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Welcome to Systor 2010

Yaron Wolfsthal, Mgr, Systems Technologies, Haifa Research Lab

The 3rd Annual Haifa Experimental Systems Conference

May 24-26, 2010

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Environment

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Systems and Storage Trends

“The economy may be in a recession, and the stock market may be going through convulsions -- prompting talk of possible hiring freezes and layoffs within IT departments. But at this point, data storage doesn't appear to be an area that many companies or other organizations are targeting for budget cuts.”

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Systems and Storage Trends cont.

“Despite declining IT operating budgets, virtualization adoption will dramatically accelerate and continue to top the priority list of CIOs .. the safest way to cut IT costs while still delivering reliable services”

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Conference Highlights – Day IIBM Auditorium

May 24, 2010

Keynote Talk:

10:00 Many-core Computing: A Disruptive Technology Enabling Low-cost, Low-power Desktop Supercomputing, David Kaeli, Northeastern Univ.

11:00 Coffee Break

Session 1.1 Storage & Virtualization (Chair: Eitan Bachmat, Ben-Gurion Univ.)

13:30 Lunch

Session 1.2 Workload-driven Optimization (Chair: Idit Keidar, Technion)

16:00 Student Poster Session - refreshments will be served

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Conference Highlights – Day IIMorning - Hecht Auditorium in Haifa University; Afternoon - IBM Auditorium

May 25, 2010

Keynote Talk:

09:30 Reliable Distributed Storage, Idit Keidar, Technion

10:30 Coffee Break

Session 2.1 Parallel Programming (Chair: Erez Zadok, Stony Brook Univ.)

12:30 Guided Tour in Hecht Museum

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13:30 Lunch at IBM

Session 2.2 Virtualization (Chair: Dan Tsafrir, Technion)

16:00 Social Event: Galilee Tour and Dinner 

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Conference Highlights – Day IIIIBM Auditorium

May 26, 2010

Keynote Talk:

09:30 Bread Crumbs Don't Last, Mary G. Baker, HP

10:30 Coffee Break

Session 3.1 Storage and Communication(Chair: Miriam Allalouf, IBM)

Invited Talk:

12:30 Server-Class Energy and Performance Evaluations, Erez Zadok, Stony Brook Univ.

13:30 Lunch

Session 3.2 Low-level Optimization (Chair: Muli Ben-Yehuda, IBM)

Panel

15:30 Cloud Computing: A New Direction or a Passing Trend?

16:30 Closing Remarks

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Thank You

To our Kind Sponsors

To the Conference Team

To our Guests

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Haifa and the Northern Area

Enjoy