From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu From: Alex Walker Message-ID: <3E4460CE.5030009@usenix.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [9fans] FAST '03, 2nd USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 10:03:43 +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 54abf162-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 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. -- Alex Walker Production Editor USENIX Association 2560 Ninth Street, Suite 215 Berkeley, CA 94710 510/528-8649 x33