Fourth Annual Workshop on I/O in Parallel and Distributed Systems
IOPADS '96

Sunday May 26, 1996

7:00- 8:00 Breakfast
8:00- 9:00 FCRC Plenary speaker: Randy Katz, UC Berkeley. The Case for Wireless Overlay Networks

Monday May 27, 1996

8:00- 8:45 Breakfast
8:45- 9:00 Opening remarks
9:00-10:30 Session 1: Applications and Language Support
Chair: Chuck Koelbel, Rice University
Efficient Data-Parallel Files via Automatic Mode Detection
Jason A. Moore, Oregon State University
Phil Hatcher, University of New Hampshire
Michael J. Quinn, Oregon State University
Tuning the Performance of I/O Intensive Parallel Applications
Anurag Acharya, Mustafa Uysal, Robert Bennett, Assaf Mendelson, Michael Beynon, Jeffrey K. Hollingsworth, Joel Saltz, and Alan Sussman, University of Maryland
The Design and Implementation of SOLAR, a Portable Library for Scalable Out-of-Core Linear Algebra Computations
Sivan Toledo and Fred G. Gustavson, IBM T. J. Watson
10:30-11:00 Break
11:00-12:30 Session 2: Caching and Architectural Issues
Chair: John Wilkes, Hewlett-Packard Labs
Evaluating Approximately Balanced Parity-Declustered Data Layouts for Disk Arrays
Eric J. Schwabe, Ian M. Sutherland, and Bruce K. Holmer, Northwestern University
ENWRICH: A Compute-Processor Write Caching Scheme for Parallel File Systems
Apratim Purakayastha and Carla Ellis, Duke University
David Kotz, Dartmouth College
Prefetching in Segmented Disk Cache for Multi-Disk Systems
Valery V. Soloviev, North Dakota State University
12:30- 2:00 Lunch
2:00- 3:30 Session 3: File Systems
Chair: David Womble, Sandia National Labs
Performance of the Galley Parallel File System
Nils Nieuwejaar and David Kotz, Dartmouth College
HFS: A Performance-Oriented Flexible File System Based on Building-Block Compositions
Orran Krieger and Michael Stumm, University of Toronto
Scalable Message Passing in Panda
Y. Chen, M. Winslett, K. E. Seamons, S. Kuo, Y. Cho, and M. Subramaniam, University of Illinois
3:30- 4:00 Break
4:00- 5:00 Session 4: Theory and Algorithms
Chair: Jeffrey Vitter, Duke University
Bounds on the Separation of Two Parallel Disk Models
Chris Armen, University of Hartford
Structured Permuting in Place on Parallel Disk Systems
Leonard F. Wisniewski, Dartmouth College

Tuesday May 28, 1996

Tuesday morning, there was a parallel-I/O session in the International Conference on Supercomputing, at the same location.
David Kotz -- Last modified: Thu May 30 12:52:25 1996