[Storage-research-list] USENIX FAST '10 Registration Now Open

[Lionel Garth Jones]

We are writing to invite you to attend the 8th USENIX Conference on File
and Storage Technologies (FAST '10), February 23-26, 2010, in San Jose,
California.

http://www.usenix.org/fast10/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 '10 will bring together file and storage
specialists from all of these areas in a unified, high-quality forum.

The FAST program again offers tutorials. Taking place on Tuesday,
February 23, the four half-day tutorials give you the opportunity to
learn from leaders in the storage industry:

* Storage Virtualization and the Utility Model
Tom Clark, Brocade Communications

* Solid-State Storage: Technology, Design, and Application
Richard Freitas and Larry Chiu, IBM Almaden Research Center

* Storage and Network Deduplication Technologies
Michael Condict, NetApp

* Clustered and Parallel Storage System Technologies
Brent Welch and Marc Unangst, Panasas

The technical 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 flash storage, parallel file systems, performance and
energy, 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 one-page abstracts, in PDF format with
fonts no smaller than 10 points and 3/4-inch margins, to
fast10wips at usenix.org by Friday, January 29, 2010.

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 fast10posters at usenix.org
by 11:59 p.m. PST on Thursday, January 29, 2010.

More specific guidelines can be found at
http://www.usenix.org/events/fast10/activities.html

FAST '10 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/fast10/proga to register today.

On behalf of the FAST '10 Program Committee,

Randal Burns, Johns Hopkins University
Kimberly Keeton, Hewlett-Packard Labs
FAST '10 Program Co-Chairs
fast10chairs at usenix.org