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4th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '05)

Sponsored by USENIX, The Advanced Computing Systems Association in cooperation with ACM SIGOPS, IEEE Mass Storage Systems Technical Committee (MSSTC), and IEEE TCOS
In cooperation and co-located with the 3rd International IEEE Security in Storage Workshop, December 13, 2005
Co-located with the 2nd Workshop on Real, Large Distributed Systems (WORLDS '05), December 13, 2005
 About FAST '05
Overview

Organizers

Preliminary Program
 For Participants
Instructions for Authors of Accepted Papers
 Important Dates
Notification of acceptance:
August 30, 2005

Camera-ready final papers due:
October 10, 2005

Work-in-Progress and Poster Session proposals due:
December 1, 2005
 Call for Papers
Original Call for Papers
 Registration
The complete program and registration forms will be available here in September 2005.
 Hotel & Travel
Hotel & Travel Information

About San Francisco
 Past Conferences
Check out the Proceedings of past FAST conferences.
Wednesday, December 14

8:15–8:30: Welcome to FAST '05
Garth Gibson

8:30–9:30: Keynote Address
TBD

9:30–10:00: Break

10:00–11:00: File Systems Semantics

A Logic of File Systems
Muthian Sivathanu, Google; Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau, Somesh Jha, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Providing Tunable Consistency for a Parallel File Store
Murali Vilayannur, Partho Nath, Anand Sivasubramaniam, Pennsylvania State University

11:00–12:00: Sensor Storage

MicroHash: An Efficient Index Structure for Flash-Based Sensor Devices
Demtrios Zeinalipour-Yazti, Song Lin, Vana Kalogeraki, Dimitrios Gunopulos, Walid Najjar, University of California, Riverside

Adaptive Data Placement for Wide-Area Sensing Services
Suman Nath, Carnegie Mellon University and Microsoft Research; Phillip B. Gibbons, Intel Research Pittsburgh; Srinivasan Seshan, Carnegie Mellon University

12:00–1:30: Lunch

1:30–3:00: Fault Handling

Ursa Minor: versatile cluster-based storage
Michael Abd-El-Malek, William V. Courtright II, Chuck Cranor, Gregory R. Ganger, James Hendricks, Andrew J. Klosterman, Michael Mesnier, Manish Prasad, Brandon Salmon, Raja R. Sambasivan, Shafeeq Sinnamohideen, John D. Strunk, Eno Thereska, Matthew Wachs, and Jay J. Wylie, Carnegie Mellon University

Zodiac: Efficient Impact Analysis for Storage Area Networks
Aameek Singh, Georgia Institute of Technology; Madhukar Korupolu, Kaladhar Voruganti, IBM Almaden Research Center

Journal-guided Resynchronization for Software RAID
Timothy E. Denehy, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau, University of Wisconsin, Madison

3:00–3:30: Break

3:30–5:00: Caching

DULO: An Effective Buffer Cache Management Scheme to Exploit Both Temporal and Spatial Localities
Song Jiang, Los Alamos National Laboratory; Xiaoning Ding, Feng Chen, Enhua Tan, Xiaodong Zhang, College of William and Mary

Second-Tier Cache Management Using Write Hints
Xuhui Li, Ashraf Aboulnaga, Kenneth Salem, University of Waterloo; Aamer Sachedina, IBM Toronto; Shaobo Gao, University of Waterloo

WOW: Wise Ordering for Writes—Combining Spatial and Temporal Locality in Non-Volatile Caches
Binny S. Gill, Dharmendra S. Modha, IBM Almaden Research Center



Thursday, December 15

8:30–10:00: Security

Secure Deletion for a Versioning File System
Zachary Peterson, Randal Burns, Joseph Herring, Adam Stubblefield, Avi Rubin, The Johns Hopkins University

TOCTTOU Vulnerabilities in UNIX-Style File Systems: An Anatomical Study
Jinpeng Wei, Calton Pu, Georgia Institute of Technology

A Security Model for Full-Text File System Search in Multi-User Environments
Stefan Büttcher, Charles L. A. Clarke, University of Waterloo

10:00–10:30: Break

10:30–12:00: Multi-Fault Tolerance

Matrix methods for lost data reconstruction in erasure codes
James Lee Hafner, Veera Deenadhayalan, KK Rao, IBM Almaden Research; John A. Tomlin, Yahoo! Research Center

STAR: An Efficient Coding Scheme for Correcting Triple Storage Node Failures
Cheng Huang, Microsoft Research; Lihao Xu, Wayne State University

WEAVER Codes: Highly Fault Tolerant Erasure Codes for Storage Systems
James Lee Hafner, IBM Almaden Research Center

12:00–1:30: Lunch

1:30–3:00: Work-in-Progress Reports

3:00–3:30: Break

3:30–5:00: On the Media

On multidimensional data and modern disks
Steven W. Schlosser, Intel Research Pittsburgh; Jiri Schindler, EMC; Minglong Shao, Stratos Papadomanolakis, Anastassia Ailamaki, Christos Faloutsos, Gregory R. Ganger, Carnegie Mellon University

Database-Aware Storage
Muthian Sivathanu, Google; Lakshmi N. Bairavasundaram, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Managing Prefetch Memory for Data-Intensive Online Servers
Chuanpeng Li, Kai Shen, University of Rochester



Friday, December 16

8:30–10:00: On the Wire

A Scalable and High Performance Software iSCSI Implementation
Abhijeet Joglekar, Michael Kounavis, Frank Berry, Intel Research and Development

TAPER: Tiered Approach for Eliminating Redundancy in Replicas
Navendu Jain, Mike Dahlin, University of Texas at Austin; Renu Tewari, IBM Almaden Research Center

VXA: A Virtual Architecture for Durable Compressed Archives
Bryan Ford, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

10:00–10:30: Break

10:30–12:00: Tools

I/O System Performance Debugging Using Model-driven Anomaly Characterization,
Kai Shen, Ming Zhong, Chuanpeng Li, University of Rochester

TBBT: Scalable and Accurate Trace Replay for File Server Evaluation
Ningning Zhu, Jiawu Chen, Tzi-cker Chiueh, Stony Brook University

Accurate and Efficient Replaying of File System Traces
Nikolai Joukov, Timothy Wong, Erez Zadok, Stony Brook University

12:00: Conference ends

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