Three weeks ago I presented at HPTS (http://www.hpts.ws/index.html). HPTS is an invitational conference held every two years since 1985 in Asilomar California that brings together researchers, implementers, and users of high scale transaction processing systems.  It’s one of my favorite conferences in that it attracts a very interesting group of people, is small enough that everyone can contribute and there is lots of informal discussion in a great environment on the ocean near Monterey.

I presented Modular Data Center Design and Designing and Deploying Internet-Scale Services.  A highlight of this year’s session was a joint keynote address from David Patterson of Berkeley and Burton Smith of Microsoft.  Dave's slides are posted at DavidPattersonTechTrends2007.ppt (442.5 KB).  Burton's not in the office right now so I don't have access to his but will post them when I do.

I’m the General Chair for the 2009 HPTS which is scheduled to be October 25 through 28, 2009.  Keep the date clear and plan on submitting an interesting position paper to get invited.  If you are doing high scale data centric applications, HPTS is always fun.

                                                --jrh

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