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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"CMBX12",sans-serif">MSST 2019 Research Call for Papers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"CMBX12",sans-serif"><a href="https://storageconference.us/">https://storageconference.us/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">May 4 — 8, 2020
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Tutorials May 4<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Invited speaker track May 5-6<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Research track May 7-8<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Sponsored by Santa Clara University, School of Engineering</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"CMBX12",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"CMBX12",sans-serif">Research track Information<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"CMR10",sans-serif">MSST 2020 will be held May 4-8, 2020 at Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA. The Research<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"CMR10",sans-serif">Track will be May 7 and 8.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"CMR10",sans-serif">The Research Program Committee requests the submission of research papers on the implementation,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"CMR10",sans-serif">design, and analysis of file and storage systems. Specific areas of interest include, but<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"CMR10",sans-serif">are not limited to:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"CMSY10",sans-serif">•
</span><span style="font-family:"CMR10",sans-serif">Exascale storage architecture and design<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"CMSY10",sans-serif">•
</span><span style="font-family:"CMR10",sans-serif">Parallel and distributed file systems<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"CMSY10",sans-serif">•
</span><span style="font-family:"CMR10",sans-serif">Designs of integrating parallel programming and distributed storage systems<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"CMSY10",sans-serif">•
</span><span style="font-family:"CMR10",sans-serif">Storage security and privacy<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"CMSY10",sans-serif">•
</span><span style="font-family:"CMR10",sans-serif">Storage provenance<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"CMSY10",sans-serif">•
</span><span style="font-family:"CMR10",sans-serif">Scalable metadata management<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"CMSY10",sans-serif">•
</span><span style="font-family:"CMR10",sans-serif">Techniques for building extremely scalable and distributed storage systems<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"CMSY10",sans-serif">•
</span><span style="font-family:"CMR10",sans-serif">Cloud storage systems and global-scale storage<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"CMSY10",sans-serif">•
</span><span style="font-family:"CMR10",sans-serif">Performance modeling and analysis of storage systems<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"CMSY10",sans-serif">•
</span><span style="font-family:"CMR10",sans-serif">Experiences with real-world systems and data storage challenges<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"CMSY10",sans-serif">•
</span><span style="font-family:"CMR10",sans-serif">Data protection and recovery<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"CMSY10",sans-serif">•
</span><span style="font-family:"CMR10",sans-serif">Long term archiving, data preservation and management<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"CMSY10",sans-serif">•
</span><span style="font-family:"CMR10",sans-serif">Data compression and deduplication<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"CMSY10",sans-serif">•
</span><span style="font-family:"CMR10",sans-serif">Storage for virtualized environments<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"CMSY10",sans-serif">•
</span><span style="font-family:"CMR10",sans-serif">File systems<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"CMSY10",sans-serif">•
</span><span style="font-family:"CMR10",sans-serif">Tiered storage<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"CMSY10",sans-serif">•
</span><span style="font-family:"CMR10",sans-serif">Storage virtualization<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"CMSY10",sans-serif">•
</span><span style="font-family:"CMR10",sans-serif">Networked storage architectures<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"CMSY10",sans-serif">•
</span><span style="font-family:"CMR10",sans-serif">New storage APIs: object storage, key-value stores, and others<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"CMSY10",sans-serif">•
</span><span style="font-family:"CMR10",sans-serif">I/O stacks for low-latency storage devices<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"CMSY10",sans-serif">•
</span><span style="font-family:"CMR10",sans-serif">Alternative Flash Translation Layers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"CMSY10",sans-serif">•
</span><span style="font-family:"CMR10",sans-serif">Storage class memory devices and systems<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"CMSY10",sans-serif">•
</span><span style="font-family:"CMR10",sans-serif">New memory technologies<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"CMR10",sans-serif">As is traditional, MSST will solicit short (4–6 pages) and full (8–14 pages) papers. References<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"CMR10",sans-serif">are not included in page counts. Paper formats should adhere to the IEEE conference templates<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"CMR10",sans-serif">available at:
</span><span style="font-family:CMTT10">https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"CMR10",sans-serif">Papers can be submitted at:
</span><span style="font-family:CMTT10">https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=msst2020<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"CMBX10",sans-serif">Dates:
</span><span style="font-family:"CMR10",sans-serif">Research Track Submission<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"CMBX10",sans-serif">Deadline:
</span><span style="font-family:"CMR10",sans-serif">Feb 15, 2020<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"CMBX10",sans-serif">Notifications:
</span><span style="font-family:"CMR10",sans-serif">March 15, 2020<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"CMBX10",sans-serif">Program Chairs:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"CMSY10",sans-serif">•
</span><span style="font-family:"CMR10",sans-serif">Darrell Long, UCSC<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"CMSY10",sans-serif">•
</span><span style="font-family:"CMR10",sans-serif">Michal Simon, CERN<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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