[Storage-research-list] SNAPI 2007 (submission deadline extended to July 1)

[Yifeng Zhu]

[Apologies if you receive this invitation more than once]

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* 		The 4th International Workshop on Storage Network
* 			Architecture and Parallel I/Os (SNAPI)
* 		September 24, 2007 (Monday), San Diego, California, USA
* 	     In conjunction with the 24th IEEE Conference on Mass Storage
* 			Systems and Technologies (MSST'07)
* Website:
* 	http://www.eece.maine.edu/snapi/
* Important dates:
* 	Paper submission: July 1
* 	Notification of acceptance: July 20
* 	Final Camera-ready paper: August 20
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Data are the life-blood of computing and the main asset of any
organization. Therefore, disk I/O and data storage on which data reside are
becoming  "first class citizens" in today's information world. This workshop
intends to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia and
industry to discuss cutting edge research on parallel and distributed data
storage technologies. By discussing ongoing research, the workshop will expose
participants to the most recent developments in storage network architectures
and parallel I/O.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
   * Networked Storage Manageability, Reliability, and Availability
   * Networked Storage Performance and Scalability
   * File systems, Object-based storage, Block-level storage
   * NAS and SAN architectures
   * Storage networking: e.g. Fibre Channel, InfiniBand, IP Storage, iSCSI
   * Parallel I/O architectures
   * Caching and consistency
   * Evaluation of networked storage architectures
   * Storage management software
   * Distributed metadata management

Authors are invited to submit an extended abstract no longer than 4 pages for
consideration. Submissions should be viewable by Adobe Acrobat Reader (version
3.0 or higher). Accepted papers must be no longer than 8 single-spaced pages
(including figures, references, and appendices) using 12pt font. All
accepted papers will be presented at the workshop, included in a workshop
proceedings booklet (distributed at the workshop), and made available
online.

Steering Chairs:
   Qing Yang, University of Rhode Island
   Hong Jiang, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

General Chairs:
   Xubin He, Tennessee Tech University
   Yifeng Zhu, University of Maine

IEEE Sponsor:
   Merritt Jones, IEEE Technical Chair for Mass Storage

Program Committees:
   Ahmed Amer, University of Pittsburgh, USA
   Roger D. Chamberlain, Washington University, USA
   Phillip M. Dickens, University of Maine, USA
   Christian Engelmann, Oak Ridge National Lab, USA
   Dan Feng, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
   Jizhong Han, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
   Young-Sik Jeong, Wonkwang University, Korea
   David R. Kaeli, Northeastern University, USA
   Xueming Li, Qongqing University, China
   Ben Kobler, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA
   Beniamino Di Martino, Second Univ. of Naples, Italy
   Geyong Min, Bradford University, UK,
   Li Ou, Scalable Systems Group, Dell Inc, USA
   Dhabaleswar K. Panda, Ohio State University, USA
   Jehan-Francois Paris, University of Houston, USA
   Robert D. Russel, University of New Hampshire, USA
   Dilma Da Silva, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
   Peter Sobe, University of Lubeck, Germany
   Peter Varman, Rice University, USA
   Weijun Xiao, University of Rhode Island, USA
   Tao Xie, San Diego State University, USA
   Zhiyong Xu, Suffolk University, USA
   Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada