[hpc-announce] Submission deadline for SYSTOR 2018's Posters extended: April 1, 2018 + Keynote speakers announcement

[Goldstein, Maayan (Nokia - IL/Kfar Sava)]

[ Apologies if you receive this multiple times ]

We are pleased to announce that we will have the honor to host three keynote speakers this year: Margo Seltzer, Radia Perlman,
Ant Rowstron. Please see more details here: https://www.systor.org/2018/keynote-speakers.html


SYSTOR 2018 Posters submission deadline has been extended to April, 2018. 
Posters with Extended Abstract Track - original work presented as a poster, accompanied by a one-page extended abstract.






                Call for Papers: SYSTOR 2018
                June 4-6, 2018
                Haifa, Israel

The ACM International Systems and Storage Conference (SYSTOR) is an excellent international forum for interaction across the systems research community. The program includes both innovative, peer-reviewed research papers in the broad area of systems and storage, as well as distinguished keynote lecturers, a poster session, and social events. ACM SYSTOR is designed to appeal to academic and industrial researchers and practitioners, welcoming both students and seasoned professionals.

We invite you to submit original and innovative papers to SYSTOR 2018, The 11th ACM International Systems and Storage Conference.

The conference will take place June 4-6, 2018 in Haifa, Israel.
http://www.systor.org


SYSTOR has a broad scope, promoting experimental and practical computer systems research encompassing the following topics:

*  Big data infrastructure
*  Cloud, datacenter, and distributed systems
*  Deployment, usage, and experience
*  Embedded and real-time systems
*  Fault tolerance, reliability, and availability
*  File and storage systems
*  Networked, mobile, wireless, peer-to-peer, and sensor systems
*  Operating systems, computer architecture, and their interactions
*  Performance evaluation and workload characterization
*  Runtime systems and compiler/programming-language support
*  Security, privacy, and trust
*  System design or adaptation for emerging storage technologies
*  Virtualization


SYSTOR welcomes academic and industrial papers in systems and storage, broadly construed. SYSTOR encourages submissions that describe results from experimental system prototypes, as well as experience papers describing practical deployments, and valuable lessons learned from them. We solicit paper submissions in five separate categories:

*  Full Papers track - original research, at most 10 pages without the references
*  Short Papers Track - original research, at most 5 pages without the references
*  Highlight Papers Track - papers accepted at top-tier conferences
*  Posters with Extended AbstractTrack - original work presented as poster accompanied by the extended abstract
*  Informal Student Presentations - informal presentation of research findings, co-located with the poster session


Formatting and submission instructions: http://www.systor.org/2018/cfp.html

IMPORTANT DATES
*  Full and Short Papers Track 
*  Paper Submission March 3, 2018 
*  Acceptance Notification April 15, 2018 
*  Camera-ready May 6, 2018 
*  Highlight Papers Track 
*  Extended Abstract Submission March 29, 2018 
*  Acceptance Notification April 24, 2018 

*  Posters with Extended Abstract Track 
*  Poster & Abstract Submission March 29, 2018 
*  Acceptance Notification April 22, 2018 
*  Camera-ready May 6, 2018 
*  Informal Student Poster Presentations Track 
*  Poster Submission May 15, 2018 
*  Acceptance Notification May 22, 2018 


SYSTOR 2018 will host distinguished keynote speakers, a poster session, and several social events at the conference. Our goal is to provide an excellent forum for interaction across the systems community: international, academic, and industrial, for both students and more established members.


Program Chairs:
*  Gala Yadgar (Technion, Israel)
*  Donald E. Porter (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA)

Program Committee:
*  Nadav Amit (VMware Research, USA)
*  Antonio Barbalace (Huawei, Germany)
*  Angelos Bilas (University of Crete, Grece)
*  Renata Borovica-Gajic (University of Melbourne, Australia)
*  Edward Bortnikov (Yahoo! Labs, Israel)
*  Vijay Chidambaram (The University of Texas at Austin, USA)
*  Toni Cortes (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya and Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain)
*  Angela Demke Brown (University of Toronto, Canada)
*  Fred Douglis ()
*  Yoav Etsion (Technion, Israel)
*  Boris Grot (University of Edinburgh, UK)
*  Vishakha Gupta-Cledat (Intel Labs, USA)
*  Danny Harnik (IBM Research - Haifa, Israel)
*  Joo-Young Hwang (Samsung Electronics, Republic of Korea)
*  Michael Kaminsky (Intel Labs, USA)
*  Orran Krieger (Boston University, USA)
*  Adam Morrison (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
*  Sam H. Noh (Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Republic of Korea)
*  Amitabha Roy (Intel Labs, USA)
*  Larry Rudolph (Two Sigma, USA)
*  Margo Seltzer (Harvard University and Oracle, USA)
*  Alexander Shraer (Apple, USA)
*  Keith H. Smith (NetApp, USA)
*  Vasily Tarasov (IBM Research - Almaden, USA)
*  Chia-Che Tsai (University of California - Berkeley, USA)
*  Xi Wang (University of Washington, USA)
*  Pete Wyckoff (Nutanix, USA)
*  Aviad Zuck (Technion, Israel)

General Chair:
*  David Breitgand (IBM Research - Haifa, Israel)

Posters Chair:
*  Michael Shapira (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI), Israel)

Publication Chair:
*  Ittay Eyal (Technion, Israel)

Publicity Chair:
*  Maayan Goldstein (Nokia, Bell Labs, Israel)

Local Arrangements Chair:
*  Eti Jahr (IBM Research - Haifa, Israel)

Steering Committee Head:
*  Dalit Naor (IBM Research - Haifa, Israel)

Steering Committee:
*  Michael Factor (IBM Research - Haifa, Israel)
*  Ethan Miller (University of California Santa Cruz, USA)
*  Liuba Shrira (Brandeis University, USA)
*  Dan Tsafrir (Technion, Israel)
*  Erez Zadok (Stony Brook University, USA)