Newsgroups: comp.parallel From: parallel@netcom.com (B. Mitchell Loebel) Subject: The PARALLEL Processing Connection - March 10, 1997 meeting Notice Organization: NASA Ames Res. Ctr. Mtn Vw CA 94035 Date: 8 Mar 1997 02:38:46 GMT Message-ID: <5fqjfm$odo@onramp.arc.nasa.gov> March 10th, 1997 - The Distributed Parallel Storage System Bill Johnston of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory will discuss the Distributed Parallel Storage System (DPSS) which has been developed at LBL. DPSS has been deployed in several high speed ATM WAN testbeds to support several data movement intensive applications such as Video Medical Imaging in conjunction with Kaiser Permanente and Real Time Terrain Navigation. Architecturally DPSS is a network striped disk array with user determined data layout - parallelism at all levels from the network servers to the individual disk management threads. LBL has also developed a "top-to-bottom, end-to-end" parallel performance monitoring and analysis methodology for use with DPSS operating in high speed WAN environments. Bill plans to discuss LBL's experience in identifying and correcting problems that typically limit the performance of high speed distributed applications; the work involved DPSS deployed in the MAGIC wide-area testbed - a large-scale, high-speed, ATM network. The main meeting starts promptly at 7:30PM at Sun Microsystems at 901 San Antonio Road in Palo Alto. This is just off the southbound San Antonio exit of 101. Northbound travelers also exit at San Antonio and take the overpass to the other side of 101. A discussion of member projects currently underway and other issues of interest to entrepreneurs follows immediately thereafter at 9:15PM. Please be prompt; as usual, we expect a large attendance; don't be left out or left standing. There is a $12 fee for non-members and members will be admitted free. Yearly membership fee is $65. -- B. Mitchell Loebel parallel@netcom.com Director - Strategic Alliances and Partnering 408 732-9869 The PARALLEL Processing Connection President and Chief Technical Officer MultiNode Microsystems Corporation