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Call for Papers:
5th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '07)
February 13-16, 2007
San Jose, California, USA
http://www.usenix.org/fast07/cfpa
Paper Submission Deadline: September 6, 2006
Sponsored by USENIX in cooperation with ACM SIGOPS, IEEE Mass Storage
Systems Technical Committee (MSSTC), and IEEE TCOS
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The 5th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '07)
Program Committee invites you to contribute to the refereed papers,
Work-in-Progress reports, and poster session.
FAST brings together the top storage systems researchers and
practitioners, providing the premier forum for discussing the design,
implementation, evaluation, and deployment of storage systems.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
* Archival storage systems
* Caching, replication, and consistency
* Database storage issues
* Distributed I/O (wide-area, grid, peer-to-peer)
* Empirical evaluation of storage systems
* Experience with deployed systems
* Mobile storage technology
* Parallel I/O
* Performance
* Manageability
* Reliability, availability, disaster tolerance
* Security
* Scalability
* Storage networking
* Virtualization
Paper submissions are due 9:00 p.m. EST, September 6, 2006.
The Call for Papers, with submission guidelines, is now available at
http://www.usenix.org/fast07/cfpa/
5th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '07)
February 13-16, 2007, San Jose, California, USA
The conference will consist of one day of training followed by two and a
half days of technical presentations, including refereed papers,
Work-in-Progress reports, and a poster session. Refereed papers will be
published in the Proceedings, on the USENIX Web site, and on the ACM Web
site.
We look forward to receiving your submissions!
Sincerely,
Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau, University of Wisconsin, Madison
FAST '07 Program Chairs