SNAPI 2011 - 7th IEEE International Workshop on Storage Network Architecture and Parallel I/Os (SNAPI 2011)

The 7th IEEE Storage Networking Architecture and Parallel I/O (SNAPI 2011) Workshop aims to highlight the latest research in the architecture, design, implementation, and evaluation of local and networked storage and parallel I/O systems. The workshop is co-located with the 27th IEEE Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies (MSST2011) that features a full week dedicated to "all things storage". The SNAPI 2011 workshop, held in the middle of the MSST week, will feature a full day of technical papers that showcase the latest work from the academia, the labs, and the industry.

Topics This year we would like to encourage a variety of submissions including novel idea papers, real system experience papers, as well as analysis and evaluation papers. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Caching, replication, and consistency - Energy-efficient storage - Evaluation of networked storage architectures - Experiences with real systems - File and block based network storage - Integration and evaluation of emerging storage technology - I/O quality of service - New abstractions/protocols for data, storage, and I/O - Parallel I/O - Performance, scalability, and manageability of networked storage - SSD-based storage architectures and tiered storage - Storage device and workload characterization - Storage networking - Storage reliability and failure management - Storage virtualization - Thin provisioning, consolidation, compression, and deduplication - Wide-area networked storage