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TECHNICAL SESSIONS
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| Conference full papers and full proceedings are available to conference registrants immediately and to everyone beginning Wednesday, February 15. Everyone can view the abstracts and the proceedings front matter immediately. |
Proceedings Front Matter:
Title Page and List of Organizers |
Table of Contents |
Message from the Program Co-Chairs|
Errata Slip
Complete Proceedings (PDF)
NEW! E-Book Proceedings: Read the proceedings on the go in iPad-friendly EPUB format or Kindle-friendly Mobipocket format.
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| Tech Sessions: Wednesday, February 15 | Thursday, February 16 | Friday, February 17
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Wednesday, February 15 |
| 8:30 a.m.–9:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast |
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| 9:00 a.m.–9:20 a.m. |
Wednesday |
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Opening Remarks and Best Paper Awards
FAST '12 Program Co-Chairs: William J. Bolosky, Microsoft Research; Jason Flinn, University of Michigan
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| 9:20 a.m.–10:30 a.m. |
Wednesday |
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Implications of New Storage Technology
Session Chair: Raju Rangaswami, Florida International University
De-indirection for Flash-based SSDs with Nameless Writes
Yiying Zhang, Leo Prasath Arulraj, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, and Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau, University of Wisconsin—Madison
Read the Abstract | Full paper | Updated full paper, 2/7/12
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The Bleak Future of NAND Flash Memory
Laura M. Grupp, University of California, San Diego; John D. Davis, Microsoft Research, Mountain View; Steven Swanson, University of California, San Diego
Read the Abstract | Full paper | Updated full paper, 2/6/12 | Updated full paper, 2/8/12
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When Poll Is Better than Interrupt
Jisoo Yang, Dave B. Minturn, and Frank Hady, Intel Corporation
Read the Abstract | Full paper
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| 10:30 a.m.–11:00 a.m. Break |
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| 11:00 a.m.–12:20 p.m. |
Wednesday |
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Back It Up
Session Chair: Arkady Kanevsky, Dell
Characteristics of Backup Workloads in Production Systems
Grant Wallace, Fred Douglis, Hangwei Qian, Philip Shilane, Stephen Smaldone, Mark Chamness, and Windsor Hsu, EMC Corporation
Read the Abstract | Full paper | Updated full paper, 2/7/12 | Updated full paper, 2/9/12
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WAN Optimized Replication of Backup Datasets Using Stream-Informed Delta Compression
Philip Shilane, Mark Huang, Grant Wallace, and Windsor Hsu, EMC Corporation
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Power Consumption in Enterprise-Scale Backup Storage Systems
Zhichao Li, Stony Brook University; Kevin M. Greenan and Andrew W. Leung, EMC Corporation; Erez Zadok, Stony Brook University
Read the Abstract | Full paper
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| 12:20 p.m.–2:00 p.m. Conference Luncheon |
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Presentation of the 2012 FAST Test of Time Award
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| 2:00 p.m.–3:30 p.m. |
Wednesday |
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File System Design and Correctness
Session Chair: Atul Adya, Google, Inc.
Awarded Best Paper!
Recon: Verifying File System Consistency at Runtime
Daniel Fryer, Kuei Sun, Rahat Mahmood, TingHao Cheng, Shaun Benjamin, Ashvin Goel, and Angela Demke Brown, University of Toronto
Read the Abstract | Full paper | Updated full paper, 2/16/12
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Understanding Performance Implications of Nested File Systems in a Virtualized Environment
Duy Le, The College of William and Mary; Hai Huang, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center; Haining Wang, The College of William and Mary
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Consistency Without Ordering
Vijay Chidambaram, Tushar Sharma, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, and Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Read the Abstract | Full paper
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| 3:30 p.m.–4:00 p.m. Break |
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| 4:00 p.m.–5:20 p.m. |
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Flash and SSDs, Part I
Session Chair: John Bent, EMC
Reducing SSD Read Latency via NAND Flash Program and Erase Suspension
Guanying Wu and Xubin He, Virginia Commonwealth University
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Optimizing NAND Flash-Based SSDs via Retention Relaxation
Ren-Shuo Liu and Chia-Lin Yang, National Taiwan University; Wei Wu, Intel Corporation
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SFS: Random Write Considered Harmful in Solid State Drives
Changwoo Min, Sungkyunkwan University and Samsung Electronics; Kangnyeon Kim, Sungkyunkwan University; Hyunjin Cho, Samsung Electronics; Sang-Won Lee and Young Ik Eom, Sungkyunkwan University
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| 5:20 p.m.–5:30 p.m. Short Break |
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| 5:30 p.m.–7:30 p.m. | |
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Poster Session and Reception I
The poster session will allow researchers to present recent and ongoing projects and will include posters for today's papers. Enjoy dinner and drinks while chatting with poster presenters and mingling with other attendees, speakers, and conference organizers. Find out how to submit a poster here.
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| Wednesday, February 15 | Friday, February 17
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Thursday, February 16 |
| 8:30 a.m.–9:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast |
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| 9:00 a.m.–10:20 a.m. |
Thursday |
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OS Techniques
Session Chair: Lakshmi N. Bairavasundaram, NetApp
FIOS: A Fair, Efficient Flash I/O Scheduler
Stan Park and Kai Shen, University of Rochester
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Shredder: GPU-Accelerated Incremental Storage and Computation
Pramod Bhatotia and Rodrigo Rodrigues, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS); Akshat Verma, IBM Research—India
Read the Abstract | Full paper | Updated full paper, 2/5/12
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Adding Advanced Storage Controller Functionality via Low-Overhead Virtualization
Muli Ben-Yehuda, Michael Factor, Eran Rom, and Avishay Traeger, IBM Research—Haifa; Eran Borovik and Ben-Ami Yassour
Read the Abstract | Full paper | Updated full paper, 2/2/12
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| 10:20 a.m.–10:50 a.m. Break |
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| 10:50 a.m.–12:20 p.m. |
Thursday |
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Mobile and Social
Session Chair: Daniel Peek, Facebook
ZZFS: A Hybrid Device and Cloud File System for Spontaneous Users
Michelle L. Mazurek, Carnegie Mellon University; Eno Thereska, Dinan Gunawardena, Richard Harper, and James Scott, Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK
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Awarded Best Paper!
Revisiting Storage for Smartphones
Hyojun Kim, Nitin Agrawal, and Cristian Ungureanu, NEC Laboratories America
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Serving Large-scale Batch Computed Data with Project Voldemort
Roshan Sumbaly, Jay Kreps, Lei Gao, Alex Feinberg, Chinmay Soman, and Sam Shah, LinkedIn Corp.
Read the Abstract | Full paper
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| 12:20 p.m.–2:00 p.m. Lunch (on your own) |
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| 2:00 p.m.–3:30 p.m. |
Thursday |
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Work-in-Progress Reports (WiPs)
Session Chair: James Mickens, Microsoft Research
WiPs are the traditional short (5-minute) talks that expose a new idea or project. See the accepted WiPs.
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| 3:30 p.m.–4:00 p.m. Break |
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| 4:00 p.m.–5:20 p.m. |
Thursday |
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Cloud
Session Chair: Theodore Wong, IBM Research
BlueSky: A Cloud-Backed File System for the Enterprise
Michael Vrable, Stefan Savage, and Geoffrey M. Voelker, University of California, San Diego
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Rethinking Erasure Codes for Cloud File Systems: Minimizing I/O for Recovery and Degraded Reads
Osama Khan and Randal Burns, Johns Hopkins University; James Plank and William Pierce, University of Tennessee; Cheng Huang, Microsoft Research
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NCCloud: Applying Network Coding for the Storage Repair in a Cloud-of-Clouds
Yuchong Hu, Henry C.H. Chen, and Patrick P.C. Lee, The Chinese University of Hong Kong; Yang Tang, Columbia University
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| 5:20 p.m.–5:30 p.m. Short Break |
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Poster Session and Reception II
Join us for a second evening of dinner, drinks, and the opportunity to learn about new or ongoing work. This second poster session will have different posters from last night's session and will include posters for the Thursday papers and WiPs, providing an opportunity for follow-up with speakers. Find out how to submit a poster here.
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| Wednesday, February 15 | Thursday, February 16
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Friday, February 17 |
| 8:30 a.m.–9:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast |
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| 9:00 a.m.–10:20 a.m. |
Friday |
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A Little Bit of Everything
Session Chair: Randal Burns, Johns Hopkins University
Extracting Flexible, Replayable Models from Large Block Traces
V. Tarasov and S. Kumar, Stony Brook University; J. Ma, Harvey Mudd College; D. Hildebrand and A. Povzner, IBM Almaden Research; G. Kuenning, Harvey Mudd College; E. Zadok, Stony Brook University
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scc: Cluster Storage Provisioning Informed by Application Characteristics and SLAs
Harsha V. Madhyastha, University of California, Riverside; John C. McCullough, George Porter, Rishi Kapoor, Stefan Savage, Alex C. Snoeren, and Amin Vahdat, University of California, San Diego
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iDedup: Latency-aware, Inline Data Deduplication for Primary Storage
Kiran Srinivasan, Tim Bisson, Garth Goodson, and Kaladhar Voruganti, NetApp, Inc.
Read the Abstract | Full paper | Updated full paper, 2/10/12
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| 10:20 a.m.–11:00 a.m. Break |
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| 11:00 a.m.–Noon |
Friday |
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Flash and SSDs, Part II
Session Chair: Mark Lillibridge, HP Labs
Caching Less for Better Performance: Balancing Cache Size and Update Cost of Flash Memory Cache in Hybrid Storage Systems
Yongseok Oh, University of Seoul; Jongmoo Choi, Dankook University; Donghee Lee, University of Seoul; Sam H. Noh, Hongik University
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Lifetime Management of Flash-Based SSDs Using Recovery-Aware Dynamic Throttling
Sungjin Lee and Taejin Kim, Seoul National University; Kyungho Kim, Samsung Electronics, Korea; Jihong Kim, Seoul National University
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