Dave Anderson (T1) is Director of Strategic Planning for Seagate and has
over 20 years experience in the computer field. For the last
several years he has been involved in developing the opportunities
for hard drives to contribute to system security. His
responsibilities have included overall interface strategy for all
disc interfaces. Dave was involved in the architecture and planning
of Fibre Channel during its first proposal as a disc interface. He
was one of the principal architects of the disc XOR commands that are
now a part of the standard SCSI interface specification and was the
author and original editor of the Object based Storage Device
proposal that recently became a SCSI standard. Dave was one of the
original nine elected members of the SNIA (Storage Networking
Industry Association) Technical Council. He was also one of the
founding members of the Serial Attached SCSI working group, which
defined this new interface. He has been awarded 5 patents related to
disc storage. Dave is a member of ACM and the IEEE Computer Society.
Peter Honeyman (T2) is Research Professor of Information at the University
of Michigan, where he is Scientific Director of the Center for
Information Technology Integration. As an experimental computer
scientist, Honeyman builds middleware for file systems, security, and
mobile computing. He has been instrumental in software projects
including Honey DanBer UUCP, PathAlias, MacNFS, Disconnected AFS, and
WebCard, the first Internet smart card. Current work centers on
CITI's open source reference implementation of NFSv4 and its
extensions for high end computing.
Tom Talpey (T4) is a Technical Director with Network Appliance, Inc.
He has been involved with NFS for much of his career, most
recently being principally involved with specifying, standardizing
and implementing the NFS/RDMA and NFSv4 minor version 1 protocol
standards.
Marc Unangst (T3) is a Software Architect at Panasas, where he has been a
leading contributor to the design and implementation of the PanFS
distributed file system. He represents Panasas on the SPEC SFS
benchmark committee, and authored draft specification documents for
the POSIX High End Computing Extensions Working Group (HECEWG).
Previously, Marc was a staff programmer in the Parallel Data Lab at
Carnegie Mellon, where he worked on the Network-Attached Storage
Device (NASD) project. He holds a Bachelors of Science in Electrical
& Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon.
Brent Welch (T3) is Director of Software Architecture at Panasas. Panasas
has developed a scalable, high-performance, object-based distributed
file system that is used in a variety of HPC environments, including
many of the Top500 super computers. He has previously worked at
Xerox-PARC and Sun Microsystems Laboratories. Brent has experience
building software systems from the device driver level up through
network servers, user applications, and graphical user interfaces.
While getting his PhD at UC Berkeley, he designed and built the
Sprite distributed file system. Brent participates in the IETF NFSv4
working group, and is co-author of the pNFS internet drafts that
specify parallel I/O extensions for NFSv4.1.
Willis Whittington (T1) graduated BSc and MBA in the UK and has worked in
the OEM disc drive business since 1967 at corporate design centers in
Glasgow, London, Paris, and Frankfurt, as well as in the USA. He has
been involved in all aspects of disc drive design and development
from 300 Mbyte, 600 lb monsters in the early 70's, to today's 150
GByte Enterprise class drives which fit quite nicely in a shirt
pocket. He is currently Product Marketing Manager with Seagate
Technology's Enterprise Storage Division in Minnesota.
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