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

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