as object-based storage? For example, storage devices with added intelligence to offload low-level storage management tasks such as block allocation and metadata management.

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