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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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) 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 golden Standard of Clustering Thilo Lauer
(Technical Consultant, Hewlett-Packard)
15:00 - 15:30 The Hewlett-Packard History Robert Sakic
(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)
Ulrich Homann
(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) - Architektur für SAP-Landschaften Roland Keller
(SAP)
15:00 - 15:30 Closing Remarks Prof. Dr. Andreas Polze
(Operating Systems and Middleware, HPI)