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TECHNICAL SESSIONS
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Wednesday, December 14
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8:30 a.m.–8:45 a.m.
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Wednesday |
Welcome to FAST '05
Garth Gibson, Carnegie Mellon University and Panasas
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8:45 a.m.–9:45 a.m.
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Wednesday |
Keynote Address
Greetings from a Filesystem User
Jim Gray, Distinguished Engineer, Scaleable Servers Research Group, Microsoft Bay Area Research Center
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Jim Gray is part of Microsoft's research group. His work focuses on databases and transaction processing. Jim is active in the research community, is an ACM, NAE, NAS, and AAAS Fellow, and received the ACM Turing Award for his work on transaction processing. He edits of a series of books on data management, and has been active in building online databases like TerraServer and Sloan Digital Sky Survey.
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9:45 a.m.–10:15 a.m. Break
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10:15 a.m.–11:15 a.m.
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File Systems Semantics
Session Chair: Jon Howell, Microsoft Research
A Logic of File Systems
Muthian Sivathanu, Google Inc.; Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau, and Somesh Jha, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Providing Tunable Consistency for a Parallel File Store
Murali Vilayannur, Partho Nath, and Anand Sivasubramaniam, Pennsylvania State University
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11:15 a.m.–12:15 p.m.
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Wednesday |
Sensor Storage
Session Chair: Jason Flinn, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
MicroHash: An Efficient Index Structure for Flash-Based Sensor Devices
Demtrios Zeinalipour-Yazti, University of Cyprus; Song Lin, Vana Kalogeraki, Dimitrios Gunopulos, and Walid A. Najjar, University of California, Riverside
Adaptive Data Placement for Wide-Area Sensing Services
Suman Nath, Microsoft Research; Phillip B. Gibbons, Intel Research Pittsburgh; Srinivasan Seshan, Carnegie Mellon University
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12:15 p.m.–1:45 p.m. Conference Luncheon
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1:45 p.m.–3:15 p.m.
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Fault Handling
Session Chair: David L. Black, EMC Corporation
Awarded Best Paper!
Ursa Minor: Versatile Cluster-based Storage
Michael Abd-El-Malek, William V. Courtright II, Chuck Cranor, Gregory R. Ganger, James Hendricks, Andrew J. Klosterman, Michael Mesnier, Manish Prasad, Brandon Salmon, Raja R. Sambasivan, Shafeeq Sinnamohideen, John D. Strunk, Eno Thereska, Matthew Wachs, and Jay J. Wylie, Carnegie Mellon University
Zodiac: Efficient Impact Analysis for Storage Area Networks
Aameek Singh, Georgia Institute of Technology; Madhukar Korupolu and Kaladhar Voruganti, IBM Almaden Research Center
Journal-guided Resynchronization for Software RAID
Timothy E. Denehy, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, and Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau, University of Wisconsin, Madison
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3:15 p.m.–3:45 p.m. Break
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3:45 p.m.–5:15 p.m.
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Caching
Session Chair: Richard Golding, IBM Almaden
DULO: An Effective Buffer Cache Management Scheme to Exploit Both Temporal and Spatial Localities
Song Jiang, Los Alamos National Laboratory; Xiaoning Ding, Feng Chen, Enhua Tan, and Xiaodong Zhang, Ohio State University
Second-Tier Cache Management Using Write Hints
Xuhui Li, Ashraf Aboulnaga, and Kenneth Salem, University of Waterloo; Aamer Sachedina, IBM Toronto Lab; Shaobo Gao, University of Waterloo
WOW: Wise Ordering for Writes—Combining Spatial and Temporal Locality in Non-Volatile Caches
Binny S. Gill and Dharmendra S. Modha, IBM Almaden Research Center
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Thursday, December 15
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8:30 a.m.–10:00 a.m.
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Thursday |
Security
Session Chair: Peter Honeyman, CITI, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Secure Deletion for a Versioning File System
Zachary N.J. Peterson, Randal Burns, Joe Herring, Adam Stubblefield, and Aviel D. Rubin, The Johns Hopkins University
TOCTTOU Vulnerabilities in UNIX-Style File Systems: An Anatomical Study
Jinpeng Wei and Calton Pu, Georgia Institute of Technology
A Security Model for Full-Text File System Search in Multi-User Environments
Stefan Büttcher and Charles L. A. Clarke, University of Waterloo
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10:00 a.m.–10:30 a.m. Break
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10:30 a.m.–noon
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Thursday |
Multi-Fault Tolerance
Session Chair: Peter Corbett, Network Appliance
Matrix Methods for Lost Data Reconstruction in Erasure Codes
James Lee Hafner, Veera Deenadhayalan, and KK Rao, IBM Almaden Research Center; John A. Tomlin, Yahoo! Research
STAR: An Efficient Coding Scheme for Correcting Triple Storage Node Failures
Cheng Huang, Microsoft Research; Lihao Xu, Wayne State University
WEAVER Codes: Highly Fault Tolerant Erasure Codes for Storage Systems
James Lee Hafner, IBM Almaden Research Center
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noon–1:30 p.m. Lunch (on your own)
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1:30 p.m.–3:00 p.m.
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Thursday |
Work-in-Progress Reports
Session Chair: Kimberly Keeton, Hewlett-Packard Labs
The FAST technical sessions will include slots for Work-in-Progress reports, preliminary results, and "outrageous" opinion statements. For the schedule and to view the presentations, click here.
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3:00 p.m.–3:30 p.m. Break
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3:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m.
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On the Media
Session Chair: Darrell Long, University of California, Santa Cruz
Awarded Best Paper!
On Multidimensional Data and Modern Disks
Steven W. Schlosser, Intel Research Pittsburgh; Jiri Schindler, EMC Corporation; Stratos Papadomanolakis, Minglong Shao, Anastassia Ailamaki, Christos Faloutsos, and Gregory R. Ganger, Carnegie Mellon University
Database-Aware Semantically-Smart Storage
Muthian Sivathanu, Google Inc.; Lakshmi N. Bairavasundaram, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, and Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Managing Prefetch Memory for Data-Intensive Online Servers
Chuanpeng Li and Kai Shen, University of Rochester
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6:00 p.m.–7:30 p.m. Conference Reception
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Friday, December 16
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8:30 a.m.–10:00 a.m.
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Friday |
On the Wire
Session Chair: Kai Li, Princeton University and Data Domain
A Scalable and High Performance Software iSCSI Implementation
Abhijeet Joglekar, Michael E. Kounavis, and Frank L. Berry, Intel Research and Development
TAPER: Tiered Approach for Eliminating Redundancy in Replica Synchronization
Navendu Jain and Mike Dahlin, University of Texas at Austin; Renu Tewari, IBM Almaden Research Center
VXA: A Virtual Architecture for Durable Compressed Archives
Bryan Ford, CSAIL, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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10:00 a.m.–10:30 a.m. Break
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10:30 a.m.–noon
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Tools
Session Chair: Daniel Ellard, Sun Microsystems Laboratories
I/O System Performance Debugging Using Model-driven Anomaly Characterization
Kai Shen, Ming Zhong, and Chuanpeng Li, University of Rochester
TBBT: Scalable and Accurate Trace Replay for File Server Evaluation
Ningning Zhu, Jiawu Chen, and Tzi-cker Chiueh, Stony Brook University
Accurate and Efficient Replaying of File System Traces
Nikolai Joukov, Timothy Wong, and Erez Zadok, Stony Brook University
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Noon Conference Ends
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