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Paper presented by Yong Wang of UESTC and Northwestern University; Daniel Burgener, Marcel Flores, and Aleksandar Kuzmanovic of Northwestern University; and Cheng Huang of Microsoft Research at the 8th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI '11).

This refereed paper was presented by Michael Wei, Laura Grupp, Frederick E. Spada, and Steven Swanson of the University of California, San Diego at the 9th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '11).

Today is the last day of LISA '10.  It brings to a close a long week for everyone who made the conference happen.  As a first-time LISA attendee, I've found that there's just not enough time to take everything in.  The quality of the training and the technical sessions are amazing.  I feel like I need to repeat the week just to catch everything I missed.  One attendee called it a "firehose" conference and that's certainly an apt description.  It's easy to tell why there are so many regular attendees:  there's so much to learn and so many friends to make.

One of the great things about LISA are the Birds of a Feather (BoF) sessions in the evenings.  BoFs are either vendor- or attendee-led discussions on topics of professional or social interest.   Since, like most sysadmins, I enjoy talking about my work, I decided to schedule a BoF for users of Condor.  Condor is an open-source package for distributed, high-throughput computing developed at the University of Wisconsin and used in academia, the financial sector, and by major motion picture studios.