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FAST '09 Call for Papers
7th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '09)
February 24–27, 2009
San Francisco, CA
Sponsored by USENIX, the Advanced Computing Systems Association, in cooperation with ACM SIGOPS, IEEE Mass Storage Systems Technical Committee (MSSTC), and IEEE TCOS
Important
Dates
- Paper submissions deadline extended: September 14, 2008, 9:00 p.m. EDT (firm deadline)
- Notification of acceptance: November 5, 2008
- Final papers due: January 13, 2009
- Work-in-Progress Reports/Poster Session proposals due: January 30, 2009
Conference Organizers
Program Co-Chairs
Margo Seltzer, Harvard University
Ric Wheeler, Red Hat
Program Committee
Sameer Ajmani, Google
Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau, University of Wisconsin, Madison
David L. Black, EMC
Bill Bolosky, Microsoft Research, Redmond
James Bottomley, Novell
David DeWitt, Microsoft, Madison
Daniel Ellard, BBN Technologies
Greg Ganger, Carnegie Mellon University
Valerie Henson, Red Hat
Ethan Miller, University of California, Santa Cruz
Alina Oprea, RSA Security/EMC
James S. Plank, University of Tennessee
Calton Pu, Georgia Institute of Technology
Raju Rangaswami, Florida International University
Narasimha Reddy, Texas A&M University
Ohad Rodeh, IBM Research, Haifa
Ken Salem, University of Waterloo
Jiri Schindler, NetApp
Bianca Schroeder, University of Toronto
Liuba Shrira, Brandeis University
Niraj Tolia, HP Labs
Hakim Weatherspoon, Cornell University
Work-in-Progress Reports (WiPs) Session Chair
Geoff Kuenning, Harvey Mudd College
Steering Committee
Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Mary Baker, HP Labs
Greg Ganger, Carnegie Mellon University
Garth Gibson, Carnegie Mellon University and Panasas
Peter Honeyman, CITI, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Merritt Jones, MITRE Corporation
Darrell Long, University of California, Santa Cruz
Jai Menon, IBM Research
Erik Riedel, Seagate
Margo Seltzer, Harvard University
Chandu Thekkath, Microsoft Research
John Wilkes, Google
Ellie Young, USENIX Association
Overview
The 7th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST
'09) brings together storage system researchers and practitioners
to explore new directions in the design, implementation, evaluation,
and deployment of storage systems. The conference will consist of
two and a half days of technical presentations, including refereed
papers, Work-in-Progress reports, and a poster session.
Topics
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- Archival storage systems
- Caching, replication, and consistency
- Database storage issues
- Designs with emerging storage devices
- Distributed I/O (wide-area, grid, peer-to-peer)
- Empirical evaluation of storage systems
- Experience with deployed systems
- Innovative file or data storage system design
- Manageability
- Mobile and personal storage
- Parallel I/O
- Reliability, availability, disaster tolerance
- Scalability
- Security
- Storage as a service
- Storage networking
- Virtualization
Deadline and Submission Instructions
Submissions must be made electronically via this Web form. The Web
form asks for contact information for the paper and allows for the
submission of your full paper file in PDF format. Please do not email submissions.
Submissions must be full papers (no extended abstracts) and must
be no longer than twelve (12) pages, excluding references.
Your paper should be typeset in two-column format in 10 point type
on 12 point (single-spaced) leading, with the text block being no
more than 6.5" wide by 9" deep. Submissions longer than this will
not be reviewed.
All submissions must be readable in black and white, so please take
care not to produce graphs or charts in color.
Authors must not be identified in the submissions, either explicitly
or by implication (e.g., through the references or acknowledgments).
Blind reviewing of full papers will be done by the program committee,
assisted by outside referees. Accepted papers will be shepherded
through an editorial review process by a member of the program
committee.
Simultaneous submission of the same work to multiple venues,
submission of previously published work, or plagiarism constitutes
dishonesty or fraud. USENIX, like other scientific and technical
conferences and journals, prohibits these practices and may, on the
recommendation of a program chair, take action against authors who
have committed them. In some cases, program committees may share
information about submitted papers with other conference chairs and
journal editors to ensure the integrity of papers under consideration.
If a violation of these principles is found, sanctions may include,
but are not limited to, barring the authors from submitting to or
participating in USENIX conferences for a set period, contacting
the authors' institutions, and publicizing the details of the case.
Authors uncertain whether their submission meets USENIX's guidelines
should contact the program co-chairs, fast09chairs@usenix.org, or the
USENIX office, submissionspolicy@usenix.org.
Papers accompanied by nondisclosure agreement forms will not be considered. Accepted submissions will be treated as confidential prior to publication on the USENIX Web site; rejected submissions will be permanently treated as confidential.
All papers will be available online to registered attendees prior to the conference and will be available online to everyone starting on February 25, 2009. If your accepted paper should not be published prior to the event, please notify production@usenix.org.
One author per paper will receive a registration discount of $200.
USENIX will offer a complimentary registration upon request.
Best Paper Awards
Awards will be given for the best paper(s) at the conference.
Work-in-Progress Reports and Poster Session
The FAST technical sessions will include slots for Work-in-Progress
reports, preliminary results, "outrageous" opinion statements, and
a poster session. We are particularly interested in presentations
of student work. Please send WiP submissions to fast09wips@usenix.org.
Birds-of-a-Feather Sessions
Birds-of-a-Feather sessions (BoFs) are informal gatherings organized
by attendees interested in a particular topic. BoFs will be held
in the evening. BoFs may be scheduled in advance by emailing the
Conference Department at bofs@usenix.org. BoFs may also be scheduled at the
conference.
Registration Materials
Complete program and registration information will be available in
November 2008 on the conference Web site. If you would like to receive the
latest USENIX conference information, please join our mailing list.
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