Hasso-Plattner-Institut Potsdam Operating Systems and Middleware Group at HPI University of Potsdam, Germany
Operating Systems and Middleware Group at HPI
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Server Computing Summit 2008

April 7 - April 11 2008

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The Microsoft HP Server Computing Summit 2008 is a joint project of the OSM group, Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard. Its goal is to introduce the domain of server computing to students which differs in many ways from that of desktop computing.

Registration

Students may participate without any fee. Students of HPI, the three Berlin universities, and Potsdam university may get 3 ECTS credits for their participation. For registration, please send an email no later than Tuesday, April 1, 2008, to: scsummit08@hpi.uni-potsdam.de

Leistungserfassungsprozess

Hinweis: Studenten des HPI und des Instituts für Informatik der Uni Potsdam belegen die Veranstaltung bitte bis morgen bei Frau Pamperin im HPI.

Speaker Information: Hotels in Potsdam and Berlin

News

Videos online!
All presentations at the summit were recorded by the tele-TASK team of the HPI. Watch the videos including slides here.

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Veranstaltungsüberblick

Agenda

Preliminary Schedule
Printable Agenda



Monday April 7, 2008 – Overview and Trends
09:00 - 09:15 Welcome to Hasso-Plattner-Institute Prof. Dr. Christoph Meinel
(Director of HPI)
09:15 - 09:45 Server Computing – from Hardware and Operating System to Middleware, Applications and Processes Prof. Dr. Andreas Polze
(Operating Systems and Middleware, HPI)
09:45 - 10:30 Keynote (Current and future trends in server computing) Frank Fischer
(Manager Technical Evangelism, MS Deutschland)
11:00 - 11:45 Introduction to Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Ralf Schnell
(Microsoft Deutschland GmbH)
11:45 - 12:30 Windows Server 2008 High-Availability Ralf Schnell
(Microsoft Deutschland GmbH)
14:00 - 14:45 Showcases: Windows Compute Cluster Services Christian Terboven
(RWTH Aachen)
14:45 - 15:30 Source Code Access: Microsoft Shared Source Programs (OS, .NET), Windows Academic Program Arkady Retik
(Microsoft Corp, Redmond)
16:00 - 17:30 Hyper-V: Introducing Windows Server Virtualization
Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 		Ralf Schnell, Michael Korp
(Microsoft Deutschland GmbH)
18:00 - 21:00 Social Event sponsored by HPI

Tuesday April 8, 2008 – Hardware
09:00 - 10:00 Trends in High-Performance Computing - Overview
(Integrity server products) 		Dr. Frank Baetke
(Hewlett-Packard)
10:00 - 10:30 Hardware support for virtualization, Multi-OS (I) Thilo Domsdorf
(Hewlett-Packard)
11:00 - 11:30 Hardware support for virtualization, Multi-OS (II) Thilo Domsdorf
(Hewlett-Packard)
11:30 - 12:30 The Multicore-Multithreading Challenge (Intel)
Popularity and usage of programming languages 		Heinz Bast
(Intel)
14:00 - 15:30 Server Middleware
(BEA, Websphere, Microsoft Server) 		Dr. Ingolf Buttig
(Hewlett-Packard)
16:00 - 17:30 Lab: Tuning for Performance
18:00 - 21:00 Social Event sponsored by Hewlett-Packard

Wednesday April 9, 2008 – Operating System / Management and Administration
09:00 - 10:30 Behind the Curtains: The Development of Windows NT Dave Probert, PhD
(Microsoft Corp, Redmond)
11:00 - 12:30 The Windows Server 2008 Kernel Dave Probert, PhD
(Microsoft Corp, Redmond)
14:00 - 15:00 OpenVMS - the gold Standard of Clustering Thilo Lauer
(Technical Consultant, Hewlett-Packard)
15:00 - 15:30 The Hewlett-Packard History (pdf 1) (pdf 2) (video 1) (video 2) Robert Sakic / Markus Hempfling
(Product Manager, Hewlett-Packard)
16:00 - 16:45 Server Middleware for a Business Process Platform Achim Ittner
(SAP EMEA Advisory Office)
16:45 - 17:30 Lab: System Management Student Partners
19:00 - 22:00 Speakers' Dinner

Thursday April 10, 2008 – Management and Administration / Applications
09:00 - 10:30 Hyper-V and Hypervisor Scheduler Technical Overview Thomas Fahrig
(Microsoft Corp, Redmond)
11:00 - 12:30 Dynamic Systems Initiative - Virtualizing the Data Center
Industrial Case Study (I)		 Peter Heese
(Microsoft Deutschland GmbH)
14:00 - 15:30 High-Performance Computing Goes Mainstream: Deep-dive Demos
Microsoft Parallel Extensions to the .NET Framework 		Jan Ciesko
(Microsoft Deutschland GmbH)
16:00 - 17:30 Lab: HPC - Parallel Application Development
 Jan Ciesko
(Microsoft Deutschland GmbH)
18:00 - 21:00 Social Event sponsored by Microsoft

Friday April 11, 2008 – Server Software Development
09:00 - 09:45 Windows Operating System Reliability Brendan Murphy
(Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK)
09:45 - 10:30 Energy Management for Data Centers Dushyanth Narayanan
(Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK)
11:00 - 12:30 Securing Software: Hardening Server Software Klaus Schütz
(Microsoft Corp, Redmond)
14:00 - 15:00 Industrial Case Study (II) - SAP Banking Technology Roland Keller
(SAP)
15:00 - 15:30 Closing Remarks Prof. Dr. Andreas Polze
(Operating Systems and Middleware, HPI)