[Storage-research-list] FINAL CALL FOR PAPER: Storage Summit

[Khin Mi Mi Aung (DSI)]

Storage System, Hard Disk and Solid State Technologies Summit
http://www.dsi.a-star.edu.sg/events/microsite/Pages/dct.aspx
November 1, 2012
Singapore

Call for papers
The Inaugural Storage System, Hard Disk and Solid State Technologies Summit will be held in conjunction with the APMRC 2012 on November 1, 2012. It serves as an international forum to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to share and discuss cutting-edge research on storage devices and systems.

Topics
Papers that illustrate novel ideas, real system experiences, as well as detailed analyses and evaluations, are welcome. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
* Large Scale Storage System
* Storage Subsystem
* Storage System Performance, Scalability and Reliability * Storage Security and Data Protection * Shingled Write Disk * Architecture and Applications of Solid State Storage * Hybrid Hard Drive * Data Centre Network * Cloud Storage

The length of each submission is limited to 8 pages, inclusive of figures and references. Please use the template for submission. A submission may present preliminary results, propose a new research direction, provide insightful retrospective, or offer a provocative viewpoint on an important systems topic. Papers will be selected based on their originality, technical merit, clarity, and technical relevance. Accepted papers will appear in the proceedings of the APMRC conference, which will be published in the IEEE Explore. Selected papers will be published in the journal of IEEE Transactions on Magnetics based on peer review. The authors should not have substantially similar work in review anywhere else.

Papers must be submitted by email to apmrc2012 at dsi.a-star.edu.sg.

Important Deadlines
Full paper submission deadline: 26 August, 2012

Notification of acceptance date: 21 September, 2012

Camera ready submission deadline: 30 September, 2012

Summit Organizing Committee
Honorary Chair:
Hu Yoshida, CTO, Hitachi Data System

Conference Co-chairs:
Peter Honeyman, University of Michigan
Yong Khai Leong, Data Storage Institute

Technical Program Chair:
Feng Dan, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China

Program Committee:
Chunxiao Xing, Tsinghua University,
China Dean Hildebrand, IBM Research, Almaden Dejan Milojicic, HP Labs, Palo Alto, USA Hong Jiang, University of Nebraska Lincoln, USA Koh Eng Kiat, Data Storage Institute LingFang Zeng, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Randal Burns, Johns Hopkins University Sorin Faibish, EMC Xubin He, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA Yafei Dai, Peking University, China Zhenquan Xu, Wuhan University, China

Keynote Speaker
Garth A. Gibson
Professor, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, and Co-Founder and Chief Scientist, Panasas Inc.

Garth Gibson holds a Bachelor of Mathematics from the University of Waterloo, Canada, and a Masters and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley, USA. His research on Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks (RAID) has been awarded the 1998 SIGMOD Test of Time Award, the 1999 Allan Newell Award for Research Excellence, the 1999 IEEE Reynold B. Johnson Information Storage Award for outstanding contributions in the field of information storage, 2011 entrance into the ACM SIGOPS Hall of Fame and the 2012 IFIP WG10.4 Jean-Claude Laprie Award in Dependable Computing. Gibson founded Carnegie Mellon University's Parallel Data Laboratory (www.pdl.cmu.edu) and was a founding member of the Technical Council of the Storage Networking Industry Association and the USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technology Steering Committee. At Panasas (www.panasas.com) Gibson led the development of high-performance, scalable, parallel, file-system appliances in use in High-Performance Computing in national labs, academic clouds, energy research, engineered manufacturing and life sciences. Gibson instigated standardizing key features of parallel file systems in NFSv4.1 (parallel NFS), now adopted and deployed in Linux. His 1995 Network-Attached Secure Disks (NASD) led to the ANSI T10 (SCSI) Object Storage Device (OSD) command set now adopted and deployed in Linux. His students have gone on to co-author influential systems such as the Google File System and BigTable, and to lead the technology development of influential products such as EMC's Data Domain. His collaboration with Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) led to the Parallel Log-structured File System (PLFS), an open source project speeding up highly concurrent file writing by up to two orders of magnitude and in production use at LANL.

Title: Storage Systems Issues for Shingled Magnetic Recording

Abstract: A promising strategy for increasing the areal density of magnetic disk drives through the coming decade is to shingle (partially overlap) adjacent tracks, imposing significant restrictions on where data can be written without incurring multi-track read-modify-write penalties. These restrictions and penalties can be 1) fully hidden from system software using techniques familiar in NAND Flash disks; 2) minimally exposed as multi-track, shingled bands of predetermined size that can be read normally, but only appended to or trimmed (erased); or 3) maximally exposed as dynamically sized bands of shingles separated by guard regions of previously erased tracks, allowing maximal capacity to be obtained by the most sophisticated system software. While the latter options require significant changes in system software, there is a rich history of demonstrations of log-structured file systems that should be able to do this, and a profusion of write-once cloud storage and archive systems that could provide the economic "killer applications." Now is a good time for systems software experts to take interest and weigh in as magnetic disk technologists are experimenting with shingled disks. Experience shows that the interface model for magnetic disks can take decades to change (for example, 512B to 4096B sectors) unless device vendors and systems software developers work together toward mutually desirable principles of operation.

Invited Speakers


Katsuhiko Nishikawa
Senior Director, IT Systems Laboratories, Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd.

Katsuhiko Nishikawa has been with Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. for about 30 years, and has been engaged in many research and development activities on information system technology. The fastest CG accelerator and a single chip 10GbE switch were his research results. He received IPSJ (Information Processing Society of Japan) Industrial Achievement Award on the 10GbE switch in 2004. His recent research area is about large scale storage system. He is a member of the Institute of Image Information and Television Engineers (ITE) of Japan.

Title: Dynamic Storage Platform for Accumulating and Utilizing Huge-scale Data
Abstract: The environment which surrounds storage system has been dramatically changing. Emergence of huge-scale data analysis and new storage devices such as storage class memories is its example. Looking these phenomena from a storage platform viewpoint, movement of an all-in-one storage platform including from storage devices to analytical middleware has been getting popularity. This topic will cover our research activity about new storage platform based on our resource pool technology by which a system can be flexibly configured according to user applications. Distributed object storage technology that efficiently accumulates and utilizes huge-scale data will also be covered.


Naoto Matsunami
General Manager of Information Platform Research Center, Yokohama Research Laboratory, Hitachi, Ltd.

Naoto Matsunami has more than 20 years of experience in researching and developing storage systems. He developed a disk storage system based on RAID technology for the first time in Japan, and also developed a midrange-class storage system in 1998 which led to the global expansion of its business. Additionally, Matsunami contributed to an enterprise-class storage system in 2004 with Hitachi's original crossbar switch storage architecture and world's first enterprise-class storage virtualization feature. Now he leads research efforts in the area of information platform for creating sophisticated social infrastructure based on information technology. He is a member of the Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ).

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Summit Program
Thursday, 1st November 2012
0800-0900        Registration
0900-1000        Opening Speech and Keynote
1000-1030        Tea break
1030-1200        Invited Speaker and Technical papers
1200-1330        Lunch
1330-1500        Invited Speaker and Technical papers
1500-1530        Tea break
1530-1700        Invited Speaker and Technical papers
1830-2200        DSI 20th Anniversary Dinner

Registration
Click here to download the Storage System, Hard Disk and Solid State Technologies Summit registration form.
Please fill out the registration form and
- fax it to 65-6512-7796,
or
- email the scanned copy to apmrc2012 at dsi.a-star.edu.sg.

Registration Fees
Advanced registration (by 15 October 2012):
- S$350 for IEEE/DSI Corp. member
- S$450 for Non-member
- S$100 for Student

Regular registration (after 15 October 2012):
- S$450 for IEEE/DSI Corp. member
- S$550 for Non-member
- S$200 for Student

Entitlements:
- DSI 20th Anniversary Dinner (1 November 2012) **
- Admission to Storage System, Hard Disk and Solid State Technologies Summit
- Daily Coffee Breaks and Lunch
- Conference Digests

**OPTIONAL:
- A fee of S$200 is chargeable for each spouse/partner who wishes to attend the DSI 20th Anniversary Dinner.
- A fee of S$150 is chargeable for each student who wishes to attend the DSI 20th Anniversary Dinner.
- A fee of S$80 is chargeable for each additional Conference Digest.


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