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

[Lionel Garth Jones]

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

http://www.usenix.org/fast10/proga

File systems and storage continue to be active focus areas for
researchers and technologists in operating systems, computer
architecture, distributed systems, networking, mobile computing, and
computational science. FAST '10 will bring together file and storage
specialists from all of these areas in a unified, high-quality forum.

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

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

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

* Storage and Network Deduplication Technologies - Michael Condict,  
NetApp

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

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

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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
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