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Toni Cortes

Toni Cortes is the manager of the storage-system group at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center BSC (since 2006) and is also an associate professor at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (since 1998). He received his M.S. in computer science in 1992 and his Ph.D. also in computer science in 1997 (both at Universitat PolitΓ¨cnica de Catalunya).

His research concentrates on scalable storage systems, programming models for scalable distributed systems and operating systems in general. He has published 66 papers in international journals and conferences. Dr. Cortes has been involved in several EU projects (Paros, Nanos, POP, XtreemOS, Scalus, and IOlanes) and has also participated in cooperation with IBM (TJW research lab) on scalability issues both for MPI and UPC.

 

Peter W. Haas

Peter W. Haas, born in 1947, is a graduate in electrical engineering of the University of Stuttgart. He has owned several faculty positions and served as a professor of electrical engineering at the Polytechnic of Esslingen. Mr. Haas has contributed the basic communication infrastructure to the State of Baden-Wuerttemberg Science Network, BelWue, in 1988, as well as to hww, the first German national supercomputing center, in 1996. At HLRS, the High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart, he has worked on the port of HPSS for AIX to the Solaris operating system and served as a reviewer of the Eurostore project. Mr. Haas is a member of IEEE, cofounder of BelWue and HNF Europe and has initiated the HLRS/hww Workshop on Scalable Global Parallel File Systems as a forum for European collaboration.

Current research projects include the analysis and optimization of parallel computer networking and I/O performance, security in storage, design of embedded Linux controllers, simulation of multiphysics systems, and semiconductor theory. The list of publications includes more than 80 papers.

Garth Gibson

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Garth Gibson is a professor of Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at Panasas Inc. Garth received a B.Math from the University of Waterloo in Canada, and a M.S and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley. While at Berkeley he did the groundwork research and co-wrote the seminal paper on RAID, then Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks, for which he received the 1999 IEEE Reynold B. Johnson Information Storage Award for outstanding contributions in the field of information storage. Joining CMU's faculty in 1991, Garth founded CMU's Parallel Data Laboratory (www.pdl.cmu.edu), academia’s premiere storage systems research center, and co-led the Network-Attached Storage Device (NASD) research project that became the basis of the T10 (SCSI) Object-based Storage Devices (OSD) command set for storage.

At Panasas Garth led the development of the PanFS Scale Out NAS in use in government and commercial high-performance computing sites, including the world’s first Petaflop computer, Roadrunner, at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Through Panasas, Garth co-instigated the IETF's emerging open standard for parallelism in the next generation of Network File Systems (NFSv4.1). Garth is also principal investigator of the Department of Energy's Petascale Data Storage Institute in the Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing program and co-director of the Institute for Reliable High Performance Information Technology, a joint effort with Los Alamos. Garth also participates in the OpenCirrus cloud computing collaboration with Yahoo!, Intel, HP, etc. and leads a Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Center for eScience in the 21st Century, which operates an OpenCloud Hadoop cluster in use for astrophysics, computational biology, geophysics, machine translation, machine learning of the web, blog and twitter publications, and analysis of malware. Garth has sat on a variety of academic and industrial service committees including the Technical Council of the Storage Networking Industry Association and the program and steering committee of the USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST).

 

Rob Ross

Robert Ross is a computer scientist at Argonne National Laboratory and a fellow at the Computation Institute of the University of Chicago. He is the Associate Director of the DOE SciDAC Institute for UltraScale Visualization and the Area Lead for Storage Efficient Access in the DOE SciDAC Scientific Data Management Center. Rob's research interests are in system software for high performance computing systems, in particular parallel file systems and libraries for I/O and message passing.

Rob received his Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Clemson University in 2000. Following this he joined the Mathematics and Computer Science Division at Argonne National Laboratory. He was the lead architect of the PVFS parallel file system, is active in maintaining the ROMIO MPI-IO library, and oversees the Parallel netCDF high-level I/O library development. Rob is a member of the MPICH2 development team awarded the R&D 100 award in 2005, and was a recipient of the 2004 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.