From jvh at ece.cmu.edu Mon Jan 4 04:03:04 2010 From: jvh at ece.cmu.edu (James Hendricks) Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2010 01:03:04 -0800 Subject: [Storage-research-list] CFP: SYSTOR 2010--The 3rd Annual Haifa Experimental Systems Conference Message-ID: <03B87929-DACD-4124-B36E-529D3B6C8A94@ece.cmu.edu> Call for Papers SYSTOR 2010--The 3rd Annual Haifa Experimental Systems Conference http://www.haifa.il.ibm.com/conferences/systor2010/ 24--26 May 2010 Haifa, Israel The IBM Haifa Research Lab and the IBM Systems and Technology Group Lab, in collaboration with Caesarea Rothschild Institute (CRI) at the University of Haifa are organizing SYSTOR 2010, a successor to the highly successful SYSTOR conference and workshops on systems and storage held at the IBM Haifa Research Lab. The goal of the conference is to promote systems research and foster stronger ties between the Israeli and worldwide systems research communities and industry. Therefore, international submissions are specially encouraged. SYSTOR 2010 will be a three-day conference. Each day will include a keynote by a well-known international researcher on one of the conference topics. Submissions of a practical and experimental nature are solicited. The conference is open to all systems research topics, including (but not limited to): * General computer systems issues in operating systems, architecture, memory hierarchy, compilation, hypervisors and embedded systems * Distributed systems such as peer-to-peer systems, sensor networks and overlays, faulttolerance, and resource allocation * Storage systems issues related to long-term preservation, archival storage, Internet-scale storage, replication and consistency, designs with solid-state devices and phase-change memory * Cross-cutting issues such as workload modeling, performance metrics, power consumption, security, usability, and experience with real systems and failures * Performance aspects of computing systems with emphasis on end-to-end performance issues, analysis, improvements and detection, including performance tools that address these aspects. In particular, we would like to emphasize the following themes: * Cloud systems: security, consistency and reliability, storage architectures, performance tooling. * Virtualization infrastructure and virtualization-aware system design. * Multi-core architectures and the operating system facilities and programming environments that use them. * Power consumption and management * Managing the explosive growth in storage and the increasing need to store, find and manage data for long periods. Papers should report original research or describe the technologies behind real products and the considerations that shaped the product???s design and functionality. If part of the material submitted was published previously, the paper should so indicate and should provide substantial additional results and material. Submissions Paper submissions should be up to 14 pages in 11 pt font, in PDF format. To submit, please use the conference submission website. Submitted papers will be reviewed by the program committee. Proceedings including all accepted papers will be published by ACM in the ACM Digital Library. Important Dates * Submission: January 31, 2010 * Notification: March 20, 2010 * Final Version: April 10, 2010 Student Activities As part of the conference, students will have the opportunity to interact with senior researchers and obtain feedback on their research. To promote such interactions, we will have a poster session where students present their work. We will also have a lunch where members of the program committee and IBM researchers will be matched with students for more intensive interaction. Venue and Social Event The conference will be held in the lovely city of Haifa, which overlooks the Mediterranean Sea, and is home to Jews, Muslims, Christians and Baha'is. Systor 2010 excursion activities will include trips and museum tours focusing on the historical periods of the holy land via special visits to Hecht museum, Jordan river, Sea of Galilee and amazing sites in the old city of Jerusalem. The conference will take place at the IBM Research Lab in Haifa and in locations at Haifa University. Advisory Committee * Marc Auslander, IBM * Ken Birman, Cornell * Danny Dolev, HUJI * Larry Rudolph, VMware * Julian Satran, IBM * Marc Snir, UIUC Program Chairs * Dilma M Da Silva, IBM * Ethan L. Miller, UCSC General Chair * Gadi Haber, IBM (haber at il.ibm.com) Website Chairs * Chani Sacharen, IBM * Ilya Shnayderman, IBM Program Committee * Ittai Abraham, Microsoft * Irfan Ahmad, VMware * Miriam Allalouf, IBM * Jonathan Appavoo, Boston Univ. * Eitan Bachmat, Ben-Gurion Univ. * Yosi Ben-Asher, Univ. of Haifa * Muli Ben-Yehuda, IBM * Ricardo Bianchini, Rutgers Univ. * Marina Biberstein, IBM * Bill Bolosky, Microsoft * Andre Brinkmann, Univ. of Paderborn * Shlomi Dolev, Ben-Gurion Univ. * Michael Factor, IBM * Dror Feitelson, Hebrew Univ. * Hubertus Franke, IBM * Kevin Greenan, Parascale Systems * Xubin He, Tennessee Tech. * James Hendricks, Google * Idit Keidar, Technion * Oleg Kiselev, Parascale * Orran Krieger, VMware * Mark Lillibridge, HP Labs * Darrell Long, UC Santa Cruz * Dahlia Malkhi, Microsoft * Xavier Martorell, BSC, UPC * Jeanna Matthews, Clarkson Univ. * Bilha Mendelson, IBM * Toshio Nakatani, IBM * Jason Nieh, Columbia Univ. * Shankar Pasupathy, NetApp * Raju Rangaswami, Florida Int. Univ. * Ilya Shnayderman, IBM * Liuba Shrira, Brandies Univ. * Dan Tsafrir, Technion * Qing Yang, Univ. of Rhode Island * Andy Wang, Florida State * Erez Zadok, Stony Brook Univ Organizing Committee * Eliezer Dekel, IBM * Martin Charles Golumbic, CRI * Hillel Kolodner, IBM * Yaron Wolfsthal, IBM From Andrea.Richa at asu.edu Mon Jan 4 12:52:28 2010 From: Andrea.Richa at asu.edu (Andrea Richa) Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2010 10:52:28 -0700 Subject: [Storage-research-list] SPAA 2010 Final Call for Papers Message-ID: ======================================================================= SPAA 2010 FINAL CALL for PAPERS 22nd ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures Santorini, Greece June 13-15, 2010 http://www.spaa-conference.org ======================================================================= SCOPE: Contributed papers are sought in all areas of parallel algorithms and architectures. SPAA defines the term "parallel" broadly, encompassing any computational system that can perform multiple operations or tasks simultaneously. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Parallel and Distributed Algorithms and Applications - Parallel and Distributed Data Structures - Parallel Complexity Theory - Parallel and Distributed Architectures - Multi-Core Architectures - Instruction Level Parallelism and VLSI - Compilers and Tools for Concurrent Programming - Supercomputer Architecture and Computing - Transactional Memory Hardware and Software - The Internet and the World Wide Web - Game Theory and Collaborative Learning - Routing and Information Dissemination - Resource Management and Awareness - Peer-to-Peer Systems - Mobile Ad-Hoc and Sensor Networks - Robustness, Self-Stabilization, and Security - Green Computing and Power-Efficient Architectures - Management of Massive Data Sets CONFERENCE PRESENTATION: Regular presentations will be allotted a 25-minute talk and up to 10 pages in the proceedings. This format is intended for contributions reporting original research, submitted exclusively to this conference. Brief announcements will be allotted a 10-minute talk and a 2-page abstract in the proceedings. This format is a forum for brief communications, which may be published later in other conferences. The best regular paper will be given a best paper award. SUBMISSIONS: Authors of contributed papers are encouraged to submit their manuscript electronically at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=spaa2010 For instructions on electronic submissions, visit http://www.spaa-conference.org/submission.html . This is the preferred method of submission. Authors unable to submit electronically should contact the program chair Cynthia Phillips at caphill at sandia.gov to receive instructions. The cover page should include (1) title, (2) authors and affiliation, (3) postal and email address of the contact author, (4) a brief abstract describing the content of the paper, and (5) an indication if this is a regular presentation or a brief announcement. If requested by the authors, an extended abstract that is not selected for a regular presentation will also be considered for the SPAA brief announcements session. Such a request will not affect the consideration of the paper for a regular presentation. Submissions for regular presentations should include an introduction understandable to a nonspecialist including motivation and previous work, and a technical exposition directed to a specialist. A submission should not exceed 10 printed pages in 11-point type or larger (excluding cover, figures, and references). More details may be supplied in a clearly marked appendix to be read at the discretion of the program committee. A submission for brief announcements should be no longer than three pages using at least 11-point font. ======================================================================= IMPORTANT DATES: Submission deadline: January 13, 2010 11:59 p.m. EST (for regular papers and brief announcements) Notification: March 12, 2010 Camera-ready copy: April 1, 2010 ======================================================================= CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION: SPAA Program Chair Cynthia Phillips (Sandia National Labs) SPAA Conference Chair Friedhelm Meyer auf der Heide (U. of Paderborn) SPAA Secretary Christian Scheideler (U. of Paderborn) SPAA Treasurer David Bunde (Knox College) SPAA Publicity Chair Andrea Richa (Arizona State U) SPAA Local Arrangements Christos Kaklamanis (U of Patras) ======================================================================= -- Prof. Andrea W. Richa |Phone: 480-965-7555 Computer Science & Eng. |FAX: 480-965-2751 Arizona State University |E-mail: aricha at asu.edu PO Box 878809, Tempe AZ 85287-8809|Homepage:www.public.asu.edu/~aricha . From xbhe at yahoo.com Mon Jan 4 19:47:11 2010 From: xbhe at yahoo.com (Ben) Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2010 16:47:11 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Storage-research-list] Call for papers: The 26th IEEE Symposium on Massive Storage Systems and Technologies (MSST2010): Research Track Message-ID: <319849.82226.qm@web50708.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Call for papers: The 26th IEEE Symposium on Massive Storage Systems and Technologies (MSST2010): Research Track Hyatt Regency at Lake Tahoe Incline Village, Nevada May 6-7, 2010 http://storageconference.org/ http://iweb.tntech.edu/hexb/msst2010 The 26th IEEE Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies (MSST2010) will be held at Lake Tahoe, Nevada, May 3-7, 2010. This year's conference will include a two-day research track May 6-7 of peer-reviewed papers on the design, implementation, and analysis of storage systems. ?As with prior MSST conferences, this conference will be a top-quality venue for presenting the latest research and development in storage systems and meeting with colleagues from industry, academia, and government. We encourage the submission of research papers on the implementation, design, and analysis of file and storage systems. ?Specific areas of interest for MSST2010 include but are not limited to: ? ?* storage systems architectures ? ?* design and implementation of hybrid and other novel storage systems ? ?* developments in storage technologies ? ?* integration of solid state and other emerging technologies into storage systems ? ?* networks and protocols to support storage ? ?* storage security, privacy, provenance, etc. ? ?* techniques for building extremely scalable and distributed storage systems ? ?* approaches to long-term data preservation and management ? ?* performance modeling and analysis of scalable storage systems ? ?* caching and replication approaches ? ?* storage in virtualized environments ? ?* cloud storage and other globally scalable storage approaches ? ?* metadata management ? ?* experience with real systems Interested authors are invited to submit a regular paper or a short paper online at?http://iweb.tntech.edu/hexb/msst2010.? Submissions should be typeset in two column format using 10 point font on 8.5x11 inch pages. Please use the standard 1-inch margin. All submissions should be in PDF format. Regular papers should be 8-14 single-spaced pages including figures, tables, and references. They will be considered for full 30-minute presentations. Short paper submissions are 3-5 pages in length including figures, tables, and references and will be considered for the poster session. All submissions must be readable in black and white. Questions about technical papers or possible submissions may be directed to the program chairs Xubin (Ben) He at hexb at tntech.edu or Michael Factor at factor at il.ibm.com. Important Dates ? ?* Paper submission: January 22, 2010 ? ?* Notification of acceptance: March 19, 2010 ? ?* Camera-ready paper submission: April 9, 2010 ? ?* Conference: May 6-7, 2010 Steering Committee ? ?* Sam Coleman, Lawrence Livermore Lab (retired) ? ?* Merritt Jones, MITRE Consultant ? ?* Ben Kobler, NASA/GSFC ? ?* Ethan L. Miller, U. of California, Santa Cruz Program Chairs ? ?* Michael Factor, IBM Haifa Research Lab ? ?* Xubin (Ben) He, Tennessee Tech Univ. Publication Chair ? ?* Mohammed G. Khatib, U. of Twente, Netherlands Program Committee ? ?* Ahmed Amer, U. of California, Santa Cruz and Santa Clara U. ? ?* Yitzhak (Tsahi) Birk, Technion ? ?* Andre Brinkman, U. of Paderborn, Germany ? ?* Randal Burns, Johns Hopkins Univ. ? ?* Toni Cortes, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain ? ?* Zoran Dimitrijevic, Google ? ?* Dan Feng, Huazhong U. of Science and Technology, China ? ?* Pieter H. Hartel, U. of Twente ? ?* Yiming Hu, U. of Cincinnati ? ?* James Hughes, Sun Microsystems ? ?* Hong Jiang, U. of Nebraska, Lincoln ? ?* Mohammed G. Khatib, U. of Twente, Netherlands ? ?* Xiaosong Ma, North Carolina State Univ. ? ?* Ethan Miller, U. of California, Santa Cruz ? ?* David Pease, IBM Almaden Research ? ?* Benjamin Reed, Yahoo! Research ? ?* Bianca Schroeder, U. of Toronto ? ?* Liuba Shrira, Brandeis ? ?* Paula Ta-Shma, IBM Haifa Research Lab ? ?* Sandeep Uttamchandani, IBM Almaden Research ? ?* Kaladhar Voruganti, NetApp ? ? ?* Qing Yang, U. of Rhode Island ? ?* Erez Zadok, Stony Brook Univ. ? ?* Yifeng Zhu, U. of Maine -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From lgj at usenix.org Wed Jan 6 13:23:20 2010 From: lgj at usenix.org (Lionel Garth Jones) Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 10:23:20 -0800 Subject: [Storage-research-list] USENIX FAST '10 Registration Now Open Message-ID: <8160C537-855E-450C-B023-56BB45AB3222@usenix.org> 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 http://www.usenix.org/events/fast10/tutorials/ The technical program includes 21 technical papers, as well as two keynote addresses, Work-in-Progress reports (WiPs), and a poster session. http://www.usenix.org/events/fast10/tech/ The papers represent some of the outstanding work in the area, with topics including flash storage, deduplication, energy-conscious systems, errors and problem diagnoses, and more. FAST will include sessions for Work-in-Progress reports and posters, to allow researchers to present recent and ongoing projects, preliminary results, and "outrageous" opinion statements. We are particularly interested in presentations of student work. To submit, please send a one-page abstract, in PDF format with fonts no smaller than 10 points and 3/4-inch margins, to fast10wips at usenix.org or fast10posters at usenix.org, by 11:59 p.m. PST (UTC-8) on Thursday, January 28, 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 8th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '10) February 23-26, 2010 San Jose, CA http://www.usenix.org/fast10/proga Early Bird Registration Deadline: February 8, 2010 Sponsored by USENIX in cooperation with ACM SIGOPS ------------------------------------------------------------------------ From xbhe at yahoo.com Wed Jan 20 12:34:56 2010 From: xbhe at yahoo.com (Ben) Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 09:34:56 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Storage-research-list] CFPs: MSST2010:Research Track---Deadline is extended to January 29, 2010 Message-ID: <751067.69832.qm@web50703.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Due to numerous requests, the submission deadline for MSST2010 has been extended to January 29, 2010, 11:59pm PST. This is a hard deadline and no more extension will be granted.------------------------ Call for papers: The 26th IEEE Symposium on Massive Storage Systems and Technologies (MSST2010): Research Track ? Hyatt Regency at Lake Tahoe Incline Village, Nevada May 6-7, 2010 ? http://storageconference.org/ ? http://iweb.tntech.edu/hexb/msst2010 ? Paper submission deadline: January 22, 2010 ? The 26th IEEE Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies (MSST2010) will be held at Lake Tahoe, Nevada, May 3-7, 2010. This year's conference will include a two-day research track May 6-7 of peer-reviewed papers on the design, implementation, and analysis of storage systems.? As with prior MSST conferences, this conference will be a top-quality venue for presenting the latest research and development in storage systems and meeting with colleagues from industry, academia, and government. ? We encourage the submission of research papers on the implementation, design, and analysis of file and storage systems.? Specific areas of interest for MSST2010 include but are not limited to: ? ???? * storage systems architectures ???? * design and implementation of hybrid and other novel storage systems ???? * developments in storage technologies ???? * integration of solid state and other emerging technologies into storage systems ???? * networks and protocols to support storage ???? * storage security, privacy, provenance, etc. ???? * techniques for building extremely scalable and distributed storage systems ???? * approaches to long-term data preservation and management ???? * performance modeling and analysis of scalable storage systems ???? * caching and replication approaches ???? * storage in virtualized environments ???? * cloud storage and other globally scalable storage approaches ???? * metadata management ???? * experience with real systems ? Interested authors are invited to submit a regular paper or a short paper online via http://iweb.tntech.edu/hexb/msst2010/.? Submissions should be typeset in two column format using 10 point font on 8.5x11 inch (U.S. letter size) pages. Please use the standard 1-inch margin. All submissions should be in PDF format. Regular papers should be 8-14 single-spaced pages including figures, tables, and references. They will be considered for full 30-minute presentations. Short paper submissions are 3-5 pages in length including figures, tables, and references and will be considered for the poster session. All submissions must be readable in black and white. ? Questions about technical papers or possible submissions may be directed to the program chairs Xubin (Ben) He athexb at tntech.edu? or Michael Factor atfactor at il.ibm.com. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From lgj at usenix.org Thu Jan 21 15:55:20 2010 From: lgj at usenix.org (Lionel Garth Jones) Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 12:55:20 -0800 Subject: [Storage-research-list] USENIX SustainIT '10 Registration Now Open Message-ID: We are writing to invite you to attend the First USENIX Workshop on Sustainable Information Technology (SustainIT '10), February 22, in San Jose, California. http://www.usenix.org/sustainit10/proga Increasingly, designers of computer systems ranging from small mobile devices to massive datacenters are concerned with sustainable design, including both power and life-cycle costs; these costs should include manufacturing, operation, and disposal of IT systems. SustainIT '10 brings together researchers as well as industry practitioners in a forum that presents the latest research and practices. The scope of this workshop is broad, covering research, theory, hardware, software, applications, techniques, etc.-all related to making computing systems greener. SustainIT '10 features: *The latest research including papers on: --Improving the data center environment --Pure energy --Designing for sustainability *Invited talks by industry experts such as: -- Anne Holler, VMware on "The Green Cloud: How Cloud Computing Can Reduce DataCenter Power Consumption -- James Hughes, Huawei Technologies on "Reduced and Alternative Energy for Cloud and Telephony Applications -- and more * Panel Discussion : "The Present and Future of Sustainability R&D" -- Panelists include Kirk Cameron, Virginia Institute of Technology; Douglas H. Fisher, National Science Foundation; Dushyanth Narayanan, Microsoft; Amip Shah, HP Labs; Matt E. Tolentino, Intel Check out the full program at: http://www.usenix.org/events/sustainit10/tech/ Attention Students: A number of Student Grants are available to attend the workshop. Applications are due Friday, January 22, 2010. http://www.usenix.org/students/grants.html SustainIT '10 promises to be an exciting conference presenting leading examples of current research and the future of Sustainable IT. We hope you will join us in San Jose. Please visit the conference Web site at: http://www.usenix.org/sustainit10/proga to register today. On behalf of the SustainIT '10 Program Committee, Ethan L. Miller, University of California, Santa Cruz Erez Zadok, Stony Brook University SustainIT '10 Program Co-Chairs sustainit10chairs at usenix.org ------------------------------------------- First USENIX Workshop on Sustainable Information Technology (SustainIT '10) February 22, 2010 San Jose, CA http://www.usenix.org/sustainit10/proga Register Online by Tuesday, February 16, 2010, noon PST. -------------------------------------------- About this mailing list: USENIX does not share, sell, rent, or exchange email addresses of its members or conference attendees. 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We may also be reached via postal mail at: USENIX Association 2560 9th Street, Suite 215 Berkeley CA 94710 510 528 8649 From lgj at usenix.org Wed Jan 27 12:44:11 2010 From: lgj at usenix.org (Lionel Garth Jones) Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 09:44:11 -0800 Subject: [Storage-research-list] USENIX FAST '10 WiPs and Posters Submission Deadline Approaching Message-ID: <6A16171D-40CA-4476-8C25-6DAADFC94852@usenix.org> We're writing to remind you that the submissions deadline is approaching for the Work-in-Progress (WiPs) reports and poster session at the 8th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '10). Please submit your proposals by Thursday, January 28, 2010, 11:59 p.m. PST. Submission guidelines for both WiPs and posters are available at http://www.usenix.org/events/fast10/activities.html Work-in-Progress Reports: 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. Poster Session: Held in conjunction with a happy hour, 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. By default, a single submission will be considered for BOTH the WiP and poster sessions, to encourage extended discussion of your ideas. If, however, you only are interested in submitting a proposal for either a WiP or a poster, but not both, please indicate your preference in your submission. FAST '10 takes place February 23-26, 2010, in San Jose, California. The program begins with tutorials on topics such as storage virtualization and solid-state storage: http://www.usenix.org/events/fast10/tutorials/ FAST '10 also includes 21 technical papers and keynotes by Eric Brewer, University of California, Berkeley, on "Technology for Developing Regions," and by Oliver Ratzesberger, eBay, Inc., on "Enterprise Analytics on Demand." The full program is available at http://www.usenix.org/events/fast10/tech/ Register by February 8th and save. Student discounts are also available. http://www.usenix.org/events/fast10/registration/ Don't miss this unique opportunity to get essential feedback on your work! On behalf of the FAST '10 Program Committee, Hakim Weatherspoon, Cornell University FAST '10 Work-in-Progress Reports (WiPs) and Poster Session Chair fast10wips at usenix.org fast10posters at usenix.org Randal Burns, Johns Hopkins University Kimberly Keeton, Hewlett-Packard Labs FAST '10 Program Co-Chairs fast10chairs at usenix.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 8th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '10) February 23-26, 2010 San Jose, CA http://www.usenix.org/fast10/progb Early Bird Registration Deadline: February 8, 2010 Sponsored by USENIX in cooperation with ACM SIGOPS ------------------------------------------------------------------------ From ganger at ece.cmu.edu Thu Jan 28 17:12:04 2010 From: ganger at ece.cmu.edu (Greg Ganger) Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 17:12:04 -0500 (EST) Subject: [Storage-research-list] seeking new Editor-In-Chief for ACM Transactions in Storage Message-ID: Please see the Call for Nominations from ACM, below. CALL FOR NOMINATIONS - EDITOR-IN-CHIEF ACM TRANSACTIONS ON STORAGE The term of the current EIC of Transactions on Storage is coming to an end, and ACM Publications Board has set up a nominating committee to assist the Board in selecting the next EIC. The nominating committee would like to receive nominations for the EIC position (self nominations are welcome). It would also like to receive input as to the important issues that should be considered in the selection of the next EIC. Please send nominations, accompanied with a short statement (up to one page) justifying why the nominee is suitable for this position, to Tamer Ozsu (tozsu at cs.uwaterloo.ca) by March 30, 2010. The nominating committee members (in alphabetical order) are Greg Ganger, Carnegie-Mellon University M. Jai Menon, IBM Marianne Winslett, University of Illinois & ADSC Singapore Tamer Ozsu (Committee Chair), University of Waterloo From jvh at ece.cmu.edu Wed Feb 3 13:19:55 2010 From: jvh at ece.cmu.edu (James Hendricks) Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2010 10:19:55 -0800 Subject: [Storage-research-list] =?windows-1252?q?Fwd=3A_Call_for_Papers?= =?windows-1252?q?=3A_Extended_Deadliine_Feb=2E_12_=3A_SYSTOR_2010?= =?windows-1252?q?=97_The_3rd_Annual_Haifa_Experimental_Systems_Con?= =?windows-1252?q?ference?= In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <246539671002031019v3a774eqc00b7d9335e9c6bf@mail.gmail.com> Hi, FYI--the SYSTOR 2010 Haifa Experimental Systems Conference deadline has been extended to next Friday. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Gad Haber Date: Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 11:47 PM Subject: Call for Papers: Extended Deadliine Feb. 12 : SYSTOR 2010? The 3rd Annual Haifa Experimental Systems Conference Extended Submission Deadline - February 12, 2010 ?Call for Papers: SYSTOR 2010? The 3rd Annual Haifa Experimental Systems ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?Conference ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?24?26 May 2010 ? ? ? ? ? ?http://www.haifa.il.ibm.com/conferences/systor2010/ ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?IBM R&D Labs in Israel The IBM Haifa Research Lab and the IBM Systems and Technology Group Lab, in collaboration with Caesarea Rothschild Institute (CRI) at the University of Haifa are organizing SYSTOR 2010, a successor to the highly successful SYSTOR conference and workshops on systems and storage held at the IBM Haifa Research Lab. The goal of the conference is to promote systems research and foster stronger ties between the Israeli and worldwide systems research communities and industry. Therefore, international submissions are specially encouraged. SYSTOR 2010 will be a three-day conference. Keynote speakers: Prof. Idit Keidar from Technion and Prof. David Kaeli from Northeastern University, recently awarded IEEE Fellow. Submissions of a practical and experimental nature are solicited. The conference is open to all systems research topics, including (but not limited to): * General computer systems issues in operating systems, architecture, memory hierarchy, compilation, hypervisors and embedded systems * Distributed systems such as peer-to-peer systems, sensor networks and overlays, faulttolerance, and resource allocation * Storage systems issues related to long-term preservation, archival storage, Internet-scale storage, replication and consistency, designs with solid-state devices and phase-change memory * Cross-cutting issues such as workload modeling, performance metrics, power consumption, security, usability, and experience with real systems and failures * Performance aspects of computing systems with emphasis on end-to-end performance issues, analysis, improvements and detection, including performance tools that address these aspects. In particular, we would like to emphasize the following themes: * Cloud systems: security, consistency and reliability, storage architectures, performance tooling. * Virtualization infrastructure and virtualization-aware system design. * Multi-core architectures and the operating system facilities and programming environments that use them. * Power consumption and management * Managing the explosive growth in storage and the increasing need to store, find and manage data for long periods. Papers should report original research or describe the technologies behind real products and the considerations that shaped the product?s design and functionality. If part of the material submitted was published previously, the paper should so indicate and should provide substantial additional results and material. Submissions Paper submissions should be up to 14 pages in 11 pt font, in PDF format. To submit, please use the conference submission website. Submitted papers will be reviewed by the program committee. Proceedings including all accepted papers will be published by ACM in the ACM Digital Library. Important Dates ?* Submission: January 31, 2010 ?* Notification: March 20, 2010 ?* Final Version: April 10, 2010 Student Activities As part of the conference, students will have the opportunity to interact with senior researchers and obtain feedback on their research. To promote such interactions, we will have a poster session where students present their work. We will also have a lunch where members of the program committee and IBM researchers will be matched with students for more intensive interaction. Venue and Social Event The conference will be held in the lovely city of Haifa, which overlooks the Mediterranean Sea, and is home to Jews, Muslims, Christians and Baha?is. Systor 2010 excursion activities will include trips and museum tours focusing on the historical periods of the holy land via special visits to Hecht museum, Jordan river, Sea of Galilee and amazing sites in the old city of Jerusalem. The conference will take place at the IBM Research Lab in Haifa and in locations at the Haifa University Advisory Committee * Marc Auslander, IBM * Ken Birman, Cornell * Danny Dolev, HUJI * Larry Rudolph, VMware * Julian Satran, IBM * Marc Snir, UIUC Program Chairs * Dilma M Da Silva, IBM * Ethan L. Miller, UCSC General Chair * Gadi Haber, IBM (haber at il.ibm.com) Website Chairs * Chani Sacharen, IBM * Ilya Shnayderman, IBM Program Committee * Ittai Abraham, Microsoft * Irfan Ahmad, VMware * Miriam Allalouf, IBM * Jonathan Appavoo, Boston Univ. * Eitan Bachmat, Ben-Gurion Univ. * Yosi Ben-Asher, Univ. of Haifa * Muli Ben-Yehuda, IBM * Ricardo Bianchini, Rutgers Univ. * Marina Biberstein, IBM * Bill Bolosky, Microsoft * Andre Brinkmann, Univ. of Paderborn * Shlomi Dolev, Ben-Gurion Univ. * Michael Factor, IBM * Dror Feitelson, Hebrew Univ. * Hubertus Franke, IBM * Kevin Greenan, Parascale Systems * Xubin He, Tennessee Tech. * James Hendricks, Google * Idit Keidar, Technion * Oleg Kiselev, Parascale * Orran Krieger, VMware * Mark Lillibridge, HP Labs * Darrell Long, UC Santa Cruz * Dahlia Malkhi, Microsoft * Xavier Martorell, BSC, UPC * Jeanna Matthews, Clarkson Univ. * Bilha Mendelson, IBM * Toshio Nakatani, IBM * Jason Nieh, Columbia Univ. * Shankar Pasupathy, NetApp * Raju Rangaswami, Florida Int. Univ. * Ilya Shnayderman, IBM * Liuba Shrira, Brandies Univ. * Dan Tsafrir, Technion * Qing Yang, Univ. of Rhode Island * Andy Wang, Florida State * Erez Zadok, Stony Brook Univ Organizing Committee * Eliezer Dekel, IBM * Hillel Kolodner, IBM * Yaron Wolfsthal, IBM From brinkman at upb.de Sat Feb 6 07:41:20 2010 From: brinkman at upb.de (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Andr=E9_Brinkmann?=) Date: Sat, 6 Feb 2010 13:41:20 +0100 Subject: [Storage-research-list] IEEE NAS 2010 -- Extended Deadline -- March 1, 2010 Message-ID: /* Apologies for multiple notices */ Extended Submission Deadline - March 1, 2010 Call for papers The 5th IEEE International Conference on Networking, Architecture, and Storage (NAS 2010) Macau, Macau SAR, China July 15-17 http://www.nas-conference.org/ Important dates - Paper submission: March 1, 2010 (23:59 PST) - Notification: April 12, 2010 - Camera-ready due: May 10, 2010 - Conference: July 15-17, 2010 The 5th IEEE International Conference on Networking, Architecture, and Storage (NAS 2010) will be held from July 15 - 17, 2010 at the University of Macau, Macau SAR, China. It will serve as an international forum to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to discuss cutting-edge research on networking, high-performance computer architecture, and parallel and distributed data storage technologies. Macau is one of the two special administrative regions of China, the other being Hong Kong. Macau lies on the western side of the Pearl River Delta, facing the South China Sea to the south and east. The region has thriving industries such as textiles, electronics, toys, and a notable tourist industry with a wide variety of hotels, resorts, sports facilities, restaurants, and casinos. It is growing in size, with an increasing number of buildings on land reclaimed from the sea, and in the number and diversity of its attractions. The greatest of these is Macau's unique society, which consists of complementary Eastern and Western communities. NAS has been successfully held in Zhang Jia Jie in 2009 (NAS'09), Chongqing in 2008 (NAS'08), Guilin in 2007 (NAS'07), and Shenyang in 2006 (NAS'06). Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Network architectures and protocols - Virtual and overlay networks - Network applications and services - Ad hoc and sensor networks - Mobile handset networks - RFID systems and networks - Network security and privacy - Processor architectures - Cache and memory systems - Parallel computer architectures - Power efficient architectures - High-availability architectures - Reconfigurable Architectures - Innovative HW/SW tradeoffs - Storage management - Parallel I/O architectures - Storage performance and scalability - File systems, object-based storage, and block storage - Energy-aware storage - Storage networking - Architecture and applications of solid state disks NAS 2010 invites authors to submit original and unpublished work. The submitted manuscript is not to exceed 10 two-column numbered pages in IEEE Xplore format. (8.5x11-inch paper, margins in inches-- top: 0.75, bottom: 1.0, sides:0.625, and between columns:0.25, main text: 10pt). All papers submitted to this conference will be peer-reviewed and accepted on the basis of their scientific merit and relevance to the conference topics. The conference proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press and also be included in the IEEE digital library. All accepted papers will be indexed through EI, CompendexISI Thomson's Scientific and Technical Proceedings, and ISTP/ISI Proceedings. From brinkman at upb.de Wed Feb 17 05:52:32 2010 From: brinkman at upb.de (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Andr=E9_Brinkmann?=) Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 11:52:32 +0100 Subject: [Storage-research-list] IEEE NAS 2010 - Updated CFP - Best Paper Award Message-ID: Call for papers The 5th IEEE International Conference on Networking, Architecture, and Storage (NAS 2010) Macau, Macau SAR, China July 15-17 http://www.nas-conference.org/ Important dates - Paper submission: March 1, 2010 (23:59 PST) - Notification: April 12, 2010 - Camera-ready due: May 10, 2010 - Conference: July 15-17, 2010 The 5th IEEE International Conference on Networking, Architecture, and Storage (NAS 2010) will be held from July 15 - 17, 2010 at the University of Macau, Macau SAR, China. It will serve as an international forum to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to discuss cutting-edge research on networking, high-performance computer architecture, and parallel and distributed data storage technologies. Macau is one of the two special administrative regions of China, the other being Hong Kong. Macau lies on the western side of the Pearl River Delta, facing the South China Sea to the south and east. The region has thriving industries such as textiles, electronics, toys, and a notable tourist industry with a wide variety of hotels, resorts, sports facilities, restaurants, and casinos. It is growing in size, with an increasing number of buildings on land reclaimed from the sea, and in the number and diversity of its attractions. The greatest of these is Macau's unique society, which consists of complementary Eastern and Western communities. NAS has been successfully held in Zhang Jia Jie in 2009 (NAS'09), Chongqing in 2008 (NAS'08), Guilin in 2007 (NAS'07), and Shenyang in 2006 (NAS'06). Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Network architectures and protocols - Virtual and overlay networks - Network applications and services - Ad hoc and sensor networks - Mobile handset networks - RFID systems and networks - Network security and privacy - Processor architectures - Cache and memory systems - Parallel computer architectures - Power efficient architectures - High-availability architectures - Reconfigurable Architectures - Innovative HW/SW tradeoffs - Storage management - Parallel I/O architectures - Storage performance and scalability - File systems, object-based storage, and block storage - Energy-aware storage - Storage networking - Architecture and applications of solid state disks NAS 2010 invites authors to submit original and unpublished work. The submitted manuscript is not to exceed 10 two-column numbered pages in IEEE Xplore format. (8.5x11-inch paper, margins in inches-- top: 0.75, bottom: 1.0, sides:0.625, and between columns:0.25, main text: 10pt). All papers submitted to this conference will be peer-reviewed and accepted on the basis of their scientific merit and relevance to the conference topics. The conference proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press and also be included in the IEEE digital library. All accepted papers will be indexed through EI, CompendexISI Thomson's Scientific and Technical Proceedings, and ISTP/ISI Proceedings. Best Paper Awards There will be one award each for the best papers in the sections networking, architecture, and storage. These awards will be chosen by the program committee. The best paper awards will be given to the paper judged to have the highest overall quality in its category. The best paper award is sponsored by the IEEE Technical Committee on Parallel Processing with 1,000 US$. From k.oudheusden at uni-paderborn.de Mon Mar 8 08:27:27 2010 From: k.oudheusden at uni-paderborn.de (Katrijn van Oudheusden) Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2010 14:27:27 +0100 Subject: [Storage-research-list] Open PhD positions in storage systems research Message-ID: <4B94FB3F.7040906@uni-paderborn.de> *Currently recruiting: Early Stage Researchers for Marie Curie Initial Training Network SCALUS (Scaling by mean of Ubiquitous Storage) * We are looking for high-level candidates with a masters degree in computer science or engineering for various PhD projects in the area of software technology, systems networks and storage systems. These are fully funded EU scholarships available for top quality early stage researchers with any nationality. Projects are at various European locations. For full details, as well as application criteria and procedure, please see www.scalus.eu. -- Katrijn van Oudheusden Marketing and Public Relations PACE -- Paderborn Institute for Advanced Studies in Computer Science and Engineering Universit?t Paderborn Warburger Str. 100 D-33098 Paderborn +49 (0)5251-603263 www.uni-paderborn.de/pace -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jvh at ece.cmu.edu Wed Mar 17 02:21:53 2010 From: jvh at ece.cmu.edu (James Hendricks) Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 23:21:53 -0700 Subject: [Storage-research-list] =?windows-1252?q?Fwd=3A_Call_For_Posters_?= =?windows-1252?q?=3A_SYSTOR_2010_=97_The_3rd_Annual_Haifa_Experime?= =?windows-1252?q?ntal_Systems_Conference?= In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <246539671003162321w1ee6920fm230b660719df5766@mail.gmail.com> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Gad Haber Date: 2010/3/16 Subject: Call For Posters : SYSTOR 2010 ? The 3rd Annual Haifa Experimental Systems Conference Call for Posters: SYSTOR 2010 ? The 3rd Annual Haifa Experimental Systems Conference 24?26 May 2010 http://www.haifa.il.ibm.com/conferences/systor2010/ IBM R&D Labs in Israel The IBM Haifa Research Lab and the IBM Systems and Technology Group Lab, in collaboration with Caesarea Rothschild Institute (CRI) at the University of Haifa are organizing SYSTOR 2010, a successor to the highly successful SYSTOR conference and workshops ?on systems and storage held at the IBM Haifa Research Lab. The goal of the conference is to promote systems research and foster stronger ties between the Israeli and worldwide systems research communities and industry. SYSTOR 2010 will be offering a unique opportunity for undergraduate and graduate students to publicize their work, interact with representatives from both the industry and academia as well as peer students, as part of a specialized poster session that will be held during day one of the conference (May 24). Students who wish to present their work are required to submit a short (up to one page of PDF) abstract to the SYSTOR_POSTERS track using the conference web site http://www.ssrc.ucsc.edu/systor10/ by April 30. Submissions could represent early work that is not yet ready for submission to a refereed conference or journal. Submissions will be reviewed and evaluated by the program committee, and notification on acceptance will be sent by May 10. If accepted, students will be required to prepare a 70 x 100 cm poster and present it in the session. The poster session will be part of a social reception for conference participants where refreshments will be served. From lgj at usenix.org Thu Mar 18 18:23:31 2010 From: lgj at usenix.org (Lionel Garth Jones) Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:23:31 -0700 Subject: [Storage-research-list] HotStorage '10 Submission Deadline Approaching Message-ID: On behalf of the 2nd Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems (HotStorage '10) program committee, I would like to invite you to submit papers that present a fresh, new look at file and storage technologies. Storage systems research faces important challenges today. The rapid increase in the volume and variety of digital data, the trend toward using commodity components rather than custom-built hardware, the availability of persistent storage memory technologies, and the proliferation of consumer-electronics storage devices all offer exciting opportunities for developers. The HotStorage workshop aims to bring together researchers interested in presenting their thoughts and engaging in discussions with their colleagues. We expect the workshop submissions to advocate unorthodox approaches advancing the state of the art in file and storage systems design. Ideas presented in the workshop should provide a fresh, new look at storage technologies and eventually lead to a work that will likely appear in top-tier systems conferences. The presentations should stimulate healthy discussions among the workshop participants. Topics of interest include but are not limited to new ideas in: * Cluster and data center storage architectures * Mobile storage * Cloud storage * Storage for embedded systems * Solid-state storage * Archival storage * Storage at home * Search and data retrieval * Storage management * Storage security * Algorithms for data caching Submissions are due Thursday, April 1, 2010, 5:00 p.m. PDT. For more details on the submission process, please see the complete Call for Papers at: http://www.usenix.org/hotstorage10/cfpa HotStorage '10 will be part of the USENIX Federated Conferences Week, which will take place June 22-25, 2010. We look forward to receiving your submissions! Jiri Schindler, NetApp HotStorage '10 Program Chair hotstorage10chair at usenix.org --------------------------------- Call for Papers 2nd Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems (HotStorage '10) June 22, 2010 Boston, MA http://www.usenix.org/hotstorage10/cfpa Submissions Deadline: April 1, 2010, 5:00 p.m. PDT --------------------------------- From xbhe at yahoo.com Wed Mar 24 09:50:41 2010 From: xbhe at yahoo.com (Ben) Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 06:50:41 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Storage-research-list] [MSST2010] Call for participation Message-ID: <703445.97460.qm@web50705.mail.re2.yahoo.com> CALL FOR PARTICIPATION MSST 2010 Research Track The 26th IEEE Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies (MSST2010): Research Track http://storageconference.org/ Hyatt Regency at Lake Tahoe Incline Village, Nevada IMPORTANT DATES =============== Early registration: ? ? ? ? ? Until 2 April 2010 Research Track dates: ? ? ? ? 6-7 May 2010 THE CONFERENCE ============== The 26th IEEE Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies (MSST2010) will be held at Lake Tahoe, Nevada, May 3-7, 2010. This year's conference will include a two-day research track May 6-7 of peer-reviewed papers on the design, implementation, and analysis of storage systems. ?The conference will include 18 long papers and 12 short papers with lightening talks and posters. ?As with prior MSST conferences, this year's conference will be a top-quality venue for presenting the latest research and development in storage systems and meeting with colleagues from industry, academia, and government. REGISTRATION ============ The early conference registration is already open. There are also tailored participant packages to allow attending other parts of MSST. ?To register online please visit the registration page on the conference website http://storageconference.org/. PROGRAM ======= The full Research Track program is available at http://storageconference.org/2010/MSST2010ResearchAgenda.pdf. ?The full papers that will be presented are: ? ? ? ?An Adaptive Partitioning Scheme for DRAM-based Cache in Solid State Drives. ? ? ? ?H Shim, B. Seo, J. Kim, S. Maeng ? ? ? ?High Performance Solid State Storage Under Linux. ? ? ? ?E. Seppanen, M. O'Keefe, D. Lilja ? ? ? ?Achieving Page-Mapping FTL Performance at Block-Mapping FTL Cost ?by Hiding Address Translation. ? ? ? ?Y. Hu, H. Jiang, D. Feng, L. Tian, S. Zhang, J. Liu, W. Tong ? ? ? ?Block Storage listener for detecting file-level intrusions. ? ? ? ?M. Allalouf, M. Yehuda, J. Satran, I. Segall ? ? ? ?Flat XOR-based erasure codes in storage systems: Constructions, efficient recovery, and tradeoffs. ? ? ? ?K. Greenan, X. Li, J. Wylie ? ? ? ?S2-RAID: A New RAID Architecture for Fast Data Recovery. ? ? ? ?J. Wan, J. Wang, Q. Yang, C. Xie ? ? ? ?Security Aware Partitioning for Efficient File System Search. ? ? ? ?A. Parker-Wood, C. Strong, E. Miller, D. Long ? ? ? ?Linear Tape File System. ? ? ? ?D. Pease, A. Amir, L. Real, B. Biskeborn, M. Richmond ? ? ? ?Hadoop Distributed File System. ? ? ? ?K. Shvachko, H. Huang, S. Radia, R. Chansler ? ? ? ?Leveraging Disk Drive Acoustic Modes for Power Management. ? ? ? ?D. Chen, G. Goldberg, R. Kahn, R. Kat, K. Meth ? ? ? ?Energy and Thermal Aware Buffer Cache Replacement Algorithm. ? ? ? ?J. Yue, Y. Zhu, Z. Cai, L. Lin ? ? ? ?Mahanaxar: Quality of Service Guarantees in High-Bandwidth, Real-Time Streaming Data Storage. ? ? ? ?D. Bigelow, S. Brandt, J. Bent, H. Chen ? ? ? ?A Content-Aware Block Placement Algorithm for Reducing PRAM Storage Bit Writes. ? ? ? ?B. Wongchaowart, M. Iskander, S. Cho ? ? ? ?Design Issues for a Shingled Write Disk System. ? ? ? ?A. Amer, D. Long, E. Miller, J. Paris, T. Schwarz ? ? ? ?Indirection Systems for Shingled-Recording Disk Drives. ? ? ? ?Y. Cassuto, M. Sanvido, C. Guyot, D. Hall, Z. Bandic ? ? ? ?MAD2: A Scalable High-Throughput Exact Deduplication Approach for Network Backup Services. ? ? ? ?J. Wei, H. Jiang, K. Zhou, D. Feng ? ? ? ?Enabling Active Storage on Parallel I/O Software Stacks. ? ? ? ?S. Son, S. Lang, P. Carns, R. Ross, R. Thakur, B. Ozisikyilmaz,P. Kumar, W. Liao, A. Choudhary ? ? ? ?Exporting Kernel Page Caching for Efficient User-Level I/O. ? ? ? ?R. Spillane, S. Dixit, S. Archak, S. Bhanage, E. Zadok -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Application deadline: May 3 Notification: May 10 Please send an email to the SPAA Treasurer David Bunde (dbunde at knox.edu) and include - your name, advisor and affiliation - expected graduation (if this year) - role (e.g., author and/or presenter of a specific paper) - prospective travel expenses - any other sources of funding you may have or you applied for Successful applicants must submit receipts and a summary of expenses in order to receive reimbursement. -- Prof. Andrea W. Richa |Phone: 480-965-7555 Computer Science & Eng. |FAX: 480-965-2751 Arizona State University |E-mail: aricha at asu.edu PO Box 878809, Tempe AZ 85287-8809|Homepage:www.public.asu.edu/~aricha . From Andrea.Richa at asu.edu Tue Mar 30 02:56:31 2010 From: Andrea.Richa at asu.edu (Andrea Richa) Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 23:56:31 -0700 Subject: [Storage-research-list] SPAA 2010 Student Travel Grants References: Message-ID: ================================================================== SPAA 2010 --- Announcement of Student Travel Grants 22nd ACM Symp. on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures Santorini, Greece June 13-15, 2010 http://www.spaa-conference.org ================================================================== Thanks to generous support from SIGARCH and IBM Research, SPAA 2010 can offer a limited number of travel grants to PhD students. Application deadline: May 3 Notification: May 10 Please send an email to the SPAA Treasurer David Bunde (dbunde at knox.edu) and include - your name, advisor and affiliation - expected graduation (if this year) - role (e.g., author and/or presenter of a specific paper) - prospective travel expenses - any other sources of funding you may have or you applied for Successful applicants must submit receipts and a summary of expenses in order to receive reimbursement. -- Prof. Andrea W. Richa |Phone: 480-965-7555 Computer Science & Eng. |FAX: 480-965-2751 Arizona State University |E-mail: aricha at asu.edu PO Box 878809, Tempe AZ 85287-8809|Homepage:www.public.asu.edu/~aricha . From cacs at cacs2010.org Tue Mar 30 20:22:51 2010 From: cacs at cacs2010.org (CACS 2010) Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 08:22:51 +0800 Subject: [Storage-research-list] Congress on Computer Applications and Computational Science, Singapore [EI Compendex, ISTP, IEEE Xplore] Message-ID: <20100331002259.AB8E29FA@hazard.ece.cmu.edu> [ Please forward to those who may be interested. Thanks. ] ================================================================== 2010 International Congress on Computer Applications and Computational Science CACS 2010 http://irast.org/conferences/CACS/2010 4-6 December 2010, Singapore ================================================================== CACS 2010 aims to bring together researchers and scientists from academia, industry, and government laboratories to present new results and identify future research directions in computer applications and computational science. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Agent and Autonomous Systems Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Computer-Aided Design and Manufacturing Computer Architecture and VLSI Computer Control and Robotics Computer Graphics and Virtual Reality Computers in Education Computer Modeling and Simulations Computer Networks and Communications Computer Security and Privacy Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Data Mining and Data Engineering Distributed and Services Computing Energy and Power Systems Intelligent Systems Internet and Web Systems Nano Technologies Real-Time and Embedded Systems Scientific Computing and Applications Signal, Image and Multimedia Processing Software Engineering Test Technologies CACS 2010 conference proceedings will be published by CPS which will include the conference proceedings in IEEE Xplore and submit the proceedings to Ei Compendex and ISTP for indexing. Singapore's cultural diversity reflects its colonial history and Chinese, Malay, Indian and Arab ethnicities. English is the dominant official language, which is convenient for foreign visitors. Places of interest, such as the Orchard Road district, Singapore Zoo, Night Safari, and Sentosa, attract millions of visitors a year. Singapore is a paradise for shopping, dinning, entertainment, and nightlife, with two new integrated resorts. Conference Contact: CACS at irast.org Paper Submission Deadline: 15 May 2010 Review Decision Notifications: 15 August 2010 Final Papers and Author Registration Deadline: 9 September 2010 To unsubscribe, reply with "unsubscribe storage-research-list at ece.cmu.edu" in your email subject or the first line of the email body. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dhildeb at us.ibm.com Tue Apr 6 12:42:19 2010 From: dhildeb at us.ibm.com (Dean Hildebrand) Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2010 09:42:19 -0700 Subject: [Storage-research-list] Call for papers: 2nd Workshop on Interfaces and Abstractions for Scientific Data Storage(IASDS) Message-ID: Call for Papers: 2nd Workshop on Interfaces and Abstractions for Scientific Data Storage(IASDS) http://www.mcs.anl.gov/events/workshops/iasds10 Held in conjunction with IEEE Cluster 2010 http://www.cluster2010.org/ High-performance computing simulations and large scientific experiments such as those in high energy physics generate tens of terabytes of data, and these data sizes grow each year. Existing systems for storing, managing, and analyzing data are being pushed to their limits by these applications, and new techniques are necessary to enable efficient data processing for future simulations and experiments. This workshop will provide a forum for engineers and scientists to present and discuss their most recent work related to the storage, management, and analysis of data for scientific workloads. Emphasis will be placed on forward-looking approaches to tackle the challenges of storage at extreme scale or to provide better abstractions for use in scientific workloads. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: parallel file systems scientific databases active storage scientific I/O middleware extreme scale storage Important Dates: Paper Submission Deadline June 21, 2010 Author Notification July 30, 2010 Final Manuscript Due TBD Workshop September 24, 2010 Organizer Rob Latham, Mathematics and Computer Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory Program Committee Robert Latham, Argonne National Laboratory Quincey Koziol, The HDF Group Pete Wyckoff, Netapp Wei-Keng Liao, Northwestern University Florin Isalia, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid Katie Antypas, NERSC Anshu Dubey, FLASH Dean Hildebrand, IBM Almaden Bradley Settlemyer, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Dean Hildebrand Research Staff Member IBM Almaden Research Center www.almaden.ibm.com/u/deanh From jvh at ece.cmu.edu Fri Apr 9 00:31:20 2010 From: jvh at ece.cmu.edu (James Hendricks) Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 21:31:20 -0700 Subject: [Storage-research-list] =?windows-1252?q?Fwd=3A_Call_for_Particip?= =?windows-1252?q?ation=3A_SYSTOR_2010_=97_The_3rd_Annual_Haifa_Exp?= =?windows-1252?q?erimental_Systems_Conference?= In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Gad Haber Date: Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 11:38 AM Subject: Call for Participation: SYSTOR 2010 ? The 3rd Annual Haifa Experimental Systems Conference ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?Call for Participation: ? SYSTOR 2010 ? The Third Annual Haifa Experimental Systems Conference ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?May 24?26, 2010 ? ? ? ?https://www.research.ibm.com/haifa/conferences/systor2010/ ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?IBM R&D Labs in Israel IBM Research - Haifa and the IBM Systems and Technology Group Lab in Israel, in collaboration with the Caesarea Rothschild Institute (CRI) at the University of Haifa are organizing SYSTOR 2010, a successor to the highly successful SYSTOR conferences on systems and storage held in the past at IBM Research - Haifa. The goal of the conference is to promote systems research and foster stronger ties between the Israeli and worldwide systems research communities and industry. We have a strong program of 18 refereed papers, two keynote talks, and a panel on the future of cloud computing. Full program details are available at https://www.research.ibm.com/haifa/conferences/systor2010/program.shtml The conference will also have a poster session highlighting works in progress. International participation is encouraged. Student Activities As part of the conference, students will have the opportunity to interact with senior researchers and obtain feedback on their research. To promote such interactions, we will have a poster session where students present their work. We will also have a lunch where members of the program committee and IBM researchers will be matched with students for more intensive interaction. Venue and Social Event The conference will be held in the lovely city of Haifa, which overlooks the Mediterranean Sea, and is home to Jews, Muslims, Christians, and Baha?is. SYSTOR 2010 excursions will include trips and museum tours focusing on the historical periods of the Holy Land via special visits to the University of Haifa's Hecht Museum, the old city of Nazareth, and the Sea of Galilee. The conference will take place at IBM Research - Haifa and the University of Haifa. From arnold.jones at snia.org Wed Apr 21 13:48:05 2010 From: arnold.jones at snia.org (Jones, Arnold) Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 17:48:05 +0000 Subject: [Storage-research-list] Storage Developer Conference 2010 Call for Presentations Message-ID: <1F8F8A8A2BC40447A4A6F31B6815AAF313EB5DD6@MBX15.EXCHPROD.USA.NET> Storage Developer Conference 2010 Call for Presentations Now in its seventh year, and again expected to draw more than 250 developers and engineers, the Storage Developer Conference (SDC) is the only event created by storage developers for storage developers. SDC provides the information and know-how to further advance solutions with features that shorten time to market for a developed solution, increase acceptability and interoperability in production environments, and help participants understand where storage technologies are heading. In addition, plans are being finalized for a CIFS/SMB/SMB2 plugfest. Share your knowledge and experience as a storage development professional by submitting a presentation for consideration at SDC. SESSION TOPICS Categories/Topics for consideration for sessions and case studies include: * CIFS/SMB/SMB2 * Data Deduplication * NFS * iSCSI * Fibre Channel Protocols (including FCoE) * eXtensible Access Method (XAM) * Green and Energy Efficient IT Technologies * Solid State Storage * Storage for Virtual Platforms * Storage for Cloud/Grid/Utility Computing * Consumer/Personal Storage * Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S) * Information and Data Management Technologies * Storage Security and Identity Management * Storage Utilizing Blade Technology * Emerging Storage and Data Technologies * Development Techniques and Tools (e.g., Dual-Boot, Virtual Machines, IDEs, Bug Trackers) * Getting the Most from Collaboration Tools * Experiences and Ideas on Rapid Development * Professional Development/Soft Skills o Making the Leap from Engineer to Manager o Working with Remote Technical Teams * Leveraging Open Source in Any of the Above The standard session length will be 50 minutes. We are also accepting proposals for panel discussions and half-day tutorial sessions. IMPORTANT DATES * Deadline for Submission of Proposals - Monday, May 3 * Notification of Acceptance/Rejection of Proposals - Wednesday, June 30 * Deadline for Presentations - Wednesday, September 1 HOW TO SUBMIT A PRESENTATION PROPOSAL Submissions will only be accepted via the online form, which can be found at http://www.storagedeveloper.org ----- Arnold Jones Technical Council Managing Director Storage Networking Industry Association _______________________________________ SNIA Phone: 407.574.7273 Mobile: 407.435.1067 arnold.jones at snia.org www.snia.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ganger at ece.cmu.edu Wed Apr 21 13:57:42 2010 From: ganger at ece.cmu.edu (Greg Ganger) Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 13:57:42 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [Storage-research-list] FAST'11 call for papers Message-ID: Folks, The call-for-papers for FAST 2011 is now available. Please see: http://www.usenix.org/events/fast11/cfp/ http://www.usenix.org/events/fast11/cfp/fast11cfp.pdf And the FAST '11 home page is http://www.usenix.org/events/fast11/ We hope that you'll submit papers describing your best recent research to our field's flagship conference. john and greg From riedel at cs.cmu.edu Wed Apr 28 16:13:37 2010 From: riedel at cs.cmu.edu (Erik Riedel) Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 16:13:37 -0400 Subject: [Storage-research-list] reminder - Storage Developer Conference 2010 CFP deadline Message-ID: Final reminder that the Storage Developer Conference (SDC) deadline in this coming Monday, 3 May. 100-word abstract and bio for a presentation/talk/panel in September in Santa Clara. New ideas, case studies, experience reports all welcome. Enterprise and consumer storage - co-located with SOHOCON consumer storage plugfest. Submit early and often. Cheers, Erik EMC & SNIA Technical Council ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jones, Arnold Date: Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 1:48 PM Subject: [Storage-research-list] Storage Developer Conference 2010 Call for Presentations To: "Storage-research-list at ece.cmu.edu" Storage Developer Conference 2010 Call for Presentations Now in its seventh year, and again expected to draw more than 250 developers and engineers, the Storage Developer Conference (SDC) is the only event created by storage developers for storage developers. SDC provides the information and know?how to further advance solutions with features that shorten time to market for a developed solution, increase acceptability and interoperability in production environments, and help participants understand where storage technologies are heading. In addition, plans are being finalized for a CIFS/SMB/SMB2 plugfest. Share your knowledge and experience as a storage development professional by submitting a presentation for consideration at SDC. SESSION TOPICS Categories/Topics for consideration for sessions and case studies include: ? CIFS/SMB/SMB2 ? Data Deduplication ? NFS ? iSCSI ? Fibre Channel Protocols (including FCoE) ? eXtensible Access Method (XAM) ? Green and Energy Efficient IT Technologies ? Solid State Storage ? Storage for Virtual Platforms ? Storage for Cloud/Grid/Utility Computing ? Consumer/Personal Storage ? Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI?S) ? Information and Data Management Technologies ? Storage Security and Identity Management ? Storage Utilizing Blade Technology ? Emerging Storage and Data Technologies ? Development Techniques and Tools (e.g., Dual-Boot, Virtual Machines, IDEs, Bug Trackers) ? Getting the Most from Collaboration Tools ? Experiences and Ideas on Rapid Development ? Professional Development/Soft Skills ??????? o Making the Leap from Engineer to Manager ??????? o Working with Remote Technical Teams ? Leveraging Open Source in Any of the Above The standard session length will be 50 minutes. We are also accepting proposals for panel discussions and half?day tutorial sessions. IMPORTANT DATES ? Deadline for Submission of Proposals ? Monday, May 3 ? Notification of Acceptance/Rejection of Proposals ? Wednesday, June 30 ? Deadline for Presentations ? Wednesday, September 1 HOW TO SUBMIT A PRESENTATION PROPOSAL Submissions will only be accepted via the online form, which can be found at http://www.storagedeveloper.org ----- Arnold Jones Technical Council Managing Director Storage Networking Industry Association _______________________________________ SNIA Phone:?407.574.7273 Mobile: 407.435.1067 arnold.jones at snia.org www.snia.org _______________________________________________ Storage-research-list mailing list Storage-research-list at ece.cmu.edu https://sos.ece.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/storage-research-list From panda at cse.ohio-state.edu Wed Jun 9 23:01:06 2010 From: panda at cse.ohio-state.edu (Dhabaleswar Panda) Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2010 23:01:06 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [Storage-research-list] Post-Doc/Research Scientist Position Available at The Ohio State University Message-ID: The Network-Based Computing Laboratory (NBCL) at the Ohio State University (http://nowlab.cse.ohio-state.edu) is looking for a Post-Doc/Research Scientist with expertise in parallel file systems, MPI-IO, high performance networking technologies and protocols (such as InfiniBand, 10GigE, iWARP and RoCE) and SSD. The candidate should also be familiar with issues and challenges in designing middleware/ systems and carrying out performance evaluation and scalability studies. The candidate is expected to take a lead role in projects related to the above-mentioned areas and work together with Ph.D. and M.S. students in this group to carry out state-of-the-art research, design and development including writing research publications and proposals. A Ph.D. degree in computer science or computer engineering is a must. A few years of experience after Ph.D. is preferred, but not mandatory. The candidate should have good communication skill, writing skill and team working experience. If you are interested in this position, please contact Prof. Dhabaleswar K. (DK) Panda by sending a copy of your CV to panda AT cse.ohio-state.edu. The Ohio State University is an equal opportunity employer. Applications from international candidates will be considered. Thanks, DK From vazhkudaiss at ornl.gov Thu Jun 10 12:54:03 2010 From: vazhkudaiss at ornl.gov (Vazhkudai, Sudharshan S.) Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 12:54:03 -0400 Subject: [Storage-research-list] Postdoc Opening at UT/ORNL Message-ID: <0347D1CC563D6D469412C406AABE221A03C09F3078C7@EXCHMB.ornl.gov> Hi, Kindly forward this postdoc opening (http://www.csm.ornl.gov/~vazhkuda/StoragePostdoc.pdf) to those interested. Thanks, -Sudharshan ____________________________________________________________ Sudharshan Vazhkudai, Ph.D. vazhkudaiss at ornl.gov Research Staff Member One Bethel Valley Road Computer Science Research Group PO Box 2008 MS-6016 Computer Science and Mathematics Oak Ridge, TN 37831 Oak Ridge National Laboratory Voice: 865-576-5547 http://www.csm.ornl.gov/~vazhkuda Fax: 865-576-5491 From johnbent at lanl.gov Mon Jun 28 16:00:51 2010 From: johnbent at lanl.gov (John Bent) Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2010 14:00:51 -0600 Subject: [Storage-research-list] HEC FSIO 2010 Workshop Message-ID: <1277754653-sup-1355@guava.lanl.gov> Greetings, We are very pleased to announce this year's HEC FSIO Workshop and invite interested parties to register. Please register soon as spots are limited. The HEC FSIO Workshops are an annual gathering of the world's leading storage and IO experts with a focus on storage and IO systems used in High-End Computing / High Performance Computing. This years workshop will have a particular focus on exascale computing since most experts agree that our current storage and IO systems are infeasible at this scale. All registrations must be received by July 16 and our limited spots will be filled on a FCFS basis. You will receive a notification after you submit your registration. The portal for the workshop is at: http://institute.lanl.gov/hec-fsio/conferences/2010 The registration form: http://institute.lanl.gov/hec-fsio/conferences/2010/HECFSIO-2010-Information-Sheet-FY10.pdf The agenda: http://institute.lanl.gov/hec-fsio/conferences/2010/HEC-FSIO-10-Agenda.pdf The hotel reservation information: The Westin Arlington Gateway, (703) 717-6200, Block HECFSIO 2010 or http://www.starwoodmeeting.com/Book/hecfilesystem Cost is $170 / night (block expires July 9) -- Thanks, John From brinkman at upb.de Thu Jul 1 15:47:02 2010 From: brinkman at upb.de (Andre Brinkmann) Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 21:47:02 +0200 Subject: [Storage-research-list] Call for Participation -- NAS 2010 Message-ID: CALL FOR PARTICIPATION NAS 2010 The 5th IEEE International Conference on Networking, Architecture, and Storage http://www.nas-conference.org/ July 15-17, 2010 Macau SAR, China NAS serves as an international forum to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to discuss cutting-edge research on networking, high performance computer architecture, and parallel and distributed data storage technologies. Macau is one of the two special administrative regions of China, the other being Hong Kong. Macau lies on the western side of the Pearl River Delta, facing the South China Sea to the south and east. The region has thriving industries such as textiles, electronics, toys, and a notable tourist industry with a wide variety of hotels, resorts, sports facilities, restaurants, and casinos. NAS10 features two outstanding keynote speakers: ? Dr. Peter Braam, Founder of Cluster File Systems, Inc. and ClusterStor, Inc., USA ? Almadena Y. Chtchelkanova, Program Director, CCF/CISE, National Science Foundation, USA The conference program includes the following sessions: 1a: Sensor networks 1c: Dependable and fault-tolerant storage 2a: Wireless Network Security 2b: Distributed Computing 2c: RAID storage and Error Correcting Codes 3a: Ad-hoc networks 3b: Distributed and Multi-Core Systems 3c: File systems and parallel I/O 4: Short Papers 5a: WiFi, Vehicular, and Delay Tolerant Networks 5b: Memory Systems for Chip Multiprocessors 5c: Deduplication and Object-Based Storage 6a: Not quite wireless networks 6c: Solid State Disk Storage The conference has an industrial presentation and a poster presentation. On the last day of the conference, there is a local tour of Macau. Steering Committee Xubin He, Tennessee Technological University, USA Hong Jiang, University of Nebraska - Lincoln, USA Changsheng Xie, Huazhong Univ. of Science and Technology, China Qing Yang, University of Rhode Island, USA Honorable General Chairs Laxmi Bhuyan, University of California, USA Wei Zhao, University of Macau, China General Co-Chairs Susan Cheng, The George Washington University, USA Yifeng Zhu, University of Maine, USA Program Co-Chairs Andr? Brinkmann, Paderborn Center for Parallel Computing, Germany Dong Xuan, Ohio State University, USA Registration and Finance Chairs Qiang Cao, Huazhong Univ. of Science and Technology, China Min Song, Old Dominion University, USA Award Chair Jie Wu, Temple University, USA Publication Chair Zhen Jiang, West Chester University of Pennsylvania, USA Publicity Chair Avinash Srinivasan, Bloomsburg University, USA Wei Lou, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China Industry Chair Fang Liang, National University of Defense Technology, China Program Vice-Chairs Networking Weijia Jia, City University of Hong Kong, China Qun Li, College of William and Mary, USA Architecture Jizhong Han, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Mario Porrmann, University of Paderborn, Germany Storage Gabriel Antoniu, INRIA Rennes - Bretagne Atlantique Research Center, France Xiao Qin, Auburn University, USA -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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On Tuesday August 3, Arkady Kanevsky (EMC), Bianca Shroeder (U Toronto), Lakshmi Bairavasundaram (NetApp), Garth Gibson (CMU/Panasas), and Narasimha Reddy (Texas A&M) will discuss their ideas about failure management at the exascale. On Wednesday August 4, Peter Braam (ClusterStor), Garth Gibson (CMU/Panasas), Roger Haskin (IBM), Rob Ross (Argonne), and Steve Poole (Oak Ridge) will explore their ideas and brain-storm with the audience about the future of storage and IO in the exascale era. Many other talks and break-out sessions will fill the remaining schedule. Information about hotel reservations, registration, and the current agenda is available at http://institute.lanl.gov/hec-fsio/conferences/2010/. Thank you, John Bent From johnbent at lanl.gov Wed Jul 14 22:10:00 2010 From: johnbent at lanl.gov (John Bent) Date: July 14 2010 20:10:00 -0600 Subject: [Storage-research-list] HEC-FSIO 2010 Hotel Block Extended Message-ID: <20100715022042.10C824100C9@ccn-mail.lanl.gov> Hello All, Many of you requested that the hotel extend the reservation block for this year's HEC-FSIO workshop and we are pleased to let you know that it has been extended until July 19. Hotel: Westin Arlington Gateway Phone: (703) 717-6200 Dates: Check-in August 1, check-out August 4 Block: HECFSIO 2010 Link: http://www.starwoodmeeting.com/Book/hecfilesystem More information, including the agenda, is available at http://institute.lanl.gov/hec-fsio/conferences/2010/ If you have already registered and reserved your room, we're looking forward to seeing you soon! Thank you, John Bent From jdigney at cs.cmu.edu Mon Jul 26 09:36:08 2010 From: jdigney at cs.cmu.edu (Joan Digney) Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 07:36:08 -0600 Subject: [Storage-research-list] IWSSPS 2010 Call for Papers Message-ID: <4C4D8F48.6040403@cs.cmu.edu> Forwarding for Bongki Moon of the University of Arizona: Subject: IWSSPS 2010 Call for Papers From: Bongki Moon Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2010 18:13:04 -0700 (MST) To: Storage-research-list at ece.cmu.edu ========================================================================= The Fifth International Workshop on Software Support for Portable Storage (IWSSPS 2010) http://iwssps2010.cs.arizona.edu/ October 28, 2010 Scottsdale, Arizona, USA (Co-located with EMSOFT 2010) ========================================================================= New emerging storage media such as Flash memory require extensive software support for higher performance and reliability, lower power consumption, and value-added functionalities. The goal of this workshop is to bring together people from industry and academia who are interested in all aspects of software support for portable storage. The workshop will provide a forum to present and discuss new ideas, new research directions and to review current trends in this area. The scope of the workshop includes, but is not limited to: * File systems for portable storage * Interaction between file systems and portable storage * Flash memory storage designs * Solid state disks (SSDs) * Power management for HDDs including microdrives * DRM (Digital Right Management) for portable storage * Security support for portable storage * Distributed mobile storage * Software support for new non-volatile memories (PRAM, FRAM, etc.) * Software reliability for portable storage * Software fault tolerance techniques for portable storage * Novel applications of portable storage Important Dates =============== Paper submission: August 07, 2010 (23:00 PST) Acceptance notification: September 04, 2010 Camera ready: October 02, 2010 Workshop Organization ===================== General Chair ------------- Jen-Wei Hsieh, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan Program Chair ------------- Bongki Moon, University of Arizona, USA Program Committee ----------------- Nitin Agrawal, NEC Laboratories, USA Yuan-Hao Chang, National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan Jongmoo Choi, Dankook University, Korea Jen-Wei Hsieh, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan Insik Jin, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, USA Bjorn Por Jonsson, Reykjavik University, Iceland Jaesoo Lee, Samsung Electronics, Korea Chang-Gun Lee, Seoul National University, Korea Sang-Won Lee, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea Qiong Luo, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Suman Nath, Microsoft Research, USA Praveen Rao, University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA Mustafa Uysal, Vmware, USA Stratis Viglas, University of Edinburgh, UK -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From carlosm at soe.ucsc.edu Fri Aug 6 15:27:40 2010 From: carlosm at soe.ucsc.edu (Carlos Maltzahn) Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2010 12:27:40 -0700 Subject: [Storage-research-list] PDSW 2010 Call for Papers by 9/17/10 Message-ID: <4C2F0778-8CDB-4DDE-A10E-C30D69288A3B@soe.ucsc.edu> Please help spread the word: 5th Petascale Data Storage Workshop Call for papers & posters Monday, November 15, 2010 9:00am - 5:30pm http://www.pdsi-scidac.org/events/PDSW10/ Held in conjunction with SC10 at New Orleans, LA Workshop Abstract: Peta- and exascale computing infrastructures make unprecedented demands on information storage capacity, performance, concurrency, reliability, availability, and manageability. This one-day workshop focuses on the data storage problems and emerging solutions found in peta- and exascale scientific computing environments, with special attention to issues in which community collaboration can be crucial, problem identification, workload capture, solution interoperability, standards with community buy-in, and shared tools. This workshop seeks contributions on relevant topics, including but not limited to: performance and benchmarking results and tools, failure tolerance problems and solutions, APIs for high performance features, parallel file systems, high bandwidth storage architectures, wide area file systems, metadata intensive workloads, autonomics for HPC storage, virtualization for storage systems, archival storage advances, resource management innovations. Papers (extended abstract in pdf format) due: Friday, September 17, 2010, 11:59 p.m. PDT Notification: Monday, October 11, 2010 Camera-ready due: Monday, November 8, 2010 Softcopy and slides due: Friday, Nov. 12, 2010 BEFORE the workshop Paper Submission Details: The petascale data storage workshop holds a peer reviewed competitive process for selecting extended abstracts and short papers. Submit a not previously published extended abstract of up to 5 pages, not less than 10 point font, in a PDF file as instructed on the workshop web site. Submitted papers will be reviewed under the supervision of the workshop program committee. Submissions should indicate authors and affiliations. Selected papers and associated talks will be made available on the workshop web site. Selected final papers must not be longer than 5 pages. The workshop proceedings will be published in association with SC10 in the IEEE digital library and talk slides will be made available on the workshop web site. Posters due: Monday, November 8, 2010 Notification: Wednesday, November 10, 2010 Poster Submission Details: The PDSW program committee highly encourages authors of accepted papers to present posters of their work. Submissions for technical poster presentation will be considered if they are marked as such and include title and author list and a short abstract. Further specifications for poster production will be available on the workshop web site. Program Committee: Carlos Maltzahn, University of California, Santa Cruz John Bent, Los Alamos National Laboratory Galen Shipman, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Sage Weil, DreamHost Roger Haskin, IBM Almaden Research Center Rob Ross, Argonne National Laboratory Brent Welch, Panasas Karsten Schwan, Georgia Institute of Technology Ron A. Oldfield, Sandia National Laboratory Dean Hildebrand, IBM Almaden Research Center Yong Chen, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Peter Braam, Xyratex Steering Committee: Garth A. Gibson, Carnegie Mellon University and Panasas Inc. Philip C. Roth, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Evan J. Felix, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Peter Honeyman, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Center for Information Technology Integration Scott Brandt, University of California, Santa Cruz Gary Grider, Los Alamos National Laboratory Darrell Long, University of California, Santa Cruz John Shalf, National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Bill Kramer, National Center for Supercomputing Applications/University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Lee Ward, Sandia National Laboratories From jiahua at gmail.com Wed Aug 11 12:30:53 2010 From: jiahua at gmail.com (Jiahua) Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 09:30:53 -0700 Subject: [Storage-research-list] SDSC to Host "Grand Challenges in Data-Intensive Discovery" Conference Message-ID: SDSC to Host "Grand Challenges in Data-Intensive Discovery" Conference Oct. 26-28 Event to Explore Opportunities for Flash Memory-based ?Gordon? Supercomputer to Debut in 2011 The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, will host a special conference in late October as it prepares to deploy a unique data-intensive, high- performance computing (HPC) system called Gordon in mid-2011. Called ?Grand Challenges in Data-Intensive Discovery?, the multi-disciplinary conference will be held October 26-28, 2010 at SDSC, located on the UC San Diego campus. Attendees can register for the conference beginning August 2 by visiting www.sdsc.edu/gordongrandchallenge. ?Science has entered a data-intensive era, driven by a deluge of data being generated by digitally based instruments, sensor networks, and simulation devices,? said Michael Norman, interim director of SDSC. ?Hence, a growing part of the scientific enterprise is associated with analyzing such data, placing special demands on computer architectures because the associated calculations have frequent I/O accesses, large memory requirements, and often limited parallelism. ?We believe this conference will greatly benefit those doing research in data-intensive fields,? added Norman. ?Gordon, and future systems like it, will open new opportunities across numerous areas of research, and it is important that such resources are utilized to their utmost capabilities.? The goal of the GCDID conference is to provide an opportunity for attendees to share their expertise while exchanging ideas about the computational challenges and concerns common to data-intensive problems. Specifically, the conference is structured to facilitate discussion to help: * Articulate and clarify "Grand Challenges" in data-intensive research across a broad range of disciplines, including arts, astronomy, biology, computer science, earth sciences, economics, engineering, humanities, medicine, neuroscience, social sciences, and data-related technologies * Identify applications and disciplines that can benefit from Gordon's unique architecture and capabilities, including those that have not been part of the traditional HPC community * Identify common technical needs across disciplines and relevant software solutions * Recognize opportunities for leaders in data-intensive science to take advantage of SDSC?s available expertise in this area Speakers scheduled to address the GCDID conference, according to topic, include: * Visual Arts ? Lev Manovich, UC San Diego * Needs and Opportunities in Observational Astronomy ? Alex Szalay, Johns Hopkins University * Transient Sky Surveys ? Peter Nugent, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory * Large Data-Intensive Graph Problems ? John Gilbert, UC Santa Barbara * Algorithms for Massive Data Sets ? Michael Mahoney, Stanford University * Needs and Opportunities in Seismic Modeling and Earthquake Preparedness ? Tom Jordan, University of Southern California * Economics and Econometrics ? James Hamilton, UC San Diego * Needs and Opportunities in Fluid Dynamics Modeling and Flow Field Data Analysis ? Parviz Moin, Stanford University * Needs and Emerging Opportunities in Neuroscience ? Mark Ellisman, UC San Diego * Data-Driven Science in the Globally Networked World ? Larry Smarr, UC San Diego * Accelerating Data-Intensive Science with Dash and Gordon ? Allan Snavely, San Diego Supercomputer Center * Data Challenges in Biomedical Informatics ? Lucila Ohno-Machado, UC San Diego * Needs and Opportunities in Computational Biology ? Rick Stevens, Argonne National Laboratory.* * to be confirmed Contributed talks, panel discussions, sharing of early user experiences, and posters will complement the plenary speakers listed above. The schedule will be posted on the conference website shortly. ?With a peak speed of 245 teraflops, very large shared memory nodes, and a quarter-petabyte of flash SSD (solid state drive) memory, Gordon will vastly accelerate large database and data mining applications,? said Norman. ?This system will reduce solution times and yield results for applications that now tax even the most advanced supercomputers, while helping to make sense of the avalanche of data generated by the digital devices of our era.? SDSC announced last November that it won a five-year, $20 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to build and operate Gordon, the first high-performance supercomputer to employ a vast amount of flash memory to help speed solutions now hamstrung by slower spinning disk technology. Gordon will be a peer-reviewed, allocated resource on NSF?s TeraGrid, and be available to any U.S. researcher. TeraGrid is the nation?s largest open-access scientific discovery infrastructure. SDSC has now deployed Dash, a smaller prototype of Gordon that gives prospective users an opportunity to explore Gordon?s unique architectural features. Dash also gives computer scientists and systems architects a way to address some of the key challenges that must be met as part of Gordon?s deployment. Attendees will have an opportunity to hear from early Dash users during a panel session focused on early user experience. About SDSC As an Organized Research Unit of UC San Diego, SDSC is a national leader in creating and providing cyberinfrastructure for data-intensive research, and is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year as one of the National Science Foundation?s first supercomputer centers. Cyberinfrastructure refers to an accessible and integrated network of computer-based resources and expertise, focused on accelerating scientific inquiry and discovery. SDSC is a founding member of TeraGrid, the nation?s largest open-access scientific discovery infrastructure. Comment: Michael Norman, SDSC, 858 822-5450 Media Contacts: Jan Zverina, SDSC Communications 858 534-5111 or jzverina at sdsc.edu Warren R. Froelich, SDSC Communications 858 822-3622 or froelich at sdsc.edu Related Links SDSC: http://www.sdsc.edu/ SDSC Dash User Guide: http://www.sdsc.edu/us/resources/dash/ UC San Diego: http://www.ucsd.edu/ From brinkman at upb.de Fri Aug 20 06:19:10 2010 From: brinkman at upb.de (Andre Brinkmann) Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 12:19:10 +0200 Subject: [Storage-research-list] CFP MSST 2011 Message-ID: Call for Papers 27th IEEE Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies - MSST Research Track May 26th - 27th 2011, Denver, Colorado www.storageconfernce.org Important Dates Paper Submission due: January 17th, 2011 Notification: February 28th, 2011 Final papers due: March 28th, 2011 Objectives The 27th IEEE Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies (MSST 2011) will be held in Denver, Colorado, from May 23rd to 27th, 2011, and offers a full week dedicated to storage technology. This year?s conference will include a two-day research track of peer-reviewed papers on the design, implementation, and analysis of storage systems on May 26th and 27th. As with prior MSST conferences, this conference will be a top?quality venue for presenting the latest research and development in storage systems and for meeting with colleagues from industry, academia, and government. We encourage the submission of research papers on the implementation, design, and analysis of file and storage systems. Specific areas of interest for MSST2011 include but are not limited to: - Performance modeling and analysis of scalable storage systems - Techniques for building extremely scalable and distributed storage systems - Exascale storage architecture and design - Parall el and Distributed File Systems - Evaluation of networked storage architectures - Scalable metadata management - Data protection and recovery - Storage security, privacy, and provenance, - Data archiving - Approaches to long-term data preservation and management - Storage in virtualized environments - Cloud storage and globally scalable storage approaches - Experience with real systems How to participate We encourage participation by individuals and organizations with research or practical experience, including government and commercial users, universities, research laboratories, and early adopters. We invite submissions of technical papers. For more information please visit http://www.storageconference.org Submission Instructions Technical Papers and Poster Presentations: Submit a full 8-14 page paper or short 3-5 page paper online at http://www.storageconference.org by January 17th, 2011. Papers should be in two columns with 10 point font and should be in PDF; specific formatting details are available at the submission site. All papers will receive full, detailed reviews from at least 3 PC members, with acceptance notification provided by February 28th, 2011. Final camera-ready papers, incorporating reviewer comments, must be submitted in PDF format no later than May 28th, 2011, and must conform to the formatting standards described in the Author's Kit, which will be available at the conference Site. Full 8-14 page papers will be considered for both full 30 minute presentations and the poster session; please indicate on your submission form if you do not want your paper to be considered for the poster session. Short paper submissions of 3-5 pages in length will only be considered for the poster session. Questions about technical papers may be directed to the program co-chairs, Andre Brinkmann and David Pease at brinkman at upb.de and pease at almaden.ibm.com Conference Organizers Steering Committee Sam Coleman, Lawrence Livermore Lab (retired ) Merritt Jones, MITRE Consultant Ben Kobler, NASA/GSFC Ethan Miller, UC Santa Cruz Program Co-Chairs Andre Brinkmann, University of Paderborn David Pease, IBM Almaden Research Center Program Committee Ahmed Amer, Santa Clara University John Bent, Los Alamos National Laboratory Angelos Bilas, FORTH, Crete Peter Braam, Xyratex Phil Carns, Argonne National Laboratory Toni Cortes, Barcelona Supercomputing Center Peter Desnoyers, Northeastern University Markus Draeger, Fujitsu Technology Solutions Christian Engelmann, Oak Ridge National Lab Michael Factor, IBM Haifa Research Lab Dan Feng, HUST, China Kevin Greenan, Data Domain Peter Haas, HLRS Stuttgart Xubin He, Tennessee Tech University Dean Hildebrand, IBM Almaden Research David Holland, Harvard University Darrell Long, UC Santa Cruz Chris Lumb, Data Domain Ethan Miller, UC Santa Cruz Matt O'Keefe, Uni. of Minnesota and BakBone Software Ron Oldfield, Sandia National Laboratory Shankar Pasupathy, NetApp Raju Rangaswami, Florida Intern. University Avishay Traeger, IBM Hakim Weatherspoon, Cornell University Brent Welch, Panasas Felix Wolf, Juelich and Aachen Qing Yang, University of Rhode Island Erez Zadok, Stony Brook University Yifeng Zhu, University of Maine From jdigney at cs.cmu.edu Fri Aug 20 13:27:01 2010 From: jdigney at cs.cmu.edu (Joan Digney) Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 11:27:01 -0600 Subject: [Storage-research-list] Subject:, USENIX FAST '11 Submission Deadline Approaching In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4C6EBAE5.10604@cs.cmu.edu> Forwarded for L Jones. > > We're writing to remind you that the submission deadline for the 9th > USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '11) is less > than a month away. > Please submit all papers by September 2, 2010, 11:59 p.m. EDT. > > http://www.usenix.org/fast11/cfpb/ > > FAST '11 brings together storage system researchers and practitioners > to explore the latest in file and storage technology. The conference > will consist of two and a half days of technical presentations, > including refereed papers, Work-in-Progress (WiP) reports, and a poster > session. > > "Storage systems" is interpreted broadly: everything from > low-level storage-devices up to information management is of interest. > > Topics of interest include but are not limited to: > > * Archival storage systems > * Auditability and provenance > * Caching, replication, and consistency > * Cloud storage > * Data-intensive applications > * Database storage > * Distributed I/O (wide-area, grid, peer-to-peer) > * Empirical evaluation of storage systems > * Experience with deployed systems > * File system design > * Mobile and personal storage > * Parallel I/O > * Power-aware storage architectures > * Reliability, availability, and disaster tolerance > * Search and data retrieval > * Solid state storage technologies and uses (e.g., SSD, PCM) > * Storage for virtualized environments > * Storage management > * Storage networking > * Storage performance and QoS > * Storage security > > For more details on the submission process, please see the complete Call > for Papers at: > http://www.usenix.org/fast11/cfpb/ > > We look forward to receiving your submissions! > > Greg Ganger, Carnegie Mellon University > John Wilkes, Google > USENIX FAST '11 Program Co-Chairs > fast11chairs at usenix.org > > --------------------------------- > Call for Papers > 9th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies > February 15-18, 2011 > San Jose, CA > http://www.usenix.org/fast11/cfpb/ > Submissions Deadline: September 2, 2010, 11:59 p.m. EDT > --------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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This one-day workshop focuses on the data storage problems and emerging solutions found in peta- and exascale scientific computing environments, with special attention to issues in which community collaboration can be crucial, problem identification, workload capture, solution interoperability, standards with community buy-in, and shared tools. This workshop seeks contributions on relevant topics, including but not limited to: performance and benchmarking results and tools, failure tolerance problems and solutions, APIs for high performance features, parallel file systems, high bandwidth storage architectures, wide area file systems, metadata intensive workloads, autonomics for HPC storage, virtualization for storage systems, archival storage advances, resource management innovations. Papers (extended abstract in pdf format) due: Friday, September 17, 2010, 11:59 p.m. PDT Notification: Monday, October 11, 2010 Camera-ready due: Monday, November 8, 2010 Softcopy and slides due: Friday, Nov. 12, 2010 BEFORE the workshop Paper Submission Details: The petascale data storage workshop holds a peer reviewed competitive process for selecting extended abstracts and short papers. Submit a not previously published extended abstract of up to 5 pages, not less than 10 point font, in a PDF file as instructed on the workshop web site. Submitted papers will be reviewed under the supervision of the workshop program committee. Submissions should indicate authors and affiliations. Selected papers and associated talks will be made available on the workshop web site. Selected final papers must not be longer than 5 pages. The workshop proceedings will be published in association with SC10 in the IEEE digital library and talk slides will be made available on the workshop web site. Posters due: Monday, November 8, 2010 Notification: Wednesday, November 10, 2010 Poster Submission Details: The PDSW program committee highly encourages authors of accepted papers to present posters of their work. Submissions for technical poster presentation will be considered if they are marked as such and include title and author list and a short abstract. Further specifications for poster production will be available on the workshop web site. Program Committee: Carlos Maltzahn, University of California, Santa Cruz John Bent, Los Alamos National Laboratory Galen Shipman, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Sage Weil, DreamHost Roger Haskin, IBM Almaden Research Center Rob Ross, Argonne National Laboratory Brent Welch, Panasas Karsten Schwan, Georgia Institute of Technology Ron A. Oldfield, Sandia National Laboratory Dean Hildebrand, IBM Almaden Research Center Yong Chen, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Peter Braam, Xyratex Steering Committee: Garth A. Gibson, Carnegie Mellon University and Panasas Inc. Philip C. Roth, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Evan J. Felix, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Peter Honeyman, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Center for Information Technology Integration Scott Brandt, University of California, Santa Cruz Gary Grider, Los Alamos National Laboratory Darrell Long, University of California, Santa Cruz John Shalf, National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Bill Kramer, National Center for Supercomputing Applications/University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Lee Ward, Sandia National Laboratories -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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This one-day workshop focuses on the data storage problems and emerging solutions found in peta- and exascale scientific computing environments, with special attention to issues in which community collaboration can be crucial, problem identification, workload capture, solution interoperability, standards with community buy-in, and shared tools. This workshop seeks contributions on relevant topics, including but not limited to: performance and benchmarking results and tools, failure tolerance problems and solutions, APIs for high performance features, parallel file systems, high bandwidth storage architectures, wide area file systems, metadata intensive workloads, autonomics for HPC storage, virtualization for storage systems, archival storage advances, resource management innovations. Papers (extended abstract in pdf format) due: Friday, September 17, 2010, 11:59 p.m. PDT Notification: Monday, October 11, 2010 Camera-ready due: Monday, November 8, 2010 Softcopy and slides due: Friday, Nov. 12, 2010 BEFORE the workshop Paper Submission Details: The petascale data storage workshop holds a peer reviewed competitive process for selecting extended abstracts and short papers. Submit a not previously published extended abstract of up to 5 pages, not less than 10 point font, in a PDF file as instructed on the workshop web site. Submitted papers will be reviewed under the supervision of the workshop program committee. Submissions should indicate authors and affiliations. Selected papers and associated talks will be made available on the workshop web site. Selected final papers must not be longer than 5 pages. The workshop proceedings will be published in association with SC10 in the IEEE digital library and talk slides will be made available on the workshop web site. Posters due: Monday, November 8, 2010 Notification: Wednesday, November 10, 2010 Poster Submission Details: The PDSW program committee highly encourages authors of accepted papers to present posters of their work. Submissions for technical poster presentation will be considered if they are marked as such and include title and author list and a short abstract. Further specifications for poster production will be available on the workshop web site. Program Committee: Carlos Maltzahn, University of California, Santa Cruz John Bent, Los Alamos National Laboratory Galen Shipman, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Sage Weil, DreamHost Roger Haskin, IBM Almaden Research Center Rob Ross, Argonne National Laboratory Brent Welch, Panasas Karsten Schwan, Georgia Institute of Technology Ron A. Oldfield, Sandia National Laboratory Dean Hildebrand, IBM Almaden Research Center Yong Chen, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Peter Braam, Xyratex Steering Committee: Garth A. Gibson, Carnegie Mellon University and Panasas Inc. Philip C. Roth, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Evan J. Felix, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Peter Honeyman, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Center for Information Technology Integration Scott Brandt, University of California, Santa Cruz Gary Grider, Los Alamos National Laboratory Darrell Long, University of California, Santa Cruz John Shalf, National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Bill Kramer, National Center for Supercomputing Applications/University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Lee Ward, Sandia National Laboratories -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From koziol at hdfgroup.org Thu Sep 16 09:56:28 2010 From: koziol at hdfgroup.org (Quincey Koziol) Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:56:28 +0200 Subject: [Storage-research-list] Open position Message-ID: Hi all, Please pardon this not-perfectly-relevant post, but I think it's reasonably appropriate for the list. The HDF Group has a position open for a senior software developer that will be principally involved in enhancing HDF5 in high performance computing environments. Applicants should have a solid knowledge of MPI programming, high performance storage, HDF5 or systems programming, preferably all of the above. For more details, please see: http://www.hdfgroup.org/about/employment.html#ssd Thanks, Quincey Koziol The HDF Group From jdigney at cs.cmu.edu Mon Sep 27 18:00:32 2010 From: jdigney at cs.cmu.edu (Joan Digney) Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 16:00:32 -0600 Subject: [Storage-research-list] CFP: SYSTEM 2011 -- 4th Annual International Systems and Storage Conference Message-ID: <4CA11400.6010906@cs.cmu.edu> Sent on behalf of Alan Mislove CFP: SYSTEM 2011 -- 4th Annual International Systems and Storage.eml Subject: CFP: SYSTEM 2011 -- 4th Annual International Systems and Storage Conference From: Alan Mislove Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 17:43:54 -0400 To: storage-research-list at ece.cmu.edu Call for Papers: SYSTOR 2011 May 30--June 1, 2011 The 4th Annual International Systems and Storage Conference, Haifa, Israel http://www.haifa.il.ibm.com/conferences/systor2011/ SYSTOR 2011, the 4th Annual International Systems and Storage Conference, promotes computer systems and storage research, and will take place in Haifa, Israel. SYSTOR fosters close ties between the Israeli and worldwide systems research communities, and brings together academia and industry. The conference is open to all systems research topics, including (but not limited to): * General computer systems: operating systems, architecture, memory, compilation, virtualization and embedded systems * Distributed systems: cloud computing, infrastructure, scalability, fault-tolerance and peer-to-peer systems * Storage systems: storage technologies, related functions, and file systems * Cross-cutting issues: workload modeling, performance metrics, power consumption, security, usability, and experience with real systems and failures * Performance aspects of computing systems: monitoring, analysis, optimization and tools In order to combine the international research nature of the conference with the need for local interaction between industry and academia, we invite submissions to four separate tracks. * Submissions to the research track should be in the form of full papers and report original, previously unpublished research results. If part of the material submitted was published previously, the paper should so indicate and should provide substantial additional results and material. Submitted papers will be fully reviewed by the program committee and accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings. * Submissions to the industrial track should be in the form of short or full papers and describe the technologies behind real systems or products and the considerations that shaped the system/product's design and functionality. This material need not necessarily be original research. Publishing accepted papers to the conference proceedings is possible, although not mandatory. Authors should indicate their publishing preference. * Submissions to the work in progress (WIP) track should describe ongoing work. This material should be original and will be reviewed by the program committee. The submission may be in the form of a brief announcement and will not be published in the conference proceedings. * Submissions to the highlights track should be a paper (or link to a paper) containing exciting research results accepted to a recent top conference. The presentations of the highest-quality submissions will be "replayed" at SYSTOR for the benefit of the local community. Submissions to this track will not be formally reviewed by the program committee and will not be published in the conference proceedings. In addition there will be keynote speakers, a poster session, and social activities at the conference. Important Dates --------------- Submission: January 31, 2011 Submission to highlights track: March 4, 2011 Notification: March 21, 2011 Final Version: April 11, 2011 Submission Guidelines --------------------- Paper submissions must be in PDF format, and must be at least 10pt. The 11pt SIGPLAN templates are recommended (seehttp://www.sigplan.org/authorInformation.htm). All papers must be up to 14 pages, and WIP papers should be up to 4 pages. To submit, please use the conference submission website, reachable from the SYSTOR 2011 home page (see link above). Proceedings will be published by the ACM in the ACM Digital Library. Organizers ---------- Program Chairs Jose Moreira, IBM Liuba Shrira, Brandeis U General Chair Paula Ta-Shma, IBM (paula at il.ibm.com) Publicity Chairs Ronen Kat, IBM Alan Mislove, Northeastern U Program Committee Yariv Aridor, Intel Mary Baker, HP Yosi Ben-Asher, Haifa U Randal Burns, Johns Hopkins U Tereza Carvalho, Univ Sao Paulo Gregory Chockler, IBM Marcelo Cintra, U of Edinburgh Albert Cohen, INRIA Eyal DeLara, U of Toronto Shlomi Dolev, Ben Gurion U Dick Epema, Delft U of Tech Dror Feitelson, Hebrew U Christoff Fetzer, TU Dresden Thomas Gross, ETH Zurich Gernot Heiser, UNSW/NICTA Kei Hiraki, Tokyo U Peter Honeyman, CITI/U Michigan Orran Krieger, VMware Tomas Margalef, U Autonoma Barcelona Roie Melamed, IBM Edson Midorikawa, U Sao Paulo Ethan Miller, U Calif, Santa Cruz Alan Mislove, Northeastern U Gilles Muller, INRIA Michael Philippsen, U Erlangen-Nuremberg Raju Rangaswami, Florida Int U Lawrence Rauchwerger, Texas A&M U Luis Rodrigues, IST/INESC-ID Rodrigo Rodrigues, MPI-SWS Larry Rudolph, Intellisysgroup Jiri Schindler, NetApp Assaf Schuster, Technion Doug Terry, MSR Pedro Trancoso, U of Cyprus Mateo Valero, Tech U of Catalonia Ric Wheeler, Red Hat Erez Zadok, Stony Brook U Krzysztof Zielinski, AGH Krakow Organizing Committee Yitzhak Birk, Technion Gad Haber, IBM Ilya Shnayderman, IBM Sivan Toledo, Tel Aviv U Yaron Wolfsthal, IBM -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From carlosm at soe.ucsc.edu Tue Oct 19 12:37:33 2010 From: carlosm at soe.ucsc.edu (Carlos Maltzahn) Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 09:37:33 -0700 Subject: [Storage-research-list] PDSW 2010 Call for Participation Message-ID: <6361C566-D5C2-4C99-A6F5-D0E06E3110B1@soe.ucsc.edu> CALL FOR PARTICIPATION (and Call for Posters) 5th Petascale Data Storage Workshop http://www.pdsi-scidac.org/events/PDSW10/ Held in conjunction with SC10 and sponsored by the DOE SciDAC Petascale Data Storage Institute (PDSI) Monday, November 15, 2010 8:55 a.m. - 5:45 p.m. Rooms 384 & 385, New Orleans Convention Center, New Orleans, LA Peta- and exascale computing infrastructures make unprecedented demands on information storage capacity, performance, concurrency, reliability, availability, and manageability. This one-day workshop focuses on the data storage problems and emerging solutions found in peta- and exascale scientific computing environments, with special attention to issues in which community collaboration can be crucial, problem identification, workload capture, solution interoperability, standards with community buy-in, and shared tools. This workshop seeks contributions on relevant topics, including but not limited to: performance and benchmarking results and tools, failure tolerance problems and solutions, APIs for high performance features, parallel file systems, high bandwidth storage architectures, wide area file systems, metadata intensive workloads, autonomics for HPC storage, virtualization for storage systems, archival storage advances, resource management innovations. PRELIMINARY AGENDA 8:55-9 Welcome: Garth Gibson, Carlos Maltzahn 9-9:45 Keynote John Shalf: Exascale Computing Hardware Challenges 9:45-10:15 Poster Session 1 10:15-11:45 Session 1: Keeping Data Self-Adjusting Two-Failure Tolerant Disk Arrays I. Corderi, Univ. Cat?lica d. Uruguay; T. Schwarz, Univ. Cat?lica d. Uruguay; A. Amer, Santa Clara U; D. Long, UC Santa Cruz; J. P?ris, University of Houston Using a Shared Storage Class Memory Device to Improve the Reliability of RAID Arrays S. Chaarawi, University of Houston; J. Paris, University of Houston; A. Amer, Santa Clara University; S. T. J. Schwarz, Universidad Cat?lica del Uruguay; D. Long, UC Santa Cruz Semantic Data Placement for Power Management in Archival Storage A. Wildani, E. Miller, UC Santa Cruz 11:45-1:15 Lunch 1:15-2:45 Session: Accessing Data Workload Characterization of a Leadership Class Storage Cluster Y. Kim, R. Gunasekaran, G. Shipman, D. Dillow, Z. Zhang, B. Settlemyer, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Performance Analysis of Commodity and Enterprise Class Flash Devices N. Master, M. Andrews, J. Hick, S. Canon, N. Wright, NERSC, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab Virtualization-based Bandwidth Management for Parallel Storage Systems Y. Xu, Florida International University; L. Wang, Florida International University; D. Clavijo, Florida International University; Y. Liu, University of Florida; R. Figueiredo, University of Florida; M. Zhao, Florida International University 2:45-3:15 Poster Session 3:15-4:45 Session: Moving Data Extracting Information ASAP! H. Abbasi, Georgia Institute of Technology; G. Eisenhauer, Georgia Institute of Technology; S. Klasky, Oak Ridge National Laboratory; K. Schwan, Georgia Institute of Technology;M. Wolf, Georgia Institute of Technology Collective Prefetching for Parallel I/O Systems Y. Chen, P. Roth, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Towards Parallel Access of Multi-dimensional, Multi-resolution Scientific Data S. Kumar, Valerio Pascucci, University of Utah; V. Vishwanath, P. Carns, R. Latham, T. Peterka, M. Papka, R. Ross, Argonne National Laboratory 4:45-5:15 Short Announcements (sign up onsite) & Town Hall Meeting 5:15-5:45 Poster Session CALL FOR POSTERS Poster Submission Website: http://www2.pdl.cmu.edu/conferences/pdsw10poster/index Poster submissions due: Monday, November 8, 2010 Notification: Wednesday, November 10, 2010 COMMITTEE: Carlos Maltzahn, University of California, Santa Cruz John Bent, Los Alamos National Laboratory Galen Shipman, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Sage Weil, DreamHost Roger Haskin, IBM Almaden Research Center Rob Ross, Argonne National Laboratory Brent Welch, Panasas Karsten Schwan, Georgia Institute of Technology Ron A. Oldfield, Sandia National Laboratory Dean Hildebrand, IBM Almaden Research Center Yong Chen, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Peter Braam, Xyratex STEERING COMMITTEE: Phil Roth, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Evan Felix, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Peter Honeyman, University of Michigan Scott Brandt, University of California, Santa Cruz Gary Grider, Los Alamos National Laboratory Garth Gibson, Carnegie Mellon University Darrell Long, University of California, Santa Cruz John Shalf, National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center Bill Kramer, National Center for Supercomputing Applications/University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Lee Ward, Sandia National Laboratories From dhildeb at us.ibm.com Thu Oct 28 12:30:37 2010 From: dhildeb at us.ibm.com (Dean Hildebrand) Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 09:30:37 -0700 Subject: [Storage-research-list] HPDC 2011: Call for Papers Message-ID: Call For Papers The 20th International ACM Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing http://www.hpdc.org/2011/ San Jose, California, June 8-11, 2011 The ACM International Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing is the premier conference for presenting the latest research on the design, implementation, evaluation, and use of parallel and distributed systems for high end computing. The 20th installment of HPDC will take place in San Jose, California, in the heart of Silicon Valley. This year, HPDC is affiliated with the ACM Federated Computing Research Conference, consisting of fifteen leading ACM conferences all in one week. HPDC will be held on June 9-11 (Thursday through Saturday) with affiliated workshops taking place on June 8th (Wednesday). Submissions are welcomed on all forms of high performance parallel and distributed computing, including but not limited to clusters, clouds, grids, utility computing, data-intensive computing, multicore and parallel computing. All papers will be reviewed by a distinguished program committee, with a strong preference for rigorous results obtained in operational parallel and distributed systems. All papers will be evaluated for correctness, originality, potential impact, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to the conference. In addition to traditional technical papers, we also invite experience papers. Such papers should present operational details of a production high end system or application, and draw out conclusions gained from operating the system or application. The evaluation of experience papers will place a greater weight on the real-world impact of the system and the value of conclusions to future system designs. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- # Applications of parallel and distributed computing. # Systems, networks, and architectures for high end computing. # Parallel and multicore issues and opportunities. # Virtualization of machines, networks, and storage. # Programming languages and environments. # I/O, file systems, and data management. # Data intensive computing. # Resource management, scheduling, and load-balancing. # Performance modeling, simulation, and prediction. # Fault tolerance, reliability and availability. # Security, configuration, policy, and management issues. # Models and use cases for utility, grid, and cloud computing. Authors are invited to submit technical papers of at most 12 pages in PDF format, including all figures and references. Papers should be formatted in the ACM Proceedings Style and submitted via the conference web site. Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings, and will be incorporated into the ACM Digital Library. Papers must be self-contained and provide the technical substance required for the program committee to evaluate the paper's contribution. Papers should thoughtfully address all related work, particularly work presented at previous HPDC events. Submitted papers must be original work that has not appeared in and is not under consideration for another conference or a journal. See the ACM Prior Publication Policy for more details. Workshops ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We invite proposals for workshops affiliated with HPDC to be held on Wednesday, June 8th. For more information, see the Call for Workshops at http://www.hpdc.org/2011/cfw.php. Important Dates ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Workshop Proposals Due 1 October 2010 Technical Papers Due: 17 January 2011 PAPER DEADLINE EXTENDED: 24 January 2011 (No further extensions!) Author Notifications: 28 February 2011 Final Papers Due: 24 March 2011 Conference Dates: 8-11 June 2011 Organization ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- General Chair Barney Maccabe, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Program Chair Douglas Thain, University of Notre Dame Workshops Chair Mike Lewis, Binghamton University Local Arrangements Chair Nick Wright, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Publicity Chairs Alexandru Iosup, Delft University John Lange, University of Pittsburgh Ioan Raicu, Illinois Institute of Technology Yong Zhao, Microsoft Program Committee Kento Aida, National Institute of Informatics Henri Bal, Vrije Universiteit Roger Barga, Microsoft Jim Basney, NCSA John Bent, Los Alamos National Laboratory Ron Brightwell, Sandia National Laboratories Shawn Brown, Pittsburgh Supercomputer Center Claris Castillo, IBM Andrew A. Chien, UC San Diego and SDSC Ewa Deelman, USC Information Sciences Institute Peter Dinda, Northwestern University Scott Emrich, University of Notre Dame Dick Epema, TU-Delft Gilles Fedak, INRIA Renato Figuierdo, University of Florida Ian Foster, University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory Gabriele Garzoglio, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory Rong Ge, Marquette University Sebastien Goasguen, Clemson University Kartik Gopalan, Binghamton University Dean Hildebrand, IBM Almaden Adriana Iamnitchi, University of South Florida Alexandru Iosup, TU-Delft Keith Jackson, Lawrence Berkeley Shantenu Jha, Louisiana State University Daniel S. Katz, University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory Thilo Kielmann, Vrije Universiteit Charles Killian, Purdue University Tevfik Kosar, Louisiana State University John Lange, University of Pittsburgh Mike Lewis, Binghamton University Barney Maccabe, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Grzegorz Malewicz, Google Satoshi Matsuoka, Tokyo Institute of Technology Jarek Nabrzyski, University of Notre Dame Manish Parashar, Rutgers University Beth Plale, Indiana University Ioan Raicu, Illinois Institute of Technology Philip Rhodes, University of Mississippi Philip Roth, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Karsten Schwan, Georgia Tech Martin Swany, University of Delaware Jon Weissman, University of Minnesota Dongyan Xu, Purdue University Ken Yocum, UCSD Yong Zhao, Microsoft Steering Committee Henri Bal, Vrije Universiteit Andrew A. Chien, UC San Diego and SDSC Peter Dinda, Northwestern University Ian Foster, Argonne National Laboratory and University of Chicago Dennis Gannon, Microsoft Salim Hariri, University of Arizona Dieter Kranzlmueller, Ludwig-Maximilians-Univ. Muenchen Manish Parashar, Rutgers University Karsten Schwan, Georgia Tech Jon Weissman, University of Minnesota (Chair) -------------------------------- Dean Hildebrand Research Staff Member and Storage Systems PIC Chair IBM Almaden Research Center www.almaden.ibm.com/u/deanh From garth at cs.cmu.edu Fri Oct 29 12:36:07 2010 From: garth at cs.cmu.edu (Garth Gibson) Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 12:36:07 -0400 Subject: [Storage-research-list] Post-Doctoral Position in Exascale Computing (parallel file systems with CMU and LANL) Message-ID: Available: Post-Doctoral Position in Exascale Computing (parallel file systems). The New Mexico Consortium (NMC) is pleased to announce a post-doctoral candidate position in the NMC's Ultrascale Systems Research Center (USRC) (http://newmexicoconsortium.org/usrc). USRC is a collaboration between the NMC and LANL to engage universities and industry nationally in support of exascale research. DOE through the Office of Science ASCR program and the NNSA ASC program are working towards a national Exascale Computing program for DOE. This program has as a target to build an Exascale Computing Platform and Environment between 2018 and 2020. The position will research emerging exascale challenges in parallel file systems. The successful applicant will be co-mentored by Garth Gibson of Carnegie Mellon University and John Bent of Los Alamos National Laboratory. The candidate is expected to have expertise in data management and storage; a background in parallel computing is useful but not necessarily required. 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The workshop is co-located with the 27th IEEE Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies (MSST2011) that features a full week dedicated to "all things storage". The SNAPI 2011 workshop, held in the middle of the MSST week, will feature a full day of technical papers that showcase the latest work from the academia, the labs, and the industry. This year we would like to encourage a variety of submissions including novel idea papers, real system experience papers, as well as analysis and evaluation papers. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Caching, replication, and consistency * Energy-efficient storage * Evaluation of networked storage architectures * Experiences with real systems * File and block based network storage * Integration and evaluation of emerging storage technology * I/O quality of service * New abstractions/protocols for data, storage, and I/O * Parallel I/O * Performance, scalability, and manageability of networked storage * SSD-based storage architectures and tiered storage * Storage device and workload characterization * Storage networking * Storage reliability and failure management * Storage virtualization * Thin provisioning, consolidation, compression, and deduplication * Wide-area networked storage SUBMISSIONS INSTRUCTIONS: ------------------------- Submissions should not exceed 8 single-space pages including all text, figures, and references. Submissions must be typeset as double-column text, using no less than 10 pt font, and using a text block that does not exceed 6.5" width and 9" height. The reviewing is double-blind. Authors must not be identified in the submission either directly or indirectly. Please be careful so as to not refer to your own work in the first person or leak authorship in any way within the text of the paper. Reviewing will be performed by the members of the SNAPI?11 Program Committee. Each paper will receive at least three reviews from members of the Program Committee. The final version of the paper prepared after incorporating reviewer feedback should be submitted by April 1st, 2011. At least one author of each accepted paper will be expected to attend the workshop and present their work in a 25 minute talk. BEST PAPER AWARD: ----------------- Authors of the best paper, chosen by the Program Committee, will be presented an award at the workshop. Important dates: ---------------- * Full paper submission: January 28, 2011 * Notification of acceptance: March 4, 2011 * Final manuscripts due: April 1, 2011 * Workshop: May 25, 2011 Organization: ------------- * Program Chair: o Raju Rangaswami, Florida International University * Program Committee: o Angelos Bilas, FORTH and University of Crete o Randal Burns, Johns Hopkins University o Dan Feng, Huazhong University of Science and Technology o Dirk Grunwald, University of Colorado, Boulder o Ajay Gulati, VMware o Ron Oldfield, Sandia National Laboratory o Vijayan Prabhakaran, Microsoft Research o Himabindu Pucha, IBM Research - Almaden o A. L. Narasimha Reddy, Texas A&M University o Alma Riska, College of William and Mary o Philip Roth, Oak Ridge National Laboratory o Jiri Schindler, NetApp o Rajeev Thakur, Argonne National Laboratory o Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Pennsylvania State University o Youjip Won, Hanyang University o Ming Zhao, Florida International University * Web and Publicity Chair: o Ming Zhao, Florida International University * Steering Committee: o Qing Yang, University of Rhode Island o Hong Jiang, University of Nebraska-Lincoln o Xubin He, Tennessee Tech University SPONSORSHIP: ------------ IEEE Mass Storage Systems Technical Committee (MSSTC) Information: ------------ * SNAPI 2001 Web: http://snapi2011.cis.fiu.edu * MSST 2011 Web: http://storageconference.org * Email: snapi2011 at cis.fiu.edu -- Ming Zhao, Assistant Professor School of Computing and Information Sciences Florida International University Tel: (305) 348-2034, Fax: (305) 348-3549 Web: http://visa.cs.fiu.edu/ming From brinkman at upb.de Mon Nov 1 15:46:07 2010 From: brinkman at upb.de (Andre Brinkmann) Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2010 20:46:07 +0100 Subject: [Storage-research-list] MSST 2011 -- Paper submission is open Message-ID: <272D8505-55A3-4EDE-8DA3-6E98DA2CCD90@upb.de> Call for Papers 27th IEEE Symposium on Massive Storage Systems and Technologies ? MSST Research Track May 26th ? 27th 2011, Denver, Colorado www.storageconference.org Important Dates Paper Submission due: January 17th, 2011 Notification: February 28th, 2011 Final papers due: March 28th, 2011 Objectives The 27th IEEE Symposium on Massive Storage Systems and Technologies (MSST 2011) will be held in Denver, Colorado, from May 23rd to 27th, 2011, and offers a full week dedicated to storage technology. This year?s conference will include a two?day research track of peer?reviewed papers on the design, implementation, and analysis of storage systems on May 26th and 27th. As with prior MSST conferences, this conference will be a top?quality venue for presenting the latest research and development in storage systems and for meeting with colleagues from industry, academia, and government. We encourage the submission of research papers on the implementation, design, and analysis of file and storage systems. Specific areas of interest for MSST2011 include but are not limited to: - Performance modeling and analysis of scalable storage systems - Techniques for building extremely scalable and distributed storage systems - Exascale storage architecture and design - Parallel and Distributed File Systems - Evaluation of networked storage architectures - Scalable metadata management - Data protection and recovery - Storage security, privacy, and provenance, - Data archiving - Approaches to long-term data preservation and management - Storage in virtualized environments - Cloud storage and globally scalable storage approaches - Experience with real systems How to participate We encourage participation by individuals and organizations with research or practical experience, including government and commercial users, universities, research laboratories, and early adopters. We invite submissions of technical papers. For more information please visit http://www.storageconference.org Submission Instructions Technical Papers and Poster Presentations: Submit a full 8-14 page paper or a short 3-5 page paper online at http://www.storageconference.org by January 17th, 2011. Papers should be in two columns with 10 point font and should be in PDF. All papers will receive full, detailed reviews from at least 3 PC members, with acceptance notification provided by February 28th, 2011. Final camera-ready papers, incorporating reviewer comments, must be submitted in PDF format no later than March 28th, 2011 and must conform to the formatting standards described in the Author's Kit, which will be available at the conference site. Full 8-14 page papers will be considered for both full 30 minute presentations and the poster session; please indicate on your submission form if you do not want your paper to be considered for the poster session. Short paper submissions of 3-5 pages in length will only be considered for the poster session. Questions about technical papers may be directed to the program co-chairs, Andre Brinkmann and David Pease at brinkman at upb.de and pease at almaden.ibm.com Conference Organizers Steering Committee Sam Coleman, Lawrence Livermore Lab (retired) Merritt Jones, MITRE Consultant Ben Kobler, NASA/GSFC Ethan Miller, UC Santa Cruz Program Co-Chairs Andr? Brinkmann, University of Paderborn David Pease, IBM Almaden Research Center Program Committee Ahmed Amer, Santa Clara University John Bent, Los Alamos National Laboratory Angelos Bilas, FORTH, Crete Peter Braam, Xyratex Phil Carns, Argonne National Laboratory Toni Cortes, Barcelona Supercomputing Center Peter Desnoyers, Northeastern University Markus Draeger, Fujitsu Technology Solutions Christian Engelmann, Oak Ridge National Lab Michael Factor, IBM Haifa Research Lab Dan Feng, HUST, China Kevin Greenan, Data Domain Peter Haas, HLRS Stuttgart Xubin He, Virginia Commonwealth University Dean Hildebrand, IBM Almaden Research David Holland, Harvard University Darrell Long, UC Santa Cruz Chris Lumb, Data Domain Ethan Miller, UC Santa Cruz Matt O'Keefe, Uni. of Minnesota and BakBone Software Ron Oldfield, Sandia National Laboratory Shankar Pasupathy, NetApp Xiao Qin, Auburn University Raju Rangaswami, Florida Intern. University Avishay Traeger, IBM Hakim Weatherspoon, Cornell University Brent Welch, Panasas Felix Wolf, Juelich and Aachen Qing Yang, University of Rhode Island Erez Zadok, Stony Brook University Yifeng Zhu, University of Maine From carlosm at soe.ucsc.edu Wed Nov 3 16:00:33 2010 From: carlosm at soe.ucsc.edu (Carlos Maltzahn) Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2010 13:00:33 -0700 Subject: [Storage-research-list] PDSW 2010 Call for Posters and Participation Message-ID: <58565225-E7AC-4122-888C-2862EDC82844@soe.ucsc.edu> CALL FOR POSTERS AND PARTICIPATION 5th Petascale Data Storage Workshop http://www.pdsi-scidac.org/events/PDSW10/ Held in conjunction with SC10 and sponsored by the DOE SciDAC Petascale Data Storage Institute (PDSI) Monday, November 15, 2010 8:55 a.m. - 5:45 p.m. Rooms 384 & 385, New Orleans Convention Center, New Orleans, LA Peta- and exascale computing infrastructures make unprecedented demands on information storage capacity, performance, concurrency, reliability, availability, and manageability. This one-day workshop focuses on the data storage problems and emerging solutions found in peta- and exascale scientific computing environments, with special attention to issues in which community collaboration can be crucial, problem identification, workload capture, solution interoperability, standards with community buy-in, and shared tools. This workshop seeks contributions on relevant topics, including but not limited to: performance and benchmarking results and tools, failure tolerance problems and solutions, APIs for high performance features, parallel file systems, high bandwidth storage architectures, wide area file systems, metadata intensive workloads, autonomics for HPC storage, virtualization for storage systems, archival storage advances, resource management innovations. CALL FOR POSTERS Submissions for technical poster presentation will be considered if they include title and author list and a short abstract. Further specifications for poster production will be available on the workshop web site. Poster Submission Website: http://www2.pdl.cmu.edu/conferences/pdsw10poster/index Poster submissions due: Monday, November 8, 2010 Notification: Wednesday, November 10, 2010 PRELIMINARY AGENDA 8:55-9 Welcome: Garth Gibson, Carlos Maltzahn 9-9:45 Keynote John Shalf: Exascale Computing Hardware Challenges 9:45-10:15 Poster Session 1 10:15-11:45 Session 1: Keeping Data Self-Adjusting Two-Failure Tolerant Disk Arrays I. Corderi, Univ. Cat?lica d. Uruguay; T. Schwarz, Univ. Cat?lica d. Uruguay; A. Amer, Santa Clara U; D. Long, UC Santa Cruz; J. P?ris, University of Houston Using a Shared Storage Class Memory Device to Improve the Reliability of RAID Arrays S. Chaarawi, University of Houston; J. Paris, University of Houston; A. Amer, Santa Clara University; S. T. J. Schwarz, Universidad Cat?lica del Uruguay; D. Long, UC Santa Cruz Semantic Data Placement for Power Management in Archival Storage A. Wildani, E. Miller, UC Santa Cruz 11:45-1:15 Lunch 1:15-2:45 Session: Accessing Data Workload Characterization of a Leadership Class Storage Cluster Y. Kim, R. Gunasekaran, G. Shipman, D. Dillow, Z. Zhang, B. Settlemyer, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Performance Analysis of Commodity and Enterprise Class Flash Devices N. Master, M. Andrews, J. Hick, S. Canon, N. Wright, NERSC, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab Virtualization-based Bandwidth Management for Parallel Storage Systems Y. Xu, Florida International University; L. Wang, Florida International University; D. Clavijo, Florida International University; Y. Liu, University of Florida; R. Figueiredo, University of Florida; M. Zhao, Florida International University 2:45-3:15 Poster Session 3:15-4:45 Session: Moving Data Extracting Information ASAP! H. Abbasi, Georgia Institute of Technology; G. Eisenhauer, Georgia Institute of Technology; S. Klasky, Oak Ridge National Laboratory; K. Schwan, Georgia Institute of Technology;M. Wolf, Georgia Institute of Technology Collective Prefetching for Parallel I/O Systems Y. Chen, P. Roth, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Towards Parallel Access of Multi-dimensional, Multi-resolution Scientific Data S. Kumar, Valerio Pascucci, University of Utah; V. Vishwanath, P. Carns, R. Latham, T. Peterka, M. Papka, R. Ross, Argonne National Laboratory 4:45-5:15 Short Announcements (sign up onsite) & Town Hall Meeting 5:15-5:45 Poster Session COMMITTEE: Carlos Maltzahn, University of California, Santa Cruz John Bent, Los Alamos National Laboratory Galen Shipman, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Sage Weil, DreamHost Roger Haskin, IBM Almaden Research Center Rob Ross, Argonne National Laboratory Brent Welch, Panasas Karsten Schwan, Georgia Institute of Technology Ron A. Oldfield, Sandia National Laboratory Dean Hildebrand, IBM Almaden Research Center Yong Chen, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Peter Braam, Xyratex STEERING COMMITTEE: Phil Roth, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Evan Felix, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Peter Honeyman, University of Michigan Scott Brandt, University of California, Santa Cruz Gary Grider, Los Alamos National Laboratory Garth Gibson, Carnegie Mellon University Darrell Long, University of California, Santa Cruz John Shalf, National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center Bill Kramer, National Center for Supercomputing Applications/University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Lee Ward, Sandia National Laboratories From jdigney at cs.cmu.edu Thu Nov 4 13:54:28 2010 From: jdigney at cs.cmu.edu (Joan Digney) Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2010 11:54:28 -0600 Subject: [Storage-research-list] PDSW '10 Room change notification Message-ID: <4CD2F354.20203@cs.cmu.edu> For those of you attending the Petascale Data Storage Workshop (PDSW) at SC'10 in New Orleanson Monday, November 15, please note that the location has changed. The new location for the workshop is: Rooms 280 & 281, New Orleans Convention Center, New Orleans, LA Agenda: http://www.pdsi-scidac.org/events/PDSW10/index.html Regards, Joan -- Joan Digney Petascale Data Storage Institute Carnegie Mellon University 5000 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15213 Office: Telecommuting Voice: 403.548.6985 http://www.pdsi-scidac.org/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jack.cole at ieee.org Tue Nov 9 12:48:44 2010 From: jack.cole at ieee.org (Jack Cole) Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2010 12:48:44 -0500 Subject: [Storage-research-list] Call for Papers 27th IEEE Symposium on Massive Storage Systems and Technologies Message-ID: From: Sam Coleman Date: Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 8:38 AM Call for Papers 27th IEEE Symposium on Massive Storage Systems and Technologies ? MSST Research Track May 26th ? 27th 2011, Denver, Colorado www.storageconference.org Important Dates Paper Submission due: January 17th, 2011 Notification: February 28th, 2011 Final papers due: March 28th, 2011 Objectives The 27th IEEE Symposium on Massive Storage Systems and Technologies (MSST 2011) will be held in Denver, Colorado, from May 23rd to 27th, 2011, and offers a full week dedicated to storage technology. This year?s conference will include a two?day research track of peer?reviewed papers on the design, implementation, and analysis of storage systems on May 26th and 27th. As with prior MSST conferences, this conference will be a top?quality venue for presenting the latest research and development in storage systems and for meeting with colleagues from industry, academia, and government. We encourage the submission of research papers on the implementation, design, and analysis of file and storage systems. Specific areas of interest for MSST2011 include but are not limited to: - Performance modeling and analysis of scalable storage systems - Techniques for building extremely scalable and distributed storage systems - Exascale storage architecture and design - Parallel and Distributed File Systems - Evaluation of networked storage architectures - Scalable metadata management - Data protection and recovery - Storage security, privacy, and provenance, - Data archiving - Approaches to long-term data preservation and management - Storage in virtualized environments - Cloud storage and globally scalable storage approaches - Experience with real systems How to participate We encourage participation by individuals and organizations with research or practical experience, including government and commercial users, universities, research laboratories, and early adopters. We invite submissions of technical papers. For more information please visit http://www.storageconference.org Submission Instructions Technical Papers and Poster Presentations: Submit a full 8-14 page paper or a short 3-5 page paper online at http://www.storageconference.org < http://www.storageconference.org/> by January 17th, 2011. Papers should be in two columns with 10 point font and should be in PDF. All papers will receive full, detailed reviews from at least 3 PC members, with acceptance notification provided by February 28th, 2011. Final camera-ready papers, incorporating reviewer comments, must be submitted in PDF format no later than March 28th, 2011 and must conform to the formatting standards described in the Author's Kit, which will be available at the conference site. Full 8-14 page papers will be considered for both full 30 minute presentations and the poster session; please indicate on your submission form if you do not want your paper to be considered for the poster session. Short paper submissions of 3-5 pages in length will only be considered for the poster session. Questions about technical papers may be directed to the program co-chairs, Andre Brinkmann and David Pease at brinkman at upb.de andpease at almaden.ibm.com Conference Organizers Steering Committee Sam Coleman, Lawrence Livermore Lab (retired) Merritt Jones, MITRE Consultant Ben Kobler, NASA/GSFC Ethan Miller, UC Santa Cruz Program Co-Chairs Andr? Brinkmann, University of Paderborn David Pease, IBM Almaden Research Center Program Committee Ahmed Amer, Santa Clara University John Bent, Los Alamos National Laboratory Angelos Bilas, FORTH, Crete Peter Braam, Xyratex Phil Carns, Argonne National Laboratory Toni Cortes, Barcelona Supercomputing Center Peter Desnoyers, Northeastern University Markus Draeger, Fujitsu Technology Solutions Christian Engelmann, Oak Ridge National Lab Michael Factor, IBM Haifa Research Lab Dan Feng, HUST, China Kevin Greenan, Data Domain Peter Haas, HLRS Stuttgart Xubin He, Virginia Commonwealth University Dean Hildebrand, IBM Almaden Research David Holland, Harvard University Darrell Long, UC Santa Cruz Chris Lumb, Data Domain Ethan Miller, UC Santa Cruz Matt O'Keefe, Uni. of Minnesota and BakBone Software Ron Oldfield, Sandia National Laboratory Shankar Pasupathy, NetApp Xiao Qin, Auburn University Raju Rangaswami, Florida Intern. 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URL: From ganger at ece.cmu.edu Sun Dec 12 17:43:47 2010 From: ganger at ece.cmu.edu (Greg Ganger) Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2010 17:43:47 -0500 (EST) Subject: [Storage-research-list] USENIX FAST '11 Registration Now Open (fwd) Message-ID: Folks, please see the notice below... we hope to see you at FAST in February. Greg ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 17:04:22 -0500 From: Greg Ganger To: Greg Ganger Subject: USENIX FAST '11 Registration Now Open Dear Greg, We are writing to invite you to attend the 9th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '11), February 15-17, 2011, in San Jose, California. http://www.usenix.org/fast11/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 '11 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 15, the four all new half-day tutorials give you the opportunity to learn from leaders in the storage industry: * Storage in Virtual Environments Mostafa Khalil, VMware * Clustered and Parallel Storage System Technologies Brent Welch, Panasas * Cloud Storage Systems Benjamin Reed, Yahoo! Research; Prasenjit Sarkar, IBM Research * System Design Impacts of Storage Technology Trends Steven R. Hetzler, IBM Almaden Research Center The tutorials are offered at "buy one get one free" discount. Find out more at http://www.usenix.org/events/fast11/tutorials/ Beginning on Wednesday, February 16, the action-packed two-day technical program includes 20 technical papers, Work-in-Progress reports (WiPs), and two poster sessions. The papers describe outstanding work in the area, with topics including flash storage, deduplication, specializing storage, scaling, and more. The FAST technical program will also include a Work-in-Progress session and two poster sessions to foster detailed technical interactions between participants. Find out more at http://www.usenix.org/events/fast11/activities.html FAST '11 promises to be an exciting conference presenting leading examples of current research and a strong vision of the future of file and storage technologies. Please register by January 31, 2011, for the greatest savings. Additional discounts are available at http://www.usenix.org/events/fast11/discounts.html We hope you will join us in San Jose. On behalf of the FAST '11 Program Committee, Greg Ganger, Carnegie Mellon University John Wilkes, Google FAST '11 Program Co-Chairs fast11chairs at usenix.org Please RSVP by clicking on one of the links below: Yes, I'd like to attend: https://db.usenix.org/cgi-bin/Conference/fast11/reg.cgi No, I'm unable to attend: http://usenix.cvent.com/d/hr-o0xCEsEq0Xlz3GRbZuQ/17sz/P1/3Z? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 9th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '11) February 15-17, 2011 San Jose, CA http://www.usenix.org/fast11/proga Early Bird Registration Deadline: January 31, 2011 Sponsored by USENIX in cooperation with ACM SIGOPS ------------------------------------------------------------------------ About this mailing list: USENIX never shares, sells, rents, or exchanges email addresses of its members or conference attendees. We would like to continue sending you occasional email announcements like this one. However, if you no longer want to receive emails from USENIX, please click the link below. http://usenix.cvent.com/d/ur5yB2fHzEu56gqHgjaJUg/17sz/E1/8D If you have any questions about the mailing list, please send emailto office at usenix.org. We may also be reached via postal mail at: USENIX Association 2560 9th Street, Suite 215 Berkeley CA 94710 Powered by Cvent From jnunez at lanl.gov Sun Dec 12 23:16:17 2010 From: jnunez at lanl.gov (James Nunez) Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2010 21:16:17 -0700 Subject: [Storage-research-list] 2nd Annual Non-Volatile Memories Workshop 2011 Message-ID: <4D059E11.3010508@lanl.gov> We apologize if you have received more than one copy of this message. The submission deadline for presentation abstracts is quickly approaching. ---------------------------------------- Call for Papers: The 2nd Annual Non-Volatile Memories Workshop http://nvmw.ucsd.edu 2nd Non-Volatile Memories Workshop March 6-8, 2011 La Jolla, California, USA Organizers Steven Swanson, UCSD CSE Paul Siegel, UCSD ECE/CMRR The 2nd Annual Non-Volatile Memories Workshop (NVMW 2011) provides a unique showcase for outstanding research on solid state, non-volatile memories. It features a "vertically integrated" program that includes presentations on devices, data encoding, systems architecture, and applications related to these exciting new data storage technologies. The inaugural workshop (NVMW 2010) included 29 speakers from top universities, industrial research labs, and device manufacturers and attracted 130 attendees. (An archival website for NVMW 2010 can be found at http://nvmw.ucsd.edu/2010.) NVMW 2011 will build on this success, offering an expanded technical program intended for a wider audience. The organizing committee is soliciting presentations on any topic related to non-volatile, solid state memories, including: * Advances in memory devices or memory cell design. * Characterization of commercial or experimental memory devices. * Error correction and data encoding schemes for non-volatile memories. * Advances in non-volatile memory-based storage systems. * New applications of non-volatile memories. * Operating system and file system designs for non-volatile memories * Non-volatile storage system performance measurements. * Security and reliability of solid-state storage systems. The goal is to facilitate the exchange of the latest ideas, insights, and knowledge that can propel future progress. To that end, presentations may include new results or work that has already been published during the 18 months prior to the submission deadline. In lieu of printed proceedings, we will post the slides and extended abstracts of the presentations online. Presentation of new work at the workshop does not preclude future publication. Workshop submissions should be in the form of a 2-page presentation abstract. Submissions will be evaluated on the basis of impact, novelty, and general interest. The submission deadline is December 17, 2010, with notification of acceptance by January 31, 2011. Further details on abstract submission, technical program, tutorials, travel, social program, and travel grants will be provided at the workshop website: http://nvmw.ucsd.edu Important Dates Submission Deadline: December 17, 2010 Notification of Acceptance: January 31, 2011 Programming Committee Al Borchers, Google John Davis, Microsoft Research Partha Ranganathan, HP Labs Narasimha Reddy, Texas A&M Moin Qureshi, IBM Alexander Driskill-Smith, Grandis Bipin Rajendran, IBM Janice Nickel, HP Luis Lastras, IBM Xinmiao Zhang, Case Western Shuki Bruck, CalTech Andrew Jiang, Texas A&M Simon Litsyn, SanDisk Allan Snavely, San Diego Supercomputing Center James Nunez, LANL Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau, U. Wisconsin, Madison Vijayan Prabhakaran, Microsoft Research Bongki Moon, U. Arizona Shimin Chin, Intel Research -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ James A. Nunez Los Alamos National Labs HPC-5 - High Performance Computing Systems Integration Group E-mail: jnunez at lanl.gov Phone: (505) 667 - 7018 Fax: (505) 664 - 0172 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From jdigney at cs.cmu.edu Wed Dec 15 17:26:50 2010 From: jdigney at cs.cmu.edu (Joan Digney) Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 15:26:50 -0700 Subject: [Storage-research-list] Fwd: Auto-discard notification Message-ID: <4D0940AA.1000202@cs.cmu.edu> Forwarded for Paula Ta-Shma -------------- next part -------------- An embedded message was scrubbed... From: Alan Mislove Subject: 2nd CFP | SYSTOR 2011 - The 4th Annual International Systems and Storage Conference Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 23:46:23 -0500 Size: 14612 URL: From zhaom at cis.fiu.edu Fri Dec 17 23:16:59 2010 From: zhaom at cis.fiu.edu (Ming Zhao) Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2010 23:16:59 -0500 Subject: [Storage-research-list] CFP: 8th International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC2011) Message-ID: <4D0C35BB.90202@cis.fiu.edu> Dear members in the storage research committee: The following conference (ICAC2011) would be a very good venue for publishing papers on storage management, and autonomic storage etc. Best regards, Ming ======================================================================== Call for Papers The 8th International Conference on Autonomic Computing ICAC 2011 http://icac2011.cs.fiu.edu June 14-18th, 2011 Karlsruhe, Germany ======================================================================== Update: ------- * Submission site is open: https://www.softconf.com/b/icac2011/ Scope: ------ ICAC is the leading conference on autonomic computing applications, technology and foundations. Autonomic computing refers to methods and means for reducing the human burden of managing computing systems. Systems introducing new autonomic features are becoming increasingly prevalent, motivating research that spans a variety of areas, from computer systems, architecture, databases and networks to machine learning, control theory, and bio-inspired computing. ICAC brings together researchers and practitioners across these disciplines to address the multiple facets of adaptation and self-management in computing systems and applications from different perspectives. Autonomic computing solutions are sought for grids, clouds, enterprise software, data centers, Internet services, embedded systems, and sensor networks, where resources and applications must be managed to maximize performance and minimize cost, while maintaining predictable and reliable behavior in the face of varying workloads, failures, and malicious threats. Papers are solicited from all areas of autonomic computing, along three main thrusts: * Applications of autonomic computing: Systems contributions and experiences are sought with prototyped or deployed systems and applications that focus on advancing system independence and increasing system ability to adapt to an unpredictable environment. Application areas include but are not limited to: - Enterprise applications - Clouds and grids - Internet services - Data center or large-scale system management - Embedded and mobile systems - Energy management - Sensor networks, especially issues related to autonomous, distributed management - Internet of things - Other applications of autonomic computing to real problems in science, engineering, business and society. * Autonomic computing components and services: Papers are sought that describe protocols, system-level support, services, or application components that enhance aspects of system autonomy, self-management, self-tuning, self-configuration, self-diagnosis, and self-healing, or improve adaptive capabilities. Examples include: - Autonomic management of resources, workloads, faults, power/thermal, and other challenges. - Management of quality of service, including security and dependability - Self-managing components, such as servers, storage, network protocols, or specific application elements - Monitoring systems for autonomic computing - Virtual machine, operating systems, hardware or application support for autonomic computing - Novel human interfaces for monitoring and controlling autonomic systems - Management topics, such as specification and modeling of service-level agreements, behavior enforcement and tie-in with IT governance. - Toolkits, frameworks, principles and architectures, from software engineering practices and experimental methodologies to agent-based techniques and virtualization. * Algorithms, theory and foundations of autonomic computing: Analytic foundations are solicited for building efficient autonomic systems, predicting their behavior, quantifying their performance, analyzing their stability, guaranteeing their specifications, or optimizing their efficacy. These include: - Decision and analysis techniques and their use, such as machine learning, control theory, predictive methods, emergent behavior, self- organizing networks, rule-based systems and bio-inspired techniques - Fundamental science and theory of self-managing systems: understanding, controlling or exploiting system behaviors to enforce autonomic properties - Algorithms, analysis and theory for performance guarantees - Foundations of self-diagnostic systems Papers will be judged on originality, significance, interest, correctness, clarity and relevance to the broader community. Papers in the first two thrusts should report on experiences, measurements, user studies, or other evaluations, as appropriate. Evaluations of a prototype or large-scale deployment of autonomic systems and applications is expected. Papers in the third thrust should provide new fundamental insights into relevant autonomic computing problems. Full papers (a maximum of 10 pages) and posters (2 pages) are invited on a wide variety of topics relating to autonomic computing. Submitted papers must be original work, and may not be under consideration for another conference or journal. Complete formatting and submission instructions can be found on the conference web site. Accepted papers and posters will appear in proceedings distributed at the conference and available electronically. Authors of accepted papers and posters are expected to present their work at the conference. Important dates: ---------------- * Submission Deadline: January 8th, 2011 * Notification Deadline: March 15th, 2011 * FFinal Manuscript: April 4th, 2011 * Workshop Proposals: October 15th, 2010 Organization: ------------- * General Chair: o Hartmut Schmeck, KIT * Program Chair: o Joseph Hellerstein, Google o Tarek Abdelzaher, UIUC * Industry Chair: o Eno Thereska, Microsoft Research * Workshops Chair: o Tom Holvoet, KU Leuven * Posters/Demo/Exhibits Chair: o Michael Beigl, KIT * Publicity Chair: o Ming Zhao, Florida International University * Program Committee: o Michael Beigl, KIT, Germany o Umesh Bellur, IIT, India o Fabian Bustamante, Northwestern University, USA o Lucy Cherkasova, HP Labs, USA o Chita Das, Penn State University, USA o Yixin Diao, IBM Research, USA o Indranil Gupta, UIUC, USA o David Hutchison, Lancaster University, UK o Ravi Iyer, UIUC, USA o Vana Kalogeraki, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece o Jeff Kephart, IBM, USA o Emre Kiciman, Microsoft Research, USA o Charles Lefurgy, IBM Research, USA o Yunhao Liu, HKUST, HK o Pedro Marron, Duisburg, Germany o Milan Milenkovic, Intel, US o Dejan Milojicic, HP Labs, USA o Priya Narasimhan, CMU, USA o Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA o Ana Radovanovic, Google, USA o Anders Robertsson, Lund, Sweden o Masoud Sadjadi, Florida International University, USA o Karsten Schwan, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA o Onn Shehory, IBM Haifa Research Lab, Israel o Prashant Shenoy, University of Massachusetts, USA o Sharad Singhal, HP Labs, USA o Mani Srivastava, UCLA, USA o Neeraj Suri, TU Darmstadt, Germany o Eno Thereska, Microsoft Research, UK o Thiemo Voigt, SICS, Sweden o Adam Wolisz, TU Berlin, Germany o Dongyan Xu, Purdue University, USA o Xiaoyun Zhu, VMware, USA For more information: --------------------- Web: http://icac2011.cs.fiu.edu Email: icac2011 at cs.fiu.edu -- Ming Zhao, Assistant Professor School of Computing and Information Sciences Florida International University Tel: (305) 348-2034, Fax: (305) 348-3549 Web: http://visa.cs.fiu.edu/ming From zhaom at cis.fiu.edu Sun Dec 19 22:30:52 2010 From: zhaom at cis.fiu.edu (Ming Zhao) Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2010 22:30:52 -0500 Subject: [Storage-research-list] SNAPI 2011 CFP: 7th IEEE International Workshop on Storage Network Architecture and Parallel I/Os Message-ID: <4D0ECDEC.9030303@cis.fiu.edu> [Just a gentle reminder that the deadline is less than two months away; Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement] ======================================================================== Call for Papers 7th IEEE International Workshop on Storage Network Architecture and Parallel I/Os (SNAPI 2011) http://snapi2011.cis.fiu.edu May 25, 2011 Denver, Colorado, USA In conjunction with the 27th IEEE Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies (MSST 2011) ======================================================================== SCOPE: ------ The 7th IEEE Storage Networking Architecture and Parallel I/O (SNAPI 2011) Workshop aims to highlight the latest research in the architecture, design, implementation, and evaluation of local and networked storage and parallel I/O systems. The workshop is co-located with the 27th IEEE Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies (MSST2011) that features a full week dedicated to "all things storage". The SNAPI 2011 workshop, held in the middle of the MSST week, will feature a full day of technical papers that showcase the latest work from the academia, the labs, and the industry. This year we would like to encourage a variety of submissions including novel idea papers, real system experience papers, as well as analysis and evaluation papers. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Caching, replication, and consistency * Energy-efficient storage * Evaluation of networked storage architectures * Experiences with real systems * File and block based network storage * Integration and evaluation of emerging storage technology * I/O quality of service * New abstractions/protocols for data, storage, and I/O * Parallel I/O * Performance, scalability, and manageability of networked storage * SSD-based storage architectures and tiered storage * Storage device and workload characterization * Storage networking * Storage reliability and failure management * Storage virtualization * Thin provisioning, consolidation, compression, and deduplication * Wide-area networked storage SUBMISSIONS INSTRUCTIONS: ------------------------- Submissions should not exceed 8 single-space pages including all text, figures, and references. Submissions must be typeset as double-column text, using no less than 10 pt font, and using a text block that does not exceed 6.5" width and 9" height. The reviewing is double-blind. Authors must not be identified in the submission either directly or indirectly. Please be careful so as to not refer to your own work in the first person or leak authorship in any way within the text of the paper. Reviewing will be performed by the members of the SNAPI?11 Program Committee. Each paper will receive at least three reviews from members of the Program Committee. The final version of the paper prepared after incorporating reviewer feedback should be submitted by April 1st, 2011. At least one author of each accepted paper will be expected to attend the workshop and present their work in a 25 minute talk. BEST PAPER AWARD: ----------------- Authors of the best paper, chosen by the Program Committee, will be presented an award at the workshop. Important dates: ---------------- * Full paper submission: January 28, 2011 * Notification of acceptance: March 4, 2011 * Final manuscripts due: April 1, 2011 * Workshop: May 25, 2011 Organization: ------------- * Program Chair: o Raju Rangaswami, Florida International University * Program Committee: o Angelos Bilas, FORTH and University of Crete o Randal Burns, Johns Hopkins University o Dan Feng, Huazhong University of Science and Technology o Dirk Grunwald, University of Colorado, Boulder o Ajay Gulati, VMware o Ron Oldfield, Sandia National Laboratory o Vijayan Prabhakaran, Microsoft Research o Himabindu Pucha, IBM Research - Almaden o A. L. Narasimha Reddy, Texas A&M University o Alma Riska, College of William and Mary o Philip Roth, Oak Ridge National Laboratory o Jiri Schindler, NetApp o Rajeev Thakur, Argonne National Laboratory o Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Pennsylvania State University o Youjip Won, Hanyang University o Ming Zhao, Florida International University * Web and Publicity Chair: o Ming Zhao, Florida International University * Steering Committee: o Qing Yang, University of Rhode Island o Hong Jiang, University of Nebraska-Lincoln o Xubin He, Tennessee Tech University SPONSORSHIP: ------------ IEEE Mass Storage Systems Technical Committee (MSSTC) Information: ------------ * SNAPI 2001 Web: http://snapi2011.cis.fiu.edu * MSST 2011 Web: http://storageconference.org * Email: snapi2011 at cis.fiu.edu From jdigney at cs.cmu.edu Tue Dec 21 11:18:00 2010 From: jdigney at cs.cmu.edu (Joan Digney) Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 09:18:00 -0700 Subject: [Storage-research-list] SPAA 2011 Second Call for Papers Message-ID: <4D10D338.6050409@cs.cmu.edu> Forwarded for Andrea Richa -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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