[Storage-research-list] Event format change: MSST2008: 25th IEEE Symposium on Massive Storage Systems and Technologies

[Bob Coyne Jr]

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: André 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

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ben.kobler at nasa.gov, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, 301-286-5231
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