FAST 2012 - 10th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '12)

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Category FAST 2012

Deadline: September 20, 2011 | Date: February 14, 2012-February 17, 2012

Venue/Country: San Jose, U.S.A

Updated: 2011-03-30 14:07:55 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

February 14?17, 2012

San Jose, CA

Sponsored by USENIX in cooperation with ACM SIGOPS

Technical Sessions

Important Dates

Paper titles and abstracts due: Tuesday, September 20, 2011, 11:59 p.m. PDT

Paper submissions due: Tuesday, September 27, 2011, 11:59 p.m. PDT (Hard deadline, no extensions)

Notification of acceptance: Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Final paper files due: Monday, January 23, 2012

Conference Organizers

Program Co-Chairs

William J. Bolosky, Microsoft Research

Jason Flinn, University of Michigan

Program Committee

Atul Adya, Google, Inc.

Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau, University of Wisconsin?Madison

Lakshmi N. Bairavasundaram, NetApp

John Bent, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Randall Burns, Johns Hopkins University

Peter Desnoyers, Northeastern University

Cezary Dubnicki, 9LivesData, LLC

Arkady Kanevsky, VMware, Inc.

Kimberly Keeton, HP Labs

Mark Lillibridge, HP Labs

Darrell Long, University of California, Santa Cruz

James Mickens, Microsoft Research

Dushyanth Narayanan, Microsoft Research

David Patterson, University of California, Berkeley

Daniel Peek, Facebook

James S. Plank, University of Tennessee

Florentina Popovici, Google, Inc.

Raju Rangaswami, Florida International University

Benjamin Reed, Yahoo! Research

Jiri Schindler, NetApp

Margo Seltzer, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Keith A. Smith, NetApp

Theodore Wong, IBM Research

Junfeng Yang, Columbia University

Tutorial Chair

John Strunk, NetApp

Steering Committee

Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau, University of Wisconsin?Madison

Randal Burns, Johns Hopkins University

Greg Ganger, Carnegie Mellon University

Garth Gibson, Carnegie Mellon University and Panasas

Kimberly Keeton, HP Labs

Darrell Long, University of California, Santa Cruz

Jai Menon, IBM Research

Erik Riedel, EMC

Margo Seltzer, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Chandu Thekkath, Microsoft Research

Ric Wheeler, Red Hat

John Wilkes, Google

Ellie Young, USENIX Association

Overview

The 10th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '12) brings together storage-system researchers and practitioners to explore new directions in the design, implementation, evaluation, and deployment of storage systems. The program committee will interpret "storage systems" broadly; everything from low-level storage devices to information management is of interest. The conference will consist of technical presentations, including refereed papers, Work-in-Progress (WiP) reports, poster sessions, and tutorials.

Beginning this year, FAST will also feature a short-paper track. Short papers must represent completed work and will be reviewed to the same quality standards as full papers. They should describe smaller ideas that can be fully expressed in half the space of a full-length paper. Short papers will be published in the proceedings, and authors will be allocated a (shorter) talk slot during the conference. The program committee will not accept a full paper on the condition that it is cut down to fit in a short paper slot, nor will it invite short papers to be extended to full length. Submissions will be considered only in the category in which they are submitted.

Topics

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

Archival storage systems

Auditing 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

Key-value and "nosql" storage

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., flash, PCM)

Storage for virtualized environments

Storage management

Storage networking

Storage performance and QoS

Storage security

The challenges of "big data"