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WiPs Schedule
The following WiPs will be presented on Wednesday, February 14, 3:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m. Abstracts of all reports, as well as the slides of most presentations, are available below.

On the Scalability of Storage Sub-system Back-end Network  Abstract | Slides (PDF)
Yan Li, University of Edinburgh, UK; Tim Courtney, Xyratex, UK; Roland N. Ibbett and Nigel Topham, University of Edinburgh, UK

GANESHA, A Multi-usage with Large Cache NFSv4 Server  Abstract | Slides (PDF)
Philippe Deniel, Thomas Leibovici, and Jacques-Charles Lafoucriere, CEA/DAM, France

RBF: A New Storage Structure for Space-Efficient Queries for Multidimensional Metadata in OSS  Abstract | Slides (PDF)
Yu Hua and Dan Feng, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China; Hong Jiang, University of Nebraska Lincoln, USA; Lei Tian, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China

Diamonds Are Forever, Files Are Not  Abstract | Slides (PDF)
Surendar Chandra, Ashish Gehani, and Xuwen Yu, University of Notre Dame, USA

Secure, Archival Storage with POTSHARDS  Abstract | Slides (PDF)
Mark W. Storer, Kevin M. Greenan, and Ethan L. Miller, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA; Kaladhar Voruganti, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA

SeFS: Unleashing the Power of Full-text Search on File Systems  Abstract | Slides (PDF)
George Margaritis and Stergios V. Anastasiadis, University of Ioannina, Greece

Towards a Federated Global-Scale Storage System  Abstract (text) | Slides (PDF)
Daniel Ellard and Craig Everhart, Network Appliance, USA; Renu Tewari and Manoj Naik, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA

Scaling Security for Big, Parallel File Systems  Abstract | Slides (PDF)
Andrew Leung and Ethan L. Miller, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA

Storage Performance Isolation: An Investigation of Contemporary I/O Schedulers
Abstract | Slides (PDF)
Sarala Agiri, University of Texas at El Paso, USA; Seetharami Seelam, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA; Patricia Teller, University of Texas at El Paso, USA

FlexiCache: A Flexible Interface for Customizing Linux File System Buffer Cache Replacement Policies  Abstract | Slides (PDF)
Pavan Konanki and Ali R. Butt, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA

CompulsiveFS: Making NVRAM Suitable for Extremely Reliable Storage  Abstract (PDF)
Kevin Greenan and Ethan L. Miller, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA

Performance Evaluation of RAID6 Systems  Abstract | Slides (PDF)
Yan Li, University of Edinburgh, UK; Tim Courtney, Xyratex, UK; Roland N. Ibbett and Nigel Topham, University of Edinburgh, UK

Layout-aware Exhaustive Search  Abstract | Slides (PDF)
Aravindan Raghuveer and David Du, DTC Intelligent Storage Consortium, University of Minnesota, USA

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