Work-in-Progress Reports (WiPs)
Thursday, December 15, 1:30 p.m.–3:00 p.m.

The FAST '05 WiP session provides a venue for reporting on work-in-progress, preliminary results, and "outrageous" opinions. The following topics will be presented during the session:

• Controlling File System Write Ordering (slides), Nathan Burnett, Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau, and Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau, University of Wisconsin, Madison
• Rethink the Sync! (slides), Edmund Nightingale, Kaushik Veeraraghavan, Peter Chen, and Jason Flinn, University of Michigan
• Amino: Extending ACID Semantics to the File System, Charles Wright, Richard Spillane, Gopalan Sivathanu, and Erez Zadok, Stony Brook University
• Transaction Support in the Windows NTFS File System (slides), Surendra Verma, Microsoft
• BLOG: A Block Level Versioning Utility, Jake Wires and Mike Feeley, University of British Columbia
• PASS: Provenance-aware Storage System (slides), Margo Seltzer, David Holland, Kiran-Kumar Muniswamy-Reddy, Uri Braun, and Jonathan Ledlie, Harvard University
• Logistical Storage, Surya Pathak, Alan Tackett, and Kevin McCord, Vanderbilt University
• A Unifying Approach to the Exploitation of File Semantics in Distributed File Systems (slides), Philipp Hahn, Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg
• A Centralized Failure Handler for File Systems (slides), Vijayan Prabhakaran, Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau, and Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau, University of Wisconsin, Madison
• Storage Benchmarking for HPC (slides), Mike Mesnier, James Hendricks, Raja R. Sambasivan, Matthew Wachs, and Gregory Ganger, Carnegie Mellon University; Garth Gibson, Carnegie Mellon University and Panasas
• POSIX IO Extensions for HPC (slides), Brent Welch, Panasas
• Storing Trees on Disk Drives (slides), Medha Bhadkamkar, Fernando Farfan, Vagelis Hristidis, and Raju Rangaswami, Florida International University
• Efficient Disk Space Management for Virtual Machines (slides), Abhishek Gupta and Norman Hutchinson, University of British Columbia
• Intelligent Data Placement in a Home Environment, Brandon Salmon, Carnegie Mellon University
• Functionality Composition Across Layers in a Storage System, Florentina Popovici, Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau, and Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Please contact the WiP Session Chair, Kim Keeton, if you have any questions or comments.