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TECHNICAL PROGRAM
 
 
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All sessions will take place in Salon E unless otherwise noted. 
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Tuesday, June 14, 2011
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| 8:00 a.m.–8:45 a.m.    Morning Coffee and Tea: Served in Salon F and the Ballroom Foyer
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| 8:45 a.m.–8:50 a.m.
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 Opening Remarks
 
USENIX HotStorage '11 Program Chair: Irfan Ahmad, VMware 
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| 8:50 a.m.–10:00 a.m. | 
 
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 Panel: Big Data, No SQL, Big Problems, No Worries 
Moderator: Margo Seltzer, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences 
  
Panelists: Mark Callaghan, Facebook; Andy Twigg, Acunu and Oxford University,  (View Andy's slides); Andy Gross, Basho and Riak; Alex Lloyd, Google (View Alex's slides) 
  
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| 10:00 a.m.–10:15 a.m.    Break: Continental Breakfast served in Salon F and the Ballroom Foyer
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| 10:15 a.m.–noon | 
 
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 A Solid State of Affairs 
Session Chair: Peter Desnoyers, Northeastern University 
  
Don't Thrash: How to Cache Your Hash on Flash 
		Michael A. Bender, Stony Brook University and Tokutek;  Martin Farach-Colton, Rutgers University and Tokutek; Rob Johnson, Stony Brook University; Bradley C. Kuszmaul, MIT and Tokutek; Dzejla Medjedovic, Pablo Montes, Pradeep Shetty, Richard P. Spillane, and Erez Zadok, Stony Brook University 
 
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Onyx: A Prototype Phase Change Memory Storage Array 
		Ameen Akel, Adrian M. Caulfield, Todor I. Mollov, Rajesh K. Gupta, and Steven Swanson, University of California, San Diego
 
 
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SSD Characterization: From Energy Consumption's Perspective 
		Balgeun Yoo, Youjip Won, Seokhei Cho, and Sooyong Kang, Hanyang University, Korea; Jongmoo Choi, Dankook University, Korea; Sungroh Yoon, Korea University, Korea
 
 
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Exploiting Heat-Accelerated Flash Memory Wear-Out Recovery to Enable Self-Healing SSDs 
		Qi Wu, Guiqiang Dong, and Tong Zhang, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)
 
 
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| Noon–1:00 p.m.    Lunch: Served in Salons F and I
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| 1:00 p.m.–2:15 p.m. | 
 
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 A Coterie Collection 
Session Chair: Raju Rangaswami, Florida International University 
  
Italian for Beginners: The Next Steps for SLO-Based Management 
		Lakshmi N. Bairavasundaram, Gokul Soundararajan, Vipul Mathur, Kaladhar Voruganti, and Steven Kleiman, NetApp, Inc.
 
 
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In Search of I/O-Optimal Recovery from Disk Failures 
		Osama Khan and Randal Burns, Johns Hopkins University; James Plank, University of Tennessee; Cheng Huang, Microsoft Research
 
 
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ViDeDup: An Application-Aware Framework for Video De-duplication 
		Atul Katiyar, Windows Live, Microsoft Corporation, Redmond; Jon Weissman, University of Minnesota Twin Cities 
 
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| 2:15 p.m.–2:30 p.m.    Break
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| 2:30 p.m.–3:45 p.m.  | 
 
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 A River of Data, More or Less 
Session Chair: Youjip Won, Hanyang University 
  
Truly Non-blocking Writes 
		Luis Useche, Ricardo Koller, and Raju Rangaswami, Florida International University; Akshat Verma, IBM Research—India
 
 
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Exposing File System Mappings with MapFS 
		Jake Wires, Mark Spear, and Andrew Warfield, University of British Columbia
 
 
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Stratified B-trees and Versioned Dictionaries 
		Andy Twigg, Andrew Byde, Grzegorz Miłoś, and Tim Moreton, Acunu; John Wilkes, Google and Acunu; Tom Wilkie, Acunu 
 
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| 3:45 p.m.–3:55 p.m.    Break: Refreshments served in Salon F and the Ballroom Foyer
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| 3:55 p.m.–4:30 p.m.   | 
 
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 Invited Short Talks and Wild Ideas 
Session Chair: Anna Povzner, IBM Research 
  
Using Storage Class Memory for Archives with DAWN, a Durable Array of Wimpy Nodes 
		Ian F. Adams and Ethan L. Miller, University of California, Santa Cruz; David S.H. Rosenthal, Stanford University 
 
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Principles of Operation for Shingled Disk Devices 
		Garth Gibson and Greg Ganger, Carnegie Mellon University 
 
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| 4:30 p.m.–5:45 p.m. | 
 
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 Panel: Storage QoS: Gap Between Theory and Practice 
Moderator: Carl Waldspurger 
  
Participants: Greg Ganger, Carnegie Mellon University; Kaladhar Voruganti, NetApp; Ajay Gulati, VMware; Ed Lee, Tintri 
  
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