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<font size="2" face="Courier New">CALL FOR POSTERS AND PARTICIPATION</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">CALL FOR POSTERS</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="Courier New">Submissions for technical poster presentation should submit</font><br>
<font size="2" face="Courier New">a short poster abstract as instructed on the workshop web</font><br>
<font size="2" face="Courier New">site. Posters with technical results for storage products </font><br>
<font size="2" face="Courier New">are also encouraged. A poster presentation “lightening </font><br>
<font size="2" face="Courier New">round” will give authors a few minutes to present their </font><br>
<font size="2" face="Courier New">poster in front of the entire workshop. In addition, the </font><br>
<font size="2" face="Courier New">workshop will have two poster sessions. </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>
<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">PRELIMINARY AGENDA</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="Courier New">8:55am - 9:00am Welcome – Dean Hildebrand, IBM</font><br>
<font size="2" face="Courier New"> Karsten Schwan, Geogia Tech</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="Courier New">9:00am – 10:00am Keynote Speaker: Nisha Talagala, Fusion-io</font><br>
<font size="2" face="Courier New"> The All-Flash Datacenter</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="Courier New">10:00am - 10:30am POSTER SESSION 1 </font><br>
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<font size="2" face="Courier New">10:30am – 12:00pm SESSION 1: Dealing the Cards </font><br>
<font size="2" face="Courier New"> Chair: Meghan McClelland</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="Courier New"> Efficient Transactions for Parallel Data Movement</font><br>
<font size="2" face="Courier New"> Jay Lofstead, Sandia National Laboratories</font><br>
<font size="2" face="Courier New"> Jai Dayal, Georgia Institute of Technology</font><br>
<font size="2" face="Courier New"> Ivo Jemenez; Carlos Maltzahn, University of California,</font><br>
<font size="2" face="Courier New"> Santa Cruz</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="Courier New"> Asynchronous Object Storage with QoS for</font><br>
<font size="2" face="Courier New"> Scientific and Commercial Big Data</font><br>
<font size="2" face="Courier New"> Michael J. Brim; David A. Dillow; Sarp Oral;</font><br>
<font size="2" face="Courier New"> Bradley W. Settlemyer; Feiyi Wang, ORNL</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="Courier New"> Performance and Scalability Evaluation of the</font><br>
<font size="2" face="Courier New"> Ceph Parallel File System</font><br>
<font size="2" face="Courier New"> Feiyi Wang, Oak Ridge National Laboratory</font><br>
<font size="2" face="Courier New"> Mark Nelson, Ink Tank Inc</font><br>
<font size="2" face="Courier New"> Sarp Oral; Scott Atchely, Oak Ridge National Laboratory</font><br>
<font size="2" face="Courier New"> Sage Weil, Ink Tank Inc.</font><br>
<font size="2" face="Courier New"> Brad Settlemyer; Blake Caldwell; Jason Hill, Oak Ridge</font><br>
<font size="2" face="Courier New"> National Laboratory</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="Courier New">12:00pm - 1:30pm Lunch (not provided)</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="Courier New">1:30pm – 2:30pm SESSION 2: Shuffling the Deck </font><br>
<font size="2" face="Courier New"> Chair: John Bent</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="Courier New"> Structuring PLFS for Extensibility</font><br>
<font size="2" face="Courier New"> Chuck Cranor; Garth Gibson, Carnegie Mellon University</font><br>
<font size="2" face="Courier New"> Milo Polte, WibiData</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="Courier New"> SDS: A Framework for Scientific Data Services</font><br>
<font size="2" face="Courier New"> Bin Dong; Surendra Byna; Kesheng Wu, Lawrence Berkeley</font><br>
<font size="2" face="Courier New"> National Laboratory</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="Courier New">2:30pm – 3:00pm Poster Presentations</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="Courier New">3:00pm - 3:30pm POSTER SESSION 2</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="Courier New">3:30pm – 5:00pm SESSION 3: Playing with a Full Deck </font><br>
<font size="2" face="Courier New"> Chair: Carlos Maltzahn</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="Courier New"> Predicting Intermediate Storage Performance for Workflow</font><br>
<font size="2" face="Courier New"> Applications</font><br>
<font size="2" face="Courier New"> Lauro Beltrao Costa; Samer Al-Kiswany, The University of </font><br>
<font size="2" face="Courier New"> British Columbia</font><br>
<font size="2" face="Courier New"> Abmar Barros, Universidade Federal de Campina Grande</font><br>
<font size="2" face="Courier New"> Hao Yang; Matei Ripeanu, The University of British </font><br>
<font size="2" face="Courier New"> Columbia</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="Courier New"> Active Data: A Data-Centric Approach to Data Life-Cycle </font><br>
<font size="2" face="Courier New"> Management</font><br>
<font size="2" face="Courier New"> Anthony Simonet; Gilles Fedak, INRIA/University of Lyon</font><br>
<font size="2" face="Courier New"> Matei Ripeanu; Samer Al-Kiswany, University of British </font><br>
<font size="2" face="Courier New"> Columbia</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="Courier New"> Fourier-Assisted Machine Learning of Hard Disk</font><br>
<font size="2" face="Courier New"> Drive Access Time Models</font><br>
<font size="2" face="Courier New"> Adam Crume; Carlos Maltzahn, University of California,</font><br>
<font size="2" face="Courier New"> Santa Cruz</font><br>
<font size="2" face="Courier New"> Lee Ward; Thomas Kroeger; Matthew Curry; Ron Oldfield;</font><br>
<font size="2" face="Courier New"> Patrick Widener, Sandia National Laboratories</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="Courier New">5:00pm - 5:30pm Short Announcements</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><br>
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