[Storage-research-list] 1. Call for Papers SNAPI 2008

[brinkman at mail.uni-paderborn.de]

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*           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
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*       In conjunction with the 25th IEEE Conference on Mass Storage
*                   Systems and Technologies (MSST'08)
*                      http://storageconference.org
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* Important dates:
* 	Paper submission: April 30
* 	Notification of acceptance: July 1
* 	Final Camera-ready paper: August 1
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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

André 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 Politécnica 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