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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 >