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Hans Hoffmann opened the workshop with an good explanation about the HIGGS particle just found for the first time in some CERN experiments. |
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Arie Van Praag reported the
GSN and High Performance Networking projects at CERN. The newly developed
bridge from GSN to OC48c demonstrated transfers at wirespeed and data
Transfers of over 200 MByte/s. And Pekka Pietkainen filled in with his work on ST for LINUX. ---> |
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Followed by some figures of practicle measurements on ST efficieny done by Alberto Guglielmi ----> | ||||||||||
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| Julian Satran of IBM, Israel told us about iSCSI, or SCSI over an IP network am\nd showed that it works during the demonstrations. ----> | |||||||||||
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The Cluster file system SANergy from TIVOLI was presented with very much details by Dimitry Chernyshov, | ||||||||||
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Thomas Feil from SGI came specially
from Germany to explain SGI's cluster file CXFS system in deepth. And Anthony Voellm from SGI
in Mountainview told us all the wunders of the newly introduced |
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| Jarno Puff from the SAN Training Center in Italy explained the possibilities of this start-up companiy in northern Italy ----> | |||||||||||
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the categorie of new and upcoming network technologies Walther Dey from
Cisco introduced us to 10 Gbit Ethernet and the status of its standardisation
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Following are some images from the technology demonstration |
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