Event:FAST 2018

The 16th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '18) brings together storage-system researchers and practitioners to explore new directions in the design, implementation, evaluation, and deployment of storage systems. Co-located summit Linux FAST Summit '18

Topics

• Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
  • Archival storage systems
  • Auditing and provenance
  • Big data, analytics, and data sciences
  • Caching, replication, and consistency
  • Cloud storage
  • Data deduplication
  • Database storage
  • Distributed and networked storage (wide-area, grid, peer-to-peer)
  • Empirical evaluation of storage systems
  • Experience with deployed systems
  • File system design
  • High-performance file systems
  • Key-value and NoSQL storage
  • Memory-only storage systems
  • Mobile, personal, embedded, and home storage
  • Parallel I/O and storage systems
  • Power-aware storage architectures
  • RAID and erasure coding
  • Reliability, availability, and disaster tolerance
  • Search and data retrieval
  • Solid state storage technologies and uses (e.g., flash, byte-addressable NVM)
  • Storage management
  • Storage networking
  • Storage performance and QoS
  • Storage security

Important Dates

• • Paper submissions due: Thursday, September 28, 2017, 11:59 p.m. PDT
  • Tutorial submissions due: Thursday, September 28, 2017, 11:59 p.m. PDT
  • Notification to authors: Monday, December 11, 2017
  • Final paper files due: Tuesday, January 23, 2018

Committees

• Program Co-Chairs
  • [[Nitin Agrawal], Samsung Research]
  • [[Raju Rangaswami], Florida International University]
• Program Committee
  • Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau, University of Wisconsin—Madison
  • Anirudh Badam, Microsoft Research
  • Mahesh Balakrishnan, Yale
  • Pramod Bhatotia, University of Edinburgh
  • Andre Brinkmann, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz
  • Vijay Chidambaram, University of Texas at Austin
  • Angela Demke Brown, University of Toronto
  • Kevin Greenan, Box Inc.
  • Jorge Guerra, VMWare
  • Haryadi Gunawi, University of Chicago
  • Dean Hildebrand, Google
  • Cheng Huang, Microsoft Azure
  • Hong Jiang, University of Texas at Arlington
  • Umesh Maheshwari, Nimble Storage (an HPE company)
  • Arif Merchant, Google
  • Ethan L. Miller, University of California, Santa Cruz, and Pure Storage
  • Dushyanth Narayanan, Microsoft Research
  • Ed Nightingale, Microsoft Research
  • Sam H. Noh, UNIST (Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology)
  • Vijayan Prabhakaran, Amazon
  • Bianca Schroeder, University of Toronto
  • Philip Shilane, Dell EMC
  • Keith A. Smith, NetApp
  • Vasily Tarasov, IBM Research
  • Cristian Ungureanu, Google
  • Ashish Vulimiri, Samsung Research
  • Andrew Warfield, University of British Columbia
  • Sage Weil, Red Hat
  • Youjip Won, Hanyang University
  • Gala Yadgar, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
  • Ming Zhao, Arizona State University
• Work-in-Progress/Posters Co-Chairs
  • Anirudh Badam, Microsoft Research
  • Gala Yadgar, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
• Test of Time Awards Committee
  • Bianca Schroeder, University of Toronto
  • Eno Thereska, Amazon
• Tutorial Coordinators
  • John Strunk, Red Hat
  • Eno Thereska, Amazon
• Steering Committee
  • Keith A. Smith, NetApp
  • Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau, University of Wisconsin—Madison
  • Angela Demke Brown, University of Toronto
  • Greg Ganger, Carnegie Mellon University
  • Casey Henderson, USENIX Association
  • Kimberly Keeton, HP Labs
  • Geoff Kuenning, Harvey Mudd College
  • Florentina Popovici, Google
  • Erik Riedel, Dell Technologies
  • Jiri Schindler, SimpliVity
  • Bianca Schroeder, University of Toronto
  • Margo Seltzer, Harvard University and Oracle
  • Eno Thereska, Amazon
  • Carl Waldspurger, Carl Waldspurger Consulting
  • Ric Wheeler, Red Hat
  • Erez Zadok, Stony Brook University