Sunday 6 July 2014

INFLOW '14 Interactions of NVM/Flash with Operating-Systems and Workloads OSDI'14 Workshop

INFLOW '14

Interactions of NVM/Flash with Operating-Systems and Workloads
         OSDI'14 Workshop,   Oct 5, 2014  at Broomfield, CO, USA.
               https://www.usenix.org/conference/inflow14

 Submission Date: July 21st, 2014      Acceptance:   Aug 25th, 2014

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  The goal of INFLOW’14 is to bring together researchers and practitioners
  working in systems, across the hardware/software stack, who are interested
  in the cross-cutting issues of NVM/Flash technologies, Operating Systems,
  and emerging Workloads. 

  In recent years, NVM based storage devices have been gaining popularity as
  a medium of storage. Flash based SSDs in particular have had a widespread
  adoption by the industry driven by the need for greater storage performance.
  NVM storage devices have dramatically different properties than conventional
  hard disks. Yet, most of these devices are still exposed to operating systems
  as block-level devices similar to hard disks. There are still several 
  fundamental research issues to be explored on how to efficiently interface 
  with NVM and Flash based storage devices, and the implications of such devices
  in large scale workload deployments and on emerging workloads such as 
  Analytics applications.

  The INFLOW Workshop is an attempt to bring top researchers across the World to
  exchange ideas and discuss recent innovations related to NVM/Flash technologies
  and their interactions with Operating systems and workloads, and doing this in
  the context of current enterprises and consumer markets. 

  Checkout the CFP:  https://www.usenix.org/conference/inflow14/call-for-papers
  CFP pdf version :     https://www.usenix.org/sites/default/files/inflow14_cfp_063014.pdf

  Important Dates
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        Full paper submission due:       Tuesday    July 21st, 2014     [ DEADLINE EXTENDED ]
        Notification of acceptance:        Monday     August 25th, 2014
        Final papers due:                      Thursday   September 17th, 2014
        Conference:                              Sunday     October 5, 2014


   Topics
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     We invite research papers from all areas of Flash SSD and its interactions
     with operating systems and workloads. 
     Major Areas of interests include, but are not limited to: 

       * Operating systems support for Flash and other NVM technologies
       * New filesystem / storage software design ideas to support Flash
       * Virtualization trends for SSD storage
       * Flash SSD and NVM in Cloud Computing
       * Applications on NVM/Flash, Mobile Devices, Wearable Computing Devices, etc.
       * Application/OS optimizations tailored for Flash storage unique properties
       * Application/OS optimizations for other NVM technologies
       * Emerging Workloads (BigData, Analytics, Social, etc.) for Flash/NVM
       * Workload characterization for NVM/Flash devices
       * SSD caching techniques
       * Acceleration techniques for Flash Storage and NVM technologies
       * Hybrid SSD technologies



   Submission Site:    https://papers.usenix.org/hotcrp/inflow14/ 
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   Workshop Organizers and Committee:
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Program Co-Chairs

Kaoutar El Maghraoui, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
Gokul Kandiraju, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center

Program Committee

Nitin Agrawal, NEC Labs
Mahesh Balakrishnan, Microsoft Research
Philippe Bonnet, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Michele M. Franceschini, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
K. Gopinath, Indian Institute of Science, India
Haryadi S. Gunawi, University of Chicago
Paolo Ienne, EPFL
Jihong Kim, Seoul National University, Korea
Carlos Maltzahn, University of California, Santa Cruz
Arif Merchant, Google
Sam H. Noh, Hongik University, Korea
Alma Riska, Netapp
Steven Swanson, University of California, San Diego
Nisha Talagala, Fusion IO
Bhuvan Urgaonkar, The Pennsylvania State University
Luis Useche, VMware
Chuliang Weng, Huawei Shannon Lab

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