Storage Bricks Jim Gray Microsoft Research https://Research.Micrsoft.com/~Gray/talks FAST 2002 Monterey, CA, 29 Jan 2002 Acknowledgements: Dave Patterson explained this to me long ago Leonard Chung Kim Keeton Erik Riedel Catharine Van Ingen
Notes:
BARC started in 1995 with Jim Gray and Gordon Bell. We are part of Microsoft Research with a focus on Scaleable Servers (Gray, Barrera, Barclay, Slutz, VanIngen) and Telepresence (Bell, Gemmell).
In 1996 we grew to a staff of 6 and moved to our current location in downtown San Francisco (at the east end of Silicon Gulch).
We have close ties to the SQL, MTS, NT, PowerPoint, and NetMeeting groups. We also collaborate with UC Berkeley, Cornell, and Wisconsin on Scaleable computing, with UC Berkeley and U. Virginia on Telepresence.
Each summer we host two interns.
Our web site is https://www.research.Microsoft.com/BARC
BARC is located at 301 Howard St, #830, San Francisco CA.94105
Humor: our next door neighbor is the Justice Department (Environmental Division). So the sign in the lobby reads:
Microsoft 830 <= Justice Department 870 =>