In case any of you happen to be around SLAC in the next couple of days...
(Note "Tea and cookies", and hope Andy doesn't get there before you do... ;-)
Pete
Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2006 13:34:36 -0700
From: "Johnson, Tony S." <[log in to unmask]>
To: comp-l <[log in to unmask]>,
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Cc: itandtea-l <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: IT & Tea Seminar: Andrew Hanushevsky - The xrootd System
This month's "IT & Tea" Seminar is scheduled for Thursday, June 8, 2006.
Topic: The xrootd System
Speaker: Andrew Hanushevsky
Date: Thursday, June 8, 2006
Time: 3:30 - 5:00 PM
Location: SLAC, Orange Conference Room, Bldg 40
Goodies: Tea and cookies provided
Abstract:
When dealing with the concurrent access from a multitude of clients to petabyte-
scale data repositories, high performance, low latency, fault tolerance, robustn
ess, and scalability are very important issues. This work describes the architec
ture and the choices made in designing the xrootd file access system. The first
goal of the system was to provide access to over 10^7 files representing several
petabytes of experimental physics data.
This talk describes the xrootd system and explains how performance was achieved.
The system is currently used by BaBar at SLAC, IN2P3, INFN, FZK, and RAL. It is
also used the Star at BNL and Alice at CERN. The xrootd system is included in t
he standard CERN root distribution.
About the Speaker:
Andrew Hanushevsky has worked for SLAC as a systems developer since 1996. Prior
to this, he worked at Cornell University concentrating on Mass Storage Systems a
nd distributed security. His current main focus is xrootd, as it applies to BaBa
r and the PetaCache project.
For more information on the IT and Tea semnar series please visit:
http://www2.slac.stanford.edu/ITnTEA/default.htm
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