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<font face="sans-serif"> INFLOW '14</font><br>
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<font face="sans-serif"> Interactions of NVM/Flash with Operating-Systems and Workloads</font><br>
<font face="sans-serif"> OSDI'14 Workshop, Oct 5, 2014 at Broomfield, CO, USA.</font><br>
<font face="sans-serif"> <a href="https://www.usenix.org/conference/inflow14" target="_blank">https://www.usenix.org/conference/inflow14</a></font><br>
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<font face="sans-serif"> The goal of INFLOW’14 is to bring together researchers and practitioners</font><br>
<font face="sans-serif"> working in systems, across the hardware/software stack, who are interested</font><br>
<font face="sans-serif"> in the cross-cutting issues of NVM/Flash technologies, Operating Systems,</font><br>
<font face="sans-serif"> and emerging Workloads. </font><br>
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<font face="sans-serif"> In recent years, NVM based storage devices have been gaining popularity as</font><br>
<font face="sans-serif"> a medium of storage. Flash based SSDs in particular have had a widespread</font><br>
<font face="sans-serif"> adoption by the industry driven by the need for greater storage performance.</font><br>
<font face="sans-serif"> NVM storage devices have dramatically different properties than conventional</font><br>
<font face="sans-serif"> hard disks. Yet, most of these devices are still exposed to operating systems</font><br>
<font face="sans-serif"> as block-level devices similar to hard disks. There are still several </font><br>
<font face="sans-serif"> fundamental research issues to be explored on how to efficiently interface </font><br>
<font face="sans-serif"> with NVM and Flash based storage devices, and the implications of such devices</font><br>
<font face="sans-serif"> in large scale workload deployments and on emerging workloads such as </font><br>
<font face="sans-serif"> Analytics applications.</font><br>
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<font face="sans-serif"> The INFLOW Workshop is an attempt to bring top researchers across the World to</font><br>
<font face="sans-serif"> exchange ideas and discuss recent innovations related to NVM/Flash technologies</font><br>
<font face="sans-serif"> and their interactions with Operating systems and workloads, and doing this in</font><br>
<font face="sans-serif"> the context of current enterprises and consumer markets. </font><br>
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<font face="sans-serif"> Checkout the CFP: <a href="https://www.usenix.org/conference/inflow14/call-for-papers" target="_blank">https://www.usenix.org/conference/inflow14/call-for-papers</a></font><br>
<font face="sans-serif"> CFP pdf version : <a href="https://www.usenix.org/sites/default/files/inflow14_cfp_050714.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.usenix.org/sites/default/files/inflow14_cfp_050714.pdf</a></font><br>
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<font face="sans-serif"> Important Dates</font><br>
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<font face="sans-serif"> Full paper submission due: Tuesday July 1st, 2014</font><br>
<font face="sans-serif"> Notification of acceptance: Monday August 18th, 2014</font><br>
<font face="sans-serif"> Final papers due: Thursday September 4th, 2014</font><br>
<font face="sans-serif"> Conference: Sunday October 5, 2014</font><br>
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<font face="sans-serif"> Topics</font><br>
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<font face="sans-serif"> We invite research papers from all areas of Flash SSD and its interactions</font><br>
<font face="sans-serif"> with operating systems and workloads. </font><br>
<font face="sans-serif"> Major Areas of interests include, but are not limited to: </font><br>
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<font face="sans-serif"> * Operating systems support for Flash and other NVM technologies</font><br>
<font face="sans-serif"> * New filesystem / storage software design ideas to support Flash</font><br>
<font face="sans-serif"> * Virtualization trends for SSD storage</font><br>
<font face="sans-serif"> * Flash SSD and NVM in Cloud Computing</font><br>
<font face="sans-serif"> * Applications on NVM/Flash, Mobile Devices, Wearable Computing Devices, etc.</font><br>
<font face="sans-serif"> * Application/OS optimizations tailored for Flash storage unique properties</font><br>
<font face="sans-serif"> * Application/OS optimizations for other NVM technologies</font><br>
<font face="sans-serif"> * Emerging Workloads (BigData, Analytics, Social, etc.) for Flash/NVM</font><br>
<font face="sans-serif"> * Workload characterization for NVM/Flash devices</font><br>
<font face="sans-serif"> * SSD caching techniques</font><br>
<font face="sans-serif"> * Acceleration techniques for Flash Storage and NVM technologies</font><br>
<font face="sans-serif"> * Hybrid SSD technologies</font><br>
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<font face="sans-serif"> Submission Site: <a href="https://papers.usenix.org/hotcrp/inflow14/" target="_blank">https://papers.usenix.org/hotcrp/inflow14/</a> </font><br>
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<font face="sans-serif"> Workshop Organizers and Committee:</font><br>
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<font face="sans-serif"> Program Co-Chairs</font><br>
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<font face="sans-serif"> Kaoutar El Maghraoui, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center</font><br>
<font face="sans-serif"> Gokul Kandiraju, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center</font><br>
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<font face="sans-serif"> Program Committee</font><br>
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<font face="sans-serif"> Nitin Agrawal, NEC Labs</font><br>
<font face="sans-serif"> Mahesh Balakrishnan, Microsoft Research</font><br>
<font face="sans-serif"> Philippe Bonnet, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark</font><br>
<font face="sans-serif"> Michele M. Franceschini, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center</font><br>
<font face="sans-serif"> K. Gopinath, Indian Institute of Science, India</font><br>
<font face="sans-serif"> Haryadi S. Gunawi, University of Chicago</font><br>
<font face="sans-serif"> Paolo Ienne, EPFL</font><br>
<font face="sans-serif"> Jihong Kim, Seoul National University, Korea</font><br>
<font face="sans-serif"> Carlos Maltzahn, University of California, Santa Cruz</font><br>
<font face="sans-serif"> Arif Merchant, Google</font><br>
<font face="sans-serif"> Sam H. Noh, Hongik University, Korea</font><br>
<font face="sans-serif"> Alma Riska, Netapp</font><br>
<font face="sans-serif"> Steven Swanson, University of California, San Diego</font><br>
<font face="sans-serif"> Nisha Talagala, Fusion IO</font><br>
<font face="sans-serif"> Bhuvan Urgaonkar, The Pennsylvania State University</font><br>
<font face="sans-serif"> Luis Useche, VMware</font><br>
<font face="sans-serif"> Chuliang Weng, Huawei Shannon Lab</font><br>
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