[Storage-research-list] CFP: SYSTOR 2010--The 3rd Annual Haifa Experimental Systems Conference

[James Hendricks]

                         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