1. © 2010 IBM Corporation Welcome to Systor 2010 Yaron Wolfsthal, Mgr, Systems Technologies, Haifa Research Lab The 3rd Annual Haifa Experimental Systems Conference May 24-26, 2010

2. © 2010 IBM Corporation2 Environment

3. © 2010 IBM Corporation3 Systems and Storage Trends  “The economy may be in a recession, and the stock market may be going through convulsions -- prompting talk of possible hiring freezes and layoffs within IT departments. But at this point, data storage doesn't appear to be an area that many companies or other organizations are targeting for budget cuts.”

4. © 2010 IBM Corporation4 Systems and Storage Trends cont.  “Despite declining IT operating budgets, virtualization adoption will dramatically accelerate and continue to top the priority list of CIOs.. the safest way to cut IT costs while still delivering reliable services”

5. © 2010 IBM Corporation5

6. 6 Conference Highlights – Day I IBM Auditorium May 24, 2010 Keynote Talk: 10:00 Many-core Computing: A Disruptive Technology Enabling Low-cost, Low- power Desktop Supercomputing, David Kaeli, Northeastern Univ. 11:00 Coffee Break Session 1.1 Storage & Virtualization (Chair: Eitan Bachmat, Ben-Gurion Univ.) 13:30 Lunch Session 1.2 Workload-driven Optimization (Chair: Idit Keidar, Technion) 16:00 Student Poster Session - refreshments will be served

7. © 2010 IBM Corporation7 Conference Highlights – Day II Morning - Hecht Auditorium in Haifa University; Afternoon - IBM Auditorium May 25, 2010 Keynote Talk: 09:30 Reliable Distributed Storage, Idit Keidar, Technion 10:30 Coffee Break Session 2.1 Parallel Programming (Chair: Erez Zadok, Stony Brook Univ.) 12:30 Guided Tour in Hecht Museum ---- 13:30 Lunch at IBM Session 2.2 Virtualization (Chair: Dan Tsafrir, Technion) 16:00 Social Event: Galilee Tour and Dinner

8. © 2010 IBM Corporation8 Conference Highlights – Day III IBM Auditorium May 26, 2010 Keynote Talk: 09:30 Bread Crumbs Don't Last, Mary G. Baker, HP 10:30 Coffee Break Session 3.1 Storage and Communication(Chair: Miriam Allalouf, IBM) Invited Talk: 12:30 Server-Class Energy and Performance Evaluations, Erez Zadok, Stony Brook Univ. 13:30 Lunch Session 3.2 Low-level Optimization (Chair: Muli Ben-Yehuda, IBM) Panel 15:30 Cloud Computing: A New Direction or a Passing Trend? 16:30 Closing Remarks

9. © 2010 IBM Corporation9 Thank You  To our Kind Sponsors  To the Conference Team  To our Guests

10. © 2010 IBM Corporation10 Haifa and the Northern Area  Enjoy