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TECHNICAL SESSIONS

Conference papers are available to conference registrants immediately and to everyone beginning February 25, 2009. Everyone can view the proceedings front matter immediately. All sessions will take place in the Ballroom East, unless otherwise noted.
Proceedings Front Matter: Title Page | Conference Organizers and External Reviewers |
Table of Contents | Index of Authors | Message from the Program Co-Chairs
Tech Sessions: Wednesday, February 25 | Thursday, February 26 | Friday, February 27
Wednesday, February 25
9:00 a.m.–10:30 a.m. Wednesday

Opening Remarks and Best Paper Awards

FAST '09 Program Co-Chairs: Margo Seltzer, Harvard University; Ric Wheeler, Red Hat

2009 IEEE Reynold B. Johnson Information Storage Systems Award

Sponsored by the IBM Almaden Research Center

Keynote Address: Cloud Storage FUD (Failure, Uncertainty, and Durability)

by Alyssa Henry, General Manager of Amazon Simple Storage (S3)

Failure and uncertainty play a key role when engineering a general purpose online storage system to be durable, available, scalable, and cost effective. I'll share some of the uncertainty we've encountered and the impact of that uncertainty on the design of the system. I'll also cover some of the hardware and network failures we've encountered, others that we anticipate occurring, and how we've engineered Amazon S3 to be resilient to them.

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10:30 a.m.–11:00 a.m.  Break
11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m. Wednesday

Augmenting File System Functionality

Session Chair: Ethan Miller, University of California, Santa Cruz

The Case of the Fake Picasso: Preventing History Forgery with Secure Provenance
Ragib Hasan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Radu Sion, Stony Brook University; Marianne Winslett, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Causality-Based Versioning
Kiran-Kumar Muniswamy-Reddy and David A. Holland, Harvard University

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Enabling Transactional File Access via Lightweight Kernel Extensions
Richard P. Spillane, Sachin Gaikwad, Manjunath Chinni, and Erez Zadok, Stony Brook University; Charles P. Wright, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

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12:30 p.m.–2:00 p.m.  Lunch (on your own)
2:00 p.m.–3:00 p.m. Wednesday

Diagnosis

Session Chair: Bill Bolosky, Microsoft Research, Redmond

Understanding Customer Problem Troubleshooting from Storage System Logs
Weihang Jiang and Chongfeng Hu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Shankar Pasupathy and Arkady Kanevsky, NetApp, Inc.; Zhenmin Li, Pattern Insight, Inc.; Yuanyuan Zhou, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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DIADS: Addressing the "My-Problem-or-Yours" Syndrome with Integrated SAN and Database Diagnosis
Shivnath Babu and Nedyalko Borisov, Duke University; Sandeep Uttamchandani, Ramani Routray, and Aameek Singh, IBM Almaden Research Center

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3:00 p.m..–3:30 p.m.  Break
3:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m. Ballroom East

Work-in-Progress Reports (WiPs)

Session Chair: Geoff Kuenning, Harvey Mudd College

The FAST technical sessions will include a session for Work-in-Progress reports, preliminary results, and "outrageous" opinion statements. The abstracts of the FAST '09 WiPs are available here.

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5:30 p.m.–7:00 p.m. Ballroom West

Poster Session & Happy Hour

Held in conjunction with a happy hour, the poster session will allow researchers to present recent and ongoing projects. The list of accepted posters is now available.

Wednesday, February 25 | Thursday, February 26 | Friday, February 27
Thursday, February 26
9:00 a.m.–10:30 a.m. Thursday

Scheduling

Session Chair: Raju Rangaswami, Florida International University

Dynamic Resource Allocation for Database Servers Running on Virtual Storage
Gokul Soundararajan, Daniel Lupei, Saeed Ghanbari, Adrian Daniel Popescu, Jin Chen, and Cristiana Amza, University of Toronto

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PARDA: Proportional Allocation of Resources for Distributed Storage Access
Ajay Gulati, Irfan Ahmad, and Carl A. Waldspurger, VMware Inc.

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Awarded Best Paper!

CA-NFS: A Congestion-Aware Network File System
Alexandros Batsakis, NetApp and Johns Hopkins University; Randal Burns, Johns Hopkins University; Arkady Kanevsky, James Lentini, and Thomas Talpey, NetApp

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10:30 a.m.–11:00 a.m.  Break
11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m. Thursday

Tools You Wish You Had

Session Chair: Daniel Ellard, BBN Technologies

Sparse Indexing: Large Scale, Inline Deduplication Using Sampling and Locality
Mark Lillibridge and Kave Eshghi, HP Labs; Deepavali Bhagwat, University of California, Santa Cruz; Vinay Deolalikar, HP Labs; Greg Trezise and Peter Camble, HP Storage Works Division

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Awarded Best Paper!

Generating Realistic Impressions for File-System Benchmarking
Nitin Agrawal, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, and Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau, University of Wisconsin, Madison

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Capture, Conversion, and Analysis of an Intense NFS Workload
Eric Anderson, HP Labs

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12:30 p.m.–2:00 p.m.  Conference Luncheon Ballroom West
2:00 p.m.–3:30 p.m. Thursday

Metadata and Optimization

Session Chair: Jiri Schindler, NetApp

Spyglass: Fast, Scalable Metadata Search for Large-Scale Storage Systems
Andrew W. Leung, University of California, Santa Cruz; Minglong Shao, Timothy Bisson, and Shankar Pasupathy, NetApp; Ethan L. Miller, University of California, Santa Cruz

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Perspective: Semantic Data Management for the Home
Brandon Salmon, Carnegie Mellon University; Steven W. Schlosser, Intel Research Pittsburgh; Lorrie Faith Cranor and Gregory R. Ganger, Carnegie Mellon University

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BORG: Block-reORGanization for Self-optimizing Storage Systems
Medha Bhadkamkar, Jorge Guerra, and Luis Useche, Florida International University; Sam Burnett, Carnegie Mellon University; Jason Liptak, Syracuse University; Raju Rangaswami and Vagelis Hristidis, Florida International University

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4:00 p.m.–5:30 p.m. Thursday

Distributed Storage

Session Chair: Niraj Tolia, HP Labs

HYDRAstor: A Scalable Secondary Storage
Cezary Dubnicki, Leszek Gryz, Lukasz Heldt, Michal Kaczmarczyk, Wojciech Kilian, Przemyslaw Strzelczak, and Jerzy Szczepkowski, 9LivesData, LLC; Cristian Ungureanu, NEC Laboratories America; Michal Welnicki, 9LivesData, LLC

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Smoke and Mirrors: Reflecting Files at a Geographically Remote Location Without Loss of Performance
Hakim Weatherspoon, Lakshmi Ganesh, and Tudor Marian, Cornell University; Mahesh Balakrishnan, Microsoft Research, Silicon Valley; Ken Birman, Cornell University

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Cumulus: Filesystem Backup to the Cloud
Michael Vrable, Stefan Savage, and Geoffrey M. Voelker, University of California, San Diego

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6:00 p.m.–7:30 p.m. Ballroom West

Conference Reception

Sponsored by NetApp

Wednesday, February 25 | Thursday, February 26 | Friday, February 27
Friday, February 27
8:30 a.m.–10:00 a.m. Friday

Data Integrity

Session Chair: James Bottomley, Novell

WorkOut: I/O Workload Outsourcing for Boosting RAID Reconstruction Performance
Suzhen Wu, Huazhong University of Science and Technology; Hong Jiang, University of Nebraska–Lincoln; Dan Feng, Huazhong University of Science and Technology; Lei Tian, Huazhong University of Science and Technology and University of Nebraska–Lincoln; Bo Mao, Huazhong University of Science and Technology

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A Performance Evaluation and Examination of Open-Source Erasure Coding Libraries for Storage
James S. Plank, University of Tennessee; Jianqiang Luo, Wayne State University; Catherine D. Schuman, University of Tennessee; Lihao Xu, Wayne State University; Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn, AllMyData, Inc.

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Tiered Fault Tolerance for Long-Term Integrity
Byung-Gon Chun and Petros Maniatis, Intel Research Berkeley; Scott Shenker and John Kubiatowicz, University of California, Berkeley

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10:00 a.m.–10:30 a.m.  Break
10:30 a.m.–noon Friday

Controllers and Caching

Session Chair: Liuba Shrira, Brandeis University

A Systematic Approach to System State Restoration during Storage Controller Micro-Recovery
Sangeetha Seshadri, Georgia Institute of Technology; Lawrence Chiu, IBM Almaden Research Center; Ling Liu, Georgia Institute of Technology

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CLIC: CLient-Informed Caching for Storage Servers
Xin Liu, Ashraf Aboulnaga, Kenneth Salem, and Xuhui Li, University of Waterloo

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Minuet: Rethinking Concurrency Control in Storage Area Networks
Andrey Ermolinskiy and Daekyeong Moon, University of California, Berkeley; Byung-Gon Chun, Intel Research, Berkeley; Scott Shenker, University of California, Berkeley, and ICSI

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