Call for Participation

Sponsored by USENIX, the Advanced Computing Systems Association

The Linux FAST Summit '16 will take place at the Hyatt Regency Santa Clara on February 25 and will be co-located with FAST '16, the 14th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies.

Important Dates

  • Submissions due: Wednesday, January 20, 2016, 11:59 p.m. PST
  • Notification to participants: Late January 2016
  • Program announced: Early February 2016

Download Call for Papers PDF

Summit Organizers

Program Co-Chairs

Christoph Hellwig
Ric Wheeler, Red Hat

Program Committee

Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau, University of Wisconsin—Madison
James Bottomley
Greg Ganger, Carnegie Mellon University
Andrew Morton, Google
Theodore Ts'o, Google
Erez Zadok, Stony Brook University

Overview

Linux is one of the most frequently used platforms in file and storage research and FAST is the premier conference for publishing research results from the file and storage research community. This summit will bring together key Linux kernel developers and academic researchers. The goal is to provide a forum for presenting and discussing current ideas in research with a group of active practitioners in the Linux Kernel.

Logistics and Submission Instructions

The format will be a workshop-style round-table summit with attendance capped at 30 or so to keep interactions free-flowing and manageable. If you have an idea you'd like to share, or a project in the Linux Kernel that you'd like to talk about, please send a 400-word summary of the idea or project and a short description of the benefits that would be achieved by discussion with kernel practitioners to linuxfast16chairs@usenix.org. Submissions are due by Wednesday, January 20, 2016. This event will take place after lunch on the last day of FAST '16 at the Hyatt Regency Santa Clara.