The XtreemOS summit will include talks about XtreemOS services and components. Selected demonstrations will show the benefits of using XtreemOS technology followed by a slot  for open discussion. There will be no call for papers.

Tentative Program & speakers

The topics covered in the XtreemOS Summit include:

• Main objectives of XtreemOS (talk) - Thilo Kielmann, Vrije universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands
• Security model (talk) - Alvaro Arenas, Science and Technology Facilities Council, the United Kingdom
• Resource matching and scheduling (talk) - Guillaume Pierre, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands
• Replica management and parallel I/I in XtreemFS (talk) - Björn Kolbeck, Zuse Institue Berlin, Germany
• Applications and demonstrations (demo) - coordinated by Bernd Scheuermann, SAP, Germany
• Open Q&A (discussion)

Registration, a two-step process

1. Register at the EuroPar 2009 conference - early registration is June 30
   http://aanmelder.nl/europar2009
2. Inform the XtreemOS organizers on your participation sending  an email  to contact@xtreemos.eu

Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR)

The Italian National Research Council (CNR) is a public organization whose purpose is to carry out, promote, and improve research activities in the main sectors of knowledge, spread their results and help their transfer to the industry and their application, to further the scientific, technological, economic and social development of Italy. To this purpose, a network of CNR institutes is distributed all over Italy. To promote international cooperation and contribute to the development of key technologies, CNR participates in agreements, contracts and research projects with the European Union and with the other international organizations; among them  the CNR membership of ERCIM and of W3C. Two of the CNR institutes, ISTI and ICAR,  are involved in the development of XtreemOS.

CNR's contributions to XtreemOS

• Scalable, Highly available services

• XtreemFS

The CNR team also participates in the development of the Object Storage Device component (OSD) of XtreemFS, the XtreemOS File System. According to the object-based storage design paradigm for parallel and distributed file systems, within XtreemFS the content of a single file is represented by one or more objects. The OSD is responsible for storing file content as a set of objects, providing access to file data interacting with the other XtreemFS components.

CNR contributes to the second development phase of XtreemFS focusing on testing it for POSIX-compliance. In this phase, the NTFS-3G test suite has been selected and is being used to assess the XtreemFS behaviour.

Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione “A. Faedo”

 The Institute of Information Science and Technologies (ISTI) is located in the CNR Research Area of Pisa. ISTI was constituted in September 2000, becoming fully operational in 2002, as a result of a merger between the former CNUCE and the IEI institutes of CNR. As a result, ISTI is the largest public IT research institute in Italy, enrolling about 90 permanent researchers, for a total of about 170 personell units with research fellows and PhD students.

The domain of competence of ISTI covers Information Science, related technologies and a wide range of their applications. ISTI groups into 5 main thematic areas its 16 research laboratories, covering IT application fields as different as Visual Computing from Knowledge discovery, and of course including High Performance Computing (http://www.isti.cnr.it/ResearchUnits/Labs/hpc-lab/).

Basic and applied research in the IT domain requires close integration of all components of the research community and academia with wide sectors of the industry, of business and of society at large. ISTI hosts the Italian Regional W3C Office, and is actively involved in collaborations with the academic world and in cooperative research, as well as in training and development programs, both national and international.

Istituto di Calcolo e Reti ad Alte Prestazioni del Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (ICAR-CNR)

 The Institute of High Performance Computing and Networking (ICAR) (http://www.icar.cnr.it) has been established on May 2001 and is operative since June 2002. The Institute is located at Rende, Cosenza (Italy) and has two branches in Naples and in Palermo. ICAR currently enrolls about 60 researchers and technicians, distributed on the three sites. ICAR performs basic and applied research in the areas of High Performance Computing and Networking and Intelligent Systems, by cooperating with the academic world and other private and public research organizations active in these areas. In addition to its research activities, the Institute works on pre-competitive development and technological transfer of research results, and carries out educational and training activities, through scholarships and research fellowships, advanced post-graduate specialization courses, and non-university higher education activities.

Domenico Laforenza (CNR) will give a keynote talk about XtreemOS at the 26th British National Conference on Databases (BNCOD 2009) to be held at Birmingham University from the 7th to 9th of July 2009.

The theme of BNCOD 2009 will be "Dataspace: the Final Frontier". Dataspace is a term recently coined to denote the expansion of the database topic into the broader area of managing large numbers of diverse but interrelated data sources of many varying forms.

D.Laforenza's talk is entitled "XtreemOS: Towards a Grid-enabled Linux-based Operating System" and present XtreemOS, as a first European step towards the creation of a true open source operating system for Grid platforms. 

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