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Peter Elmer wrote: > 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... ;-) > > indeed, in the seminar annoucement, they should have put a special warning :-). > 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]>, > slactrain-l <[log in to unmask]>, [log in to unmask] >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 > >------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Peter Elmer E-mail: [log in to unmask] Phone: +41 (22) 767-4644 >Address: CERN Division PPE, Bat. 32 2C-14, CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland >------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >