[9fans] FAST '03, 2nd USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies

[Alex Walker <alex@usenix.org>]

Dear Colleague,

I am writing to invite you to attend the 2nd USENIX Conference on File
and Storage Technologies (FAST '03), March 31 through April 2, 2003, in
beautiful San Francisco, California.

http://www.usenix.org/events/fast03/

Also, if you have work you would like to share or a cool idea that's not
quite ready for publication, send a one- or two-paragraph summary to
fast03wips@usenix.org by March 1, 2003. We are particularly interested
in presenting students' work. A schedule of presentations will be posted
at the conference, and the speakers will be notified in advance.
Work-in-Progress reports are five-minute presentations;

File systems and storage continue to be active focus areas for
researchers and technologists in operating systems, computer
architecture, distributed systems, networking, mobile computing, and
computational science. FAST '03 will bring together over 250 storage
specialists from all of these areas in a unified, high-quality forum.

FAST '03 will bring together over 200 storage specialists from all of
these areas in a unified, high-quality forum.

The FAST '03 program includes 18 technical papers carefully selected
from a pool of 67 submissions by a program committee of 16 leading
researchers. These papers represent some of the outstanding work in the
area, ranging from RAID design to secure wide-area file sharing. The
technical presentations will be given by top researchers from both
academia and industry.

The program features a keynote address by Dr. John Wilkes of
Hewlett-Packard Labs, an HP Fellow and ACM Fellow with 15 years of
research leadership in self-managing large-scale storage. Technical
presentations will be given by top researchers from both academia and
industry, including Dave Belanger, Chief Scientist, AT&T Research; EMC's
David Black, IETF chair for Internet Storage; CMU's Garth Gibson,
founder and CTO of Panasas; Steve Kleiman, CTO of Network Appliance;
Reagan Moore, Associate Director of Data-Intensive Computing at the San
Diego Supercomputer Center; and Tom Ruwart of I/O Performance, Inc.

FAST '03 promises to be an exciting conference presenting the best of
current research and a strong vision of the future. Please join us in
San Francisco.

Jeffrey S. Chase, Duke University
FAST '03 Program Chair

P.S.  Thanks to SNIA and HP for their support of student stipends to
attend the conference.

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Alex Walker
Production Editor
USENIX Association
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