Paper presented by Yong Wang of UESTC and Northwestern University; Daniel Burgener, Marcel Flores, and Aleksandar Kuzmanovic of Northwestern University; and Cheng Huang of Microsoft Research at the 8th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI '11).
This refereed paper was presented by Nitin Agrawal of NEC Laboratories America; Leo Arulraj, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, and Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau of the University of Wisconsin—Madison at the 9th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '11).
Recipient of the Best Paper Award.
This refereed paper was presented by Michael Wei, Laura Grupp, Frederick E. Spada, and Steven Swanson of the University of California, San Diego at the 9th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '11).
This refereed paper was presented by Dutch T. Meyer of Microsoft Research and the University of British Columbia and William J. Bolosky of Microsoft Research at the 9th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '11).
Recipient of the Best Paper Award.
Today is the last day of LISA '10. It brings to a close a long week for everyone who made the conference happen. As a first-time LISA attendee, I've found that there's just not enough time to take everything in. The quality of the training and the technical sessions are amazing. I feel like I need to repeat the week just to catch everything I missed. One attendee called it a "firehose" conference and that's certainly an apt description.
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