FAST 2019

FAST 2019
17th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies
Event in series	FAST
Dates	2019/02/25 (iCal) - 2019/02/28
Homepage:	https://www.usenix.org/conference/fast19
Location
Location:	Boston, Sheraton Boston, 39 Dalton St, MA 02199, USA
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Important dates
Tutorials:	2018/09/26
Papers:	2019/01/24
Submissions:	2018/09/26
Notification:	2018/12/11
On site student:	$ 840 / {{{On site fee reduced}}} Property "On site fee reduced" (as page type) with input value "{{{On site fee reduced}}}" contains invalid characters or is incomplete and therefore can cause unexpected results during a query or annotation process. (reduced)
Early bird regular:	$ 1260
On site regular:	$ 1460
Committees
Organizers:	Arif Merchant, Hakim Weatherspoon
Seminars Chair:	John Strunk, Eno Thereska
PC members:	Nitin Agrawal, Mahesh Balakrishnan, André Brinkmann
Table of Contents

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The 17th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '19) brings together storage-system researchers and practitioners to explore new directions in the design, implementation, evaluation, and deployment of storage systems. Co-located with NSDI '19

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
  • Deployed Systems

Important Dates

• Submissions due: Wednesday, September 26, 2018, 8:59 pm PDT
• Tutorial submissions due: Wednesday, September 26, 2018, 8:59 pm PDT
• Notification to authors: Tuesday, December 11, 2018
• Final papers due: Thursday, January 24, 2019

Committees

• Program Co-Chairs
  • Arif Merchant, Google
  • Hakim Weatherspoon, Cornell University
  • Program Committee
  • Nitin Agrawal, Samsung Research
  • Mahesh Balakrishnan, Yale University and Facebook
  • André Brinkmann, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz
  • Vijay Chidambaram, The University of Texas at Austin
  • Angela Demke Brown, University of Toronto
  • Peter Desnoyers, Northeastern University
  • Ashvin Goel, University of Toronto
  • Ajay Gulati, ZeroStack
  • Haryadi Gunawi, University of Chicago
  • Tim Harris, Amazon
  • Cheng Huang, Microsoft Research and Azure
  • Bill Jannen, Williams College
  • Rob Johnson, VMware Research Group
  • Kim Keeton, Hewlett Packard Enterprise
  • Geoff Kuenning, Harvey Mudd College
  • Sungjin Lee, DGIST (Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology)
  • Peter Macko, NetApp
  • Umesh Maheshwari, Nimble Storage (an HPE company)
  • Arif Merchant, Google
  • Onur Mutlu, ETH Zurich and Carnegie Mellon University
  • Sam H. Noh, UNIST (Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology)
  • Florentina Popovici, Google
  • Raju Rangaswami, Florida International University
  • Ken Salem, University of Waterloo
  • Jiri Schindler, Tranquil Data
  • Bianca Schroeder, University of Toronto
  • Keith A Smith, NetApp
  • Ioan Stefanovici, Microsoft Research
  • Swaminathan Sundararaman, ParallelM
  • Nisha Talagala, ParallelM
  • Vasily Tarasov, IBM Research
  • Joseph Tucek, Amazon
  • Carl Waldspurger, Carl Waldspurger Consulting
  • Andrew Warfield, Amazon
  • Hakim Weatherspoon, Cornell University
  • Brent Welch, Google
  • Ric Wheeler, Facebook
  • Youjip Won, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
  • Gala Yadgar, Technion—Israel Institute of Technology
  • Yiying Zhang, Purdue University
  • Work-in-Progress/Posters Co-Chairs
  • Bill Jannen, Williams College
  • Vasily Tarasov, IBM Research

• Test of Time Awards Committee
  • Jiri Schindler, Tranquil Data
  • Eno Thereska, Amazon
  • Erez Zadok, Stony Brook University
  • Tutorial Coordinators
  • John Strunk, Red Hat
  • Eno Thereska, Amazon
  • Steering Committee
  • Nitin Agrawal, Samsung Research
  • 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
  • Raju Rangaswami, Florida International University
  • Erik Riedel
  • Jiri Schindler, Tranquil Data
  • Bianca Schroeder, University of Toronto
  • Keith A. Smith, NetApp
  • Eno Thereska, Amazon
  • Carl Waldspurger, Carl Waldspurger Consulting
  • Ric Wheeler, Facebook
  • Erez Zadok, Stony Brook University