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<p><font size="2" face="Courier New">[Apologies if you received multiple copies of this email.]</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="Courier New">CALL FOR POSTERS</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="Courier New">The 8th Parallel Data Storage Workshop (PDSW13)</font><br>
<font size="2" face="Courier New">held in conjunction with IEEE/ACM Supercomputing (SC) 2013</font><br>
<font size="2" face="Courier New">Denver, Colorado, Monday, November 18, 2013</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="Courier New">Poster Submissions: <a href="http://www.pdsw.org/">http://www.pdsw.org/</a></font><br>
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<font size="2" face="Courier New">Submissions for technical poster presentation should submit a short poster abstract as instructed on the workshop web site. Posters with technical results for storage products are also encouraged. A poster presentation “lightening round” will give authors a few minutes to present their poster in front of the entire workshop. In addition, the workshop will have two poster sessions. </font><br>
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<font size="2" face="Courier New">Poster Submission Deadline: Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2013. </font><br>
<font size="2" face="Courier New">Poster Notification: On or before Thursday, Nov. 14, 2013</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="Courier New">Peta- and exascale computing infrastructures make unprecedented demands on storage capacity, performance, concurrency, reliability, availability, and manageability. This one-day workshop focuses on the data storage and management problems and emerging solutions found in peta- and exascale scientific computing environments, with special attention to issues in which community collaboration can be crucial for problem identification, workload capture, solution interoperability, standards with community buy-in, and shared tools. Addressing storage media ranging from tape, HDD, and SSD, to new media like NVRAM, the workshop seeks contributions on relevant topics, including but not limited to:</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="Courier New">- performance and benchmarking</font><br>
<font size="2" face="Courier New">- failure tolerance problems and solutions</font><br>
<font size="2" face="Courier New">- APIs for high performance features</font><br>
<font size="2" face="Courier New">- parallel file systems</font><br>
<font size="2" face="Courier New">- high bandwidth storage architectures</font><br>
<font size="2" face="Courier New">- support for high velocity or complex data</font><br>
<font size="2" face="Courier New">- metadata intensive workloads</font><br>
<font size="2" face="Courier New">- autonomics for HPC storage</font><br>
<font size="2" face="Courier New">- virtualization for storage systems</font><br>
<font size="2" face="Courier New">- archival storage advances</font><br>
<font size="2" face="Courier New">- resource management innovations</font><br>
<font size="2" face="Courier New">- incorporation of emerging storage technologies.</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="Courier New">Agenda: Coming Soon</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="Courier New">Program Committee:</font><br>
<font size="2" face="Courier New">Karsten Schwan, Georgia Tech (PC Chair)</font><br>
<font size="2" face="Courier New">Dean Hildebrand, IBM (PC Chair)</font><br>
<font size="2" face="Courier New">Ahmed Amer, Santa Clara University</font><br>
<font size="2" face="Courier New">John Bent, EMC</font><br>
<font size="2" face="Courier New">Randal Burns, Johns Hopkins University</font><br>
<font size="2" face="Courier New">Andreas Dilger, Intel</font><br>
<font size="2" face="Courier New">Fred Douglis, EMC</font><br>
<font size="2" face="Courier New">Garth Gibson, Carnegie Mellon University and Panasas Inc.</font><br>
<font size="2" face="Courier New">Peter Honeyman, University of Michigan</font><br>
<font size="2" face="Courier New">Song Jiang, Wayne State University</font><br>
<font size="2" face="Courier New">Sanjay Kumar, Intel</font><br>
<font size="2" face="Courier New">Carlos Maltzahn, University of California, Santa Cruz</font><br>
<font size="2" face="Courier New">Meghan Wingate McClelland, Xyratex</font><br>
<font size="2" face="Courier New">Ron Oldfield, Sandia National Laboratories</font><br>
<font size="2" face="Courier New">Narasimha Reddy, Texas A&M University</font><br>
<font size="2" face="Courier New">Robert Ross, Argonne National Laboratory</font><br>
<font size="2" face="Courier New">Keith A. Smith, NetApp</font><br>
<font size="2" face="Courier New">Yuan Tian, Oak Ridge National Laboratory</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="Courier New">Steering committee:</font><br>
<font size="2" face="Courier New">John Bent, EMC</font><br>
<font size="2" face="Courier New">Scott Brandt, University of California, Santa Cruz</font><br>
<font size="2" face="Courier New">Evan J. Felix, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory</font><br>
<font size="2" face="Courier New">Garth A. Gibson, Carnegie Mellon University and Panasas Inc.</font><br>
<font size="2" face="Courier New">Gary Grider, Los Alamos National Laboratory</font><br>
<font size="2" face="Courier New">Peter Honeyman, University of Michigan</font><br>
<font size="2" face="Courier New">Bill Kramer, National Center for Supercomputing Applications</font><br>
<font size="2" face="Courier New"> University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign</font><br>
<font size="2" face="Courier New">Darrell Long, University of California, Santa Cruz</font><br>
<font size="2" face="Courier New">Carlos Maltzahn, University of California, Santa Cruz </font><br>
<font size="2" face="Courier New">Rob Ross, Argonne National Laboratory </font><br>
<font size="2" face="Courier New">Philip C. Roth, Oak Ridge National Laboratory</font><br>
<font size="2" face="Courier New">John Shalf, National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center</font><br>
<font size="2" face="Courier New">Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory</font><br>
<font size="2" face="Courier New">Lee Ward, Sandia National Laboratories </font></body></html>