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<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>SNAPI 2008<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>5th IEEE International Workshop<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>on Storage Network Architecture and
Parallel I/Os<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>September 22, 2008 (Monday) <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Sheraton Inner Harbor, Baltimore, Maryland,
USA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>http://www.snapi08.wustl.edu<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>In conjunction with the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>25th IEEE Conference on Mass Storage
Systems and Technologies (MSST'08) <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>http://storageconference.org<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Important dates<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>* Paper submission: April 30
=> Extended to May 5<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>* Notification of acceptance:
July 1<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>* Final camera-ready paper:
July 20<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Description<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>The tremendous need for storage capacity
and I/O performance has become a<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>critical factor for computing systems,
generally, from enterprise systems to<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>computational science and everything in
between. As a result, disk I/O and<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>data storage on which data reside have
clearly become "first class citizens"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>in the modern information world. In
addition, parallelism is now ubiquitous<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>in computing, from multi-core processors
within a single enclosure to<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>massively parallel I/O systems that span
many racks of equipment. SNAPI08<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>brings together experts from academia and
industry to discuss cutting edge<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>research on parallel and distributed data
storage technologies, storage<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>interconnects, and storage management. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Topics of interest include but are not
limited to:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>* Networked storage
manageability, reliability, and availability<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>* Networked storage performance
and scalability<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>* File systems, object-based
storage, block-level storage<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>* NAS and SAN architectures<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>* Storage networking: e.g.
Fibre Channel, InfiniBand, IP Storage, iSCSI<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>* Parallel I/O architectures<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>* Caching and consistency<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>* Evaluation of networked
storage architectures<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>* Storage management systems<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>* Distributed metadata
management<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>* Integration of storage and
computation<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Author Instructions<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Authors are invited to submit a manuscript
of no longer than 8 single-spaced<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>pages (including figures, references, and
appendices) using 10pt or larger<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>font. Submissions should be viewable by
Adobe Acrobat Reader (version 3.0 or<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>higher), and should be emailed to
snapi08@wustl.edu. All accepted papers will<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>be presented at the workshop, included in a
workshop proceedings (distributed<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>at the workshop), and made available via
the IEEE digital library.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Steering Committee<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Qing Yang, University of Rhode Island<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Hong Jiang, University of Nebraska-Lincoln<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Xubin He, Tennessee Tech University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>General Chairs<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>André Brinkman, University of Paderborn,
Germany<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Roger D. Chamberlain, Washington
University, USA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Sponsorship<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>IEEE Mass Storage Systems Technical
Committee (MSSTC), Merritt Jones, Chair<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Program Committee<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Ahmed Amer, University of Pittsburgh, USA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Angelos Bilas, FORTH and University of
Crete, Greece<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Yitzhak Birk, Technion Haifa, Israel<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Toni Cortes, Barcelona Supercomputing Center,
Spain<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Dilma DaSilva, IBM T.J. Watson Research
Center, USA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Beniamino DiMartino, Second Univ. of
Naples, Italy<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Christian Engelmann, Oak Ridge National
Lab, USA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Jizhong Han, Chinese Academy of Sciences,
China<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Young-Sik Jeong, Wonkwang University, Korea<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=DA>David R. Kaeli, Northeastern University, USA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=DA>Ben Kobler, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center,
USA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Thomas Ludwig, University of Heidelberg,
Germany<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Ethan Miller, UC Santa Cruz, USA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Geyong Min, Bradford University, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Christine Morin, Inria, France<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Dhabaleswar K. Panda, Ohio State
University, USA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Jehan-Francois Paris, University of
Houston, USA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Maria Perez, Universidad Politécnica de
Madrid, Spain<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Ulrich Rueckert, University of Paderborn,
Germany<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Robert D. Russell, University of New
Hampshire, USA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Peter Sobe, University of Luebeck, Germany<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Peter Varman, Rice University, USA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Tao Xie, San Diego State University, USA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Zhiyong Xu, Suffolk University, USA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier
University, Canada<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Yifeng Zhu, University of Maine, USA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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