Fwd: EMBRYO TALK

[Pranav Agarwal]

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 EMBRYO TALK


IBM Think Friday Lecture Series-

Title: A Parallel File System Cache for Global File Access
Speaker: Manoj P. Naik, Senior Software Engineer, IBM


Speaker's Bio: Manoj Naik is a Senior Researcher at IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, California. Since joining IBM Research in 1997,
he has worked in the area of networked storage, distributed systems, and parallel file systems. He holds a Masters degree in
Computer Engineering from IIT, Delhi.


Abstract of the talk:
Cloud computing promises large-scale and seamless access to vast quantities of data across the globe. Applications will demand
the reliability, consistency, and performance of a traditional cluster file system regardless of the physical distance between data
centers. Panache is a scalable, high-performance, clustered file system cache for parallel data-intensive applications that require
wide area file access. Panache is the first file system cache to exploit parallelism in every aspect of its design - parallel
applications can access and update the cache from multiple nodes while data and metadata is pulled into and pushed out of the
cache in parallel. Data is cached and updated using pNFS, which performs parallel I/O between clients and servers, eliminating
the single-server bottleneck of vanilla client-server file access protocols. Furthermore, Panache shields applications from
fiuctuating WAN latencies and outages and is easy to deploy as it relies on open standards for high-performance file serving and
does not require any proprietary hardware or software to be installed at the remote cluster.
In this talk, I will present the overall design of Panache and evaluate its key features with multiple workloads across local and
wide area networks. I will also examine other applications for Panache in the areas of data migration and replication, common
namespace, and cloud computing.

Date-4th march
Time-10am-11am
Venue-3160
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[Vineet Pandey]

@Pranav:

Any chance we can see this online?

vineet

[Harshad Deshmukh]

Pandey:

Embryo team has started uploading the recorded lecture (like http://vivu.tv/portal/archive.jsp?flow=964-210-3548&id=1297521023451 )

I will have a word with the web-team and let you know. Not be the live talk but a recorded talk which we may be able to see.

~Harshad

[Vineet Pandey]

yay! do tell.