System Technology Outlook

Abstract

The System Technology Outlook projects the evolution of systems and their technologies over the next five years. It identifies trends in technologies and markets. It describes major
technology discontinuities that are likely to occur within systems markets. It presents a synthesis of technical insight and market data using both internal and external sources. The
internal sources include IBM Research, IBM system and software development groups, and IBM corporate strategy and marketing groups. The external sources include customers, academia, and industry.

Speaker Biography

Renato’s current work is in the areas of System I/O and Network Architecture, Strategy, and Standards.

He has been one of the founding engineers of several I/O and Network industry standards, including: InfiniBand, iWARP, and I/O Virtualization. He has co-authored the specifications used
in these standards, including: several chapters of IB volume 1; Marker PDU Aligned framing for TCP spec; Direct Data Placement Protocol spec; Remote Direct Memory Access Protocol spec; and RDMA enabled NIC (RNIC) Verbs Specification. He's also been a contributor to several other related specifications, including: iSCSI Extensions for RDMA. He has also created several
reference architecture implementations of the protocols associated with these standards for use on internal IBM products.

He is passionate about the technical vitality of IBM's IO technical community. He created and chairs IBM’s I/O Technical Community (IOTC), which consist of over 650 architecture, development, test, and support folks. It serves the networking, educational, and support needs of the IBM’s IOTC and gives members a chance to influence IBM’s I/O strategy, plan, and
products. He also chairs IBM's System's Group I/O Strategy team and is Chief Architect of IBM’s eServer IO.

Renato has a BS in Electromagnetics/Electronics from the University of Illinois; and a Finance MBA from the University of Minnesota.

He joined IBM, in Rochester, MN in 1982 as an Engineer. He’s managed storage I/O processor, adapter, and RAID subsystem architecture, software, firmware, and hardware development
groups for both the AS/400 and RS/6000 I/O teams. He’s designed S/360 and AS/400 I/O ASICs and firmware. He has over 61 patents filed or issued, an additional 33 patents in process for filing, an additional 46 patents targeted for filing in 2005. He has made over 50 external presentations and published several refereed technical papers. In February of 2002, he received an external, refereed Life Time Achievement Award in recognition for his contributions to Server I/O from an external Server I/O community (see http://www.serverio.net/award/2002/winners.htm).

Past times include collecting stamps, reading books, practicing goju-shorei, gardening, cooking, dancing with his wife, and helping his 3 kids with their studies and school work.