Panel: High Performance NFS: Facts & Fictions Session Chair: Garth Gibson, CMU Thurs Nov 16, 2006 SC06 Panel Web Page

Panelists:
Garth Gibson, Mike Kazar, Paul Rutherford, Michael Callahan, Raju Bopardikar, Uday Gupta,
Peter Honeyman, Roger Haskin

Abstract:
Lately you may have begun hearing about High Performance NFS offerings and standards. But we all "know" NFS is not scalable. So what does High Performance NFS mean? FPGA implementation of parts of the file system? Really big caches? RDMA embedded in the RPC mechanism? Multiple filers exporting the same files? Delegations for file layout enabling clients to directly access storage devices/servers in parallel? This panel will address this question with enough opinions to ensure that attendees learn much more about the alternatives and strategies without being able to say it is just one thing. Yet.

Panelist Presentations:

• Garth Gibson, Panasas / Carnegie Mellon University – Panel on High Performance NFS: Fact or Fiction
  PDF [1.8M]

• Mike Kazar, Network Appliance – Data ONTAP GX: Solutions for High Performance Technical Computing
  PDF [390K]

• Paul Rutherford, Isilon Systems – High Performance NFS
  PDF [545K]

• Michael Callahan, PolyServe – The PolyServe NAS Cluster Architecture
  PDF [165K]

• Raju Bopardikar, Crosswalk, Inc. – Truly Scalable NFS
  PDF [245K]

• Uday Gupta, EMC – MPFSi for High Performance NFS
  PDF [1.1M]

• Peter Honeyman, U. Michigan/CITI – Enabling Parallelism in NFSv4
  PDF [760K]

• Roger Haskin, IBM Almaden – High Performance NFS
  PDF [755K]