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22/23 are ok with me. At 10:36 PM 6/22/2008, Jacek Becla wrote: >Hello, > >The suggested dates (Sept 29/30) do not work for several >people. An alternative dates would be a week earlier: >September 22/23. Please respond if you have a conflict. >I am planning to finalize the dates next Friday. > >Thanks for all responses, offers and suggestions >I received so far! > >Regards, >Jacek > > > >Jacek Becla wrote: >>Dear All, >>At the 1st XLDB workshop we agreed to meet again in >>about a year, somewhere in SF Bay Area, likely at SLAC. >>To make this happen, it is time to start planning >>the 2nd XLDB workshop now. >> >>Where/when >>========== >>I'm proposing to meet for 2 days on September 29th >>and 30th at SLAC. Let me know if you are planning >>to attend and this slot doesn't work for you (but >>do realize we won't be able to accommodate everybody's >>schedule) >> >>Program >>======= >>Based on the feedback received last year, the style of >>the 1st workshop worked well, so we will try to keep >>it similar this year: lots of discussions and very few >>presentations. >>We (myself, K-T and few others I talked to) envision >>this year's workshop to be a continuation of the >>discussions we started last year, with the main focus >>on topics like: >> * complex analytics - commonalities between science >> and industry >> * scalability, fault tolerance and crash recovery of >> extremely large databases >> * common features needed (provenance?, uncertainty?, >> time travel?...) >> * resource allocation/management >> * on the fly reconfiguration and on the fly data >> repartitioning >> * [... suggestions what else welcome...] >>The goal would be to identify commonalities, >>understand and prioritize needed features and >>discuss path forward. >>We are considering having a session about war stories >>(LHC? PanSTARRS? EBay? others?) - if you have a large >>production database setup and would like to talk about >>your war stories related to extremely large databases, >>please let me know. >>We are also considering having a dedicated time slot >>for new startups (and maybe well established vendors), >>so... >>1) If you represent a startup involved in providing >> extremely large database solutions and would like to >> speak about it, please let me know. The form of this >> session is to-be-decided (poster session? panel? >> short presentations?). >>2) If you would like to see a slot dedicated to well >> established DBMS vendors, please let me know. Based >> on the feedback I received last year this seems to be >> less desired. >>Finally, we believe it'd be valuable to spend the second >>half of the second day on a tutorial related to the new >>open source database that was proposed at the Asilomar >>meeting. See the report: >>http://xldb.slac.stanford.edu/download/attachments/4784226/sciDB2008_report.pdf >> >>for more details about this meeting. We will provide >>more information in advance to help you decide if you >>want to stay or not. >> >>Organizing Committee >>==================== >>I'm looking for 2-4 volunteers who would like to help >>with organizing this workshop. An up-front warning: >>each member of the organizing committee will be expected >>to do some real work (announcements, preparation, maybe >>moderating, etc). If you are interested, please respond >>directly to me. >> >>Invitations >>=========== >>I can already tell there is huge interest in this workshop, >>and it will be a challenge to keep it relatively small, >>e.g. under 70. We need to come up with a policy what criteria >>to use to select who should be invited. (Keep in mind that >>being on this list and receiving this email does _not_ guarantee >>getting an invite...). I think we should shoot for no more >>than two representatives for "bigger" sites/labs/companies, >>and one representative otherwise. >> >>Website >>======== >>In the short term, up-to-date page dedicated to workshop >>preparation will be maintained at: >>http://xldb.slac.stanford.edu/display/XLDB/xldb2 >>Eventually we will create an official web page similar to: >>http://www-conf.slac.stanford.edu/xldb07 >> >>Comments welcome >>================ >>If you have suggestions regarding agenda/topics to discuss, >>or any other comments/suggestions, please contact me or >>respond to this email. >> >>Based on the feedback we received, last year's meeting >>was a great success, which means it'll be a big challenge >>to make the 2nd workshop even better. I am looking forward >>to making this happen together with you. >>Best regards, >>Jacek