Paper Title: The Case for Use Cases

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Paper Author: Paul Grun, , Retired

Author Bio: Paul Grun, Chair, OpenFabrics Alliance, is a senior technologist in Cray’s Storage and Data Management group, where he focuses on applying I/O technology to building large-scale systems. He is also a member of the InfiniBand Trade Association’s Steering Committee and chair of the Technical Working Group. He was chair and principle author for the working group responsible for creating the RoCE (RDMA over Converged Ethernet) specification. He also played a key role in creating the InfiniBand transport protocol. During his more than 30 year career, he has been intimately involved in all aspects of server I/O beginning with storage for large mainframe systems and,turning to high performance network architecture. He earned a BSEE from Syracuse University.