This page is for authors who have had material accepted to present at FAST '09. If you wish to submit a paper or deliver a talk at another upcoming USENIX event, please return to the Events Calendar page and select the conference in which you're interested.

Accepted authors, please read this page!
1. Register for the conference as soon as possible! Registration materials will be online soon. Please note: One author per paper will receive a registration discount of $200. USENIX will offer a complimentary registration upon request.

If you need an invitation letter to apply for a visa to attend the conference, please contact conference@usenix.org. Please identify yourself as a paper author and include your mailing address in your email.

2. Electronic versions—PDF and HTML—of your paper and a fax number so that you can approve USENIX's printout of your PDF are due on or before 13 January 2009. This is a firm deadline. Papers not received by that date will not be included in the printed conference proceedings.

Email the PDF and HTML files of your paper and your fax number to jel@usenix.org. USENIX will fax a printout of your paper to you, sending you email notification of the fax. Be prepared to confirm the printout or supply a corrected file by 13 January 2009. You should send the consent form by regular mail or fax to the address indicated on the form.

3. Bookmark and/or print the:

Instructions for Accepted Material. See especially Summary of Indispensable Requirements.

FAST '09 Consent Form

Checklist for Authors

4. IMPORTANT: Read these instructions on generating PDF from LaTeX and follow them carefully. You will save a lot of time and hassle at the deadline. Naively produced PDFs may contain such errors as incorrect ligatures, nonprinting figures or parts of figures, or incorrect or missing special characters, any of which make your paper unreadable.

5. Need advice about generating HTML? See these Tips for Conversion from LaTeX to HTML.

6. If you wish, make use of these sample first pages (two-column format):

MS Word 97/98

Troff

LaTeX, a style file, and a bibtex file.

Framemaker 6 template and PDF of the template

Problems
If you experience difficulties, please don't hesitate to contact Jane-Ellen Long: jel@usenix.org, 510-528-8649 ext. 14.

If you find yourself in dire straits, please contact your Program Chairs, Margo Seltzer and Ric Wheeloer, fast09chairs@usenix.org.