Rod Van Meter's Personal Home Page

You can check out either my home page at Caltech or my home page at ISI; the former has more politics and personal stuff, but basically they're similar.

Interested in mass storage systems, parallel & distributed operating systems and file systems, HDTV, and Asia. Often looking for a game of basketball, volleyball or go to watch or play.

Ask me about my time in Japan, my trips to Nepal and Thailand, and my opinions about Tibet.

My World Wide Web Pages were black for 48 hours to protest second-class treatment from the US Government for free speech. Read about it at this WWW page.

The Center for Democracy and Technology

March 10th is the anniversary of the 1959 insurrection in Lhasa. Free Tibet! Urge the Chinese government to conduct a substantive dialog with the Tibetan Government in Exile.

I helped wire a school on Netday '96

Work

Now back at USC/Information Sciences Institute as a computer scientist working on the Netstation project, which is part of the High Performance Computing and Communications Division. Greg Finn's my boss, and he's published papers about Netstation in Computer Communication Review and Interop '94 (more info available on the Netstation project page).

Maintainer of the comp.arch.storage FAQ.

Publications

Rodney Van Meter,
Observing the Effects of Multi-Zone Disks
Proc. Usenix 1997 Annual Technical Conference, Anaheim, Jan. 1997, to appear.
abstract
Gregory Finn, Steve Hotz and Rodney Van Meter,
The Impact of a Zero-Scan Internet Checksumming Mechanism
ACM Computer Communication Review, Oct. 1996, to appear.
abstract
Rodney Van Meter, Steve Hotz and Gregory Finn,
Derived Virtual Devices: A Secure Distributed File System Mechanism
Proc. Fifth NASA Goddard Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies Sept. 1996, to appear.
abstract
Rodney Van Meter,
A Brief Survey of Current Work on Network-Attached Peripherals,
ACM Operating Systems Review, January '96.
full paper
Rodney Van Meter,
Storage Media Pipelining: Making Good Use of Fine-Grained Media
Proc. Third NASA Goddard Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies Oct. 1993.
abstract
Takashi Nakagomi, Mark Holzbach, Rodney Van Meter III and Sanjay Ranade
Re-Defining the Storage Hierarchy: An Ultra-Fast Magneto-Optical Disk Drive
Proc. Twelfth IEEE Symposium on Mass Storage Systems April 1993.
abstract

Education

Caltech BS '86, E&AS, Lloyd House
USC MS '91, Computer Engineering

Fun Stuff

Warning! The Internet Movie Database is an infinite time sink for those who like movies!

The Japan Today Film Festival ran Sept. 29-Oct. 5, 1995 in Santa Monica.

Places I Surf

Isn't it egotistical of me to assume you're interested in things, just because I am? At any rate...

Geek Stuff

There are many good pointers scattered throughout my comp.arch.storage FAQ. Here are a couple of the better ones:

If you're into parallel computers, the signal to noise ratio in Dartmouth's Parallel I/O Archive is hard to beat.
The IEEE Storage Systems Standards Working Group is developing a set of standards for hierarchical mass storage systems.

Japan

I studied at the Kichijoji Language School while I was in Japan, and I highly recommend it. The head of the school, Yamaguchi-sensei, is an especially good teacher.

If you're into Japanese-style taiko drumming, listen to KODO or visit www.taiko.com.

Go

The 1996 Cotsen Open was held at the New Gardena Hotel, September 21 and 22, 1996.

The set of Web go pages is rapidly becoming fully interconnected. This is as good a place to start as any. An especially useful one here in L.A. is this one.

Sumo

If you don't watch sumo, you don't know what you're missing. A good starting place is Jerry Chih-Yuan Yang's page at Stanford. You can also reach some interesting sites in Japan through there.

Recent Quotes

"Rod, one of the things I love about you is you're excited by everything." Ted Faber, about me, 11/96.

"Rod does not have a normal capability for acquiring textiles like most people ...

... having never actually purchased any clothing from a store. All clothes having either been purchased by someone else, or by Rod from some convention table, event booth, or mail order."
Steve Hotz, 11/12/96

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"The prime fact is that all humans are puffed up by their extreme self-satisfaction with their own brute power. Unless some creature more powerful than people arrives on earth to bully them, there's just no knowing to what dire lengths their fool presumptiousness will eventually carry them." Natsume Soseki, _I am a Cat_

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