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Monday, January 28, 2002

9:00 am—10:30 am

Keynote Storage: From Atoms to People Robert Morris, Director of the IBM Almaden Research Center The most important invention ever in data storage is the hard disk drive. What will become of it in the future, and what might eventually replace it? And the disk drive constitutes just a small fraction of the cost of the storage system, so how will the storage system evolve? Further, the storage system constitutes just a small fraction of the cost, in human terms, of managing storage. Will these observations continue to be true, and what current research and industry trends might change the situation? View this presentation as a PDF file.

10:30 am—11:00 am   Break

11:00 am—12:30 pm

Secure Storage Session Chair: David Nagle, Carnegie Mellon University Strong Security for Network-Attached Storage Ethan Miller and Darrell Long, University of California, Santa Cruz; William Freeman, TRW; and Benjamin Reed, IBM Research A Framework for Evaluating Storage System Security Erik Riedel, Mahesh Kallahalla, and Ram Swaminathan, Hewlett-Packard Labs Enabling the Archival Storage of Signed Documents Petros Maniatis and Mary Baker, Stanford University

12:30 pm—2:00 pm   Lunch On Your Own

2:00 pm—3:30 pm

Performance and Modeling Session Chair: Randal Burns, IBM Research WOLF--A Novel Reordering Write Buffer to Boost the Performance of Log-Structured File System Jun Wang and Yiming Hu, University of Cincinnati Storage-Aware Caching: Revisiting Caching for Heterogeneous Storage Systems Brian C. Forney, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, and Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau, University of Wisconsin Timing-accurate Storage Emulation John Linwood Griffin, Jiri Schindler, Steven W. Schlosser, John C. Bucy, and Gregory R. Ganger, Carnegie Mellon University

3:30 pm—4:00 pm   Break

4:00 pm—5:30 pm

Handling Disaster Session Chair: Ethan Miller, University of California, Santa Cruz Awarded Best Paper! Venti: A New Approach to Archival Data Storage Sean Quinlan and Sean Dorward, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies Myriad: Cost-effective Disaster Tolerance Fay Chang, Minwen Ji, Shun-Tak Leung, John MacCormick, Sharon Perl, and Li Zhang, Compaq SRC SnapMirror: File-System-Based Asynchronous Mirroring for Disaster Recovery R. Hugo Patterson, Stephen Manley, Mike Federwisch, Dave Hitz, Steve Kleiman, and Shane Owara, Network Appliance

6:00 pm—8:00 pm   Conference Reception

8:00 pm—10:00 pm

Work-in-Progress Reports   Read the submitted papers now! Session Chair: Scott Brandt, University of California, Santa Cruz Short, pithy, and fun, Work-in-Progress Reports introduce interesting new or on-going work, and the audience provides valuable discussion and feedback. A schedule of presentations will be posted at the conference. Accepted papers will be presented on the FAST web page, and may be included in a CDROM conference proceedings. Submissions should describe original work and should be limited to 2,000 words. To submit a work-in-progress paper, please send it to the work-in-progress coordinator at fastwips@usenix.org no later than Dec. 14, 2001.

Tuesday, January 29, 2002

9:00 am—10:30 am

Keynote Availability and Maintainability >> Performance: New Focus for a New Century David Patterson, University of California, Berkeley In computers, the cost of ownership runs five times the cost of the hardware. After 15 years of successfully improving performance, it's time for a change of emphasis. We present studies of why things fail and why they cost so much to maintain. Looking to civil engineers and diplomats for inspiration, we sketch a research agenda and principles for "Recovery-Oriented Computing" and demonstrate how to benchmark availability. View this presentation in HTML.

10:30 am—11:00 am   Break

11:00 am—12:30 pm

Wide-area Storage Session Chair: Rodney Van Meter, Nokia Safety, Visibility, and Performance in a Wide-Area File System Minkyong Kim, Landon Cox, and Brian Noble, University of Michigan Obtaining High Performance for Storage Outsourcing Wee Teck Ng, Hao Sun, Bruce Hillyer, Elizabeth Shriver, Eran Gabber, and Banu Ozden, Bell Labs PersonalRAID: Mobile Storage for Distributed and Disconnected Computers Sumeet Sobti, Nitin Garg, Chi Zhang, and Xiang Yu, Princeton University; Arvind Krishnamurthy, Yale University; and Randolph Wang, Princeton University

12:30 pm—2:00 pm   Conference Luncheon (Sponsored by SNIA)

2:00 pm—3:30 pm

Self-organizing Storage Systems Session Chair: Jeff Chase, Duke University Hippodrome: Running Circles Around Storage Administration Eric Anderson, Michael Hobbs, Kimberly Keeton, Susan Spence, Mustafa Uysal, and Alistair Veitch, Hewlett-Packard Labs Selecting RAID Levels for Disk Arrays Eric Anderson, Ram Swaminathan, Alistair Veitch, Guillermo A. Alvarez, and John Wilkes, Hewlett-Packard Labs Appia: Automatic Storage Area Network Fabric Design Julie Ward, Hewlett-Packard Labs; Michael O'Sullivan, Stanford University; and Troy Shahoumian and John Wilkes, Hewlett-Packard Labs

3:30 pm—4:00 pm   Break

4:00 pm—5:30 pm

The Future of Storage Technology: Three Talks Session Chair: Darrell Long, University of California, Santa Cruz Future Magnetic Recording Technologies Mark H. Kryder, Seagate Research Thermal instabilities of magnetic recordings pose a limit to the areal density that can be achieved with currently popular longitudinal magnetic recording. Perpendicular recording is expected to make possible higher areal densities than the current longitudinal recording, but will likely extend the limits by an order of magnitude at most. Other technologies, such as patterned media recording and thermally assisted recording, are needed if the trend toward ever-increasing areal density and ever-decreasing cost per gigabyte is to be sustained. This talk will discuss possible avenues for continued growth in capacity and performance of magnetic disc drives. View this presentation as a PDF file. Non-Magnetic Data Storage: Principles, Potential, and Problems Hans J. Coufal, IBM Research Division, Almaden Research Center To complement and possibly replace conventional magnetic data storage, alternative data storage concepts are being explored. Examples are probe-tip-based storage schemes with atomic resolution or a variety of volumetric optical data storage such as holographic data storage. These techniques boast high storage densities, fast access times, and high data rates. Underlying principles and the status of these data storage schemes will be reviewed and the open issues will be discussed. View this presentation as a PDF file. Storage Bricks Have Arrived Jim Gray, Microsoft Research As predicted, disks have become supercomputers. They attach via IPv6, they have operating systems, and they talk Internet protocols. And at last they have killed off my nemesis: magnetic tape. We've arrived in storage paradise. The next evolutionary steps are easy to predict: they are going to climb the slippery slope from block servers to application servers. Along the way we will need to reinvent media management (RAID, backup/restore, self-monitoring file and database servers), and we will have to invent Web services. It's going to be fun. View this presentation in HTML.

Wednesday, January 30, 2002

9:00 am—10:30 am

Parallel I/O Session Chair: David Kotz, Dartmouth College GPFS: A Shared-Disk File System for Large Computing Clusters Frank Schmuck and Roger Haskin, IBM Almaden Research Center Exploiting Inter-File Access Patterns Using Multi-Collective I/O Gokhan Memik, University of California, Los Angeles; Mahmut Kandemir, Pennsylvania State University; and Alok Choudhary, Northwestern University Aqueduct: Online Data Migration with Performance Guarantees Chenyang Lu, University of Virginia; and Guillermo A. Alvarez and John Wilkes, Hewlett-Packard Labs

10:30 am—11:00 am   Break

11:00 am—12:30 pm

Low-level Storage Optimization Session Chair: Peter Honeyman, CITI, University of Michigan Awarded Best Student Paper! Track-Aligned Extents: Matching Access Patterns to Disk Drive Characteristics Jiri Schindler, John Linwood Griffin, Christopher R. Lumb, and Gregory R. Ganger, Carnegie Mellon University Freeblock Scheduling Outside of Disk Firmware Christopher R. Lumb, Jiri Schindler, and Gregory R. Ganger, Carnegie Mellon University Configuring and Scheduling an Eager-Writing Disk Array for a Transaction Processing Workload Chi Zhang and Xiang Yu, Princeton University; Arvind Krishnamurthy, Yale University; and Randolph Y. Wang, Princeton University