FAST '10 2010 - 8th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies FAST '10

Website http://www.usenix.org/events/fast10/ | Edit Freely

Category FAST '10 2010

Deadline: September 10, 2009 | Date: February 23, 2010

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

Updated: 2010-06-04 19:32:22 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

February 23â?“26, 2010

San Jose, CA

Sponsored by USENIX, the Advanced Computing Systems Association, in cooperation with ACM SIGOPS

Important Dates

Paper submissions deadline: September 10, 2009, 11:59 p.m. EDT

Notification of acceptance: November 6, 2009

Final papers due: January 6, 2010

Work-in-Progress Reports/Poster Session proposals due: January 29, 2010

Conference Organizers

Program Co-Chairs

Randal Burns, Johns Hopkins University

Kimberly Keeton, Hewlett-Packard Labs

Program Committee

Patrick Eaton, EMC

Jason Flinn, University of Michigan

Gary Grider, Los Alamos National Lab

Ajay Gulati, VMware

Sudhanva Gurumurthi, University of Virginia

Dushyanth Narayanan, Microsoft Research

Jason Nieh, Columbia University

Christopher Olston, Yahoo! Research

Hugo Patterson, Data Domain

Beth Plale, Indiana University

James Plank, University of Tennessee

Erik Riedel, Seagate

Alma Riska, Seagate

Steve Schlosser, Avere Systems

Bianca Schroeder, University of Toronto

Karsten Schwan, Georgia Institute of Technology

Craig Soules, Hewlett-Packard Labs

Alan Sussman, University of Maryland

Kaladhar Voruganti, NetApp

Hakim Weatherspoon, Cornell University

Brent Welch, Panasas

Ric Wheeler, Red Hat

YuanYuan Zhou, University of California, San Diego

Tutorial Chair

David Pease, IBM Almaden Research Center

Steering Committee

Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, University of Wisconsin, Madison

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

Mary Baker, Hewlett-Packard Labs

Greg Ganger, Carnegie Mellon University

Garth Gibson, Carnegie Mellon University and Panasas

Peter Honeyman, CITI, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Darrell Long, University of California, Santa Cruz

Jai Menon, IBM Research

Erik Riedel, Seagate

Margo Seltzer, Harvard University

Chandu Thekkath, Microsoft Research

Ric Wheeler, Red Hat

John Wilkes, Google

Ellie Young, USENIX Association

Overview

The 8th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '10) brings together storage system researchers and practitioners to explore new directions in the design, implementation, evaluation, and deployment of storage systems. The conference will consist of two and a half days of technical presentations, including refereed papers, Work-in-Progress reports, and a poster session.

Topics

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

Designs with solid state devices

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

Storage management

Storage networking

Storage security

Virtualization

Web 2.0 storage infrastructure

Deadline and Submission Instructions

Submissions must be made electronically via this Web form. The Web form asks for contact information for the paper and allows for the submission of your full paper file in PDF format. Please do not email submissions.

Submissions must be full papers (no extended abstracts) and must be no longer than twelve (12) pages, excluding references. Your paper should be typeset in two-column format in 10 point type on 12 point (single-spaced) leading, with the text block being no more than 6.5" wide by 9" deep. Submissions longer than this will not be reviewed.

All submissions must be readable in black and white. Please take care not to produce graphs or charts in color.

Authors must not be identified in the submissions, either explicitly or by implication (e.g., through the references or acknowledgments). Blind reviewing of full papers will be done by the program committee, assisted by outside referees. Accepted papers will be shepherded through an editorial review process by a member of the program committee.

Simultaneous submission of the same work to multiple venues, submission of previously published work, or plagiarism constitutes dishonesty or fraud. USENIX, like other scientific and technical conferences and journals, prohibits these practices and may, on the recommendation of a program chair, take action against authors who have committed them. In some cases, program committees may share information about submitted papers with other conference chairs and journal editors to ensure the integrity of papers under consideration. If a violation of these principles is found, sanctions may include, but are not limited to, barring the authors from submitting to or participating in USENIX conferences for a set period, contacting the authors' institutions, and publicizing the details of the case.

Authors uncertain whether their submission meets USENIX's guidelines should contact the program co-chairs, fast10chairsusenix.org, or the USENIX office, submissionspolicyusenix.org.

Papers accompanied by nondisclosure agreement forms will not be considered. Accepted submissions will be treated as confidential prior to publication on the USENIX Web site; rejected submissions will be permanently treated as confidential.

All papers will be available online to registered attendees prior to the conference and will be available online to everyone starting on February 24, 2010.

If your accepted paper should not be published prior to the event, please notify productionusenix.org.

If the conference registration will pose a hardship for the presenter of the accepted paper, please contact conferenceusenix.org.

Best Paper Awards

Awards will be given for the best paper(s) at the conference.

Work-in-Progress Reports and Poster Session

The FAST technical sessions will include slots for Work-in-Progress Reports presenting preliminary results and "outrageous" opinion statements and for a poster session. We are particularly interested in presentations of student work. Please send WiP submissions to fast10wipsusenix.org.

Birds-of-a-Feather Sessions

Birds-of-a-Feather sessions (BoFs) are informal gatherings organized by attendees interested in a particular topic. BoFs will be held in the evening. BoFs may be scheduled in advance by emailing the Conference Department at bofsusenix.org. BoFs may also be scheduled at the conference.

Tutorial Sessions

Tutorial sessions will be held before the main conference. Please send tutorial proposals to fasttutorialsusenix.org.