Workshop Program

SESSION - I (Chair: Tevfik Kosar)
09:00 am : Opening Remarks
                    Tevfik Kosar, Louisiana State University
09:10 am : Keynote: Data Streaming Patterns for Distributed Data Exploitation
                    Malcolm Atkinson, e-Science Institute & University of Edinburgh
10:10 am : Invited Talk: Extremely Large Databases for Data-intensive Computing
                    Jacek Becla, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center

10:30 am : Break

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SESSION - II (Chair: Reagan Moore)
10:45 am : FREERIDE-G: Enabling Distributed Processing of Large Datasets
                    Leonid Glimcher and Gagan Agrawal, Ohio State University
11:15 am : Accelerating Large-scale Data Exploration through Data Diffusion
                    Ioan Raicu and Ian Foster, University of Chicago
                    Yong Zhao, Microsoft Corporation
                    Alex Szalay, John Hopkins University
11:45 am : DIMM: A Distributed Metadata Management for Data-Intensive
                    HPC Environments
                    Brandon Szeliga, John Cavicchioi and Weisong Shi, Wayne State University

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12:15 pm : Lunch

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SESSION - III (Chair: Douglas Thain)
1:30 pm : Data Transfers in the Grid: Workload Analysis of Globus GridFTP
                  Nicolas Kourtellis and Lydia Prieto, University of South Florida
                  Gustavo Zerrate and Adriana Iamnitchi, University of South Florida
                  Dan Fraser, Argonne National Laboratory
2:00 pm : Dynamically Tuning Level of Parallelism in Wide Area Data Transfers
                  Esma Yildirim, Mehmet Balman and Tevfik Kosar, Louisiana State University

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2:30 pm : Break

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SESSION - IV (Chair: Dan Katz)
2:45 pm : A Generalized Replica Placement Strategy to Optimize Latency
                  in a Wide Area Distributed Storage System
                  John A. Chandy, University of Connecticut
3:15 pm : Amazon S3 for Science Grids: a Viable Solution?
                  Mayur Palankar and Adriana Iamnitchi, University of South Florida
                  Matei Ripeanu, University of British Columbia
                  Simson Garfinkel, Harvard University

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3:45 pm : Break

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4:00 pm : Panel Discussion: Challenges and New Trends in Data Intensive Science
                  Ian Foster, Argonne National Lab & University of Chicago
                  Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University
                  Reagan Moore, San Diego Supercomputing Center
                  Dan Reed, Microsoft Research
5:00 pm : Closing Remarks
                  Tevfik Kosar, Louisiana State University