http://www.research.microsoft.com/~jamesrh/hpts2001

Asilomar Conference Center

Pacific Grove, California

October 14-17, 2001

Asilomar Driving Directions

Conference Submissions: http://www.research.microsoft.com/~jamesrh/hpts2001/submissions/

Agenda Summary

• Sunday, October 14th, 2001
  • 1:00 to 5:00       HPTS 2001 Regristration
  • 6:00 to 7:00       Dinner
  • 7:00 to 10:00     Reception
• Monday, October 15th, 2001
  • 8:30 to 9:00       Opening Remarks Ed Cobb/James Hamilton
  • 9:00 to 10:00     Keynote Address: Database Directions, Michael Stonebraker [Chair: Joe Hellerstein]
  • 10:00 to 10:30   Break
  • 10:30 to 12:00   Leading Application Server Architectures [Chair: C. Mohan]      
  • 12:00 to 1:30     Lunch
  • 1:30 to 2:30       Building High Performance Systems for Internet Commerce, Charlie Bell (Amazon.com) [Chair: Johannes Klein]
  •  2:30 to 3:30      DB2 on S/390 Scalability and Availability: Features and Challenges, Jeff Josten [Chair: Pat Selinger]
  • 3:30 to 4:00       Break
  • 4:00 to 5:30       Workflow State of the Art [Chairs: Johannes Klein & Dieter Gawlick]
  • 5:30 to 7:00       Dinner
  • 7:00 to 9:00        Poster Session/Gong Show [Chair: Charles Brett]
• Tuesday, October 16th, 2001
  • 8:30 to 9:30       Keynote: Embracing Failure: A Case for Repair Centric Design, David Patterson [Chair: James Hamilton]
  • 9:30 to 10:30     Autonomous Computing, Pat Helland [Chair: Bruce Lindsay]
  • 10:30 to 11:00   Break
  • 11:00 to 12:00   Big Data: In search of Petabyte Databases, Jim Gray & Tony Hey[Chair: Pat Helland]
  • 12:00 to 1:30     Lunch
  • 1:30 to 3:00       Problems Infrastructure Software Fails to Effectively Solve for large, Global Retail Businesses, Rick Dalzell (CTO Amazon.com) [Chair: Johannes Klein]
  • 3:00 to 3:30       Break
  • 3:30 to 5:00       Internet Security, Doug Tygar [Chair: Joe Hellerstein]  
  • 5:00 to 7:00       Dinner
  • 7:00 to 9:00       Debate [Chair: Jim Gray]

• Wednesday, October 17th, 2001
  • 8:30 to 9:30       Keynote Address, Eric Brewer [Chair: Joe Hellerstein]
  • 9:30 to 10:00     Techniques for Measuring Web Site Performance, Brad Chen [Chair: Phil Bernstein]
  • 10:00 to 10:30   Break
  • 10:30 to 11:30   Caching Technologies for Web Applications, C. Mohan [Chair: Phil Bernstein]
  • 11:30 to 12:00   Closing Remarks, Ed Cobb/James Hamilton
  • 12:00 to 1:00     Lunch

Agenda Detail:

• Sunday, October 14th, 2001
  • 1:00 to 5:00       HPTS 2001 Regristration
  • 6:00 to 7:00       Dinner
  • 7:00 to 10:00     Reception
• Monday, October 15th, 2001
  • 8:30 to 9:00       Opening Remarks Ed Cobb/James Hamilton
  • 9:00 to 10:00     Keynote Address: Database Directions, Michael Stonebraker [Chair: Joe Hellerstein]
  • 10:00 to 10:30   Break
  • 10:30 to 12:00   Leading Application Server Architectures [Chair: C. Mohan]      
  • 12:00 to 1:30     Lunch
  • 1:30 to 2:30       Building High Performance Systems for Internet Commerce, Charlie Bell (Amazon.com) [Chair: Johannes Klein]

    Traditional HA, high volume transactional systems have enjoyed the safe harbor of a private network. This has provided relative predictability of the workload and the ability to manage that workload as necessary. The profile of applications can be engineered and understood. Growth, peak demands, and customer behavior can be analyzed and prepared for.
    
    The workload faced by today's largest internet commerce engines is not predictable. Each minute, day, and season at Amazon.com surfaces new, interesting challenges to the design assumptions. Customers respond to external events and Amazon promotions in unexpected ways. Customers and non-customers also participate in innovating the technical environment, sometimes with the sole objective of breaking the system.
    
    Amazon.com has chosen design patterns that fit this hostile environment. The developing architecture seeks rapid innovation, unconstrained scalability, always-on availability, and low marginal cost of ownership. Amazon.com's technology platform is in an early stage, yet signficant wins have been achieved. More importantly, Amazon is learning to build long-term scalability while feature code is rolling to production every
    hour.

     

  •  2:30 to 3:30      DB2 on S/390 Scalability and Availability: Features and Challenges, Jeff Josten [Chair: Pat Selinger]
  • 3:30 to 4:00       Break
  • 4:00 to 5:30       Workflow State of the Art [Chairs: Johannes Klein & Dieter Gawlick]
    • Workflow - experience and evolution - Kevin Hudson
    • Messaging and queuing for the Internet (and workflow) -- Charles Brett
    • Workflow in the  e-Business world - Dale Skeen

     

  • 5:30 to 7:00       Dinner
  • 7:00 to 9:00        Poster Session/Gong Show [Chair: Charles Brett]
• Tuesday, October 16th, 2001
  • 8:30 to 9:30       Keynote: Embracing Failure: A Case for Repair Centric Design, David Patterson [Chair: James Hamilton]
  • 9:30 to 10:30     Autonomous Computing, Pat Helland [Chair: Bruce Lindsay]

    In today's world, applications span autonomous computer systems.  These systems do not trust each other.  This talk examines the consequences of this distrust and introduces the Autonomous Computing model for application design.  We argue that this subsumes client server as a model for computing. 

    First, we introduce the notion of a fiefdom as an independent computing environment that refuses to trust any outsiders and maintains tight control over a set of mission critical data.  Next, we describe another type of computing component called an emissary.   Emissaries help prepare requests to submit to a fiefdom.  They operate exclusively on snapshot reference data and single-user data.  We spend a bunch of time on the usage of snapshot reference data and how work can be distributed.

   

  • 10:30 to 11:00   Break
  • 11:00 to 12:00  

    Big Data: In search of Petabyte Databases, Jim Gray & Tony Hey [Chair: Pat Helland]

    •    Google, Cern, BarBar, Hotmail, Yahoo!, Internet Archive, ...

     

  • 12:00 to 1:30     Lunch
  • 1:30 to 3:00       Problems Infrastructure Software Fails to Effectively Solve for large, Global Retail Businesses, Rick Dalzell (CTO Amazon.com) [Chair: Johannes Klein]

    The panel discussion is on the problems encountered in building scalable, highly available, and cost efficient systems for large retail businesses. The focus will be on where current technologies have not effectively solved some of the problems. Retail businesses fall into three broad categories -- traditional brick-and-mortar, catalogue based, and e-commerce. This panel will include members from all three segments. The outcome of the panel discussion will result in highlighting two or three burning issues that are central to large retail businesses but are not effectively solved by existing infrastructure software.

     

  • 3:00 to 3:30       Break
  • 3:30 to 5:00       Internet Security, Doug Tygar [Chair: Joe Hellerstein]
  • 5:00 to 7:00       Dinner
  • 7:00 to 9:00       Debate [Chair: Jim Gray]

• Wednesday, October 17th, 2001
  • 8:30 to 9:30       Keynote Address, Eric Brewer [Chair: Joe Hellerstein]
  • 9:30 to 10:00     Techniques for Measuring Web Site Performance, Brad Chen [Chair: Phil Bernstein]
    • Brad Chen (Appliant CTO, bchen@appliant.com): Techniques for measuring web site performance as users really experience it, and diagnosing the causes of performance problems.

     

  • 10:00 to 10:30   Break
  • 10:30 to 11:30   Caching Technologies for Web Applications, C. Mohan [Chair: Phil Bernstein]
  • 11:30 to 12:00   Closing Remarks, Ed Cobb/James Hamilton
  • 12:00 to 1:00     Lunch