OTHER SEMINARS - CERN HNF-Europe Workshop on High Performance Networking

by (CERN)

Thursday 27 Sept 2001, 09:00 → 17:00 Europe/Zurich

IT Auditorium (CERN)

Again this year HNF-Europe and CERN are organising their annual High Performance Networking Workshop at CERN in Geneva. Subjects include: High Performance Networking; Network Storage; Cluster Computing; Grid Computing. Highlights of this CERN Workshop will be reports and/or demonstrations on: 10-GE: Progress + first CERN demonstration of Ethernet at 10 Gigabits/sec. iSCSI: Bringing SCSI commands from the host to storage over a TCP/IP network. GSN: Gigabyte System Network, the first ANSI standard 10-Gigabit technology. See also: http://hsi.web.cern.ch/HSI/HNF-Europe/Welcome.htm AGENDA 9.00 High Performance Networking Experience at LANL, Mike Boorman, LANL, USA Adv. Netw. Dev. Team 9.35 IBM Linux Cluster and Storage Solutions, Jamshed Mirza, IBM, USA 10.25 iSCSI: Storage and virtualisation, Dana Kammersgard, CTO Dot Hill, USA 11.15 To be defined, Jeff Howard, SGI, USA 12.30 LUNCH 14.00 SUN's Grid Strategies and Contributions, Wolfgang Gentzsch, SUN, USA 14.50 About file organisation in clustered networks, Jason Phippine, Veritas 15.30 to 18.00 Technology Demonstrations in the CERN Computer Centre For the technology demonstration it is planned to show: - 10 Gigabit Ethernet demonstration connection from Cisco - An IBM Computing Cluster - iSCSI bridges from Cisco and Dot Hill. - High Performance SAN Network storage from Dot Hill - GSN Copper and Optical connections with TCP/IP and ST protocols (on multiple platforms) - GSN switches and PCI to GSN NICs from GENROCO - The SGI Origin 3000 with native GSN NICs - Bridges connecting GSN to Gigabit Ethernet, Fibre Channel and OC48c For a limited number of connections the meeting will be broadcast in the Sun VRVS room (see http://www.vrvs.org/)"

Organiser(s): A. Van Praag

Note: For more information and last minute updates contact A. Van Praag a.van.pragg@cern.ch For last minute changes and the demonstration diagram see: http://hsi.web.cern.ch/HSI/HNF-Europe/Workshop2001/Agenda.PDF