CfP: AFS Best Practices Workshop

[Alf Wachsmann]

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                     Call for Papers and Participation

                        AFS Best Practices Workshop

                            March 24-26, 2004 at
             Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Menlo Park, CA

             http://www-conf.slac.stanford.edu/AFSBestPractices
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Purpose of the Workshop:
* Bring together AFS novices and AFS experts
* Learn about AFS tools
* Learn about AFS best practices

Target Audience:
* People interested in AFS
* AFS administrators: novices and experienced

Workshop Format:
* One day tutorial "Introduction to AFS and its Best Practices" on March 23.
* Invited Talks:
    * Derrick Brashear: News from the AFS Developer's Front
    * Phil Moore (Morgan Stanley): AFS at Morgan Stanley
    * Rodney Dyer (Univ. of North Carolina): AFS on Windows
* Contributed talks (30-45min)

Possible Topics include, but are not limited to:
* AFS best practices (volume naming, directory hierarchy, volume sizes, ...)
* AFS weaknesses (locking, ACLs on files, ...)
* AFS performance tuning (client side, server side)
* Benchmarking AFS
* AFS server scaling and HW recommendations
* AFS service monitoring
* IBM AFS to OpenAFS Migration experiences
* AFS and Kerberos 5:
    * How to install a new cell from scratch
    * Migration from kaserver to MIT Krb5
    * Migration from kaserver to Heimdal Krb5
* AFS related tools (AFS Perl, Java API, scripts, ...)
* AFS and backup (scripts, amanda, TSM, ...)
* Delegation of AFS administration
* AFS on non-Unix platforms
* Commercial support for OpenAFS

Please register your talk and your participation under
http://www-conf.slac.stanford.edu/AFSBestPractices

Late registration fees will apply after February 29, 2004.

Please send questions to AFSBest-Workshop at slac.stanford.edu