[Storage-research-list] request for input - hot topics in storage workshop & fast online

[Erik.Riedel at seagate.com]

Hot Topics in Storage
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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
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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