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TECHNICAL PROGRAM

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All sessions will take place in Salon E unless otherwise noted.

Tuesday, June 14, 2011
8:00 a.m.–8:45 a.m.    Morning Coffee and Tea: Served in Salon F and the Ballroom Foyer
8:45 a.m.–8:50 a.m.

Opening Remarks

USENIX HotStorage '11 Program Chair: Irfan Ahmad, VMware

8:50 a.m.–10:00 a.m.

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
10:15 a.m.–noon

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
1:00 p.m.–2:15 p.m.

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
2:30 p.m.–3:45 p.m.

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
3:55 p.m.–4:30 p.m.

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.

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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