From HeXB at tntech.edu Wed Jan 16 09:58:10 2008 From: HeXB at tntech.edu (Xubin He) Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 08:58:10 -0600 Subject: [Storage-research-list] CFP: 2008 International Conference on Networking, Architecture, and Storage Message-ID: Call for papers 2008 International Conference on Networking,Architecture, and Storage, June 12-14, 2008 Chongqing, China (NAS'2008) In co-operation with IEEE and IEEE Computer Society http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/~taoxie/nas/ Important dates: * Paper submission (full paper up to 10 pages):February 12, 2008 (midnight, US Pacific Time) * Notification of acceptance: March 15,2008(midnight, US Pacific Time) * Final Camera-ready paper: April 1, 2008 --------------------- The last decade or so has seen rapid research and developments in computer technology, particularly the advent and proliferation of Internet and wireless networks, that has given way to a clear convergence of previously divert fields such as computer networking, architecture and storage. As a result, architectural designs are increasingly made more network-aware, if not network-centric; more classic architecture ideas are being adopted to network devices and protocols and vice versa; data grids and high-speed networks are making data ever more omnipresent and indeed the "life-blood" of computing and the main asset of any organization. This conference intends to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to discuss cutting edge research on networking (wireline and wireless), high-performance computer architecture, and parallel and distributed data storage technologies. By discussing ongoing research, the conference will expose participants to the most recent developments in these interdisciplinary areas. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Ad hoc mobile networks * Mobility models and systems * Network applications and services * Network architectures and management * Optical networks * Peer-to-peer communications and networks * Resource allocation and management * Routing protocols * Security, trust, and privacy * Self-organizing networks * Sensor nets and embedded systems * Virtual and overlay networks * Web services and performance * Wireless networks and protocols * Processor architectures * Cache and memory systems * Parallel computer architectures * Impact of technology on architecture * Power-efficient architectures and techniques * High-availability architectures * High-performance I/O systems * Embedded and reconfigurable architectures * Interconnect and network interface architectures * Innovative hardware/software trade-offs * Impact of compilers on architecture * Performance evaluation of real machines * Storage Manageability, Reliability, Availability, and Security * Storage Performance and Scalability * File systems, Object-based storage, block-level storage * Storage networking: e.g. Fibre Channel, InfiniBand, IP Storage, iSCSI * Parallel I/O architectures * Evaluation of storage architectures * Storage management software ------------ Xubin NAS'2008 Program co-chair From lgj at usenix.org Wed Jan 16 14:27:10 2008 From: lgj at usenix.org (Lionel Garth Jones) Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:27:10 -0800 Subject: [Storage-research-list] FAST '08 Registration Now Available Message-ID: <478E5A8E.5020405@usenix.org> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 6th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '08) February 26-29, 2008 San Jose, California, USA http://www.usenix.org/fast08/proga Early Bird Registration Deadline: February 8, 2008 Sponsored by USENIX in cooperation with ACM SIGOPS, IEEE Mass Storage Systems Technical Committee (MSSTC), and IEEE TCOS ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dear Colleague, We are writing to invite you to attend the 6th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '08), February 26-29, in San Jose, California. http://www.usenix.org/fast08/proga File systems and storage continue to be active focus areas for researchers and technologists in operating systems, computer architecture, distributed systems, networking, mobile computing, and computational science. FAST '08 will bring together storage specialists from all of these areas in a unified, high-quality forum. The FAST program again offers tutorials. Taking place on Tuesday, February 26, the four half-day tutorials give you the opportunity to learn from leaders in the storage industry including: -- Brent Welch and Marc Unangst on Clustered and Parallel Storage System Technologies -- Richard Freitas, Winfried Wilcke, and Bulent Kurdi on Storage Class Memory, Technology, and Use -- Rob Ross and Rob Latham on Parallel I/O for High-Performance Computing -- Christian Cachin on Cryptographic Methods for Protecting Storage Systems The FAST '08 program includes 21 technical papers, as well as 2 keynote addresses, Work-in-Progress Reports (WiPs), and a poster session. The papers represent some of the outstanding work in the area, with topics including archival storage, storage system failure analyses, performance, and provisioning. Keynote addresses kick off the first two days of the technical sessions: -- "'It's like a fire. You just have to move on': Rethinking Personal Digital Archiving," by Cathy Marshall, Senior Researcher, Microsoft -- "Sustainable IT Ecosystem," by Chandrakant Patel, HP Fellow, Hewlett-Packard Labs The FAST technical sessions will include a session for Work-in-Progress reports, preliminary results, and "outrageous" opinion statements. We are particularly interested in presentations of student work. To submit, please send an abstract or proposal (one page or less, in plain text or PDF) to fast08wips at usenix.org by midnight PST, Thursday, January 17, 2008. New in '08, the poster session will allow researchers to present recent and ongoing projects. The poster session is an excellent forum to discuss new ideas and get useful feedback from the community. Poster submissions should include a brief description of the research, not to exceed two pages in plain text or PDF. Posters may be accompanied by demos; if a demo is planned, the proposal should briefly (1-2 paragraphs) describe its nature. Send poster proposals to fast08posters at usenix.org by midnight PST, Thursday, January 17, 2008. FAST '08 promises to be an exciting conference presenting leading examples of current research and a strong vision of the future of file and storage technologies. We hope you will join us in San Jose. Please visit the conference Web site at http://www.usenix.org/fast08/proga to register today. On behalf of the FAST '08 Program Committee, Mary Baker, Hewlett-Packard Labs Erik Riedel, Seagate Research FAST '08 Program Chairs fast08chairs at usenix.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 6th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '08) February 26-29, 2008 San Jose, California, USA http://www.usenix.org/fast08/proga Early Bird Registration Deadline: February 8, 2008 Sponsored by USENIX in cooperation with ACM SIGOPS, IEEE Mass Storage Systems Technical Committee (MSSTC), and IEEE TCOS ------------------------------------------------------------------------ From jwang at cs.ucf.edu Sat Jan 26 22:14:09 2008 From: jwang at cs.ucf.edu (Dr. Jun Wang) Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 22:14:09 -0500 (EST) Subject: [Storage-research-list] Welcome to SPEED08 final program In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: 1st International Workshop on Storage and I/O Virtualization, Performance, Energy, Evaluation and Dependability (SPEED2008) http://speed2008.eecs.ucf.edu/main.php In conjunction with The 14th International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture February 17, 2008 Salt Lake City, UT 8:45 AM - 9:00 AM Welcome and introduction to workshop 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM -- Resource Management The Case for Active Block Layer Extensions Jorge Guerra, Luis Useche, Medha Bhadkamkar, Ricardo Koller, and Raju Rangaswami School of Computing and Information Sciences, Florida International University Towards Distributed Storage Resource Management using Flow Control Ajay Gulati, Irfan Ahmad VMware, Inc. Palo Alto Providing Differentiated QoS for Peer-to-Peer File Sharing Systems Hailong Cai, Ping Ge Google Inc. University of Central Florida 10:30 AM - 10:45 AM -- Coffee Time 10:45 AM - 11:45 AM -- High Performance Computing Comparative Evaluation of Overlap Strategies with Study of I/O Overlap in MPI-IO Christina M Patrick, Seung Woo Son, Mahmut Kandemir Pennsylvania State University Adaptive and Dependable Server I/O networking support in High Performance Cluster Computing Environment Hsing-Bung Chen HPC-5, Los Alamos National Laboratory 11:45 AM - 1:30 PM -- Lunch Time 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM -- Object Based Storage O2S2: Enhanced Object-based Virtualized Storage Himanshu Raj and Karsten Schwan College of Computing Georgia Tech Atlanta, GA Design of an Object-based Storage Device Based on IO Processor Shuibing He, Dan Feng Key Laboratory of Data Storage Systems, Ministry of Education of China School of Computer, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM -- Novel Architecture LAST: Locality-Aware Sector Translation for NAND Flash Memory-Based Storage Systems DongKun Shin, Young-Jin Kim and Jihong Kim Sungyunwan University, Seoul National University A Mixed Flash Translation Layer Structure for SLC-MLC Combined Flash Memory System Seung-Ho Park, Jung-Wook Park, Jong-Min Jeong, Jung-Hwan Kim, Shin-Dug Kim Department of Computer Science, Yonsei University, Republic of Korea Corporate Technology Operations, Samsung Electronics Co., Republic of Korea 3:30 PM - 3:45 PM Coffee Time 3:45 PM - 5:15 PM -- Modeling and Tools VFS Interceptor: Dynamically Tracing File System Operations in real environments Yang Wang, Jiwu Shu, Wei Xue , Mao Xue Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University EReM-DiCE: Exploiting Remote Memory for Disk Cache Extension Takanori UEDA, Yu HIRATE, Hayato YAMANA Waseda University National Institute of Informatics An Performance Analytical Model of IP-based SAN (Short Paper) Min Wang , Wei Xu and Lu Xu Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing Ensuring Data Survival in Solid-State Storage Devices(Short Paper) Jehan-Franois Pris, Darrell D. E. Long, Thomas J. E. Schwarz Dept. of Computer Science University of Houston University of California Santa Cruz 5:15PM Closing remarks Peter and Jun From ggrider at lanl.gov Sat Jan 26 22:26:53 2008 From: ggrider at lanl.gov (Gary Grider) Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 20:26:53 -0700 Subject: [Storage-research-list] Fwd: SPEED08 final program Message-ID: <6.2.3.4.2.20080126202633.02991a60@cic-mail.lanl.gov> >X-Sieve: CMU Sieve 2.2 >X-Authentication-Warning: monroe.cs.ucf.edu: jwang owned process doing -bs >Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 22:12:45 -0500 (EST) >From: "Dr. Jun Wang" >X-X-Sender: jwang at monroe >To: ggrider at lanl.gov >Subject: SPEED08 final program >X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,J_CHICKENPOX_75 > autolearn=no version=3.2.3, No >X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) on gondor.cs.ucf.edu >X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.91.2, clamav-milter version 0.91.2 >on longwood.cs.ucf.edu >X-Virus-Status: Clean >X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure >engine=4.65.5502:2.3.11,1.2.37,4.0.164 >definitions=2008-01-26_03:2008-01-24,2008-01-26,2008-01-26 signatures=0 >X-Proofpoint-Spam: 0 >X-CTN-5-MailScanner-Information: Please see >http://network.lanl.gov/email/virus-scan.php >X-CTN-5-MailScanner: Found to be clean >X-CTN-5-MailScanner-From: jwang at cs.ucf.edu > > >Gary, > >We are pleased to share our final program with you and please >circulate among our HPC community. > >Cheers, > >------------------------------------------------------- > >1st International Workshop on Storage and I/O >Virtualization, Performance, Energy, Evaluation and Dependability >(SPEED2008) > >http://speed2008.eecs.ucf.edu/main.php > >In conjunction with The 14th International Symposium on >High-Performance Computer Architecture > >February 17, 2008 >Salt Lake City, UT > >8:45 AM - 9:00 AM > >Welcome and introduction to workshop > >9:00 AM - 10:30 AM -- Resource Management > >The Case for Active Block Layer Extensions >Jorge Guerra, Luis Useche, Medha Bhadkamkar, Ricardo Koller, and Raju >Rangaswami >School of Computing and Information Sciences, Florida International >University > >Towards Distributed Storage Resource Management using Flow Control >Ajay Gulati, Irfan Ahmad >VMware, Inc. Palo Alto > >Providing Differentiated QoS for Peer-to-Peer File Sharing Systems >Hailong Cai, Ping Ge >Google Inc. >University of Central Florida > >10:30 AM - 10:45 AM -- Coffee Time > >10:45 AM - 11:45 AM -- High Performance Computing > >Comparative Evaluation of Overlap Strategies with Study of I/O Overlap in >MPI-IO >Christina M Patrick, Seung Woo Son, Mahmut Kandemir >Pennsylvania State University > >Adaptive and Dependable Server I/O networking support in High Performance >Cluster Computing Environment >Hsing-Bung Chen >HPC-5, Los Alamos National Laboratory > >11:45 AM - 1:30 PM -- Lunch Time > >1:30 PM - 2:30 PM -- Object Based Storage > >O2S2: Enhanced Object-based Virtualized Storage >Himanshu Raj and Karsten Schwan >College of Computing Georgia Tech Atlanta, GA > >Design of an Object-based Storage Device Based on IO Processor >Shuibing He, Dan Feng >Key Laboratory of Data Storage Systems, Ministry of Education of China >School of Computer, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, >China > >2:30 PM - 3:30 PM -- Novel Architecture > >LAST: Locality-Aware Sector Translation for NAND Flash Memory-Based >Storage Systems >DongKun Shin, Young-Jin Kim and Jihong Kim >Sungyunwan University, Seoul National University > >A Mixed Flash Translation Layer Structure for SLC-MLC Combined Flash >Memory System >Seung-Ho Park, Jung-Wook Park, Jong-Min Jeong, Jung-Hwan Kim, Shin-Dug Kim >Department of Computer Science, Yonsei University, Republic of Korea >Corporate Technology Operations, Samsung Electronics Co., Republic of Korea > >3:30 PM - 3:45 PM Coffee Time > >3:45 PM - 5:15 PM -- Modeling and Tools > >VFS Interceptor: Dynamically Tracing File System Operations in real >environments >Yang Wang, Jiwu Shu, Wei Xue , Mao Xue >Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University > >EReM-DiCE: Exploiting Remote Memory for Disk Cache Extension >Takanori UEDA, Yu HIRATE, Hayato YAMANA >Waseda University >National Institute of Informatics > >An Performance Analytical Model of IP-based SAN (Short Paper) >Min Wang , Wei Xu and Lu Xu >Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing >Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing > >Ensuring Data Survival in Solid-State Storage Devices(Short Paper) >Jehan-Franois Pris, Darrell D. E. Long, Thomas J. E. Schwarz >Dept. of Computer Science University of Houston >University of California Santa Cruz > >5:15PM > >Closing remarks > >Peter and Jun > > > >Jun Wang, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science >University of Central Florida >Orlando, FL 32816-2450 >Phone: (407) 823-0449 Email: jwang at eecs.ucf.edu >Fax: (407) 823-5835 URL: http://www.eecs.ucf.edu/~jwang > From rick at fsl.cs.sunysb.edu Tue Jan 29 13:01:46 2008 From: rick at fsl.cs.sunysb.edu (Richard Paul Spillane) Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 13:01:46 -0500 Subject: [Storage-research-list] Write Ordering work Message-ID: <20080129180146.GK11318@filer.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu> Hello, I work at the file systems and storage lab at Stony Brook and am trying to find out about work in write ordering I/Ops to the file system (for use with transactions). I just wanted a couple pointers, anything would be helpful. I found a white paper submitted to Fast 05 but the work was done using simulations, and for my purposes, I am trying to find an operating system implementation/design. Write ordering is a well known concept, so I felt that there are probably some canonical papers on the topic that I could start my search from. Any help would be appreciated, thanks! -- Rick From coyne at us.ibm.com Thu Jan 31 12:45:05 2008 From: coyne at us.ibm.com (Bob Coyne Jr) Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 11:45:05 -0600 Subject: [Storage-research-list] Event format change: MSST2008: 25th IEEE Symposium on Massive Storage Systems and Technologies Message-ID: MSST2008 25th IEEE Symposium on Massive Storage Systems and Technologies Sheraton Inner Harbor Baltimore, Maryland September 22 - 25, 2008 http://storageconference.org Massive storage systems require storage technologies, scalable data systems, and operations concepts capable of managing hundreds of petabytes of data. MSST2008, scheduled for September 22 - 25, 2008 at the Sheraton Inner Harbor, in Baltimore, Maryland, will take a detailed look at the technologies and deployments capable of managing such volumes of data. Invited experts will report on applications that are generating massive data, institutions that are building the infrastructure to manage that data, and technologies that are being deployed. Theme based discussion panels and technology panels will also serve as an important adjunct to symposium activities. MSST2008 will be organized around the following themes: ? Scalable Storage Meets Petaflops. As we move toward petascale computing, there are fundamental challenges to using storage in ways that can keep up with the ever increasing speeds, multi-core designs, and capabilities of modern computing systems. Storage and I/O are already hard-pressed to keep up with today's terascale computers. While bandwidth to and from individual storage devices is getting faster, it is doing so at a disquietingly slower rate than increases in device density. Latencies to disk and tape are also not improving as fast as is needed for petascale environments. Further, the economics of storage device use in broad non-high performance computing markets may not significantly drive up storage device reliability or availability. Storage issues in an age of petaflops must be addressed with inventive approaches and solutions that make use of modern applications, emerging technologies, new architectures, and novel implementations. ? Massive Digital Archiving Systems. Preservation environments are designed to preserve the properties of record collections across multiple generations of storage technologies. These record collections are massive in both the number of files as well as the total storage capacity. The National Archives and Records Administration, for example, estimates that its archive size will grow to billions of records and 11 petabytes of data by 2014. A unique challenge is the tracking of the representation information that describes the management policies and procedures applied to records. The ability to describe the context under which massive collections are managed, requires scalability mechanisms for integrity and authenticity that cannot be sustained by current systems. In particular, the validation of the integrity of a hundred petabyte collection is an intractable task given today's technology. ? Massive Data Ingest and Analysis. Today?s sensor arrays are capable of delivering petabytes of data per day, collecting billions of samples from data sources ranging from space-borne or airborne sensors to supply chain or retail sales devices. Some problems challenge data bandwidth while others challenge transactional bandwidth. In both cases, petascale systems are needed to ingest and analyze data, and to store and distribute results. Petascale computing presents deployment challenges to engineering, operations, and maintenance as workable solutions are crafted for massive storage system technologies and data system architectures. MSST2008 will not include refereed papers, poster sessions, or a vendor expo. Vendor participation is encouraged through event sponsorships, hospitality suites, and literature displays. Original work should be submitted to the following workshops which will be co-located with MSST2008: ? SNAPI?08, 5th IEEE International Workshop on Storage Network Architecture and Parallel I/O. Chairs: Andr? Brinkman and Roger Chamberlain. The tremendous need for storage capacity and I/O performance has become a critical factor for most of today?s IT environments. SNAPI?08 brings together experts from academia and industry to discuss cutting edge research on parallel and distributed data storage technologies, storage interconnects, and storage management. Prospective authors should submit a full paper not to exceed 8 single-spaced pages, by April 30, 2008. ? CMPD'08, Workshop on Computing with Massive and Persistent Data. Chairs: Maya Gokhale and Steve Louis. Emerging hardware technologies such as low latency non-volatile memory and specialized co-processors offer new opportunities to accelerate data and compute intensive applications. The CMPD'08 workshop will assemble a broad range of researchers and practitioners to establish a community that crosses traditional boundaries separating hardware, system software, and applications. Areas of interest include disk-scale non-volatile memory devices, hardware co-processor approaches for computing with massive data sets, file systems and other system software for massive data sets, novel programming models for data-intensive applications, and applications using massive and persistent data. Prospective authors should submit an abstract of their current work or a short position paper not to exceed 4 single-spaced pages, by May 30, 2008. ? DAPS?08, Workshop on Digital Archive Preservation and Sustainability. Chair: Ann Kerr. Long term preservation requires the ability to make assertions about governance, sustainability, and trustworthiness. These concerns involve evolution of the community policies under which records are preserved, institutional commitment towards maintaining the preservation environment, and continued verification of the authenticity and integrity of records. As archives grow to the scale of hundreds of petabytes, these assertions become incompatible. This workshop will explore the inherent tensions in minimizing cost while ensuring sustainability, increasing governance controls while collection sizes grow, and improving integrity and authenticity assertions as the number of records increases. Prospective participants should submit an abstract of their current work or a short position paper not to exceed 4 single-spaced pages, by May 30, 2008. ? SISW 2008, 5th IEEE International Security In Storage Workshop. Chair: Jim Hughes. Protecting intellectual property, privacy, health records, and military secrets when media or devices are lost, stolen, or captured is critical to information owners. But meeting the challenge of protecting stored information critical to individuals, corporations, and governments is difficult, given the continually changing uses of storage, and the exposure of storage media to adverse conditions. SISW serves as an open forum for discussion of storage threats, technologies, methodologies, and deployment, and disseminates new research by bringing together researchers and practitioners from both government and civilian areas. Prospective participants should submit a full paper not to exceed 12 single-spaced pages, by May 30, 2008. Additional information on MSST2008 and related workshops will be posted on the conference web site: http://storageconference.org, as it becomes available. Organizing Committee: IEEE Sponsor: Merritt Jones (Consultant) General Chair: Ben Kobler (NASA GSFC) Program Chair: Tom Ruwart (Sherwood Information Partners) Publicity Chair: Jack Cole (US Army Research Laboratory) Tutorials Chair: Tom Ruwart (Sherwood Information Partners) Theme chairs: Scalable Storage Meets Petaflops: Steve Louis (LLNL) Massive Digital Archiving Systems: Bob Chadduck (NARA) Massive Data Ingest and Analysis: Mike Mott (IBM) Technology Panel: Dick Watson (LLNL) Program Committee: Jean Bedet (Adnet Systems, Inc) Bob Chadduck (NARA) Jack Cole (US Army Research Laboratory) Bob Coyne (IBM) P.C. Hariharan (STEM) Xubin He (Tennesse Technological University) Jim Hughes (Sun Microsystems) Merritt Jones (Consultant) Ann Kerr (Consultant, Vice Chair IEEE-CS International Symposium) Ben Kobler (NASA GSFC) Steve Louis (LLNL) Paul Massiglia (Agami Systems) Reagan Moore (SDSC) Mike Mott (IBM) Tom Ruwart (Sherwood Information Partners) Dick Watson (LLNL) General Contact: Ben Kobler, NASA GSFC, ben.kobler at nasa.gov ___________________________________________________________________ ben.kobler at nasa.gov, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, 301-286-5231 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From xbhe at yahoo.com Sun Feb 3 22:10:50 2008 From: xbhe at yahoo.com (Ben) Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2008 19:10:50 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Storage-research-list] CFP: 2008 International Conference on Networking, Architecture, and Storage--Deadline approaching Message-ID: <804713.83911.qm@web50710.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Call for papers 2008 International Conference on Networking,Architecture, and Storage,June 12-14, 2008 Chongqing, China (NAS'2008). http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/~taoxie/nas/ In co-operation with IEEE and IEEE Computer Society. The conference proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press to be indexed by EI. Important dates: * Paper submission (full paper up to 10 pages):February 12, 2008 (midnight, US Pacific Time) * Notification of acceptance: March 15,2008(midnight, US Pacific Time) * Final Camera-ready paper: April 1, 2008 Description: --------------------- The last decade or so has seen rapid research and developments in computer technology, particularly the advent and proliferation of Internet and wireless networks, that has given way to a clear convergence of previously divert fields such as computer networking, architecture and storage. As a result, architectural designs are increasingly made more network-aware, if not network-centric; more classic architecture ideas are being adopted to network devices and protocols and vice versa; data grids and high-speed networks are making data ever more omnipresent and indeed the "life-blood" of computing and the main asset of any organization. This conference intends to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to discuss cutting edge research on networking (wireline and wireless), high-performance computer architecture, and parallel and distributed data storage technologies. By discussing ongoing research, the conference will expose participants to the most recent developments in these interdisciplinary areas. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Ad hoc mobile networks * Mobility models and systems * Network applications and services * Network architectures and management * Optical networks * Peer-to-peer communications and networks * Resource allocation and management * Routing protocols * Security, trust, and privacy * Self-organizing networks * Sensor nets and embedded systems * Virtual and overlay networks * Web services and performance * Wireless networks and protocols * Processor architectures * Cache and memory systems * Parallel computer architectures * Impact of technology on architecture * Power-efficient architectures and techniques * High-availability architectures * High-performance I/O systems * Embedded and reconfigurable architectures * Interconnect and network interface architectures * Innovative hardware/software trade-offs * Impact of compilers on architecture * Performance evaluation of real machines * Storage Manageability, Reliability, Availability, and Security * Storage Performance and Scalability * File systems, Object-based storage, block-level storage * Storage networking: e.g. Fibre Channel, InfiniBand, IP Storage, iSCSI * Parallel I/O architectures * Evaluation of storage architectures * Storage management software ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ From lgj at usenix.org Thu Feb 7 13:22:16 2008 From: lgj at usenix.org (Lionel Garth Jones) Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2008 10:22:16 -0800 Subject: [Storage-research-list] FAST '08 Early Bird Registration Deadline Approaching Message-ID: <47AB4C58.9070804@usenix.org> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 6th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '08) February 26-29, 2008 San Jose, California, USA http://www.usenix.org/fast08/progb Early Bird Registration Deadline: February 8, 2008 Sponsored by USENIX in cooperation with ACM SIGOPS, IEEE Mass Storage Systems Technical Committee (MSSTC), and IEEE TCOS ------------------------------------------------------------------------ We are writing to remind you that the Early Bird Registration Deadline for the 6th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '08) is approaching. Please register by Friday, February 8, 2008, to save up to $200. FAST '08 takes place February 26-29, 2008, in San Jose, California. http://www.usenix.org/fast08/progb File systems and storage continue to be active focus areas for researchers and technologists in operating systems, computer architecture, distributed systems, networking, mobile computing, and computational science. FAST '08 will bring together storage specialists from all of these areas in a unified, high-quality forum. The FAST program again offers tutorials. Taking place on Tuesday, February 26, the four half-day tutorials give you the opportunity to learn from leaders in the storage industry, including: -- Brent Welch and Marc Unangst on Clustered and Parallel Storage System Technologies -- Richard Freitas, Winfried Wilcke, and Bulent Kurdi on Storage Class Memory, Technology, and Use -- Rob Ross and Rob Latham on Parallel I/O for High-Performance Computing -- Christian Cachin on Cryptographic Methods for Protecting Storage Systems The FAST '08 program includes 21 technical papers, as well as two keynote addresses, Work-in-Progress Reports (WiPs), and a poster session. The papers represent some of the outstanding work in the area, with topics including archival storage, storage system failure analyses, performance, and provisioning. Keynote addresses kick off the first two days of the technical sessions: -- " 'It's like a fire. You just have to move on': Rethinking Personal Digital Archiving," by Cathy Marshall, Senior Researcher, Microsoft -- "Sustainable IT Ecosystem," by Chandrakant Patel, HP Fellow, Hewlett-Packard Labs The FAST technical sessions, taking place Wednesday, February 27, through Friday, February 29, will include a session for reports on work in progress, preliminary results, and "outrageous" opinion statements. New in '08, the poster session will allow researchers to present recent and ongoing projects. The poster session is an excellent forum in which to discuss new ideas and get useful feedback from the community. FAST '08 promises to be an exciting conference presenting leading examples of current research and a strong vision of the future of file and storage technologies. We hope you will join us in San Jose. Please visit the conference Web site at http://www.usenix.org/fast08/progb to register today. On behalf of the FAST '08 Program Committee, Mary Baker, Hewlett-Packard Labs Erik Riedel, Seagate Research FAST '08 Program Chairs fast08chairs at usenix.org ===================================== From carlosm at soe.ucsc.edu Mon Feb 11 14:06:47 2008 From: carlosm at soe.ucsc.edu (Carlos Maltzahn) Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 11:06:47 -0800 Subject: [Storage-research-list] Survey: How private are home directories? Message-ID: Hi, Please consider participating in the following survey: http://www.cs.ucsc.edu/~carlosm/Survey/ I will present results in form of a WiP talk at FAST. WiP talks are scheduled on Wednesday, 2/27, 3:30-5PM PST. The more responses I receive by then, the more interesting the presentation! Feel free to forward this email to anyone who might be interested in participating! Thank you, Carlos -- Dr. Carlos Maltzahn Research Scientist Computer Science Department University of California, Santa Cruz http://www.cs.ucsc.edu/~carlosm/ From xbhe at yahoo.com Mon Feb 11 16:41:47 2008 From: xbhe at yahoo.com (Ben) Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 13:41:47 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Storage-research-list] Call for papers: 2008 International Conference on Networking, Architecture, and Storage (NAS'2008): Deadline extended to Feb 17. Message-ID: <986137.60224.qm@web50701.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Deadline extended to Feb. 17 due to numerous requests. [Please accept our apologies if you get multiple copies of this message] Call for papers 2008 International Conference on Networking,Architecture, and Storage,June 12-14, 2008 Chongqing, China (NAS'2008). http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/~taoxie/nas/ In co-operation with IEEE and IEEE Computer Society. The conference proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press to be indexed by EI. Important dates: * Paper submission (full paper up to 10 pages):February 17, 2008 (midnight, US Pacific Time, this is the FIRM deadline) * Notification of acceptance: March 15,2008 (midnight, US Pacific Time) * Final Camera-ready paper: April 1, 2008 Description: --------------------- The last decade or so has seen rapid research and developments in computer technology, particularly the advent and proliferation of Internet and wireless networks, that has given way to a clear convergence of previously divert fields such as computer networking, architecture and storage. As a result, architectural designs are increasingly made more network-aware, if not network-centric; more classic architecture ideas are being adopted to network devices and protocols and vice versa; data grids and high-speed networks are making data ever more omnipresent and indeed the "life-blood" of computing and the main asset of any organization. This conference intends to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to discuss cutting edge research on networking (wireline and wireless), high-performance computer architecture, and parallel and distributed data storage technologies. By discussing ongoing research, the conference will expose participants to the most recent developments in these interdisciplinary areas. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Ad hoc mobile networks * Mobility models and systems * Network applications and services * Network architectures and management * Optical networks * Peer-to-peer communications and networks * Resource allocation and management * Routing protocols * Security, trust, and privacy * Self-organizing networks * Sensor nets and embedded systems * Virtual and overlay networks * Web services and performance * Wireless networks and protocols * Processor architectures * Cache and memory systems * Parallel computer architectures * Impact of technology on architecture * Power-efficient architectures and techniques * High-availability architectures * High-performance I/O systems * Embedded and reconfigurable architectures * Interconnect and network interface architectures * Innovative hardware/software trade-offs * Impact of compilers on architecture * Performance evaluation of real machines * Storage Manageability, Reliability, Availability, and Security * Storage Performance and Scalability * File systems, Object-based storage, block-level storage * Storage networking: e.g. Fibre Channel, InfiniBand, IP Storage, iSCSI * Parallel I/O architectures * Evaluation of storage architectures * Storage management software ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ From carlosm at soe.ucsc.edu Tue Feb 12 14:39:36 2008 From: carlosm at soe.ucsc.edu (Carlos Maltzahn) Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 11:39:36 -0800 Subject: [Storage-research-list] Re: Survey: How private are home directories? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi again, Please hold off sending any results (I didn't receive any yet). It turns out that I need to get permission from the UCSC IRB before I can collect data for this survey. I hope to have this permission shortly. Thanks, Carlos On Feb 11, 02008, at 11:06 AM, Carlos Maltzahn wrote: > Hi, > > Please consider participating in the following survey: > > http://www.cs.ucsc.edu/~carlosm/Survey/ > > I will present results in form of a WiP talk at FAST. WiP talks are > scheduled on Wednesday, 2/27, 3:30-5PM PST. The more responses I > receive by then, the more interesting the presentation! > > Feel free to forward this email to anyone who might be interested > in participating! > > Thank you, > Carlos > > -- > Dr. Carlos Maltzahn > Research Scientist > Computer Science Department > University of California, Santa Cruz > http://www.cs.ucsc.edu/~carlosm/ > > > From carlosm at soe.ucsc.edu Fri Feb 15 02:57:06 2008 From: carlosm at soe.ucsc.edu (Carlos Maltzahn) Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 23:57:06 -0800 Subject: [Storage-research-list] Re: Survey: How private are home directories? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <5A0D1FB5-7711-4B26-ABA9-C97DBCAD749B@soe.ucsc.edu> Greetings, I'm happy to report that I've got permission from the UCSC IRB to conduct this survey. Please consider participating. http://www.cs.ucsc.edu/~carlosm/Survey/ For those who already read the instructions, please read again as they have changed. Thanks, Carlos On Feb 12, 02008, at 11:39 AM, Carlos Maltzahn wrote: > Hi again, > > Please hold off sending any results (I didn't receive any yet). It > turns out that I need to get permission from the UCSC IRB before I > can collect data for this survey. I hope to have this permission > shortly. > > Thanks, > Carlos > > On Feb 11, 02008, at 11:06 AM, Carlos Maltzahn wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Please consider participating in the following survey: >> >> http://www.cs.ucsc.edu/~carlosm/Survey/ >> >> I will present results in form of a WiP talk at FAST. WiP talks >> are scheduled on Wednesday, 2/27, 3:30-5PM PST. The more responses >> I receive by then, the more interesting the presentation! >> >> Feel free to forward this email to anyone who might be interested >> in participating! >> >> Thank you, >> Carlos >> >> -- >> Dr. Carlos Maltzahn >> Research Scientist >> Computer Science Department >> University of California, Santa Cruz >> http://www.cs.ucsc.edu/~carlosm/ >> >> >> > From brinkman at mail.uni-paderborn.de Fri Feb 15 03:30:54 2008 From: brinkman at mail.uni-paderborn.de (brinkman at mail.uni-paderborn.de) Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 09:30:54 +0100 Subject: [Storage-research-list] 1. Call for Papers SNAPI 2008 Message-ID: <20080215093054.7pk6r70vwgs8g884@webmail.uni-paderborn.de> ******************************************************************************** * The 5th IEEE International Workshop on Storage Network * Architecture and Parallel I/Os (SNAPI) * September 22, 2008 (Monday) * Sheraton Inner Harbor, Baltimore, Maryland, USA * http://www.snapi08.wustl.edu * * In conjunction with the 25th IEEE Conference on Mass Storage * Systems and Technologies (MSST'08) * http://storageconference.org * * Important dates: * Paper submission: April 30 * Notification of acceptance: July 1 * Final Camera-ready paper: August 1 ******************************************************************************** The tremendous need for storage capacity and I/O performance has become a critical factor for computing systems, generally, from enterprise systems to computational science and everything in between. As a result, disk I/O and data storage on which data reside have clearly become "first class citizens" in the modern information world. In addition, parallelism is now ubiquitous in computing, from multi-core processors within a single enclosure to massively parallel I/O systems that span many racks of equipment. SNAPI08 brings together experts from academia and industry to discuss cutting edge research on parallel and distributed data storage technologies, storage interconnects, and storage management. 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 systems * Distributed metadata management * Integration of storage and computation Author Instructions Authors are invited to submit a manuscript of no longer than 8 single-spaced pages (including figures, references, and appendices) using 10pt or larger font. Submissions should be viewable by Adobe Acrobat Reader (version 3.0 or higher), and should be emailed to snapi08 at wustl.edu. All accepted papers will be presented at the workshop, included in a workshop proceedings (distributed at the workshop), and made available via the IEEE digital library. Steering Committee Qing Yang, University of Rhode Island Hong Jiang, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Xubin He, Tennessee Tech University General Chairs Andr? Brinkman, University of Paderborn, Germany Roger D. Chamberlain, Washington University, USA Sponsorship IEEE Mass Storage Systems Technical Committee (MSSTC), Merritt Jones, Chair Program Committee Ahmed Amer, University of Pittsburgh, USA Angelos Bilas, FORTH and University of Crete, Greece Yitzhak Birk, Technion Haifa, Israel Toni Cortes, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain Dilma DaSilva, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Beniamino DiMartino, Second Univ. of Naples, Italy Christian Engelmann, Oak Ridge National Lab, USA Jizhong Han, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Young-Sik Jeong, Wonkwang University, Korea David R. Kaeli, Northeastern University, USA Ben Kobler, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA Thomas Ludwig, University of Heidelberg, Germany Ethan Miller, UC Santa Cruz, USA Geyong Min, Bradford University, UK Christine Morin, Inria, France Dhabaleswar K. Panda, Ohio State University, USA Jehan-Francois Paris, University of Houston, USA Maria Perez, Universidad Polit?cnica de Madrid, Spain Ulrich Rueckert, University of Paderborn, Germany Robert D. Russell, University of New Hampshire, USA Peter Sobe, University of Luebeck, Germany Peter Varman, Rice University, USA Tao Xie, San Diego State University, USA Zhiyong Xu, Suffolk University, USA Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Yifeng Zhu, University of Maine, USA From curtisanderson1 at comcast.net Fri Feb 29 15:24:10 2008 From: curtisanderson1 at comcast.net (curtisanderson1 at comcast.net) Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 20:24:10 +0000 Subject: [Storage-research-list] Call for Participation: IEEE 1244 Media Management Standard revision Message-ID: <022920082024.3261.47C869EA000EDBBD00000CBD2216527966CE02019C9D0A0B020E9C079B9D9A0C@comcast.net> Dear Colleagues, Next month the IEEE Storage Systems Standards Committee will begin a revision of the IEEE 1244-2000 suite of standards. They define a removable-media management system designed to catalog and automate access to a collection of virtual or physical tapes or other media that is stored in automated (robotic or virtual) libraries. The system defined by the standards is: * Vendor-independent and heterogeneous * SAN-aware so that drives and libraries can be shared between hosts and apps * Includes cataloging of media, access control policies, and library automation * Based on a plugin architecture that allows incremental growth and migration * Accessed via simple TCP/IP text-based protocols There are currently two implementations of the standard: * The ADM project in OpenSolaris (http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/mms) * The OpenVault project on SourceForge (http://openvault.sourceforge.net), I invite anyone who is interested in participating to contact me (Curtis.Anderson at ieee.org) so that I can schedule an initial kick-off meeting time that is convenient for all. There will be face-to-face meetings but there will always be conference-call access, so travel is not required to participate. Please also forward this invitation to anyone or any email list that you think might be interested. Best regards, Curtis Anderson, Chair IEEE SSSC Curtis.Anderson at ieee.org From Erik.Riedel at seagate.com Mon Mar 10 09:52:09 2008 From: Erik.Riedel at seagate.com (Erik.Riedel at seagate.com) Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 08:52:09 -0500 Subject: [Storage-research-list] request for input - hot topics in storage workshop & fast online Message-ID: Hot Topics in Storage ===================== This is a reminder for those who attended FAST and a request for anyone who did not: The FAST steering committee is considering organizing a Hot Topics in Storage workshop to be held this Fall and to run at a roughly 6 month offset from FAST in future years. The intent is to attract work that is not yet ready for full paper presentation at FAST and to get increased discussion of work in progress and topics of wide interest to the storage community. There are many details of timeline, venue and format still to be worked out, but we would like to get input from the community on: 1) the value of this event (do you think it is a good idea? do you think it will add to or detract from FAST itself?) 2) the format of the event - papers, short papers, posters, organized discussion groups, or other options Please send your input to: fastsc at usenix.org by this Friday, 14 March. Thank you for your input. FAST 2008 thank you and pointer =============================== I want to again thank everyone who attended FAST in San Jose and made the event a great success. We had record attendance of 465 people, a great technical session, an energetic work-in-progress and poster session, a day of informative tutorials and two excellent keynote speakers. Proceedings from the conference are online at: http://www.usenix.org/events/fast08/tech/ including slides from Cathy Marshall's "call to action" for personal digital archiving and Chandrakant Patel's discussion of sustainable IT and cradle-to-cradle energy/exergy costs. Both speak to areas of key technical challenge in the coming years. Thanks again to all who participated and attended. Erik Riedel writing on behalf of the FAST Steering Committee From maya at llnl.gov Mon Mar 10 18:10:35 2008 From: maya at llnl.gov (Maya Gokhale) Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:10:35 -0700 Subject: [Storage-research-list] Computing with Massive and Persistent Data (CMPD'08) Message-ID: <9BCF4A44-9E46-4961-A875-4E692756421E@llnl.gov> Please consider submitting an extended abstract to this workshop: 1st Workshop on Computing with Massive and Persistent Data (CMPD'08) Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Mass Storage Systems Technical Committee (MSSTC) September 22, Baltimore, MD, USA Workshop on Computing with Massive and Persistent Data Colocated with the Twenty-Fifth IEEE Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies Workshop Description For many applications, the distinction between primary and secondary storage will begin to fade over the next several years. Relatively slow improvements in memory latency and bandwidth have already pushed the cost of main memory accesses to hundreds of processor cycles. Meanwhile, large and inexpensive nonvolatile random access memory (NVRAM) devices are defining a new class of storage whose cost, capacity, and access time all fall between DRAM and magnetic disk drives. Moreover, the current growth in the number of cores per processor is not likely to be matched by increases in either main memory size or access speed. As a result, processing power is becoming cheap compared to memory size, causing applications that were once considered compute-intensive to become data-intensive. New approaches to file systems and programming models for data-intensive applications are also changing many code architects' view of the standard hierarchical memory model. Applications that manipulate massive data structures will be among the first to adopt new hardware and software storage technologies. Examples include data mining and the analysis of large images and graphs. Many of these applications currently use out-of-core programming techniques or standard database management systems, which both rely on specialized algorithms for working with data that resides mostly on disk. Developments in hardware and software technology call for a fresh look at these techniques. This workshop will gather developers and users of new technologies for computing with massive and persistent (i.e., nonvolatile) data. Areas of interest include: o Disk-scale nonvolatile memory devices o Other new hardware approaches for computing with massive data sets o File systems and other system software for massive data sets o Novel programming models for data-intensive applications o Applications using massive and persistent data A primary goal of the workshop is to assemble a broad range of researchers and practitioners in this field to establish a community that crosses traditional boundaries between hardware, system software, and applications. We seek to develop a shared view of the current state of the art, and of the opportunities and challenges that may arise over the next several years. Ultimately, we hope that this workshop series can help define research and funding strategies in this emerging field. How to Participate Prospective participants should submit an abstract of their current work or a position paper, not to exceed four pages. Participants will be invited attend based on these submissions, though not all participants will make a presentation at the workshop. The program committee will choose presentations to reflect a diverse set of approaches and interests spanning the topics listed above. All abstracts and presentations from those chosen to participate will be published in the workshop proceedings. Dates Position Paper Submission: May 30, 2008. Papers should be no more than four pages, at least 10-point font, in PDF or MS-Word Format. Email submissions to cmpd08-workshop at llnl.gov Notification of Acceptance: June 30, 2008. Final Presentations Due: August 29, 2008. (Presentation slides, in PDF or MS-PowerPoint format, must be submitted in advance to vet for excessive commercial content, etc., and inclusion in the workshop proceedings.) Workshop Program Committee Randal Burns, Johns Hopkins University Maya Gokhale, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Steve Louis, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory John May, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Henry Newman, Instrumental, Inc. Winfried Wilcke, IBM Research ------------------ Maya Gokhale maya at llnl.gov 925-422-9864 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From brinkman at mail.uni-paderborn.de Tue Mar 11 10:43:35 2008 From: brinkman at mail.uni-paderborn.de (brinkman at mail.uni-paderborn.de) Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 15:43:35 +0100 Subject: [Storage-research-list] 2nd CFP IEEE SNAPI 2008 Message-ID: <20080311154335.hxf2nioj48ss4og8@webmail.uni-paderborn.de> 2nd Call for Papers SNAPI 2008 5th IEEE International Workshop on Storage Network Architecture and Parallel I/Os September 22, 2008 (Monday) Sheraton Inner Harbor, Baltimore, Maryland, USA http://www.snapi08.wustl.edu In conjunction with the 25th IEEE Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies (MSST'08) http://storageconference.org Important dates * Paper submission: April 30 * Notification of acceptance: July 1 * Final camera-ready paper: July 20 Description The tremendous need for storage capacity and I/O performance has become a critical factor for computing systems, generally, from enterprise systems to computational science and everything in between. As a result, disk I/O and data storage on which data reside have clearly become "first class citizens" in the modern information world. In addition, parallelism is now ubiquitous in computing, from multi-core processors within a single enclosure to massively parallel I/O systems that span many racks of equipment. SNAPI08 brings together experts from academia and industry to discuss cutting edge research on parallel and distributed data storage technologies, storage interconnects, and storage management. 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 systems * Distributed metadata management * Integration of storage and computation Author Instructions Authors are invited to submit a manuscript of no longer than 8 single-spaced pages (including figures, references, and appendices) using 10pt or larger font. Submissions should be viewable by Adobe Acrobat Reader (version 3.0 or higher), and should be emailed to snapi08 at wustl.edu. All accepted papers will be presented at the workshop, included in a workshop proceedings (distributed at the workshop), and made available via the IEEE digital library. Steering Committee Qing Yang, University of Rhode Island Hong Jiang, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Xubin He, Tennessee Tech University General Chairs Andr? Brinkmann, University of Paderborn, Germany Roger D. Chamberlain, Washington University, USA Sponsorship IEEE Mass Storage Systems Technical Committee (MSSTC), Merritt Jones, Chair Program Committee Ahmed Amer, University of Pittsburgh, USA Angelos Bilas, FORTH and University of Crete, Greece Yitzhak Birk, Technion Haifa, Israel Toni Cortes, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain Dilma DaSilva, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Beniamino DiMartino, Second Univ. of Naples, Italy Christian Engelmann, Oak Ridge National Lab, USA Jizhong Han, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Young-Sik Jeong, Wonkwang University, Korea David R. Kaeli, Northeastern University, USA Ben Kobler, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA Thomas Ludwig, University of Heidelberg, Germany Ethan Miller, UC Santa Cruz, USA Geyong Min, Bradford University, UK Christine Morin, Inria, France Dhabaleswar K. Panda, Ohio State University, USA Jehan-Francois Paris, University of Houston, USA Maria Perez, Universidad Polit?cnica de Madrid, Spain Ulrich Rueckert, University of Paderborn, Germany Robert D. Russell, University of New Hampshire, USA Peter Sobe, University of Luebeck, Germany Peter Varman, Rice University, USA Tao Xie, San Diego State University, USA Zhiyong Xu, Suffolk University, USA Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Yifeng Zhu, University of Maine, USA From arnold.jones at snia.org Wed Mar 12 14:02:35 2008 From: arnold.jones at snia.org (Jones, Arnold) Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 12:02:35 -0600 Subject: [Storage-research-list] Call for Presentations - Storage Developer Conference 2008 Message-ID: <7FE20DCBBC9CD747A29DF177CD0E002D08B4C011@VS6.EXCHPROD.USA.NET> Storage Developer Conference 2008 Call for Presentations! Where the Storage Development Community Connects! Conference Dates: September 22 - 25, 2008 Conference Venue: Hyatt Regency Hotel, Santa Clara, CA ________________________________ Share your knowledge and experience as a storage development professional by submitting a presentation for consideration at the Storage Networking Industry Association's 2008 Storage Developer Conference (SDC). Now in its fourth year, and again expected to draw more than 250 developers and engineers participating in over 50 sessions in multiple tracks, the Storage Developer Conference is the only event created by storage developers for storage developers. SDC provides the information and know-how to further advance solutions with features that shorten time to market for a developed solution, increase acceptability and interoperability in production environments and help participants understand where storage technologies are heading. In addition, plans are being finalized for the CIFS and iSCSI plugfests. Session Topics Categories/Topics for consideration for sessions and case studies include: * Common Internet File System (CIFS) * iSCSI * eXtensible Access Method (XAM) * Green Technologies * Network File Systems (NFS) * Fibre Channel Protocols * Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) * Storage Ready for Virtualization Platforms * Storage for Grid/Utility Computing * Open Source * Storage Management Initiative-Specification (SMI-S) * Information and Data Management Technologies * Storage Security * Enterprise, Small and Medium Business Solutions * Emerging Storage and Data Technologies The standard session length will be 50 minutes. We are also, at this time, accepting proposals for panel discussions and half-day tutorial sessions. Important Dates * Deadline for Submission of Proposals - Friday, March 28 * Notification of Acceptance/Rejection of Proposals - Friday, May 2 * Deadline for Presentations -September 1 * Conference Dates - September 22 - 25, 2008 How to Submit a Presentation Proposal Submissions will only be accepted via the online form, which can be found here . Information on the 2007 Event For more information on type of content our panel of reviewers will be seeking for the 2008 conference, please review the 2007 presentations now available online. ________________________________ Save the Date! Mark your calendar for September 22 - 25, 2008! Not interested in presenting? Why not attend instead? Registration is now open. ________________________________ Conference Venue Hyatt Regency Hotel 5101 Great America Parkway Santa Clara, CA 95054 (408) 200-1234 www.santaclara.hyatt.com Reservations may also be made on-line at: http://santaclara.hyatt.com/groupbooking/clarasnia2008 . www.storage-developer.org | (c) 2008 Storage Networking Industry Association UNSUBSCRIBE: To unsubscribe, click here. CONTACT US: http://www.snia.org/about/contact_us Arnold Jones Technical Council Managing Director Storage Networking Industry Association _______________________________________ SNIA Phone: 407.574.7273 Mobile: 407.435.1067 arnold.jones at snia.org www.snia.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: sdc_email_header.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 16466 bytes Desc: sdc_email_header.jpg URL: From devor at dtc.umn.edu Thu Mar 13 12:29:55 2008 From: devor at dtc.umn.edu (Cory Devor) Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 11:29:55 -0500 Subject: [Storage-research-list] Announcing the UMN DTC Intelligent Storage Workshop 2008 Message-ID: <003701c88527$78c033e0$97bc6580@dtc.umn.edu> ----------------------------------------------------------- Don't Miss This Year's Workshop! UMN Digital Technology Center - Intelligent Storage Consortium Intelligent Storage Workshop 2008 May 13th and 14th, 2008 Keynote "Our Expanding Digital World: Can we contain it? Can we manage it?" Mr. David Reinsel IDC, Group VP - Storage and Semiconductors Other presentations focused on: Green Storage - Power Management - Object-based Storage - Long-term Data Preservation - Solid State Disks Complete Program Information and On-line Registration at: http://www.dtc.umn.edu/cgi-bin/disc/events.php?eventdesc=285 Questions? Dr. Cory Devor devor at dtc.umn.edu University of Minnesota Digital Technology Center 499 Walter Library --------------------------------------------------------------- From coyne at us.ibm.com Tue Mar 25 21:53:41 2008 From: coyne at us.ibm.com (Bob Coyne Jr) Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 20:53:41 -0500 Subject: [Storage-research-list] 2007 IEEE Archival Storage Life Cycle Workshop Summary Report and 2008 workshops and symposium Message-ID: All, The summary report for the 2007 IEEE Archival Storage Life Cycle Workshop and the workshop presentation material are posted for public access on http://storageconference.org/archive/ Thank you for your participation and contributions. Reminder: The 25th IEEE Symposium on Massive Storage Systems and Technologies will be held September 22 - 25, 2008 at the Sheraton Inner Harbor in Baltimore, Maryland. The symposium format has been updated to provide invited users and experts time to address the notion that massive storage systems require storage technologies, scalable data systems, and operations concepts capable of managing hundreds of petabytes of data. There was no call for papers this year. More information is available on http://storageconference.org A workshop on Digital Archive Preservation and Sustainability (DAPS'08) will be held in conjunction with the symposium on Monday, September 22, 2008. Prospective participants should submit an abstract of their current work or a short position paper not to exceed 4 single-spaced pages by May 30, 2008. Contact workshop chair, Ann Kerr (akerr1 at san.rr.com). Workshop on Computing with Massive and Persistent Data (CMPD'08), 5th IEEE International Workshop on Storage Network Architecture and Parallel I/O (SNAPI'08), and 5th IEEE International Security In Storage Workshop (SISW 2008) will also be held in conjunction with the symposium. More information is available on http://storageconference.org Best regards, Bob Coyne Vice Chair, Metadata Meetings IEEE Technical Committee Mass Storage Systems Email: Archive at StorageConference.Org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rross at mcs.anl.gov Tue Apr 8 16:32:51 2008 From: rross at mcs.anl.gov (Rob Ross) Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 15:32:51 -0500 Subject: [Storage-research-list] =?windows-1252?q?CFP=3A_First_USENIX_Wor?= =?windows-1252?q?kshop_on_Large-Scale_Computing__=28LASCO_=9208=29?= Message-ID: Hi all, Apologies if you receive multiple copies! Good opportunity for storage and file system papers at a new workshop held in conjunction with USENIX '08 in Boston. Please consider submitting! Regards, Rob --- LASCO '08 Call for Papers First USENIX Workshop on Large-Scale Computing (LASCO '08) June 23, 2008 Boston, MA, USA Sponsored by USENIX, the Advanced Computing Systems Association LASCO '08 will be co-located with the 2008 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX '08), which will take place June 22?27, 2008. Important Dates Submissions due: April 16, 2008, 11:59 p.m. PDT Notification to authors: May 5, 2008 Final papers due: June 2, 2008 Workshop Organizers Program Chair Toni Cortes, Barcelona Supercomputing Center Publicity Chair Michael Sch?ttner, Heinrich-Heine-Universit?t D?sseldorf Program Committee Gheorghe Almasi, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA David Bader, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Yolande Berbers, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Angelos Bilas, FORTH, Greece Erich Focht, NEC, Germany Andrzej Goscinski, Deakin University, Australia Ian Johnson, Science and Technology Facilities Council, UK Thilo Kielmann, Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands Christine Morin, INRIA, France Ira Pramanick, Google, USA Rob Ross, Argonne National Laboratory, USA Stephen L. Scott, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA Heinz Stockinger, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Switzerland Zhiwei Xu, Institute of Computing Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Workshop Overview With the increasing interest devoted to grid computing and large clusters, large-scale computing is once more becoming a key topic in the systems arena. Current technology and needs are pushing the concept of large-scaling much further than ever before, and new solutions need to be researched and applied. The objective of this workshop is to gather people working on large- scale computing. For this reason, we will organize it with a mixture of invited speakers who are leaders or key participants of significant projects in the area, traditional research papers, and larger attendant participation (more time for discussion). We seek high-quality submissions that further the knowledge and understanding of large-scale computing, with an emphasis on implementations and experimental results. Specific topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Application execution management * Application-system interface * Ease of use * File and storage systems * Grid operating systems * Heterogeneity * Industrial use cases * Networking and network services * Peer-to-peer management * Reliability, availability, and scalability * Security, privacy, and trust * System and network management and troubleshooting * Virtualization Submitting a Paper Submissions should be no longer than ten (10) U.S. letter (8.5" x 11") pages, two-column format, using 10-point type on 12-point (single- spaced) leading within a 6.5" x 9" text block. Author names and affiliations should appear on the title page. Submissions must be in PDF and must be submitted via the Web submission form. Papers accompanied by nondisclosure agreement forms will not be considered. All submissions will be treated as confidential prior to publication in the Proceedings. Simultaneous submission of the same work to multiple venues, submission of previously published work, and plagiarism constitute dishonesty or fraud. USENIX, like other scientific and technical conferences and journals, prohibits these practices and may, on the recommendation of a program chair, take action against authors who have committed them. In some cases, program committees may share information about submitted papers with other conference chairs and journal editors to ensure the integrity of papers under consideration. If a violation of these principles is found, sanctions may include, but are not limited to, barring the authors from submitting to or participating in USENIX conferences for a set period, contacting the authors' institutions, and publicizing the details of the case. Authors uncertain whether their submission meets USENIX's guidelines should contact the Program Chair, toni.cortes at bsc.es, or the USENIX office, submissionspolicy at usenix.org. Online copies of the papers will be made available before the workshop to registered attendees and will be publicly available online after the workshop. Participants may update their papers to incorporate workshop feedback. From coyne at us.ibm.com Wed Apr 9 09:13:06 2008 From: coyne at us.ibm.com (Bob Coyne Jr) Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2008 08:13:06 -0500 Subject: [Storage-research-list] 2007 IEEE Archival Storage Life Cycle Workshop Summary Report Message-ID: The summary report for the 2007 IEEE Archival Storage Life Cycle Workshop and the workshop presentation material are posted for public access on http://storageconference.org/archive/ Reminder: The 25th IEEE Symposium on Massive Storage Systems and Technologies will be held September 22 - 25, 2008 at the Sheraton Inner Harbor in Baltimore, Maryland. The symposium format has been updated to provide invited users and experts time to address the notion that massive storage systems require storage technologies, scalable data systems, and operations concepts capable of managing hundreds of petabytes of data. There was no call for papers this year. More information is available on http://storageconference.org A workshop on Digital Archive Preservation and Sustainability (DAPS'08) will be held in conjunction with the symposium on Monday, September 22, 2008. Prospective participants should submit an abstract of their current work or a short position paper not to exceed 4 single-spaced pages by May 30, 2008. Contact workshop chair, Ann Kerr (akerr1 at san.rr.com). Workshop on Computing with Massive and Persistent Data (CMPD'08), 5th IEEE International Workshop on Storage Network Architecture and Parallel I/O (SNAPI'08), and 5th IEEE International Security In Storage Workshop (SISW 2008) will also be held in conjunction with the symposium. More information is available on http://storageconference.org Best regards, Bob Coyne Vice Chair, Metadata Meetings IEEE Technical Committee Mass Storage Systems Email: Archive at StorageConference.Org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Erik.Riedel at seagate.com Fri Apr 11 15:07:09 2008 From: Erik.Riedel at seagate.com (Erik.Riedel at seagate.com) Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 15:07:09 -0400 Subject: [Storage-research-list] storage developer conference - submission deadline extended Message-ID: The organizing committee has extended the submission deadline for the 2008 Storage Developer Conference to 21 April. See details of the conference and a submission link are at: http://www.snia.org/events/storage-developer2008/ This event will be held in Santa Clara in September and targets storage industry engineers and architects. Last year's conference drew over 250 attendees and the 2008 event will include keynotes by Andy Bechtolsheim, Jeff Barr, and Steve Herrod among others. Particular topics of interest might be new file system extensions, energy and power efficiency, security & privacy, or use scenarios like long-term archive and provenance. Cheers, Erik From garth at cs.cmu.edu Fri Apr 11 15:51:26 2008 From: garth at cs.cmu.edu (Garth Gibson) Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 15:51:26 -0400 Subject: [Storage-research-list] some stats on the Storage-research-list Message-ID: Erik Riedel asked for some information on the membership and use of the Storage-research-list. Joan Digney did some analysis on the list and the results are below. Thanks Joan and Erik. Storage Research Mailing List Members by Domain .com 120 .edu 87 .gov 22 .org 9 .personal 44 total membership 282 Posts to Storage Research Mailing List by Domain, Oct. 1, 2006 to Feb 29, 2008 .com 13 .edu 27 .gov 5 .org 5 .personal 9 total number of posts 59 Detailed membership stats at http://www.pdl.cmu.edu/mailinglists/srml/storage-research-list-membership.pdf Detailed posting stats at http://www.pdl.cmu.edu/mailinglists/srml/storage-research-list-stats.pdf From jnunez at lanl.gov Wed Apr 16 23:09:15 2008 From: jnunez at lanl.gov (James Nunez) Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 21:09:15 -0600 Subject: [Storage-research-list] HEC FSIO 2007 Workshop Document and Roadmaps Available Message-ID: <4806BF5B.4090406@lanl.gov> The High End Computing Inter-Agency Working Group Technical Advisory Group on File Systems and I/O (HEC FSIO) was created to advise in coordination of government R&D funding in HEC File Systems and I/O area so that the government's investment in this area of HEC is well spent, reduces gaps and overlaps. We are attempting to enable more and better R&D and pass along the knowledge to the next generation. Each year the HEC FSIO holds a workshop to catalog existing government funded, and other relevant, research in this area, list top research areas that need to be addressed in the coming years both short and long term, determine where gaps and overlaps exist, and recommend the most pressing future short and long term research areas and needs and other actions necessary to ensure a well coordinated set of government funded research in this area. The summary document from the third annual HEC FSIO Workshop is available at http://institutes.lanl.gov/hec-fsio/docs/ In particular, the 2007 Road maps summary, which is the HECIWG Technical Advisory Groups's view on what research is currently being done, what areas need research efforts and what areas have sufficient research taking place, may be of interest to researchers. Information on the HEC FSIO 2008 Workshop is at: http://institutes.lanl.gov/hec-fsio/workshops/2008/ James Nunez Los Alamos National Lab For the HECIWG Technical Advisory Group on FSIO -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ James A. Nunez Los Alamos National Labs HPC-5 - High Performance Computing Systems Integration Group E-mail: jnunez at lanl.gov Phone: (505) 667 - 7018 Fax: (505) 664 - 0172 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From maya at llnl.gov Thu Apr 17 12:31:06 2008 From: maya at llnl.gov (Maya Gokhale) Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 09:31:06 -0700 Subject: [Storage-research-list] Workshop on Computing with Massive and Persistent Data Message-ID: Note: 4-page abstracts due May 30, 2008 (in 6 weeks) 1st Workshop on Computing with Massive and Persistent Data (CMPD'08) Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Mass Storage Systems Technical Committee (MSSTC) September 22, Baltimore, MD, USA Workshop on Computing with Massive and Persistent Data Colocated with the Twenty-Fifth IEEE Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies Workshop Description For many applications, the distinction between primary and secondary storage will begin to fade over the next several years. Relatively slow improvements in memory latency and bandwidth have already pushed the cost of main memory accesses to hundreds of processor cycles. Meanwhile, large and inexpensive nonvolatile random access memory (NVRAM) devices are defining a new class of storage whose cost, capacity, and access time all fall between DRAM and magnetic disk drives. Moreover, the current growth in the number of cores per processor is not likely to be matched by increases in either main memory size or access speed. As a result, processing power is becoming cheap compared to memory size, causing applications that were once considered compute-intensive to become data-intensive. New approaches to file systems and programming models for data-intensive applications are also changing many code architects' view of the standard hierarchical memory model. Applications that manipulate massive data structures will be among the first to adopt new hardware and software storage technologies. Examples include data mining and the analysis of large images and graphs. Many of these applications currently use out-of-core programming techniques or standard database management systems, which both rely on specialized algorithms for working with data that resides mostly on disk. Developments in hardware and software technology call for a fresh look at these techniques. This workshop will gather developers and users of new technologies for computing with massive and persistent (i.e., nonvolatile) data. Areas of interest include: o Disk-scale nonvolatile memory devices o Other new hardware approaches for computing with massive data sets o File systems and other system software for massive data sets o Novel programming models for data-intensive applications o Applications using massive and persistent data A primary goal of the workshop is to assemble a broad range of researchers and practitioners in this field to establish a community that crosses traditional boundaries between hardware, system software, and applications. We seek to develop a shared view of the current state of the art, and of the opportunities and challenges that may arise over the next several years. Ultimately, we hope that this workshop series can help define research and funding strategies in this emerging field. How to Participate Prospective participants should submit an abstract of their current work or a position paper, not to exceed four pages. Participants will be invited attend based on these submissions, though not all participants will make a presentation at the workshop. The program committee will choose presentations to reflect a diverse set of approaches and interests spanning the topics listed above. All abstracts and presentations from those chosen to participate will be published in the workshop proceedings. Dates Position Paper Submission: May 30, 2008. Papers should be no more than four pages, at least 10-point font, in PDF or MS-Word Format. Email submissions to cmpd08-workshop at llnl.gov Notification of Acceptance: June 30, 2008. Final Presentations Due: August 29, 2008. (Presentation slides, in PDF or MS-PowerPoint format, must be submitted in advance to vet for excessive commercial content, etc., and inclusion in the workshop proceedings.) Workshop Program Committee Randal Burns, Johns Hopkins University Maya Gokhale, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Steve Louis, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory John May, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Henry Newman, Instrumental, Inc. Winfried Wilcke, IBM Research ------------------ Maya Gokhale maya at llnl.gov 925-422-9864 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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As a result, disk I/O and data storage on which data reside have clearly become "first class citizens" in the modern information world. In addition, parallelism is now ubiquitous in computing, from multi-core processors within a single enclosure to massively parallel I/O systems that span many racks of equipment. SNAPI08 brings together experts from academia and industry to discuss cutting edge research on parallel and distributed data storage technologies, storage interconnects, and storage management. 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 systems * Distributed metadata management * Integration of storage and computation Author Instructions Authors are invited to submit a manuscript of no longer than 8 single-spaced pages (including figures, references, and appendices) using 10pt or larger font. Submissions should be viewable by Adobe Acrobat Reader (version 3.0 or higher), and should be emailed to snapi08 at wustl.edu. All accepted papers will be presented at the workshop, included in a workshop proceedings (distributed at the workshop), and made available via the IEEE digital library. Steering Committee Qing Yang, University of Rhode Island Hong Jiang, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Xubin He, Tennessee Tech University General Chairs Andr? Brinkman, University of Paderborn, Germany Roger D. Chamberlain, Washington University, USA Sponsorship IEEE Mass Storage Systems Technical Committee (MSSTC), Merritt Jones, Chair Program Committee Ahmed Amer, University of Pittsburgh, USA Angelos Bilas, FORTH and University of Crete, Greece Yitzhak Birk, Technion Haifa, Israel Toni Cortes, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain Dilma DaSilva, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Beniamino DiMartino, Second Univ. of Naples, Italy Christian Engelmann, Oak Ridge National Lab, USA Jizhong Han, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Young-Sik Jeong, Wonkwang University, Korea David R. Kaeli, Northeastern University, USA Ben Kobler, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA Thomas Ludwig, University of Heidelberg, Germany Ethan Miller, UC Santa Cruz, USA Geyong Min, Bradford University, UK Christine Morin, Inria, France Dhabaleswar K. Panda, Ohio State University, USA Jehan-Francois Paris, University of Houston, USA Maria Perez, Universidad Polit?cnica de Madrid, Spain Ulrich Rueckert, University of Paderborn, Germany Robert D. Russell, University of New Hampshire, USA Peter Sobe, University of Luebeck, Germany Peter Varman, Rice University, USA Tao Xie, San Diego State University, USA Zhiyong Xu, Suffolk University, USA Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Yifeng Zhu, University of Maine, USA -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Now in its fourth year and again expected to draw more than 250 developers and engineers participating in over 50 sessions in multiple tracks, the Storage Developer Conference is the only event created by the storage industry for the storage industry. SDC provides the information and know-how to further advance solutions with features that shorten time to market for a developed solution, increase acceptability and interoperability in production environments and help participants understand where storage technologies are heading. In addition, plans are being finalized for the CIFS/SMB/SMB2 and iSCSI plugfests. Audience Storage software and hardware developers, storage product and solution architects, storage software engineers, product managers, storage product quality assurance engineers, product line CTOs, storage product customer support engineers, and in-house IT development staff. Session Topics Categories/Topics for consideration for sessions and case studies include: * Common Internet File System (CIFS), SMB & SMB2 * iSCSI * eXtensible Access Method (XAM) * Green Technologies * Network File Systems (NFS) * Fibre Channel Protocols * Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) * Storage Ready for Virtualization Platforms * Storage for Grid/Utility Computing * Open Source * Storage Management Initiative-Specification (SMI-S) * Information and Data Management Technologies * Storage Security * Enterprise, Small and Medium Business Solutions * Emerging Storage and Data Technologies Important Dates Deadline for Submission of Proposals (recently extended!!) - Monday, May 5 Notification of Acceptance/Rejection of Proposals - Monday, May 19 Deadline for Presentations - September 1 Conference Dates - September 22 - 25, 2008 The standard session length will be 50 minutes. We are also, at this time, accepting proposals for panel discussions and half-day tutorial sessions. Presenters will receive one complimentary conference pass (not to exceed two per session). Additional Information and Proposal Submission Information on the event and how to submit a proposal can be found at: http://www.storage-developer.org . ===================== Arnold Jones Technical Council Managing Director Storage Networking Industry Association _______________________________________ SNIA Phone: 407.574.7273 Mobile: 407.435.1067 arnold.jones at snia.org www.snia.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From yongdaek at gmail.com Wed Apr 30 02:04:26 2008 From: yongdaek at gmail.com (Yongdae Kim) Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 01:04:26 -0500 Subject: [Storage-research-list] CFP: StorageSS '08 Message-ID: <8ebc15230804292304h17d99616m7a671d0189554f60@mail.gmail.com> --------------------------------------------------- Apologies if you received multiple copies of this posting. --------------------------------------------------- *** CALL FOR PAPERS *** 4th International Workshop on Storage Security and Survivability StorageSS 2008 ACM CCS 2008 Workshop Oct. 31, 2008 George Mason University http://storagess.org/2008/ IMPORTANT DATES: - Submissions due: May 23 - Notification: July 3 - Camera-ready due: August 3 The 4th ACM International Workshop on Storage Security and Survivability (StorageSS 2008) will bring together researchers in storage systems, computer and network security, and cryptography. We encourage paper submissions from both research and industry presenting novel ideas on all theoretical and practical aspects of protecting data in storage and file systems. TOPICS OF INTEREST include, but aren't limited to: * storage protection tradeoffs * storage protection deployment (including case studies) * smart storage for security and/or survivability * analysis of covert storage channels and leaks * mobile storage protection * novel backup protection techniques * protection using versioning * storage encryption techniques (modes of operation, fast software/hardware encryption) * key management techniques * encrypted keyword search and database query * security analysis of deployed file/volume encryptor, encrypted disc * tamper-evident storage protection techniques * immutable storage protection techniques, provenance * storage threat models * storage intrusion detection systems * security for long-term / archival storage * privacy and trust issues in (untrusted) remote/hosted storage * TPM and storage security The StorageSS workshop solicits full papers of up to 12 pages long as well as short papers / work-in-progress, which may be up to 6 pages long. Wild and controversial ideas are especially encouraged. The workshop will be structured to focus on face-to-face discussion and integration of people from storage, security, industry, and the open source community. To foster this interaction, we will include invited talks and/or panels. Paper submission and review will be done online. Papers should be formatted as two column in a font no smaller than 10 points. Submissions should be labeled as either a full paper (up to 12 pages) or short paper (up to 6 pages). Conference proceedings will be published by the ACM and made available at the workshop. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their paper will be presented at the workshop. Submission site: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=storagess2008 Please contact the program chair at chair08 [at] storagess.org if you have any questions about the relevance of a paper or topic. Program Co-chairs * Yongdae Kim (University of Minnesota, USA) * Bill Yurcik (University of Texas at Dallas, USA) Program Committee * Giuseppe Ateniese (Johns Hopkins Univ., USA) * Randal Burns (Johns Hopkins Univ., USA) * Christian Cachin (IBM Zurich, Switzerland) * Valerie Henson (consultant, USA) * Nikolai Joukov (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA) * Ethan Miller (UC Santa Cruz, USA) * Dalit Naor (IBM Haifa, Israel) * Alina Oprea (RSA Labs., USA) * Jay Wylie (HP Labs, USA) -- +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ + Yongdae Kim (office phone) 1-612-626-7526 + Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities + kyd (at mark) cs.umn.edu, http://www.cs.umn.edu/~kyd +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ From tdumitra at ece.cmu.edu Thu May 22 23:02:02 2008 From: tdumitra at ece.cmu.edu (Tudor Dumitras) Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 23:02:02 -0400 Subject: [Storage-research-list] CFP: First International Workshop on Hot Topics in Software Upgrades (HotSWUp08) Message-ID: <483633AA.2010803@ece.cmu.edu> We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. CALL FOR PAPERS HotSWUp 2008: First International Workshop on Hot Topics in Software Upgrades (co-located with OOPSLA 2008) Nashville, Tennessee October 19--23, 2008 http://www.hotswup.org OBJECTIVES The goal of HotSWUp is to identify cutting-edge research ideas for implementing software upgrades. Actively-used software is upgraded regularly to incorporate bug fixes and security patches or to keep up with the evolving requirements. Whether upgrades are applied offline or online, they significantly impact the software's performance and reliability. Recent studies and a large body of anecdotal evidence suggest that, in practice, upgrades are failure-prone, tedious, and expensive. HotSWUp is an interdisciplinary workshop, based on synergies among the domains of programming languages (e.g., as reflected at conferences such as OOPSLA or PLDI), software engineering (e.g., as reflected at ICSE or FSE) and systems (e.g., as reflected at SOSP or OSDI). By seeking contributions from both academic researchers and industry practitioners, HotSWUp aims to combine bold, novel ideas, with experience from upgrading real systems. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Programming language / runtime system / operating system support for software upgrades. - Improving the reliability of upgrades (e.g., support for upgrade validation and for rollback after failures). - Support for system restructuring (e.g., evolving APIs, changes to database schemas). - Identifying dependencies between components and guaranteeing safe interactions among mixed versions. - Coordinating and disseminating upgrades in large-scale distributed systems. - Tools for preparing, testing, and applying software upgrades. - Human factors in software upgrades (e.g., usability of upgrading tools, common operator mistakes). SUBMISSION GUIDELINES We solicit position papers on software upgrades. Preferably, submissions to HotSWUp should fall into one of the following categories: - Suggest how a successful approach can be applied in a different context (e.g., static dependency analysis applied to distributed-system upgrades). - Refute an old assumption about software upgrades (e.g., by presenting negative results). - Describe a new problem or propose a novel solution to an old problem. - Present empirical evidence related to the practical implementation of software upgrades. Papers must not exceed 5 pages, in the ACM SIGPLAN 10 point format, and must be submitted electronically at http://www.hotswup.org IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline July 25, 2008 Acceptance notification September 7, 2008 Camera-ready deadline September 21, 2008 Workshop date October 2008 at OOPSLA (precise date TBD) ORGANIZERS Program Co-Chairs - Tudor Dumitras, Carnegie Mellon University, USA (main contact) - Danny Dig, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA - Iulian Neamtiu, University of California, Riverside, USA Program Committee - Ricardo Bianchini, Rutgers University, USA - Gavin Bierman, Microsoft Research, UK - Dilma da Silva, IBM Research, USA - Michael Ernst, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA - Ralph Johnson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA - Priya Narasimhan, Carnegie Mellon University, USA - Manuel Oriol, ETH Zurich, Switzerland - Mark E. Segal, Laboratory for Telecommunications Sciences, USA - Peter Sewell, University of Cambridge, UK - Robert Wisniewski, IBM Research, USA MORE INFORMATION Visit the workshop's homepage at: http://www.hotswup.org -- ______________________________________ Tudor A. Dumitras ECE Department Carnegie Mellon University http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~tdumitra From jack.cole at ieee.org Sun May 25 16:57:36 2008 From: jack.cole at ieee.org (Jack Cole) Date: Sun, 25 May 2008 16:57:36 -0400 Subject: [Storage-research-list] Fwd: [msst] MSST2008 Workshop submissions due May 30, 2008 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <596648080805251357v4c5e9040sdd3b1bc65e901842@mail.gmail.com> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ben Kobler Date: Fri, May 23, 2008 at 1:13 PM Subject: [msst] MSST2008 Workshop submissions due May 30, 2008 To: msst at ieee.org MSST2008 25th IEEE Symposium on Massive Storage Systems and Technologies Sheraton Inner Harbor Baltimore, Maryland September 22 - 25, 2008 http://storageconference.org This is a reminder that submissions to the following MSST2008 workshops are due May 30, 2008: ? CMPD'08, Workshop on Computing with Massive and Persistent Data. Chairs: Maya Gokhale and Steve Louis. Emerging hardware technologies such as low latency non-volatile memory and specialized co-processors offer new opportunities to accelerate data and compute intensive applications. The CMPD'08 workshop will assemble a broad range of researchers and practitioners to establish a community that crosses traditional boundaries separating hardware, system software, and applications. Areas of interest include disk-scale non-volatile memory devices, hardware co-processor approaches for computing with massive data sets, file systems and other system software for massive data sets, novel programming models for data-intensive applications, and applications using massive and persistent data. Prospective authors should submit an abstract of their current work or a short position paper not to exceed 4 single-spaced pages, to: cmpd08- workshop at llnl.gov, by May 30, 2008. More information is available here: https://computation.llnl.gov/home/workshops/cmpd08/ ? DAPS'08, Workshop on Digital Archive Preservation and Sustainability. Chair: Ann Kerr. Long term preservation requires the ability to make assertions about governance, sustainability, and trustworthiness. These concerns involve evolution of the community policies under which records are preserved, institutional commitment towards maintaining the preservation environment, and continued verification of the authenticity and integrity of records. As archives grow to the scale of hundreds of petabytes, these assertions become incompatible. This workshop will explore the inherent tensions in minimizing cost while ensuring sustainability, increasing governance controls while collection sizes grow, and improving integrity and authenticity assertions as the number of records increases. It will also explore existing and emerging digital preservation requirements and evolution of architectures. Prospective participants should submit an abstract of their current work or a short position paper not to exceed 4 single-spaced pages, to: chair at san.rr.com, by May 30, 2008. More information is available here: http://storageconference.org/daps/index.html ? KMS2008, IEEE Key Management Summit. Chair: Matt Ball. With recent legislation, such as California's SB 1386 or Sarbanes-Oxley, companies now have to publicly disclose when they lose unencrypted personal data. To meet this new need for encryption, many companies have developed solutions that encrypt data on hard disks and tape cartridges. The problem is that these data storage vendors need a solution for managing the cryptographic keys that protect the encrypted data. KMS2008 will bring together the top companies that develop cryptographic key management for storage devices with the standards organizations that make interoperability possible. The summit aims to provide clarity to the key management by showing how existing products and standards organizations address the problem of interoperability and security. Prospective speakers should submit an abstract to: chair at keymanagementsummit.com, by May 30, 2008. Relevant topics include: key management standards, use-cases, solutions, and government requirements. More information is available here: http://www.keymanagementsummit.com/2008/ ? SISW 2008, 5th IEEE International Security In Storage Workshop. Chair: Jim Hughes. Protecting intellectual property, privacy, health records, and military secrets when media or devices are lost, stolen, or captured is critical to information owners. But meeting the challenge of protecting stored information critical to individuals, corporations, and governments is difficult, given the continually changing uses of storage, and the exposure of storage media to adverse conditions. SISW serves as an open forum for discussion of storage threats, technologies, methodologies, and deployment, and disseminates new research by bringing together researchers and practitioners from both government and civilian areas. Prospective participants should submit either a full paper (not to exceed 12 single-spaced pages) for a paper presentation to be published in the proceedings, or a short abstract suggesting alternative presentation forms, discussion items, or panel topics to: james.hughes at sun.com, by May 30, 2008. More information is available here: http://ieeeia.org/sisw/2008/ ___________________________________________________________________ ben.kobler at nasa.gov, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, 301-286-5231 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From lgj at usenix.org Tue May 27 14:36:27 2008 From: lgj at usenix.org (Lionel Garth Jones) Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 11:36:27 -0700 Subject: [Storage-research-list] USENIX FAST '09 Call For Papers Message-ID: <483C54AB.3040404@usenix.org> The 7th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '09) Program Committee invites you to contribute to the refereed papers, Work-in-Progress reports, and poster session. FAST '09 brings together storage system researchers and practitioners to explore new directions in the design, implementation, evaluation, and deployment of storage systems. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Archival storage systems * Caching, replication, and consistency * Database storage issues * Designs with emerging storage devices * Distributed I/O (wide-area, grid, peer-to-peer) * Empirical evaluation of storage systems * Experience with deployed systems * Innovative file or data storage system design * Manageability * Mobile and personal storage * Parallel I/O * Reliability, availability, disaster tolerance * Scalability * Security * Storage as a service * Storage networking * Virtualization Paper submissions are due by 9:00 p.m. EDT on September 12, 2008. The FAST technical sessions will include slots for Work-in-Progress reports, preliminary results, "outrageous" opinion statements, and a poster session. We are particularly interested in presentations of student work. Please send WiP submissions to fast09wips at usenix.org. The Call for Papers, with submission guidelines, is now available at http://www.usenix.org/fast09/cfpa/ The 7th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '09) will take place February 24-27, 2009, in San Francisco, CA. We look forward to receiving your submissions! Sincerely, Margo Seltzer, Harvard University Ric Wheeler, Red Hat FAST '09 Program Co-Chairs ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Call for Papers: 7th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '09) February 24-27, 2009 San Francisco, CA http://www.usenix.org/fast09/cfpa Paper Submission Deadline: September 12, 2008 Sponsored by USENIX in cooperation with ACM SIGOPS, IEEE Mass Storage Systems Technical Committee (MSSTC), and IEEE TCOS ------------------------------------------------------------------------ From maya at llnl.gov Thu May 29 21:00:24 2008 From: maya at llnl.gov (Maya Gokhale) Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 18:00:24 -0700 Subject: [Storage-research-list] Computing with Massive and Persistent Data Sets Message-ID: <019518BE-F333-42FB-933F-FF3D442E1407@llnl.gov> Deadline extended to June 9th, 2008! Please consider submitting an extended abstract to this workshop: 1st Workshop on Computing with Massive and Persistent Data (CMPD'08) IEEE logo Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Mass Storage Systems Technical Committee (MSSTC) September 22, Baltimore, MD, USA Workshop on Computing with Massive and Persistent Data Colocated with the Twenty-Fifth IEEE Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies Workshop Description For many applications, the distinction between primary and secondary storage will begin to fade over the next several years. Relatively slow improvements in memory latency and bandwidth have already pushed the cost of main memory accesses to hundreds of processor cycles. Meanwhile, large and inexpensive nonvolatile random access memory (NVRAM) devices are defining a new class of storage whose cost, capacity, and access time all fall between DRAM and magnetic disk drives. Moreover, the current growth in the number of cores per processor is not likely to be matched by increases in either main memory size or access speed. As a result, processing power is becoming cheap compared to memory size, causing applications that were once considered compute-intensive to become data-intensive. New approaches to file systems and programming models for data-intensive applications are also changing many code architects' view of the standard hierarchical memory model. Applications that manipulate massive data structures will be among the first to adopt new hardware and software storage technologies. Examples include data mining and the analysis of large images and graphs. Many of these applications currently use out-of-core programming techniques or standard database management systems, which both rely on specialized algorithms for working with data that resides mostly on disk. Developments in hardware and software technology call for a fresh look at these techniques. This workshop will gather developers and users of new technologies for computing with massive and persistent (i.e., nonvolatile) data. Areas of interest include: * Disk-scale nonvolatile memory devices * Other new hardware approaches for computing with massive data sets * File systems and other system software for massive data sets * Novel programming models for data-intensive applications * Applications using massive and persistent data A primary goal of the workshop is to assemble a broad range of researchers and practitioners in this field to establish a community that crosses traditional boundaries between hardware, system software, and applications. We seek to develop a shared view of the current state of the art, and of the opportunities and challenges that may arise over the next several years. Ultimately, we hope that this workshop series can help define research and funding strategies in this emerging field. Call for Presentations Prospective presenters should submit an abstract of their current work or a position paper, not to exceed four pages. Submissions will be competitively reviewed by the program committee to reflect a diverse set of approaches and interests spanning the topics listed above. All selected abstracts and presentations will be published in the electronic workshop proceedings. Dates Position Paper Submission: Deadline extended to June 9, 2008. Papers should be no more than four pages, at least 10-point font, in PDF or MS-Word Format. Email submissions to cmpd08-workshop at llnl.gov Notification of Acceptance: June 30, 2008. Final Presentations Due: August 29, 2008. (Presentation slides, in PDF or MS-PowerPoint format, must be submitted in advance to vet for excessive commercial content, etc., and inclusion in the workshop proceedings.) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From garth at cs.cmu.edu Sat May 31 15:55:20 2008 From: garth at cs.cmu.edu (Garth Gibson) Date: Sat, 31 May 2008 15:55:20 -0400 Subject: [Storage-research-list] Call for Nominations: July 1 2008 deadline: IEEE Reynold B. Johnson Information Storage Systems Award Message-ID: <4841AD28.9020904@cs.cmu.edu> www.ieee.org/portal/pages/about/awards/sums/johnson.html Nomination Deadline: July 1, 2008 The IEEE Reynold B. Johnson Information Storage Systems Award was established by the IEEE Board of Directors in 1991 and may be presented annually for outstanding contributions to information storage systems, with emphasis on computer storage systems. It may be presented to an individual, multiple recipients or team up to three in number. It is named in honor of Reynold B. Johnson, who is renowned as a pioneer of magnetic disk technology and was founding manager of the IBM San Jose Research and Engineering Laboratory, San Jose, California in 1952, where IBM research and development in the field was centered. In the evaluation process, the following criteria are considered: computer storage is emphasized, achievement may relate to materials, concepts, design, hardware or software, may be theoretical or experimental, but will be judged on the impact and the historical significance on the evolution of computer storage systems, and the quality of the nomination. Recipient selection is administered by the IEEE Awards Board through its Technical Field Awards Council. A nomination is made through the above web site. The nominator will: - summarize nominator qualifications (no self-nominations), - ensure three to five endorsement letters (not from the nominator) are submitted, - propose a "citation" for the award of less than 25 words, - construct the basic nomination with bio, pertinent publications, statement of achievement (1200 words maximum), community activities and honors. Recent awardees: 2008 - ALAN J. SMITH Professor, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA ?For contributions to the performance analysis of computer storage systems, including improvements to disk caches, prefetching and data placement? 2007- Co-Recipients DAVE HITZ Executive Vice President and Co-Founder, Network Appliance, Sunnyvale, CA and JAMES LAU Chief Strategy Officer, Executive Vice President and Co-Founder, Network Appliance, Sunnyvale, CA "For innovation in file system technology, leading to the development of network file server appliances." 2006 - JAISHANKAR M. MENON Director of Storage Systems Architecture and Design, IBM, San Jose, CA "For pioneering work in the theory and application of RAID storage systems." garth gibson Chair, 2008 IEEE Reynold B. Johnson Information Storage Systems Award Committee Co-Recipient, 1999 IEEE Reynold B. Johnson Information Storage Systems Awardee, 'For the development of Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks (RAID) systems.' From garth at cs.cmu.edu Tue Jun 10 11:07:39 2008 From: garth at cs.cmu.edu (Garth Gibson) Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 11:07:39 -0400 Subject: [Storage-research-list] Reminder: Call for Nominations: July 1 2008 deadline: IEEE Reynold B. Johnson Information Storage Systems Award Message-ID: <93EA5FDA-46EB-4181-9B41-C22D8342E384@cs.cmu.edu> Reminder: IEEE Reynold B. Johnson Information Storage Systems Award deadline approaches I have been asked if nominees or nominators must be IEEE members. The answer is no. The list of non-eligible people is small; for example, IEEE boards, staff and awards council and committee members. Also no self-nominations and no posthumous nominations. Details on the nomination logistics are available online: www.ieee.org/portal/pages/about/awards/guidelines/mdltfaguide.html Please help us identify the contributions most deserving of recognition! -------- Reprise of call for nominations --------- www.ieee.org/portal/pages/about/awards/sums/johnson.html Nomination Deadline: July 1, 2008 The IEEE Reynold B. Johnson Information Storage Systems Award was established by the IEEE Board of Directors in 1991 and may be presented annually for outstanding contributions to information storage systems, with emphasis on computer storage systems. It may be presented to an individual, multiple recipients or team up to three in number. It is named in honor of Reynold B. Johnson, who is renowned as a pioneer of magnetic disk technology and was founding manager of the IBM San Jose Research and Engineering Laboratory, San Jose, California in 1952, where IBM research and development in the field was centered. In the evaluation process, the following criteria are considered: computer storage is emphasized, achievement may relate to materials, concepts, design, hardware or software, may be theoretical or experimental, but will be judged on the impact and the historical significance on the evolution of computer storage systems, and the quality of the nomination. Recipient selection is administered by the IEEE Awards Board through its Technical Field Awards Council. A nomination is made through the above web site. The nominator will: - summarize nominator qualifications (no self-nominations), - ensure three to five endorsement letters (not from the nominator) are submitted, - propose a "citation" for the award of less than 25 words, - construct the basic nomination with bio, pertinent publications, statement of achievement (1200 words maximum), community activities and honors. Recent awardees: 2008 - ALAN J. SMITH Professor, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA ?For contributions to the performance analysis of computer storage systems, including improvements to disk caches, prefetching and data placement? 2007- Co-Recipients DAVE HITZ Executive Vice President and Co-Founder, Network Appliance, Sunnyvale, CA and JAMES LAU Chief Strategy Officer, Executive Vice President and Co-Founder, Network Appliance, Sunnyvale, CA "For innovation in file system technology, leading to the development of network file server appliances." 2006 - JAISHANKAR M. MENON Director of Storage Systems Architecture and Design, IBM, San Jose, CA "For pioneering work in the theory and application of RAID storage systems." garth gibson Chair, 2008 IEEE Reynold B. Johnson Information Storage Systems Award Committee Co-Recipient, 1999 IEEE Reynold B. Johnson Information Storage Systems Awardee, 'For the development of Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks (RAID) systems.' From john.wilkes at hp.com Thu Jul 3 14:22:07 2008 From: john.wilkes at hp.com (john wilkes) Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2008 11:22:07 -0700 Subject: [Storage-research-list] book announcement: Storage, data, and information systems Message-ID: <041901c8dd39$b7dd09d0$755e040f@americas.hpqcorp.net> I'd like to alert you to the availability of a tutorial book that might be of interest to this community: Storage, data, and information systems by John Wilkes, Christopher Hoover, Beth Keer, Pankaj Mehra, Alistair Veitch, HP Labs, 5th edition, 2008. ISBN 978-1424317318 or 1424317312. It's a short ~100 page book that some colleagues and I wrote to introduce storage systems to a smart lay audience (HP's board of directors!). We believe it might also be a useful introductory text for an undergrad class. And it's only $14.95 :-). As one reviewer said: A concise and accessible description of storage and information systems, filling a large gap in reference material for this critical topic area. --Professor Greg Ganger, Director, Parallel Data Lab, Carnegie Mellon University You can get a copy from Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Storage-data-information-systems-Wilkes/dp/1424317312 (Don't worry if Amazon says "temporarily out of stock" - that just means they have asked us for some more copies, and the copies are on their way to Amazon's warehouse ... you can still go ahead and order it.) Comments and feedback welcome! john wilkes -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ggrider at lanl.gov Mon Jul 7 22:17:50 2008 From: ggrider at lanl.gov (Gary Grider) Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2008 20:17:50 -0600 Subject: [Storage-research-list] Some space left at the HEC FSIO 2008 Workshop Aug 3-6 Arlington VA Message-ID: <4872CE4E.7010207@lanl.gov> Storage researchers: The 4th annual High End Computing File Systems and I/O (HECFSIO) workshop/conference is being held in Arlington VA Aug 3-6 2008 - about a month from now. For those of you that are not aware of this event, the HECFSIO is a group of I/O experts from all the High End Computing (HEC) agencies in the US Federal Government which advise the HEC federal agencies on R&D funding needs. The HECFSIO is coordinating $20-30M and dozens of projects in federally sponsored R&D on HEC File Systems and I/O activities including NSF HECURA, DOE SciDAC, DOE NNSA, DOD File Systems and I/O related activities, etc. This annual workshop/conference is held to make people aware of HECFSIO R&D current and upcoming funding opportunities, existing R&D status, and the government and HEC sites views on importance of areas of R&D needed. The agenda consists of posters, panel sessions, and invited talks as well as sessions where input on management of the HECFSIO R&D portfolio is solicited from the attendees. Time is extremely short, please consider coming to this workshop/conference. There is no registration fee, breakfasts and lunches are provided so people have time to network. We have a limit on how many we can accommodate so act quickly. A block of rooms at the workshop/conference hotel have been reserved at government rate. Even though there is no registration fee, please do register so we have a count of how many attendees we will have. Additionally please book your room now. Registration deadline is July 18 and the hotel room block will expire Friday July 11 All registration, hotel, and agenda information is provided at http://institute.lanl.gov/hec-fsio/conferences/2008/ Additionally, we have a few poster openings as well. If you have a poster you would like to present, please send a note to James Numez jnunez at lanl.gov . Again, please consider attending to learn about HECFSIO R&D, current and future funding opportunities, and help us shape the future of File Systems and I/O research for the community. Thanks Gary Grider Los Alamos National Lab for the HECFSIO From jnunez at lanl.gov Tue Jul 15 00:43:05 2008 From: jnunez at lanl.gov (James Nunez) Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 22:43:05 -0600 Subject: [Storage-research-list] HECIWG FSIO 2008 Reminder - Hotel Deadline Extended In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <487C2AD9.7020906@lanl.gov> As you know, the 4th annual High End Computing File Systems and I/O (HECFSIO) workshop/conference is being held in Arlington, VA Aug 3-6, 2008. Just another reminder that the registration deadline is July 18 and the hold on the hotel room block had been extended to Friday, July 18. We are making some last minute adjustments based on the number of people that have registered. So, if you plan on attending the conference, please register and book your hotel room by this deadline. All registration, hotel, and agenda information is provided at http://institute.lanl.gov/hec-fsio/conferences/2008/ Thank you, James Nunez for the HECFSIO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ James A. Nunez Los Alamos National Labs HPC-5 - High Performance Computing Systems Integration Group E-mail: jnunez at lanl.gov Phone: (505) 667 - 7018 Fax: (505) 664 - 0172 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From tdumitra at andrew.cmu.edu Tue Jul 15 02:09:27 2008 From: tdumitra at andrew.cmu.edu (Tudor Dumitras) Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 23:09:27 -0700 Subject: [Storage-research-list] 2nd CFP: First International Workshop on Hot Topics in Software Upgrades (HotSWUp08) Message-ID: <487C3F17.4040507@andrew.cmu.edu> We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. CALL FOR PAPERS HotSWUp 2008: First International Workshop on Hot Topics in Software Upgrades (co-located with OOPSLA 2008) Nashville, Tennessee October 19, 2008 http://www.hotswup.org OBJECTIVES The goal of HotSWUp is to identify cutting-edge research ideas for implementing software upgrades. Actively-used software is upgraded regularly to incorporate bug fixes and security patches or to keep up with the evolving requirements. Whether upgrades are applied offline or online, they significantly impact the software's performance and reliability. Recent studies and a large body of anecdotal evidence suggest that, in practice, upgrades are failure-prone, tedious, and expensive. HotSWUp is an interdisciplinary workshop, based on synergies among the domains of programming languages (e.g., as reflected at conferences such as OOPSLA or PLDI), software engineering (e.g., as reflected at ICSE or FSE) and systems (e.g., as reflected at SOSP or OSDI). By seeking contributions from both academic researchers and industry practitioners, HotSWUp aims to combine bold, novel ideas, with experience from upgrading real systems. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Programming language / runtime system / operating system support for software upgrades. - Improving the reliability of upgrades (e.g., support for upgrade validation and for rollback after failures). - Support for system restructuring (e.g., evolving APIs, changes to database schemas). - Identifying dependencies between components and guaranteeing safe interactions among mixed versions. - Coordinating and disseminating upgrades in large-scale distributed systems. - Tools for preparing, testing, and applying software upgrades. - Human factors in software upgrades (e.g., usability of upgrading tools, common operator mistakes). SUBMISSION GUIDELINES We solicit position papers on software upgrades. Preferably, submissions to HotSWUp should fall into one of the following categories: - Suggest how a successful approach can be applied in a different context (e.g., static dependency analysis applied to distributed-system upgrades). - Refute an old assumption about software upgrades (e.g., by presenting negative results). - Describe a new problem or propose a novel solution to an old problem. - Present empirical evidence related to the practical implementation of software upgrades. Papers must not exceed 5 pages, in the ACM SIGPLAN 10 point format, and must be submitted electronically at http://www.hotswup.org The workshop proceedings will be published in the ACM Digital Library. IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline July 25, 2008 Acceptance notification September 7, 2008 Camera-ready deadline September 21, 2008 Workshop date October 19, 2008 ORGANIZERS Program Co-Chairs - Tudor Dumitras, Carnegie Mellon University, USA (main contact) - Danny Dig, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA - Iulian Neamtiu, University of California, Riverside, USA Program Committee - Ricardo Bianchini, Rutgers University, USA - Gavin Bierman, Microsoft Research, UK - Stephane Ducasse, INRIA, France - Dilma da Silva, IBM Research, USA - Michael Ernst, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA - Ralph Johnson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA - Priya Narasimhan, Carnegie Mellon University, USA - Manuel Oriol, ETH Zurich, Switzerland - Mark E. Segal, Laboratory for Telecommunications Sciences, USA - Peter Sewell, University of Cambridge, UK - Robert Wisniewski, IBM Research, USA MORE INFORMATION Visit the workshop's homepage at: http://www.hotswup.org -- ______________________________________ Tudor A. Dumitras ECE Department Carnegie Mellon University http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~tdumitra From ggrider at lanl.gov Fri Jul 18 22:08:41 2008 From: ggrider at lanl.gov (Gary Grider) Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:08:41 -0600 Subject: [Storage-research-list] HECFSIO 2008 hotel deadline extension to July 21 Message-ID: <48814CA9.6040004@lanl.gov> For those folks making last minute reservations for the HECFSIO 2008 Conference, the hotel has extended the date for reservations to July 21. If you havent made your reservations and registered, please do. The information is at http://institute.lanl.gov/hec-fsio/conferences/2008/ Thanks and see you in 2 weeks! Gary Grider LANL for the HECFSIO From carlosm at soe.ucsc.edu Thu Jul 31 23:39:16 2008 From: carlosm at soe.ucsc.edu (Carlos Maltzahn) Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 20:39:16 -0700 Subject: [Storage-research-list] IWSSPS 2008 CFP deadline extended to Aug 15 Message-ID: CALL FOR PAPERS ===================================================== The Third International Workshop on Software Support for Portable Storage (IWSSPS 2008) http://www.iwssps.org October 23, 2008. Atlanta, Georgia, USA. (Co-located with EMSOFT 2008) ===================================================== New emerging storage media such as Flash memory require extensive software support for higher performance and reliability, lower power consumption, and value-added functionalities. The main goal of the International Workshop on Software Support for Portable Storage (IWSSPS) is to bring together people from industry and academia who are interested in all aspects of software support for portable storage. The topics of the workshop include, but are not limited to: - File systems for portable storage - Interaction between file systems and portable storage - Flash memory storage designs - Solid state disks (SSDs) - Power management for HDDs including microdrives - DRM (Digital Right Management) for portable storage - Security support for portable storage - Distributed mobile storage - Software support for new non-volatile memories (FRAM, MRAM, etc.) - Software reliability for portable storage - Software fault tolerance techniques for portable storage - Novel applications of portable storage Paper Submission ================ [Technical Session] All paper submissions will be handled electronically. Papers in PDF format should be submitted electronically through the conference management system that can be accessed at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwssps2008 no later than July 31, 2008 (extended to August 15, 2008). The papers should be prepared using the 2-column ACM conference format, and no longer than 6 pages. All the papers submitted to the technical session will be reviewed by the program committee and acceptance will be based on standard criterion of research merits. Submission of the paper implies that should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and present the paper at the workshop. Submission inquiries should be sent to the program chair (jinsoo at cs.kaist.ac.kr). [Work-In-Progress (WIP) Session] This year IWSSPS 2008 will feature a special Work-In-Progress (WIP) session in order to present and discuss preliminary research outcomes, novel research questions, approaches, and directions. The specific aim of this WIP session is to provide a forum for early feedback on new or ongoing research. Contributors to the WIP session should send a two-page proposal directly to wip-submit at iwssps.org by August 15, 2008. Acceptances for the WIP session will be announced by September 5, 2008. Authors of the accepted proposals will be asked to prepare powerpoint slides no longer than 15 pages and to give a presentation in the WIP session. We would welcome contributions to the WIP session not only from academia, but also from industry. Important Dates =============== Paper submission: July 31, 2008 (extended to August 15, 2008) WIP proposal submission: August 15, 2008 Notification of acceptance: September 5, 2008 Camera-ready due: September 26, 2008 Workshop date: October 23, 2008 Workshop Organization ===================== General Chair ------------- Sang Lyul Min, Seoul National University, Korea. Program Chair ------------- Jin-Soo Kim, KAIST, Korea. Program Committee ----------------- Young Hyun Bae, MTRON Storage Technology Co., Korea Frank Bellosa, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Li-Pin Chang, National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan Jongmoo Choi, Dankook University, Korea Daniel Ellard, NetApp, USA Tei-Wei Kuo, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Chang-Gun Lee, Seoul National University, Korea Sang-Won Lee, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea Yann-Hang Lee, Arizona State University, USA Carlos Maltzahn, University of California at Santa Cruz, USA Ethan Miller, University of California at Santa Cruz, USA Sang Lyul Min, Seoul National University, Korea Daniel Mosse, University of Pittsburgh, USA Sam H. Noh, Hongik University, Korea Dongjun Shin, Samsung Electronics Co., Korea Youjip Won, Hanyang University, Korea From ben.kobler at nasa.gov Fri Aug 1 17:41:26 2008 From: ben.kobler at nasa.gov (Ben Kobler) Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 17:41:26 -0400 Subject: [Storage-research-list] Registration reminder: MSST2008 - Symposium on Massive Storage Systems and Technologies References: <0C660384-0579-4067-903A-CCB53BFBFAB4@nasa.gov> Message-ID: <0B4F5F39-FDA7-4611-A385-5D59E5B66C6F@nasa.gov> Reminder to register for MSST2008 25th IEEE Symposium on Massive Storage Systems and Technologies Tutorials, and Workshops Sheraton Inner Harbor Baltimore, Maryland, USA September 22 - 25, 2008 http://storageconference.org/2008 Pre-registration deadline is Aug 22, 2008 Hotel Room Reservation cut-off date is Aug 31, 2008 This year's symposium will feature: - a keynote address by Andy Maltz, Director of the Science and Technology Council, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, on the topic: "The Digital Dilemma: Strategic Issues in Archiving and Accessing Digital Materials" - an after dinner talk by Jason R. Baron, Director of Litigation, NARA, on the topic "Electronic Records and Massively Persistent Litigation: Cautionary Tales & Emerging Best Practices" - a full day tutorial on Power & Cooling Impact on Data Center Reliability and Availability - talks by well known exports from LANL, LLNL, NASA, NOAA, NARA, PSC, NCSA, IBM, SGI, Sun Microsystems, CMU, The Johns Hopkins University, and others, on the topics of Scalable Storage Meets Petaflops, Massive Digital Archive Systems, and Massive Data Ingest and Analysis - An emerging Storage Technologies Panel - an extemporaneous talks session - as well as an optional evening excursion to the Baltimore Orioles vs. Tampa Bay baseball game at Oriole Park at Camden Yards This year's symposium will also be held in coordination with a number of workshops: - SNAPI'08 - Storage Network Architecture and Parallel I/Os - CMPD'08 - Computing with Massive Persistent Data - DAPS'08 - Digital Archive Preservation and Sustainability - KMS 2008 - Key Management Summit - SISW 2008 - Security in Storage Workshop which will feature university, industry, and government research and technology development results, as well as invited speakers, including: - Dr. Chtchelkanova, Program Director for NSF's HIgh End Computing University Research Activity program - Dr. Ethan Miller, Associate Director of the Storage Systems Research Center (SSRC) at UCSC See: http://storageconference.org/2008 for more information ___________________________________________________________________ ben.kobler at nasa.gov, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, 301-286-5231 From garth at cs.cmu.edu Fri Aug 1 18:33:55 2008 From: garth at cs.cmu.edu (Garth Gibson) Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 18:33:55 -0400 Subject: [Storage-research-list] CFP: Petascale Data Storage Workshop 2008 (at SC08) Austin TX Mon Nov 17 2008 Message-ID: Petascale Data Storage Workshop Monday November 17 2008, 8:30am - 5pm Held in conjunction with SC08 and sponsored by the DOE SciDAC Petascale Data Storage Institute (PDSI) Workshop Abstract: Petascale computing infrastructures make petascale demands on information storage capacity, performance, concurrency, reliability, availability, and manageability. This one-day workshop focuses on the data storage problems and emerging solutions found in petascale scientific computing environments, with special attention to issues in which community collaboration can be crucial, problem identification, workload capture, solution interoperability, standards with community buy-in, and shared tools. Paper Submission Website: http://www.pdsi-scidac.org/events/PDSW08/ Paper (extended abstract in pdf format) due Fri Sept. 26, 2008 Notification: Mon Oct. 20, 2008 Softcopy and slides due Nov. 16 BEFORE the workshop Paper Submission Details: The petascale data storage workshop holds a peer reviewed competitive process for selecting extended abstracts and short papers. Submit a not previously published extended abstract of 2 to 5 pages, not less than 10 point font, in a PDF file as instructed on the workshop web site. Submitted papers will be reviewed under the supervision of the workshop program committee. Submissions should indicate authors and affiliations. Selected papers and associated talks will be made available on the workshop web site. Selected final papers may be longer than in submission, but not longer than 10 pages. The workshop proceedings will be published in association with SC08 in the IEEE digital library and talk slides will be made available on the workshop web site. Poster Presentations: There will also be a poster presentation opportunity at the workshop. Parties interested in presenting a related technical poster (posters with technical results for storage products are also encouraged) should submit a paragraph or two proposal describing a poster's contents through the above web site no later than November 7, 2008. Poster acceptance will be communicated on or before November 10, 2008. Committee: Garth A. Gibson, Carnegie Mellon University and Panasas Inc. Darrell Long, University of California, Santa Cruz J. Bruce Fields, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Center for Information Technology Integration Gary A. Grider, Los Alamos National Laboratory William T. C. Kramer, National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Philip C. Roth, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Evan J. Felix, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Lee Ward, Sandia National Laboratory Rob Ross, Argonne National Laboratory Karsten Schwan, Georgia Institute of Technology ps. Last year's proceedings are available in the ACM digital library: portal.acm.org/toc.cfm? id =1374596&type=proceeding&coll=ACM&dl=ACM&CFID=35908821&CFTOKEN=86656700 From muli at il.ibm.com Fri Aug 8 05:51:58 2008 From: muli at il.ibm.com (Muli Ben-Yehuda) Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2008 12:51:58 +0300 Subject: [Storage-research-list] CFP: first workshop on I/O virtualization Message-ID: <20080808095158.GY6931@il.ibm.com> [please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement] First Workshop on I/O Virtualization (WIOV '08) December 10?11, 2008, San Diego, CA, USA http://www.usenix.org/wiov08 WIOV '08 will be held in conjunction with the 8th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI '08), December 8?10, 2008. Overview Over the past decade, the use of virtualization technology has grown rapidly. Moreover, it is being used in a variety of places, ranging from the data center to the desktop. Although this has spurred great advances in processor and memory virtualization in commodity hardware and virtualization software, I/O virtualization has received far less attention. However, both personal computers and servers may perform significant amounts of I/O. For example, efficient virtualization of graphics hardware has presented significant challenges on the desktop and efficient virtualization of network interfaces has limited server consolidation in the data center. This workshop is meant to provide a forum to discuss challenges of I/O virtualization that span the virtual machine monitor, guest operating system, processor, memory subsystem, and I/O subsystem. In that spirit, we welcome papers that describe new challenges in I/O virtualization and papers that describe novel approaches to solving known problems in I/O virtualization. The final program will consist of both reviewed submissions and invited talks. The invited talks will focus on open problems in I/O virtualization and will be accessible to a broad audience. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Hardware support for I/O virtualization * Novel I/O device architectures for virtualization * Novel software approaches to I/O virtualization * Software methods for I/O device emulation * Para-virtualized I/O device driver design for virtualization * Virtual machine monitors I/O subsystems Important Dates Submissions due: September 15, 2008 Notification to authors: October 3, 2008 Final files due: November 3, 2008 Workshop Organizers Program Co-Chairs Muli Ben-Yehuda, IBM Haifa Research Lab Alan L. Cox, Rice University Scott Rixner, Rice University Program Committee Eyal de Lara, University of Toronto Jun Nakajima, Intel Renato Santos, HP Labs Karsten Schwan, Georgia Institute of Technology Pratap Subrahmanyam, VMware Leendert van Doorn, AMD Andrew Warfield, University of British Columbia Submission Guidelines Please submit an extended abstract in PDF format through the workshop submission web form, which will be available at http://www.usenix.org/wiov08 soon. The extended abstract should be no more than 4 double-column pages using 10-point type on 12-point leading ("single-spaced"). Figures and references are not included in this 4-page limit. -- Workshop on I/O Virtualization (WIOV '08) Co-located with OSDI '08, Dec 2008, San Diego, CA http://www.usenix.org/wiov08 From ben.kobler at nasa.gov Thu Aug 14 13:17:32 2008 From: ben.kobler at nasa.gov (Ben Kobler) Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 13:17:32 -0400 Subject: [Storage-research-list] Pre-registration extended to Aug 31: MSST2008 - Symposium on Massive Storage Systems and Technologies References: <0B4F5F39-FDA7-4611-A385-5D59E5B66C6F@nasa.gov> Message-ID: This is to serve as notification that the pre-registration deadline for MSST2008 has been extended to Aug 31, 2008, midnight Pacific Time. The hotel room reservation cut-off date remains at Aug 31, 2008, 5 PM, Eastern Time. ------------------------------ 25th IEEE Symposium on Massive Storage Systems and Technologies Tutorials, and Workshops Sheraton Inner Harbor Baltimore, Maryland, USA September 22 - 25, 2008 http://storageconference.org/2008 Pre-registration deadline is Aug 31, 2008 Hotel Room Reservation cut-off date is Aug 31, 2008 This year's symposium will feature: - a keynote address by Andy Maltz, Director of the Science and Technology Council, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, on the topic: "The Digital Dilemma: Strategic Issues in Archiving and Accessing Digital Materials" - an after dinner talk by Jason R. Baron, Director of Litigation, NARA, on the topic "Electronic Records and Massively Persistent Litigation: Cautionary Tales & Emerging Best Practices" - a full day tutorial on Power & Cooling Impact on Data Center Reliability and Availability - talks by well known exports from LANL, LLNL, NASA, NOAA, NARA, PSC, NCSA, IBM, SGI, Sun Microsystems, CMU, The Johns Hopkins University, and others, on the topics of Scalable Storage Meets Petaflops, Massive Digital Archive Systems, and Massive Data Ingest and Analysis - An emerging Storage Technologies Panel - an extemporaneous talks session - as well as an optional evening excursion to the Baltimore Orioles vs. Tampa Bay baseball game at Oriole Park at Camden Yards This year's symposium will also be held in coordination with a number of workshops: - SNAPI'08 - Storage Network Architecture and Parallel I/Os - CMPD'08 - Computing with Massive Persistent Data - DAPS'08 - Digital Archive Preservation and Sustainability - KMS 2008 - Key Management Summit - SISW 2008 - Security in Storage Workshop which will feature university, industry, and government research and technology development results, as well as invited speakers, including: - Dr. Chtchelkanova, Program Director for NSF's HIgh End Computing University Research Activity program - Dr. Ethan Miller, Associate Director of the Storage Systems Research Center (SSRC) at UCSC See: http://storageconference.org/2008 for more information ___________________________________________________________________ ben.kobler at nasa.gov, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, 301-286-5231 From jcheney at inf.ed.ac.uk Wed Aug 27 12:08:26 2008 From: jcheney at inf.ed.ac.uk (James Cheney) Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:08:26 +0100 Subject: [Storage-research-list] CFP: 1st Workshop on the Theory and Practice of Provenance (TaPP '09) Message-ID: <1219853306.17018.9.camel@oreb> An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: not available URL: From garth at cs.cmu.edu Thu Aug 28 21:45:30 2008 From: garth at cs.cmu.edu (Garth Gibson) Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 21:45:30 -0400 Subject: [Storage-research-list] CFP Reminder: Petascale Data Storage Workshop 2008 (at SC08) Austin TX Mon Nov 17 2008 References: Message-ID: <44D6644F-9093-49C9-8DF3-E22DB9F8C5B3@cs.cmu.edu> Extended abstract submission for PDSW08 is now open. Begin forwarded message: > From: "Garth Gibson" > Date: August 1, 2008 6:33:55 PM GMT-04:00 > To: > Subject: [Storage-research-list] CFP: Petascale Data Storage > Workshop 2008(at SC08) Austin TX Mon Nov 17 2008 > > Petascale Data Storage Workshop > > Monday November 17 2008, 8:30am - 5pm > > Held in conjunction with SC08 and sponsored by the DOE SciDAC > Petascale Data Storage Institute (PDSI) > > Workshop Abstract: > Petascale computing infrastructures make petascale demands on > information storage capacity, performance, concurrency, reliability, > availability, and manageability. This one-day workshop focuses on the > data storage problems and emerging solutions found in petascale > scientific computing environments, with special attention to issues in > which community collaboration can be crucial, problem identification, > workload capture, solution interoperability, standards with community > buy-in, and shared tools. > > Paper Submission Website: http://www.pdsi-scidac.org/events/PDSW08/ > Paper (extended abstract in pdf format) due Fri Sept. 26, 2008 > Notification: Mon Oct. 20, 2008 > Softcopy and slides due Nov. 16 BEFORE the workshop > > Paper Submission Details: > The petascale data storage workshop holds a peer reviewed competitive > process for selecting extended abstracts and short papers. Submit a > not previously published extended abstract of 2 to 5 pages, not less > than 10 point font, in a PDF file as instructed on the workshop web > site. Submitted papers will be reviewed under the supervision of the > workshop program committee. Submissions should indicate authors and > affiliations. Selected papers and associated talks will be made > available on the workshop web site. Selected final papers may be > longer than in submission, but not longer than 10 pages. The workshop > proceedings will be published in association with SC08 in the IEEE > digital library and talk slides will be made available on the workshop > web site. > > Poster Presentations: > There will also be a poster presentation opportunity at the workshop. > Parties interested in presenting a related technical poster (posters > with technical results for storage products are also encouraged) > should submit a paragraph or two proposal describing a poster's > contents through the above web site no later than November 7, 2008. > Poster acceptance will be communicated on or before November 10, 2008. > > Committee: > Garth A. Gibson, Carnegie Mellon University and Panasas Inc. > Darrell Long, University of California, Santa Cruz > J. 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URL: From lgj at usenix.org Thu Sep 4 17:04:31 2008 From: lgj at usenix.org (Lionel Garth Jones) Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2008 14:04:31 -0700 Subject: [Storage-research-list] FAST '09 Call For Papers Deadline Approaching Message-ID: <48C04D5F.8090207@usenix.org> The 7th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '09) Program Committee would like to remind you that the deadline to contribute to the refereed papers is quickly approaching. Paper submissions are due 9:00 p.m. EDT, September 12, 2008. FAST '09 brings together storage system researchers and practitioners to explore new directions in the design, implementation, evaluation, and deployment of storage systems. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Archival storage systems * Caching, replication, and consistency * Database storage issues * Designs with emerging storage devices * Distributed I/O (wide-area, grid, peer-to-peer) * Empirical evaluation of storage systems * Experience with deployed systems * Innovative file or data storage system design * Manageability * Mobile and personal storage * Parallel I/O * Reliability, availability, disaster tolerance * Scalability * Security * Storage as a service * Storage networking * Virtualization The FAST technical sessions will include slots for Work-in-Progress reports, preliminary results, "outrageous" opinion statements, and a poster session. We are particularly interested in presentations of student work. Please send WiP submissions to fast09wips at usenix.org. The Call for Papers, with submission guidelines, is now available at http://www.usenix.org/fast09/cfpb/ The 7th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '09) will take place February 24-27, 2009, in San Francisco, CA. We look forward to receiving your submissions! Sincerely, Margo Seltzer, Harvard University Ric Wheeler, Red Hat FAST '09 Program Co-Chairs ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Call for Papers: 7th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '09) February 24-27, 2009 San Francisco, CA http://www.usenix.org/fast09/cfpa Paper Submission Deadline: September 12, 2008 Sponsored by USENIX in cooperation with ACM SIGOPS, IEEE Mass Storage Systems Technical Committee (MSSTC), and IEEE TCOS ------------------------------------------------------------------------ From ganger at ece.cmu.edu Fri Sep 12 10:50:44 2008 From: ganger at ece.cmu.edu (Greg Ganger) Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 10:50:44 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [Storage-research-list] FAST 2009 Deadline Extension (fwd) Message-ID: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 09:28:36 -0400 (EDT) From: Margo Seltzer To: bod at usenix.org, fast09pc at usenix.org Cc: anne at usenix.org, anton at usenix.org, dana at usenix.org, devon at usenix.org, jel at usenix.org, jpeterson at usenix.org, rwheeler at redhat.com, tony at usenix.org Subject: FAST 2009 Deadline Extension Board members, USENIX staff, and FAST Program Committee members: The FAST submission deadline is supposed to be 9:00 PM EST tonight. However, Hurricane Ike is heading straight for the coast of Texas and one of our PC members has already forwarded me mail indicating that Texas A&M is closed down for today. There are places that are evacuating. Ric and I have talked it over and we've decided to issue a blanket 48-hour extension to the FAST deadline. We don't want to get into the game of trying to figure out who is or is not affected by the storm, but with another 48 hours, people can get out of harm's way and finish those last few hours of prose polishing (because we know the research results are all complete and final by now ;-) I will notify authors who have already submitted, but we need to get the word out ASAP. In particular: Anywhere we normally send the CFP should probably get this updated news. The FAST web site should be updated ASAP to reflect the new deadline (9:00 PM EST Sunday, September 14) Anywhere else we can think of. I appreciate everyone's help in getting the message out. Fingers crossed for everyone in Ike's path. - Margo From garth at cs.cmu.edu Fri Sep 19 17:25:29 2008 From: garth at cs.cmu.edu (Garth Gibson) Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 17:25:29 -0400 Subject: [Storage-research-list] Deadline (9/26) approaches: Petascale Data Storage Workshop 2008 (at SC08) Austin TX Mon Nov 17 2008 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Extended abstract deadline is Fri Sept 26. On Aug 1, 2008, at 6:33 PM, Garth Gibson wrote: > Petascale Data Storage Workshop > > Monday November 17 2008, 8:30am - 5pm > > Held in conjunction with SC08 and sponsored by the DOE SciDAC > Petascale Data Storage Institute (PDSI) > > Workshop Abstract: > Petascale computing infrastructures make petascale demands on > information storage capacity, performance, concurrency, reliability, > availability, and manageability. This one-day workshop focuses on the > data storage problems and emerging solutions found in petascale > scientific computing environments, with special attention to issues in > which community collaboration can be crucial, problem identification, > workload capture, solution interoperability, standards with community > buy-in, and shared tools. > > Paper Submission Website: http://www.pdsi-scidac.org/events/PDSW08/ > Paper (extended abstract in pdf format) due Fri Sept. 26, 2008 > Notification: Mon Oct. 20, 2008 > Softcopy and slides due Nov. 16 BEFORE the workshop > > Paper Submission Details: > The petascale data storage workshop holds a peer reviewed competitive > process for selecting extended abstracts and short papers. Submit a > not previously published extended abstract of 2 to 5 pages, not less > than 10 point font, in a PDF file as instructed on the workshop web > site. Submitted papers will be reviewed under the supervision of the > workshop program committee. Submissions should indicate authors and > affiliations. Selected papers and associated talks will be made > available on the workshop web site. Selected final papers may be > longer than in submission, but not longer than 10 pages. The workshop > proceedings will be published in association with SC08 in the IEEE > digital library and talk slides will be made available on the workshop > web site. > > Poster Presentations: > There will also be a poster presentation opportunity at the workshop. > Parties interested in presenting a related technical poster (posters > with technical results for storage products are also encouraged) > should submit a paragraph or two proposal describing a poster's > contents through the above web site no later than November 7, 2008. > Poster acceptance will be communicated on or before November 10, 2008. > > Committee: > Garth A. Gibson, Carnegie Mellon University and Panasas Inc. > Darrell Long, University of California, Santa Cruz > J. Bruce Fields, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Center for > Information Technology Integration > Gary A. Grider, Los Alamos National Laboratory > William T. C. Kramer, National Energy Research Scientific Computing > Center, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory > Philip C. Roth, Oak Ridge National Laboratory > Evan J. Felix, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory > Lee Ward, Sandia National Laboratory > Rob Ross, Argonne National Laboratory > Karsten Schwan, Georgia Institute of Technology > > ps. Last year's proceedings are available in the ACM digital library: > portal.acm.org/toc.cfm? > id > = > 1374596&type=proceeding&coll=ACM&dl=ACM&CFID=35908821&CFTOKEN=86656700 From garth at cs.cmu.edu Fri Sep 19 17:25:29 2008 From: garth at cs.cmu.edu (Garth Gibson) Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 17:25:29 -0400 Subject: [Storage-research-list] Deadline (9/26) tomorrow: Petascale DataStorage Workshop 2008 (at SC08) Austin TX Mon Nov 17 2008 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Extended abstract deadline is Fri Sept 26 11:59 pm eastern. www.pdsi-scidac.org/events/PDSW08/submit.html "Submit a not previously published extended abstract of 2 to 5 pages, not less than 10 point font, in a PDF file as instructed on the workshop web site. Submitted papers will be reviewed under the supervision of the workshop program committee. Submissions should indicate authors and affiliations. Selected papers and associated talks will be made available on the workshop web site. Selected final papers may be longer than in submission, but not longer than 10 pages. The workshop proceedings will be published in association with SC08 in the IEEE digital library and talk slides will be made available on the workshop web site." On Aug 1, 2008, at 6:33 PM, Garth Gibson wrote: > Petascale Data Storage Workshop > > Monday November 17 2008, 8:30am - 5pm > > Held in conjunction with SC08 and sponsored by the DOE SciDAC > Petascale Data Storage Institute (PDSI) > > Workshop Abstract: > Petascale computing infrastructures make petascale demands on > information storage capacity, performance, concurrency, reliability, > availability, and manageability. This one-day workshop focuses on the > data storage problems and emerging solutions found in petascale > scientific computing environments, with special attention to issues in > which community collaboration can be crucial, problem identification, > workload capture, solution interoperability, standards with community > buy-in, and shared tools. > > Paper Submission Website: http://www.pdsi-scidac.org/events/PDSW08/ > Paper (extended abstract in pdf format) due Fri Sept. 26, 2008 > Notification: Mon Oct. 20, 2008 > Softcopy and slides due Nov. 16 BEFORE the workshop > > Paper Submission Details: > The petascale data storage workshop holds a peer reviewed competitive > process for selecting extended abstracts and short papers. Submit a > not previously published extended abstract of 2 to 5 pages, not less > than 10 point font, in a PDF file as instructed on the workshop web > site. Submitted papers will be reviewed under the supervision of the > workshop program committee. Submissions should indicate authors and > affiliations. Selected papers and associated talks will be made > available on the workshop web site. Selected final papers may be > longer than in submission, but not longer than 10 pages. The workshop > proceedings will be published in association with SC08 in the IEEE > digital library and talk slides will be made available on the workshop > web site. > > Poster Presentations: > There will also be a poster presentation opportunity at the workshop. > Parties interested in presenting a related technical poster (posters > with technical results for storage products are also encouraged) > should submit a paragraph or two proposal describing a poster's > contents through the above web site no later than November 7, 2008. > Poster acceptance will be communicated on or before November 10, 2008. > > Committee: > Garth A. Gibson, Carnegie Mellon University and Panasas Inc. > Darrell Long, University of California, Santa Cruz > J. Bruce Fields, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Center for > Information Technology Integration > Gary A. Grider, Los Alamos National Laboratory > William T. C. Kramer, National Energy Research Scientific Computing > Center, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory > Philip C. Roth, Oak Ridge National Laboratory > Evan J. Felix, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory > Lee Ward, Sandia National Laboratory > Rob Ross, Argonne National Laboratory > Karsten Schwan, Georgia Institute of Technology > > ps. Last year's proceedings are available in the ACM digital library: > portal.acm.org/toc.cfm? > id > = > 1374596&type=proceeding&coll=ACM&dl=ACM&CFID=35908821&CFTOKEN=86656700 _______________________________________________ Storage-research-list mailing list Storage-research-list at ece.cmu.edu https://sos.ece.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/storage-research-list From johnli at world-research-institutes.cn Tue Oct 7 19:10:44 2008 From: johnli at world-research-institutes.cn (John Li) Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 07:10:44 +0800 Subject: [Storage-research-list] Extended Deadline for Papers/Abstracts: October 21, CSIE 2009, Los Angeles Message-ID: <20081008062552.A3B291480@hazard.ece.cmu.edu> (We are pleased to announce Keynote Speakers: Bir Bhanu, IEEE Fellow; Lixia Zhang, IEEE & ACM Fellow) (Due to many requests, the submission deadline is now extended to October 21, 2008) 2009 World Congress on Computer Science and Information Engineering (CSIE 2009) March 31 - April 2, 2009 Los Angeles/Anaheim, USA http://world-research-institutes.org/conferences/CSIE/2009 CALL FOR PAPERS/ABSTRACTS, INVITED SESSIONS & EXPO The Los Angeles/Anaheim area is known for its many renowned attractions, such as Disneyland, Universal Studios and the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Very few cities in the world offer as much entertainment, excitement and diversity as Los Angeles/Anaheim does. CSIE 2009 conference proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society and all papers in the proceedings will be included in EI Compendex, ISTP, and IEEE Xplore. CSIE 2009 intends to be a global forum for researchers and engineers to present and discuss recent advances and new techniques in computer science and information engineering. CSIE 2009 consists of the following Technical Symposiums: * Computer Applications Symposium * Communications & Mobile Computing Symposium * Computer Design & VLSI Symposium * Data Mining & Data Engineering Symposium * Intelligent Systems Symposium * Multimedia & Signal Processing Symposium * Software Engineering Symposium Invited sessions offer focused discussions on specialized topics. A prospective invited session organizer should send a proposal, including a session title, a short synopsis, bio-sketch of the organizer with a publication list, to the appropriate Symposium Chair (visit the conference website for more details). In addition to research papers, CSIE 2009 also seeks exhibitions of modern products and equipment for computer science and information engineering. Keynote Speakers: Bir Bhanu, IEEE Fellow, University of California at Riverside Lixia Zhang, ACM & IEEE Fellow, University of California at Los Angeles Important Dates (Extended): Paper/Abstract Submission Deadline: October 21, 2008 Review Notification: December 7, 2008 Final Papers and Author Registration Deadline: January 7, 2009 Organizing Committee: General Chair: Adrian Martin, World Research Institutes, USA Program Chair: Mark Burgin, University of California at Los Angeles, USA Symposium Chairs: Masud H Chowdhury, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Chan H. Ham, University of Central Florida, USA Simone Ludwig, University of Saskatchewan, Canada Weilian Su, Naval Postgraduate School, USA Sumanth Yenduri, University of Southern Mississippi, USA Publicity Chair: Nitin Upadhyay, Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), India David C. Wong, US Environmental Protection Agency, USA (Please forward to those who may be interested.) (To unsubscribe all WRI announcements, please reply with the email subject being "Unsubscribe ALL storage-research-list at ece.cmu.edu". Thanks and apologies) (To unsubscribe CSIE announcements only, please reply with the email subject being "Unsubscribe CSIE storage-research-list at ece.cmu.edu".) From muli at il.ibm.com Sun Oct 12 07:42:49 2008 From: muli at il.ibm.com (Muli Ben-Yehuda) Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2008 13:42:49 +0200 Subject: [Storage-research-list] CFP: SYSTOR 2009---Israeli Experimental Systems Conference Message-ID: <20081012114249.GI12521@il.ibm.com> Call for Papers SYSTOR 2009 ? The Israeli Experimental Systems Conference http://www.haifa.il.ibm.com/conferences/systor2009/ 4?6 May 2009 Haifa, Israel IBM Haifa Research Lab and IBM Systems and Technology Group Lab, in collaboration with Israeli academia, are organizing SYSTOR 2009, a successor to the highly successful workshops on systems and storage held at the IBM Haifa Research Lab. The goal of the conference is to promote systems research and to foster stronger ties between the Israeli and worldwide systems research communities and industry. SYSTOR 2009 will be a three-day conference combining academic and industrial sessions. Each day will include a keynote by a well-known international researcher on one of the conference topics. In addition, we are planning special activities for graduate students. Submissions of a practical and experimental nature are solicited for the academic and industrial sessions. The conference is open to all systems research topics, including (but not limited to): * General computer systems issues in operating systems, architecture, memory hierarchy, compilation, and embedded systems * Distributed systems such as peer-to-peer systems, sensor networks, and overlays, fault tolerance, and resource allocation * Storage systems issues related to long term preservation, archival storage, internet-scale storage, and replication and consistency * Cross-cutting issues such as workload modeling, performance metrics, power consumption, security, usability, and experience with real systems and failures In particular, we would like to emphasize the following themes: * Virtualization infrastructure and virtualization-aware system design * Multi-core architectures and the operating system facilities and programming environments that use them * Power consumption and management * Managing the explosive growth in storage and the increasing need to store, nd and manage data for long periods For the academic track: Papers should report original research; if part of the material submitted was published previously, the paper should so indicate and should provide substantial additional results and material. For the industrial track: We are looking for technical presentations that describe the technology behind real products and the considerations that shaped the product's design and functionality. Submissions Paper submissions should be up to 14 pages in 11 pt font, in pdf format. To submit, please use the conference submission website: http://www.easychair.org/conferences?conf=systor2009. Submitted papers will be reviewed by the program committee. Proceedings including all accepted papers will be published by ACM in the ACM Digital Library. For the industrial track, it is acceptable to submit a short proposal for a presentation in lieu of a full paper as described above. Please include sufficient detail to exhibit the technical merit of the proposed presentation. We encourage accepted industrial presentations to also write a paper for the proceedings, but this is not compulsory. Important Dates: Submission: January 26, 2009 Notification: March 20, 2009 Final Version: April 10, 2009 Student Activities As part of the conference, students will have the opportunity to interact with senior researchers and obtain feedback regarding their research. To promote such interactions, we will have a poster session where students present their work. We will also have a lunch where members of the program committee and IBM researchers will be matched with students for more intensive interaction. Venue and Social Event The conference will be held in the lovely city of Haifa, which overlooks the Mediterranean Sea, and is home to Jews, Muslims, and Christians. Haifa is also the world center of the Baha'i faith. A trip will be organized to the wondrous Baha'i gardens and to areas in the city of Jerusalem. Advisory Committee: Marc Auslander, IBM Ken Birman, Cornell Danny Dolev, HUJI Julian Satran, IBM Marc Snir, UIUC Willy Zwaenepoel, EPFL Program Chairs: Michael Factor, IBM Dror Feitelson, HUJI General Chair: Miriam Allalouf, IBM [miriama AT il.ibm.com] Publicity Chair: Muli Ben Yehuda, IBM [muli AT il.ibm.com] Publication Chair: Gregory Chockler, IBM Website Chair: Avital Tuviana, IBM Industrial Publicity Chair: Gilad Sharaby, IBM Program Committee: Miriam Allalouf, IBM Roberto Baldoni, Univ. of Rome Muli Ben-Yehuda, IBM Tsahi Birk, Technion Gregory Chockler, IBM Dilma Da Silva, IBM Shlomi Dolev, Ben-Gurion Univ. David Du, NSF Greg Ganger, CMU Sami Iren, Seagate Nikolai Jukov, IBM Idit Keidar, Technion Israel Koren, UMASS Jeanna Matthews, Clarkson Univ./VMware Avi Mendelson, Intel Ethan Miller, UCSC David Nagle, Google Erich Nahum, IBM Danny Raz, Technion Scott Rixner, Rice University Larry Rudolph, VMware Liuba Shrira, Brandeis Neeraj Suri, TUD Sivan Toledo, Tel-Aviv Univ. Dan Tsafrir, IBM Erez Zadok, Stony Brook From jcheney at inf.ed.ac.uk Mon Oct 20 13:38:47 2008 From: jcheney at inf.ed.ac.uk (James Cheney) Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 18:38:47 +0100 Subject: [Storage-research-list] CFP: 1st Workshop on the Theory and Practice of Provenance (TaPP '09) Message-ID: <1224524327.16729.14.camel@oreb> An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: not available URL: From tak at cse.psu.edu Sat Nov 8 00:28:50 2008 From: tak at cse.psu.edu (tak at cse.psu.edu) Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2008 00:28:50 -0500 (EST) Subject: [Storage-research-list] Call for papers: First Workshop on Integrating Solid-state Memory Into the Storage Hierarchy (WISH 2009) - held with ASPLOS 2009 Message-ID: <1371.130.203.65.112.1226122130.squirrel@mail.cse.psu.edu> Dear colleague, (Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email). ************************************************************* FIRST WORKSHOP ON INTEGRATING SOLID-STATE MEMORY INTO THE STORAGE HIERARCHY (WISH 2009) Co-located with ACM ASPLOS 2009 March 2009, Washington, DC, USA Web site: http://www.cse.psu.edu/~tak/wish2009.html CALL FOR PAPERS The goal of this workshop is to promote new ideas and research on solid-state devices and systems. The emergence of solid-state storage devices provides opportunities to address performance and power challenges in computer systems. Hybrid storage systems might employ solid-state memory in a variety of ways, such as capacity extensions to traditional DRAM-based main memory, caches or buffers that retain data over longer time scales, devices that complement or replace hard disk drives, or some combination of these approaches. Utilizing solid-state technology effectively requires close interaction between computer architects, systems software designers, and application developers. The objective of this first WISH workshop is to create a forum for such interaction. We solicit papers that present new research results, describe works in progress, or propose new directions of research. We also welcome position papers from industry. Important dates --------------- Paper submissions: December 15, 2008 Acceptance Notification: January 25, 2009 Final copy deadline: February 10, 2009 CO-ORGANIZERS -------------------------- Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Pennsylvania State University Sudhanva Gurumurthi, University of Virginia WEB AND PUBLICITY CHAIR ----------------------------------------- Byung Chul Tak, Pennsylvania State University PROGRAM COMMITTEE ------------------------------------ Frank Bellosa, University of Karlsruhe Mahmut Kandemir, Pennsylvania State University Chul Lee, Samsung Electronics Mircea Stan, University of Virginia Tom Wenisch, University of Michigan Best regards, Byung Chul Tak WISH 2009 Publicity Chair From johnmay at llnl.gov Fri Nov 14 16:46:57 2008 From: johnmay at llnl.gov (John May) Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 13:46:57 -0800 Subject: [Storage-research-list] Agenda for SC08 BOF on Computing with Massive and Persistent Data Message-ID: <14A9B88A-FB9D-40D8-8F24-7995F663EDC7@llnl.gov> Here is the agenda for next Wednesday's BOF. We're looking forward to seeing you there! John Computing with Massive and Persistent Data Wednesday, November 19, 12:15-1:15, Rooms 11A-B http://scyourway.nacse.org/conference/view/bof155 Introduction and Motivation John May, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory National Ignition Facility Data Requirements Alice Koniges, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Challenges in Large-Scale Data Analysis Terence Critchlow, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory The Role of Co-Processors to Accelerate Data-Intensive Computing Maya Gokhale, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Highlights from the Non-Volatile RAM Operating System Workshop (NVRAMOS 08) Ethan Miller, University of California, Santa Cruz Netezza OnStream--Advanced Analytics for Tera-scale Data Suchi Raman, Netezza Corporation Wrap-up and Further Collaboration John May From Andrea.Richa at asu.edu Tue Nov 18 01:37:29 2008 From: Andrea.Richa at asu.edu (Andrea Richa) Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 23:37:29 -0700 Subject: [Storage-research-list] SPAA 2009 Call for Papers Message-ID: ======================================================================= SPAA 2009 Call for Papers 21st ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures Calgary, Canada August 11-13, 2009 http://www.spaa-conference.org [Co-located with ACM PODC 2009] ======================================================================= SCOPE: Contributed papers are sought in all areas of parallel algorithms and architectures. SPAA defines the term "parallel" broadly, encompassing any computational system that can perform multiple operations or tasks simultaneously. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Parallel and Distributed Algorithms and Applications - Parallel and Distributed Data Structures - Parallel Complexity Theory - Parallel and Distributed Architectures - Multi-Core Architectures - Instruction Level Parallelism and VLSI - Compilers and Tools for Concurrent Programming - Supercomputer Architecture and Computing - Transactional Memory Hardware and Software - The Internet and the World Wide Web - Game Theory and Collaborative Learning - Routing and Information Dissemination - Resource Management and Awareness - Peer-to-Peer Systems - Mobile Ad-Hoc and Sensor Networks - Robustness, Self-Stabilization, and Security CONFERENCE PRESENTATION: Regular presentations will be allotted a 25-minute talk and up to 10 pages in the proceedings. This format is intended for contributions reporting original research, submitted exclusively to this conference. Brief announcements will be allotted a 10-minute talk and a 2-page abstract in the proceedings. This format is a forum for brief communications, which may be published later in other conferences. The best regular paper will be given a best paper award. SUBMISSIONS: Authors of contributed papers are encouraged to submit their manuscript electronically. To submit electronically, visit http://www.spaa-conference.org/submission.html for instructions. This is the preferred method of submission. Authors unable to submit electronically should contact the program chair Michael Bender at bender at cs.sunysb.edu to receive instructions. The cover page should include (1) title, (2) authors and affiliation, (3) postal and email address of the contact author, (4) a brief abstract describing the content of the paper, and (5) an indication if this is a regular presentation or a brief announcement. If requested by the authors, an extended abstract that is not selected for a regular presentation will also be considered for the SPAA brief announcements session. Such a request will not affect the consideration of the paper for a regular presentation. Submissions for regular presentations should include an introduction understandable to a nonspecialist including motivation and previous work, and a technical exposition directed to a specialist. A submission should not exceed 10 printed pages in 11-point type or larger (excluding cover, figures, and references). More details may be supplied in a clearly marked appendix to be read at the discretion of the program committee. A submission for brief announcements should be no longer than three pages using at least 11-point font. ======================================================================= IMPORTANT DATES: Submission deadlines: February 16, 2009, 5:59 p.m. EST (10:59 pm GMT) for regular papers February 23, 2009, 5:59 p.m. EST for brief announcements Notification: April 22, 2009 Camera-ready copy: May 28, 2009 ======================================================================= CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION: SPAA Program Chair Michael Bender (Stony Brook U. and Tokutek) SPAA Program Committee Michael Bender (Stony Brook U. and Tokutek) Nikhil Bansal (IBM T. J. Watson) Gerth Brodal (University of Aarhus) Jeremy Fineman (MIT) Seth Gilbert (EPFL) Rachid Guerraoui (EPFL) Goran Konjevod (Arizona State) Fabian Kuhn (MIT) Riko Jacob (TU Munich) Vitus Leung (Sandia National Labs) Victor Luchangco (Sun Microsystems Labs) Cynthia Phillips (Sandia National Labs) Kirk Pruhs (U. Pittsburgh) Tatiana Shpeisman (Intel Labs) Sivan Toledo (Tel-Aviv) Denis Trystram (ENSIMAG) Lisa Zhang (Bell Labs) SPAA Conference Chair Friedhelm Meyer auf der Heide (U. of Paderborn) SPAA Secretary Christian Scheideler (TU Munich) SPAA Treasurer David Bunde (Knox College) SPAA Publicity Chair Andrea Richa (Arizona State U) SPAA Local Arrangements Petra Berenbrink (Simon Fraser) Lisa Higham & Philipp Woelfel (U of Calgary) ======================================================================= -- Prof. Andrea W. Richa |Phone: 480-965-7555 Computer Science & Eng. Dept. |FAX: 480-965-2751 Arizona State University |E-mail: aricha at asu.edu PO Box 878809, Tempe AZ 85287-8809|Homepage:www.public.asu.edu/~aricha . From tak at cse.psu.edu Sun Nov 23 21:40:21 2008 From: tak at cse.psu.edu (tak at cse.psu.edu) Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2008 21:40:21 -0500 (EST) Subject: [Storage-research-list] Call for papers: First Workshop on Integrating Solid-state Memory Into the Storage Hierarchy (WISH 2009) - held with ASPLOS 2009 Message-ID: <2397.130.203.65.112.1227494421.squirrel@mail.cse.psu.edu> Dear colleague, (Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email). ************************************************************* FIRST WORKSHOP ON INTEGRATING SOLID-STATE MEMORY INTO THE STORAGE HIERARCHY (WISH 2009) Co-located with ACM ASPLOS 2009 March 2009, Washington, DC, USA Web site: http://www.cse.psu.edu/~tak/wish2009.html CALL FOR PAPERS The goal of this workshop is to promote new ideas and research on solid-state devices and systems. The emergence of solid-state storage devices provides opportunities to address performance and power challenges in computer systems. Hybrid storage systems might employ solid-state memory in a variety of ways, such as capacity extensions to traditional DRAM-based main memory, caches or buffers that retain data over longer time scales, devices that complement or replace hard disk drives, or some combination of these approaches. Utilizing solid-state technology effectively requires close interaction between computer architects, systems software designers, and application developers. The objective of this first WISH workshop is to create a forum for such interaction. We solicit papers that present new research results, describe works in progress, or propose new directions of research. We also welcome position papers from industry. Important dates --------------- Paper submissions: December 15, 2008 Acceptance Notification: January 25, 2009 Final copy deadline: February 10, 2009 CO-ORGANIZERS -------------------------- Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Pennsylvania State University Sudhanva Gurumurthi, University of Virginia WEB AND PUBLICITY CHAIR ----------------------------------------- Byung Chul Tak, Pennsylvania State University PROGRAM COMMITTEE ------------------------------------ Frank Bellosa, University of Karlsruhe Mahmut Kandemir, Pennsylvania State University Chul Lee, Samsung Electronics Mircea Stan, University of Virginia Tom Wenisch, University of Michigan Best regards, Byung Chul Tak WISH 2009 Publicity Chair From tak at cse.psu.edu Sun Nov 23 21:40:41 2008 From: tak at cse.psu.edu (tak at cse.psu.edu) Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2008 21:40:41 -0500 (EST) Subject: [Storage-research-list] Call for papers: First Workshop on Integrating Solid-state Memory Into the Storage Hierarchy (WISH 2009) - held with ASPLOS 2009 Message-ID: <2399.130.203.65.112.1227494441.squirrel@mail.cse.psu.edu> Dear colleague, (Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email). ************************************************************* FIRST WORKSHOP ON INTEGRATING SOLID-STATE MEMORY INTO THE STORAGE HIERARCHY (WISH 2009) Co-located with ACM ASPLOS 2009 March 2009, Washington, DC, USA Web site: http://www.cse.psu.edu/~tak/wish2009.html CALL FOR PAPERS The goal of this workshop is to promote new ideas and research on solid-state devices and systems. The emergence of solid-state storage devices provides opportunities to address performance and power challenges in computer systems. Hybrid storage systems might employ solid-state memory in a variety of ways, such as capacity extensions to traditional DRAM-based main memory, caches or buffers that retain data over longer time scales, devices that complement or replace hard disk drives, or some combination of these approaches. Utilizing solid-state technology effectively requires close interaction between computer architects, systems software designers, and application developers. The objective of this first WISH workshop is to create a forum for such interaction. We solicit papers that present new research results, describe works in progress, or propose new directions of research. We also welcome position papers from industry. Important dates --------------- Paper submissions: December 15, 2008 Acceptance Notification: January 25, 2009 Final copy deadline: February 10, 2009 CO-ORGANIZERS -------------------------- Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Pennsylvania State University Sudhanva Gurumurthi, University of Virginia WEB AND PUBLICITY CHAIR ----------------------------------------- Byung Chul Tak, Pennsylvania State University PROGRAM COMMITTEE ------------------------------------ Frank Bellosa, University of Karlsruhe Mahmut Kandemir, Pennsylvania State University Chul Lee, Samsung Electronics Mircea Stan, University of Virginia Tom Wenisch, University of Michigan Best regards, Byung Chul Tak WISH 2009 Publicity Chair From jcheney at inf.ed.ac.uk Tue Dec 2 06:11:36 2008 From: jcheney at inf.ed.ac.uk (James Cheney) Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2008 11:11:36 +0000 Subject: [Storage-research-list] Final CFP: 1st Workshop on the Theory and Practice of Provenance (TaPP '09) Message-ID: <1228216296.12628.18.camel@oreb> An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: not available URL: From lgj at usenix.org Wed Dec 17 12:25:09 2008 From: lgj at usenix.org (Lionel Garth Jones) Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 09:25:09 -0800 Subject: [Storage-research-list] USENIX FAST '09 Registration Now Open Message-ID: <494935F5.609@usenix.org> We are writing to invite you to attend the 6th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '09), February 24-27, in San Francisco, California. http://www.usenix.org/fast09/proga File systems and storage continue to be active focus areas for researchers and technologists in operating systems, computer architecture, distributed systems, networking, mobile computing, and computational science. FAST '09 will bring together storage specialists from all of these areas in a unified, high-quality forum. The FAST program again offers tutorials. Taking place on Tuesday, February 24, the four half-day tutorials give you the opportunity to learn from leaders in the storage industry including: * Clustered and Parallel Storage System Technologies Brent Welch and Marc Unangst, Panasas * Security and Usability: What Do We Know? Simson Garfinkel, Naval Postgraduate School * Storage Class Memory, Technology, and Uses Richard Freitas, Winfried Wilcke, Bulent Kurdi, and Geoffrey Burr, IBM Almaden Research Center * Web-Scale Data Management Christopher Olston and Benjamin Reed, Yahoo! Research The technical program includes 23 technical papers, as well as a keynote address, Work-in-Progress reports (WiPs), and a poster session. The papers represent some of the outstanding work in the area, with topics including meta-data and optimization, distributed storage, data integrity, and more. The FAST technical sessions will include a session for Work-in-Progress reports, preliminary results, and "outrageous" opinion statements. We are particularly interested in presentations of student work. To submit, please send a one-page abstract, which should be in PDF format with fonts no smaller than 10 points and 3/4-inch margins, to fast09wips at usenix.org by 11:59 p.m. PST on Thursday, January 29, 2009. The poster session will allow researchers to present recent and ongoing projects. The poster session is an excellent forum to discuss new ideas and get useful feedback from the community. Proposed posters should be described with a one-page abstract of the research in PDF format, with fonts no smaller than 10 points and 3/4-inch margins. Send poster proposals to fast09posters at usenix.org by 11:59 p.m. PST on Thursday, January 29, 2009. FAST '09 promises to be an exciting conference presenting leading examples of current research and a strong vision of the future of file and storage technologies. We hope you will join us in San Francisco. Please visit the conference Web site at http://www.usenix.org/fast09/proga to register today. On behalf of the FAST '09 Program Committee, Margo Seltzer, Harvard University Ric Wheeler, Red Hat FAST '09 Program Co-Chairs fast09chairs at usenix.org P.S. Don't miss the 1st Workshop on the Theory and Practice of Provenance (TaPP '09), taking place February 23, 2009, San Francisco, CA, co-located with FAST '09. http://www.usenix.org/events/tapp09/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 7th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '09) February 24-27, 2009 San Francisco, CA http://www.usenix.org/fast09/proga Early Bird Registration Deadline: February 9, 2009 Sponsored by USENIX in cooperation with ACM SIGOPS, IEEE Mass Storage Systems Technical Committee (MSSTC), and IEEE TCOS ------------------------------------------------------------------------ From zhu at eece.maine.edu Tue Dec 23 23:26:26 2008 From: zhu at eece.maine.edu (Yifeng Zhu) Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2008 23:26:26 -0500 (EST) Subject: [Storage-research-list] CFP: 2009 IEEE International Conference on Networking, Architecture, and Storage (NAS'09) Message-ID: =========================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS =========================================================================== 4th IEEE International Conference on Networking, Architecture, and Storage July 9-11, 2009 Zhang Jia Jie, China http://www.eece.maine.edu/nas Important Dates Full paper submission: February 9, 2009 (2359 PST) Acceptance notification: April 10, 2009 Camera ready due: May 8, 2009 Conference: July 9-11, 2009 The 2009 IEEE International Conference on Networking, Architecture, and Storage (NAS 2009) is to be held on July 9-11, 2009 in Zhang Jia Jie, China. It will serve as an international forum to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to discuss cutting edge research on networking (wired and wireless), high-performance computer architecture, and parallel and distributed data storage technologies. NAS 2009 will expose participants to the most recent developments in these interdisciplinary areas. NAS has been successfully hold in Chongqing in 2008 (NAS'08), Guilin in 2007(NAS'07), and Shenyang in 2006(NAS'06). Zhang Jia Jie, located in the northwest of Hunan province, covers a total area of 9,563 square kilometers with 76% mountainous area. This famous tourist city has the China's first national forest park, and the World Natural Heritage site Wulingyuan Scenic Area. Zhang Jia Jie has been accredited the title of the World Geological Park and honored as Number One Miraculous Mountain in the world and Original Manuscript of Chinese Landscape Painting. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Ad hoc mobile networks * Mobility models and systems * Network applications and services * Network architectures and management * Optical networks * Peer-to-peer systems * Resource allocation and management * Routing protocols, * Security, trust, and privacy * Self-organizing networks * Sensor networks * Virtual & overlay networks * Web services * Network protocols * Processor architectures * Cache and memory systems * Parallel computer architectures * Evaluation of storage architectures * Parallel I/O architectures * Storage management software * Power-efficient architectures and techniques * High-availability architectures * High-performance I/O systems * Reconfigurable architectures * Interconnect and network interface architectures * Innovative hardware/software trade-offs * Impact of compilers on architecture * Performance evaluation * Storage manageability, reliability, availability, and security * Storage performance and scalability * File systems, object-based storage, block-level storage * Storage networking * Energy aware storage * Solid state drive (SSD) NAS 2009 invites authors to submit original and unpublished work. The submitted manuscript is not to exceed 10 two-column numbered pages in IEEE Xplore format. (8.5x11-inch paper, margins in inches-- top: 0.75, bottom: 1.0, sides:0.625, and between columns:0.25, main text: 10pt ). Format instructions are available for: LaTeX, Word document, PDF files. Margin and placement guides are available in: Word, PDF and postscript files. All papers submitted to this conference will be peer-reviewed and accepted on the basis of their scientific merit and relevance to the conference topics. The conference proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press and also be included in the IEEE digital library. All accepted papers will be indexed through EI, CompendexISI Thomson's Scientific and Technical Proceedings, and ISTP/ISI Proceedings. Organizing and Program Committee Steering Committee * Dharma Agrawal, University of Cincinnati, USA * Laxmi Bhuyan, University of California, Riverside, USA * Chita Das, Pennsylvania State University, USA * Hong Jiang, University of Nebraska - Lincoln, USA * Lionel Ni, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China * Changsheng Xie, Huazhong Univ. of Science and Technology, China * Zhiwei Xu, Chinese Academy of Science, China * Qing Yang, University of Rhode Island, USA General Co-Chairs * Nong Xiao, National University of Defense Technology, China * Xubin He, Tennessee Tech University, USA Program Co-Chairs * Yifeng Zhu, University of Maine, USA * Liang Fang, National Lab of Parallel and Distributed Processing, China * Weiwu Hu, Chinese Academy of Science, China Local Arrangements Chair * Fang Liu, National Lab for Parallel and Distributed Processing, China Publicity and Industry Relations Co-Chairs * Liang Fang, National Lab for Parallel and Distributed Processing, China * Lei Chen, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Publication Chair * Yu Hua, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Financial Co-Chairs * Zhiyong Xu, Suffolk University, USA * Li Shen, National Lab for Parallel and Distributed Processing, China Program Vice-Chairs and Program Committee Members Networking Program Vice Chairs * Xukai Zou, Purdue University at IUPUI, USA * Xueming Li, Chongqing University, China Program Committee Member * Brian King, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, USA * Chin-Tser Huang, University of South Carolina, USA * Guojun Wang, Central South University, China * Huirong Fu, Oakland University, USA * Jun Li, University of Oregon, USA * Junwei Cao, Tsinghua University, China * Keping Long, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, * China * Keqiu Li, Dalian University of Technology, China * Kui (Quinn) Ren, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA * Li Bai, Temple University, USA * Liudong Xing, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, USA * Qinghan Xiao, Defense Research and Development, Canada * Qun Li, College of William and Mary, USA * Shigang Chen, University of Florida, USA * Sibabrata Ray, Google, USA * Ting Yu, North Carolina State University, USA * Tony Shan, Wachovia Bank, USA * Weijia Jia, City University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong) * Wenjing Lou, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA * Xiao Qin, Auburn University, USA * Xingfu Wu, Texas A&M University, USA * Xinwen Fu, University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA * Yong Wang, Calient Networks, USA * Junzhou Luo, South East University, China Architecture Program Vice Chairs * Christian Engelmann, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA * Mingyu Chen, Chinese Academy of Sciences Program Committee Member * Adam Oliner, Stanford University, USA * Dan Stanzione, Arizona State University, USA * Dimitrios Nikolopoulos, Virginia Tech University, USA * Frank Mueller, North Carolina State University, USA * George Bosilca, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA * Greg Bronevetsky, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA * Hong An, University of Science and Technology of China * Hong Ong, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA * Hossein Hosseini, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA * Jiang Li, IBM, USA * Kasidit Chanchio, Thammasat University, Thailand * Li Ou, Dell, USA * Limin Xiao, Beihang University, China * Longbing Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China * Patrick G. Bridges, University of New Mexico, USA * Peiheng Zhang, National Research Center for Intelligent Computing System, China * Resit Sendag, University of Rhode Island, USA * Sudharshan Vazhkudai, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA * Wenguang Chen, Tsinghua University, China * Wei Zhang, Southern Illinois University, USA * Xiaobing Feng, Chinese Academy of Sciences * Zhiling Lan, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Storage Program Vice Chairs * Ahmed Amer, University of Pittsburgh, USA * Andre Brinkman, University of Paderborn, Germany Program Committee Member * Alex K. Jones, University of Pittsburgh, USA * Andy Wang, Florida State University, USA * Angelos Bilas, FORTH and University of Crete, Greece * Ben Kobler, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA * Christine Morin, Inria, France * Dilma Da Silva, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA * Green Kevin, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA * Jason Peng, SUNY at Stony Brook, USA * Jehan-Francois Paris, University of Houston, USA * John Chandy, University of Conneticut, USA * Kevin Green, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA * Khuzaima Daudjee, University of Waterloo, CA * Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada * Maria Perez, Polytech University of Madrid,Spain * Paul Nowoczynski, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, USA * Peter Sobe, University of Luebeck, Germany * Peter Varman, Rice University, USA * Robert D. Russel, University of New Hamshire, USA * Roger Chamberlain, Washington University in Saint Loius, USA * Sangyeun Cho, University of Pittsburgh, USA * Tao Xie, San Diego State University, USA * Toni Cortes ,Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), Spain * Young-Sik Jeong, Wonkwang University, Korea * Youtao Zhang, University of Pittsburgh, USA