Information-based Access to Storage:
      The Foundation of Information Systems
  
  
  Information is an essential component of the world's economy, and the control and delivery of information is critical to the success of companies. The amount of information that is now being managed requires advanced mass storage systems that are tightly integrated with information management systems. The scale of data collections is growing from terabytes to petabytes, with the number of managed objects growing from millions to billions. 
  
  The integration of archival storage systems into databases and digital libraries has started. The 16
th IEEE Symposium on Mass Storage and Seventh NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Conference on Mass Storage will focus on the storage issues surrounding the integration of archives into information management systems.
  
  
    
      | Conference Committee | 
    
      | Ann Kerr | Scripps Institute of Oceanography, Conference Chair | 
    
      | Ben Kobler | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Conference Co-chair | 
    
      | Reagan Moore | NPACI/SDSC, Program Committee Chair | 
  
  
  
  
  Chair, Ann Kerr
  High-End Computing and Society
  Andrew B. White Jr., Director, Delphi Project, Los Alamos National Laboratory
  
  Chair, Sam Coleman, LLNL retired
  
  
  
  Thomas Ruwart, University of Minnesota
  
  Jonathan Brassow, Grant Erickson, Erling Nygaard, Kenneth Preslan, Christopher Sabol, David Teigland, Matthew O'Keefe, University of Minnesota
  
  Chair, P C Hariharan, SES Inc.
  
  Bill Olsen, Gail Phipps, TRW
  
  John Kinsfather, Mark McClay, NOAA
  
  Toshihro Nemoto, Masaru Kitsuregawa, University of Tokyo
  
  Chair, Jean-Jacques Bedet, Raytheon STX
  
  Theodore Johnson, AT&T Labs, Sunil Prabhakar, Purdue University
  
  Takaya Tanabe, Makoto Takayanagi, Hidetoshi Tatemichi, Tetsuya Ura, Manabu Yamamoto, NTT Integrated Information and Energy Systems Laboratories
  
  Huseyin Simitci, Daniel Reed, University of Illinois
  
  Chair, Ethan Miller, University of Maryland Baltimore County
  
  Matthew O'Keefe, Kenneth Preslan, Christopher Sabol, Steven Soltis, University of Minnesota
  
  Satoshi Asami, Nisha Talagala, David Patterson, University of California, Berkeley
  
  John Berbert, GSFC; Ted Willard, Lou Reich, Joan Dunham, Sergey Nikhinson, Computer Sciences Corporation
  
  Av Chinnaswamy, Quantum Corporation
  
  K.O, Jung, T.W. Choi, Y.K. Kang, S.H. Park, Ki-Dong Chung, Y.J. Kim, Pusan National University, Korea
  
  John Gniewek, George Davidson, Bowen Caldwell, IBM
  
  Hartmut Reuter, RZG
  
  Nisha Talagala, Satoshi Asami, David Patterson, University of California, Berkeley
  
  Chair, Ben Kobler, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
  NSIC Magnetic Tape Systems and Technology Roadmap
  Jim Bain, Data Storage Systems Center, Carnegie Mellon University
  NIMA's Very Large Digital Libraries
  Joseph Stocks, National Imagery and Mapping Agency
  
  Chair, Rodney Van Meter, Quantum Corporation
  
  Wayne Schroeder, Richard Marciano, Joe Lopez, Mike Gleicher, George Kremenek, Chaitanya Baru, Reagan Moore, NPACI/San Diego Supercomputer Center
  
  Olav Sandstaa, Roger Midtstraum, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
  
  Ulrich Hahn, Werner Dilling, Dietmar Kaletta, University Tubingen
  
  Chair, Merritt Jones, MITRE
  
  Duncan Roweth, Patrick Fuhrmann, Martin Gasthuber, DESY
  
  Per Lysne, Gary Lee, Lynn Jones, Mark Roschke, Los Alamos National Laboratory
  
  Michael Gleicher, Gleicher Enterprises, LLC, Reagan Moore, Joe Lopez, Charles Lofton, Wayne Schroeder, George Kremenek, NPACI/San Diego Supercomputer Center
  
  Chair, Reagan Moore, NPACI/San Diego Supercomputer Center
  
  Andrew Hanushevsky, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Marcia Nowark, CERN
  
  Arcot Rajasekar, Richard Marciano, Reagan Moore, NPACI/San Diego Supercomputer Center
  
  Michael Shapiro, Ethan Miller, University of Maryland Baltimore County
  
  Chair, Paul Rutherford, ADIC
  Compaq Enterprise Backup Solution (CEBS): An Architectural Perspective
  Gene Freeman, Compaq
  An Analysis of the Relationships Between Command Network Activity and Data Transfer Performance in a Storage Area Network-based File System using 3rd Party Data Transfer Mechanisms
  Robert Farkaly
  CentraVision File System
  Peter Lawthers, Prestant Technology, Inc.
  Leveraging the Intelligent Storage Infrastructure for National Data Consolidation, Distribution and Sharing
  Scott Sherman, EMC
  Celestra Architecture for Serverless Backups
  Don Trimmer
  Digital Asset Management
  Frank Jones