[hpc-announce] Parallel Data Storage Workshop 2012 (Co-located with SC'12): Call for Papers

[Rob Ross]

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The 7th Parallel Data Storage Workshop (PDSW12)
held in conjunction with IEEE/ACM Supercomputing (SC) 2012
Salt Lake City, Utah, Monday, November 12, 2012
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URL: http://www.pdsw.org

Peta- and exascale computing infrastructures make unprecedented demands on storage capacity, performance, concurrency, reliability, availability, and manageability. This one-day workshop focuses on the data storage problems and emerging solutions found in peta- and exascale scientific computing environments, with special attention to issues in which community collaboration can be crucial for problem identification, workload capture, solution interoperability, standards with community buy-in, and shared tools. This workshop seeks contributions on relevant topics, including but not limited to:

- performance and benchmarking
- failure tolerance problems and solutions
- APIs for high performance features
- parallel file systems
- high bandwidth storage architectures
- wide area file systems
- metadata intensive workloads
- autonomics for HPC storage
- virtualization for storage systems
- archival storage advances
- resource management innovations
- storage systems for big data and analytics
- incorporation of emerging storage technologies

Paper Submissions:

The Parallel Data Storage Workshop holds a peer reviewed competitive process for selecting short papers. Submit a not previously published short paper of up to 5 pages, not less than 10 point font, in a PDF file as instructed on the workshop web site. Submitted papers will be reviewed under the supervision of the workshop program committee. Submissions should indicate authors and affiliations. Final papers must not be longer than 5 pages. Selected papers and associated talk slides will be made available on the workshop web site; the papers will also be published in the digital library of the IEEE or ACM.

Paper Submission Deadline: Sun, Sept. 30, 2012, 11:59 p.m. EDT (no extensions)
Paper Notification: Wed, Oct. 17, 2012
Camera Ready Due: Wed, Nov. 7, 2012
Softcopy and Slides Due: November 10, 2012, 5:00 pm ET, BEFORE the workshop

Poster Submissions:

There will also be a poster session at the workshop; accepted papers will ALWAYS be accepted for a poster. Others interested in presenting a related technical poster (posters with technical results for storage products are also encouraged) should submit a short poster abstract as instructed on the workshop web site.

Poster Submission Deadline: Thursday, November 6, 2012
Poster Notification: November 8, 2012

Program Committee:

Robert Ross, Argonne National Laboratory (PC Chair)
Ahmed Amer, Santa Clara University
John Bent, EMC
Yong Chen, Texas Tech University
Matthew Curry, Sandia National Laboratories
Garth Gibson, Carnegie Mellon University and Panasas Inc.
Dean Hildebrand, IBM
Dries Kimpe, Argonne National Laboratory
Xiaosong Ma, North Carolina State University
Carlos Maltzahn, University of California, Santa Cruz
Narasimha Reddy, Texas A&M University
Brad Settlemyer, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Galen Shipman, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Matthew Wolf, Georgia Institute of Technology
Sage Weil, Inktank
Bill Kramer, National Center for Supercomputing Applications/University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign