Fwd: FAST '12 Call for Papers Submission Deadline Approaching (50110)

[Ric Wheeler <ricwheeler@gmail.com>]

If anyone has interest in publishing in an academic forum, FAST is a great 
conference for file and storage related work.

Regards,

Ric


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Subject: 	FAST '12 Call for Papers Submission Deadline Approaching (50110)
Date: 	Fri, 19 Aug 2011 12:26:25 -0700 (PDT)
From: 	Jason.Flinn@usenix.org
Reply-To: 	Jason.Flinn@usenix.org
To: 	ricwheeler@gmail.com



Dear Ric Wheeler,

We're writing to remind you that the submission deadline for the 10th
USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '12) is
approaching. Please submit all paper titles and abstracts by Tuesday,
September 20, 2011, at 11:59 p.m. EDT, and complete papers by Tuesday,
September 27, 2011, at 11:59 p.m. EDT.

http://www.usenix.org/fast12/cfpb/

FAST '12 brings together storage system researchers and practitioners to
explore the latest in file and storage technology. In addition to a new
short-paper track, the conference will consist of technical
presentations, including refereed papers, Work-in-Progress (WiP)
reports, poster sessions, and tutorials.

Beginning this year, FAST will also feature a short-paper track. Short
papers must represent completed work and will be reviewed to the same
quality standards as full papers. They should describe smaller ideas
that can be fully expressed in half the space of a full-length paper.
Short papers will be published in the proceedings, and authors will be
allocated a (shorter) talk slot during the conference. The program
committee will not accept a full paper on the condition that it is cut
down to fit in a short paper slot, nor will it invite short papers to
be extended to full length.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

* Archival storage systems
* Auditing and provenance
* Caching, replication, and consistency
* Cloud storage
* Data-intensive applications
* Database storage
* Distributed I/O (wide-area, grid, peer-to-peer)
* Empirical evaluation of storage systems
* Experience with deployed systems
* File-system design
* Key-value and "nosql" storage
* Mobile and personal storage
* Parallel I/O
* Power-aware storage architectures
* Reliability, availability, and disaster tolerance
* Search and data retrieval
* Solid state storage technologies and uses (e.g., flash, PCM)
* Storage for virtualized environments
* Storage management
* Storage networking
* Storage performance and QoS
* Storage security
* The challenges of "big data"

For more details on the submission process, please see the complete Call
for Papers at http://www.usenix.org/fast12/cfpb/

We look forward to receiving your submissions!

William J. Bolosky, Microsoft Research
Jason Flinn, University of Michigan
FAST '12 Program Co-Chairs
fast12chairs@usenix.org

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Call for Papers
10th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies
February 14-17, 2012
San Jose, CA
http://www.usenix.org/fast12/cfpb/
Paper titles and abstracts due: September 20, 2011, 11:59 p.m. EDT
Paper submissions due: September 27, 2011, 11:59 p.m. EDT (Hard
deadline, no extensions)
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