[Storage-research-list] Pre-registration extended to Aug 31: MSST2008 - Symposium on Massive Storage Systems and Technologies

[Ben Kobler]

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.

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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

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