9:00 am–9:15 am
Opening Remarks and Awards
Program Co-Chairs: Haryadi Gunawi, University of Chicago and Vasily Tarasov, IBM Research
9:15 am–10:15 am
Keynote Address
10:15 am–10:45 am
Coffee and Tea Break
10:45 am–12:25 pm
File Systems
Fast, Transparent Filesystem Microkernel Recovery with Ananke
Jing Liu, Yifan Dai, Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau, and Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau, UW-Madison
Boosting File Systems Elegantly: A Transparent NVM Write-ahead Log for Disk File Systems
Guoyu Wang, Xilong Che, Haoyang Wei, Shuo Chen, Puyi He, and Juncheng Hu, Jilin University
DJFS : Directory-Granularity Filesystem Journaling for Memory-Semantic SSD
Seung Won Yoo, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST); Joontaek Oh, University of Wisconsin–Madison; Myeongin Cheon and Bonmoo Koo, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST); Wonseb Jeong, Hyunsub Song, Hyeonho Song, and Donghun Lee, Samsung Electronics; Youjip Won, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
ScaleLFS: A Log-Structured File System with Scalable Garbage Collection for Commodity SSDs
Jin Yong Ha, Seoul National University; Sangjin Lee, Chung-Ang University; Hyeonsang Eom, Seoul National University; Yongseok Son, Chung-Ang University
Rethinking the Request-to-IO Transformation Process of File Systems for Full Utilization of High-Bandwidth SSDs
Yekang Zhan, Haichuan Hu, Xiangrui Yang, and Qiang Cao, Huazhong University of Science and Technology; Hong Jiang, UT Arlington; Shaohua Wang and Jie Yao, Huazhong University of Science and Technology
12:25 pm–2:00 pm
Lunch (on your own)
2:00 pm–3:20 pm
Cloud Storage
FlacIO: Towarding Flat and Collective I/O for Container Image Service
Yubo Liu, Hongbo Li, Mingrui Liu, Rui Jing, Jian Guo, Bo Zhang, Hanjun Guo, Yuxin Ren, and Ning Jia, Huawei Technologies
Cloudscape: A Study of Storage Services in Modern Cloud Architectures
Sambhav Satija, Chenhao Ye, Ranjitha Kosgi, Aditya Jain, ROMIT KANKARIA, Yiwei Chen, Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau, and Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau, University of Wisconsin–Madison; Kiran Srinivasan, NetApp
Maat: Analyzing and Optimizing Overcharge on Blockchain Storage
Zheyuan He, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China; Zihao Li, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University; Ao Qiao and Jingwei Li, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China; Feng Luo, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University; Sen Yang, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China; Gelei Deng, Nanyang Technological University; Shuwei Song, XiaoSong Zhang, and Ting Chen, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China; Xiapu Luo, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Revisiting Network Coding for Warm Blob Storage
Chuang Gan, Yuchong Hu, Leyan Zhao, Xin Zhao, Pengyu Gong, and Dan Feng, Huazhong University of Science and Technology
3:20 pm–3:50 pm
Coffee and Tea Break
3:50 pm–5:30 pm
Machine Learning and Storage
Deployed System: Trading More Storage for Less Computation: A KVCache-centric Architecture for Serving LLM Chatbot
Ruoyu Qin, Moonshot AI and Tsinghua University; Zheming Li, Weiran He, and Jialei Cui, Moonshot AI; Feng Ren, Mingxing Zhang, Yongwei Wu, and Weimin Zheng, Tsinghua University; Xinran Xu, Moonshot AI
Towards High-throughput and Low-latency Billion-scale Vector Search via CPU/GPU Collaborative Filtering and Re-ranking
Bing Tian, Haikun Liu, and Yuhang Tang, Huazhong University of Science and Technology; Shihai Xiao, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd; Zhuohui Duan, Xiaofei Liao, and Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology; Xuecang Zhang and Junhua Zhu, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd; Yu Zhang, Huazhong University of Science and Technology
IMPRESS: An Importance-informed Multi-tier Prefix KV Storage System for Large Language Model Inference
Weijian Chen, Shuibing He, Haoyang Qu, Ruidong Zhang, Siling Yang, and Ping Chen, Zhejiang University; Yi Zheng and Baoxing Huai, Huawei Cloud; Gang Chen, Zhejiang University
GPHash: An Efficient Hash Index for GPU with Byte-Granularity Persistent Memory
Menglei Chen, Yu Hua, Zhangyu Chen, Ming Zhang, and Gen Dong, Huazhong University of Science and Technology
GeminiFS: A Companion File System for GPUs
Shi Qiu, Weinan Liu, and Yifan Hu, Xiamen University; Haonan Wang, Xiamen University and Huazhong University of Science and Technology; Zhirong Shen, Xiamen University; Xin Yao, Renhai Chen, and Nicholas Zhang, Huawei Technologies; Yiming Zhang, Xiamen University
6:00 pm–7:30 pm
FAST '25 Poster Session and Reception
Check out the cool new ideas and the latest preliminary research on display at the Poster Session and Reception. Take part in discussions with your colleagues over complimentary food and beverages. See the Call for Posters and WiPs for information on how to submit your poster. The submission deadline is Friday, January 17, 2025.
9:00 am–10:20 am
More Machine Learning
3L-Cache: Low Overhead and Precise Learning-based Eviction Policy for Web Caches
Wenbin Zhou, Beijing University of Technology; Zhixiong Niu and Yongqiang Xiong, Microsoft Research; Juan Fang and Qian Wang, Beijing University of Technology
LeapGNN: Accelerating Distributed GNN Training Leveraging Feature-Centric Model Migration
Weijian Chen, Shuibing He, and Haoyang Qu, Zhejiang University; Xuechen Zhang, Washington State University Vancouver
HiDPU: A DPU-Oriented Hybrid Indexing Scheme for Disaggregated Storage Systems
Wenbin Zhu, Zhaoyan Shen, and Qian Wei, Shandong University; Renhai Chen, Tianjin University; Xin Yao, Hua Wei; Dongxiao Yu, Shandong University; Zili Shao, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
PIMLex: A High-Performance Learned Index with Processing-in-Memory
Lixiao Cui, Kedi Yang, Yusen Li, Gang Wang, and Xiaoguang Liu, Nankai-Baidu Joint Lab, College of Computer Science, Nankai University
10:20 am–10:50 am
Coffee and Tea Break
10:50 am–12:30 pm
Hardware Assist
HaSiS: A Hardware-assisted Single-index Store for Hybrid Transactional and Analytical Processing
Kecheng Huang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong; Zhaoyan Shen, Shandong University; Zili Shao, The Chinese University of Hong Kong; Feng Chen, Indiana University Bloomington; Tong Zhang, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and ScaleFlux Inc.
AegonKV: A High Bandwidth, Low Tail Latency, and Low Storage Cost KV-Separated LSM Store with SmartSSD-based GC Offloading
Zhuohui Duan, Hao Feng, Haikun Liu, Xiaofei Liao, Hai Jin, and Bangyu Li, Huazhong University of Science and Technology
D2FS: Device-Driven Filesystem Garbage Collection
Juwon Kim, Seungjae Lee, and Joontaek Oh, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST); Dongkun Shin, Sungkyunkwan University; Youjip Won, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
ShiftLock: Mitigate One-sided RDMA Lock Contention via Handover
Jian Gao, Qing Wang, and Jiwu Shu, Tsinghua University
Selective On-Device Execution of Data-Dependent Read I/Os
Chanyoung Park, Minu Chung, and Hyungon Moon, UNIST (Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology)
12:30 pm–2:00 pm
Conference Luncheon
2:00 pm–3:40 pm
Security, Integrity, and Consistency
On Scalable Integrity Checking for Secure Cloud Disks
Quinn Burke, Ryan Sheatsley, Rachel King, Owen Hines, Michael Swift, and Patrick McDaniel, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Silhouette: Leveraging Consistency Mechanisms to Detect Bugs in Persistent Memory-Based File Systems
Bing Jiao, Florida State University; Ashvin Goel, University of Toronto; An-I Andy Wang, Florida State University
OPIMQ: Order Preserving IO stack for Multi-Queue Block Device
Jieun Kim, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST); Joontaek Oh, UW–Madison; Juwon Kim, Seung Won Yoo and Youjip Won, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
AWUPF Rediscovered: Atomic Writes to Unleash Pivotal Fault-Tolerance in SSDs
Jiyune Jeon and Jongseok Kim, Sungkyunkwan University; Sam H. Noh, Virginia Tech; Euiseong Seo, Sungkyunkwan University
AtomicDisk: A Secure Virtual Disk for TEEs against Eviction Attacks
Hongliang Tian, Ant Group; Erci Xu, Alibaba; Shiyu Wang and Xinyi Yu, Xiamen University; Weijie Liu, NKU; Songshao Wei, Qingsong Chen, and Shoumeng Yan, Ant Group; Yiming Zhang, Xiamen University and Shanghai Jiao Tong University
3:40 pm–4:10 pm
Coffee and Tea Break
4:10 pm–4:30 pm
FAST '25 Test of Time Award Presentation
4:30 pm–5:30 pm
Work-in-Progress Reports (WiPs)
See the Call for Posters and WiPs for information on how to submit your work-in-progress report. The submission deadline is Friday, January 17, 2025.
9:00 am–10:20 am
Compression and Deduplication
MedFS: Pursuing Low Update Overhead via Metadata-Enabled Delta Compression for Log-structured File System on Mobile Device
Chao Wu and Cheng Ji, Nanjing University of Science and Technology; Congming Gao, Xiamen University; Zongwei Zhu, University of Science and Technology of China; Weichao Guo and Chao Yu, Guangdong Oppo Mobile Telecommunications Corp., Ltd; Li-Pin Chang, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung Univ., Taiwan; Yanzhi Wang, Northeastern University
Don't Maintain Twice, It's Alright: Merged Metadata Management in Deduplication File System with GogetaFS
Yanqi Pan and Wen Xia, Harbin institute of Technology, Shenzhen; Erci Xu, Alibaba; Hao Huang, Xiangyu Zou, and Shiyi Li, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen
Archer: Adaptive Memory Compression with Page-Association-Rule Awareness for High-Speed Response of Mobile Devices
Changlong Li, East China Normal University; Zongwei Zhu and Chao Wang, University of Science and Technology of China; Fangming Liu, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, and Peng Cheng Laboratory; Fei Xu, East China Normal University; Xuehai Zhou, University of Science and Technology of China; Edwin Sha, East China Normal University
VectorCDC: Accelerating Data Deduplication with Vector Instructions
Sreeharsha Udayashankar, Abdelrahman Baba, and Samer Al-Kiswany, University of Waterloo
10:20 am–10:50 am
Coffee and Tea Break
10:50 am–12:10 pm
Storage Diversity and Heterogeneity
Oasis: An Out-of-core Approximate Graph System via All-Distances Sketches
Tsun-Yu Yang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong; Yi Li, The University of Texas at Dallas; Yizou Chen, The Chinese University of Hong Kong; Bingzhe Li, The University of Texas at Dallas; Ming-Chang Yang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
PolyStore: Exploiting Combined Capabilities of Heterogeneous Storage
Yujie Ren, Rutgers University and EPFL; David Domingo, Jian Zhang, and Paul John, Rutgers University; Rekha Pitchumani, Samsung; Sanidhya Kashyap, EPFL; Sudarsun Kannan, Rutgers University
Liquid-State Drive: A Case for DNA Block Device for Enormous Data
Jiahao Zhou, Mingkai Dong, Fei Wang, Jingyao Zen, Lei Zhao, Chunhai Fan, and Haibo Chen, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
DNA data storage: a generative tool for data encoding motifs
Samira Brunmayr, Omer Sella, and Thomas Heinis, Imperial College London