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Tech Sessions: Wednesday, February 14 | Thursday, February 15 | Friday, February 16
Wednesday, February 14

9:00 a.m.–10:00 a.m. Wednesday
Invited Talk

TBA

10:00 a.m.–10:30 a.m.    Break
10:30 a.m.–noon Wednesday
Measure Thrice

Disk Failures in the Real World: What Does an MTTF of 1,000,000 Hours Mean to You?
Bianca Schroeder and Garth A. Gibson, Carnegie Mellon University

Failure Trends in a Large Disk Drive Population
Eduardo Pinheiro, Wolf-Dietrich Weber, and Luiz Andre Barroso, Google

A Five-Year Study of File-System Metadata
Nitin Agrawal, University of Wisconsin, Madison; William J. Bolosky, John R. Douceur, and Jacob R. Lorch, Microsoft Research

noon–1:30 p.m.    Conference Luncheon
1:30 p.m.–3:00 p.m. Wednesday
Who Put Their Network In My Storage?

Performance Virtualization for Distributed Storage Systems via Proportional Sharing
Yin Wang, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Arif Merchant, Hewlett-Packard Labs

Argon: Performance Insulation for Shared Storage Servers
Matthew Wachs, Michael Abd-El-Malek, Eno Thereska, and Gregory R. Ganger, Carnegie Mellon University

Strong Accountability for Network Storage
Aydan Yumerefendi and Jeff Chase, Duke University

3:00 p.m.–3:30 p.m.    Break
3:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m. Wednesday
Work-in-Progress Reports (WiPs)

The FAST technical sessions will include slots for Work-in-Progress reports, preliminary results, and "outrageous" opinion statements. We are particularly interested in presentations of student work. To submit, please send a proposal (one page or less) to [email protected].

Tech Sessions: Wednesday, February 14 | Thursday, February 15 | Friday, February 16
Thursday, February 15

9:00 a.m.–10:00 a.m. Thursday
Invited Talk

TBA

10:00 a.m.–10:30 a.m.    Break
10:30 a.m.–noon Thursday
The Latest Version

Design and Implementation of Verifiable Audit Trails for a Versioning File System
Zachary N. J. Peterson, Randal Burns, Giuseppe Ateniese, and Stephen Bono, Johns Hopkins University

Architectures for Controller Based CDP
Guy Laden, Paula Ta-Shma, Eitan Yaffe, Michael Factor, and Shachar Fienblit, IBM Haifa Research Laboratory

Jumbo Store: Providing Efficient Incremental Upload and Versioning for a Utility Rendering Service
Kave Eshghi, Mark Lillibridge, Lawrence Wilcock, Guillaume Belrose, and Rycharde Hawkes, Hewlett-Packard Labs

noon–1:30 p.m.    Lunch  (on your own)
1:30 p.m.–2:30 p.m. Thursday
Scalable Systems

Data ONTAP GX: A Scalable Storage Cluster
Michael Eisler, Peter Corbett, Michael Kazar, Dan Nydick, and Chris Wagner, Network Appliance

//TRACE: Parallel Trace Replay with Approximate Causal Events
Michael Mesnier, Carnegie Mellon University/Intel; Matthew Wachs, Raja R. Sambasivan, Julio Lopez, James Hendricks, Gregory R. Ganger, and David O'Hallaron, Carnegie Mellon University

2:30 p.m.–3:00 p.m.    Break
3:00 p.m.–4:30 p.m. Thursday
Cache Prizes

Karma: Know-It-All Replacement for a Multilevel Cache
Michael Factor, IBM Haifa Research Laboratory; Assaf Schuster and Gala Yadgar, Technion

AMP: Adaptive Multi-stream Prefetching in a Shared Cache
Binny S. Gill, IBM; Luis Angel D. Bathen, University of California, Irvine

Nache: Design and Implementation of a Caching Proxy for NFSv4
Ajay Gulati, Rice University; Renu Tewari and Manoj Naik, IBM Almaden Research Center

Tech Sessions: Wednesday, February 14 | Thursday, February 15 | Friday, February 16
Friday, February 16

9:00 a.m.–10:00 a.m. Friday
Beyond the Machine Room

TFS: A Transparent File System for Contributory Storage
James Cipar, Mark D. Corner, and Emery D. Berger, University of Massachusetts

Cobalt: Separating Content Distribution from Authorization in Distributed File Systems
Kaushik Veeraraghavan, Andrew Myrick, and Jason Flinn, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

10:00 a.m.–10:30 a.m.    Break
10:30 a.m.–noon Friday
Making the RAID

PARAID: The Gear-Shifting Power-Aware RAID
Charles Weddle, Mathew Oldham, Jin Qian, and An-I Andy Wang, Florida State University; Peter Reiher, University of California, Los Angeles; Geoff Kuenning, Harvey Mudd College

REO: A Generic RAID Engine and Optimizer
Deepak Kenchammana-Hosekote, IBM Almaden Research Center; Dingshan He, Microsoft; James Lee Hafner, IBM Almaden Research Center

PRO: A Popularity-based Multi-threaded Reconstruction Optimization for RAID-Structured Storage Systems
Lei Tian and Dan Feng, Huazhong University of Science and Technology; Hong Jiang, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Ke Zhou, Lingfang Zeng, Jianxi Chen, Zhikun Wang, and Zhenlei Song, Huazhong University of Science and Technology

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