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Panasas, Inc., the premier storage system for scalable Linux clusters, today announced that founder and chief technology officer, Dr. Garth Gibson, will serve as session chair in the "Advanced Storage Concepts, Architectures, Technologies" panel at the Supercomputing 2003 conference (SC2003) on Wednesday November 19th at 1:30 p.m. SC2003, the annual conference for high-performance computing, will be held from November 15-21 in the Phoenix Convention Center in Arizona. Dr. Gibson will also be a featured presenter in the Exhibitor Forum, presenting "Panasas Object Storage: Redefining Storage Bandwidth for Linux Clusters." Panasas, an exhibitor at the show, will host presentations from customers and partners highlighting the revolutionary object-based storage architecture and related high-performance computing topics. Panasas, located in booth 2501, will feature several performance demonstrations of the Panasas ActiveScale Storage Cluster, as well as hosting short technical presentations given by Panasas and selected end users and partners. Featured end users and partners include Los Alamos National Laboratory, the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), Extreme Networks, MPI Software Technology and Rackable Systems. Schedule of events: -- Storage on the Lunatic Fringe: Beyond Peta-Scale Storage Systems -- Advanced Storage Concepts, Architectures, Technologies Workshop Session Chair: Garth Gibson, Founder and CTO, Panasas Panelists: Gabriel Broner, SGI; Roger Haskin, IBM; Jeff Hornung, Spinnaker Networks; David Pease, IBM; Tim Reddin, HP; Brent Welch, Panasas Wednesday, November 19, 2003 -- 1:30-3:00 p.m. Phoenix Civic Plaza Convention Center, Room 42 & 43 -- Exhibitor Forum: Panasas Object Storage: Redefining Storage Bandwidth for Linux Clusters Speaker: Garth Gibson, Founder and CTO, Panasas Tuesday, November 18, 2003 -- 11:00 a.m.-11:30 a.m. Phoenix Civic Plaza Convention Center, Room 11 & 12 -- ASCI Booth: Panasas Object Storage: Redefining Storage Bandwidth for Linux Clusters Speaker: Garth Gibson, Founder and CTO, Panasas Wednesday, November 19, 2003 -- 12:15-12:45 p.m. Phoenix Civic Plaza Convention Center, Booth 3023 Panasas technical presentation schedule (Booth #2501): -- Monday, November 17 7:30 p.m. Introducing the Panasas ActiveScale Storage Cluster Larry Jones, Director of Marketing, Panasas 8:30 p.m. Object Storage: Redefining Bandwidth for Linux Clusters (Panasas) Garth Gibson, Founder and CTO, Panasas -- Tuesday, November 18 11:00 a.m. Introducing the Panasas ActiveScale Storage Cluster Larry Jones, Director of Marketing, Panasas 12:00 p.m. Ethernet: The Heart of the Next Generation SuperComputer Rich Langston, Solutions Marketing Manager, Extreme Networks 1:00 p.m. Shared Storage for High Performance Computing Bruce Moxon, Vertical Marketing Manager, Panasas 2:00 p.m. Panasas at NERSC Rei Lee, NERSC Advanced Systems Group 3:00 p.m. Object Storage: Redefining Bandwidth for Linux Clusters Garth Gibson, Founder and CTO, Panasas 4:00 p.m. Exceeding the needs of parallel apps with high I/O requirements M. Drew Streib, Senior Sales Engineer, Rackable Systems -- Wednesday, November 19 11:00 a.m. Introducing the Panasas ActiveScale Storage Cluster J.P. Gallagher, Director of Marketing, Panasas 12:00 p.m. LinuxBIOS / BProc Cluster Ron Minnich, Cluster Research Lab Team Leader, Los Alamos National Laboratory 1:00 p.m. Shared Storage for High Performance Computing Bruce Moxon, Vertical Marketing Manager, Panasas 2:00 p.m. Making The Scalable I/O Connection: ChaMPIon/Pro + AS FS (MSTI) Dr. Anthony Skjellum, Chief Technology Officer, MSTI 3:00 p.m. How Data and Simulation Come Together at NERSC Bill Kramer, Department Head, High Performance Computing, NERSC 4:00 p.m. Topspin InfiniBand for HPC Clusters Ben Eiref, Director of Product Marketing -- Thursday, November 20 11:00 a.m. Introducing the Panasas ActiveScale Storage Cluster Larry Jones, Director of Marketing, Panasas 12:00 p.m. Shared Storage for High Performance Computing Bruce Moxon, Vertical Marketing Manager, Panasas 1:00 p.m. Object Storage: Redefining Bandwidth for Linux Clusters Garth Gibson, Founder and CTO, Panasas