TECHNICAL SESSIONS

Conference full papers and formal proceedings are available to conference registrants immediately and to everyone beginning Wednesday, February 16. Everyone can view the abstracts and the proceedings front matter immediately.

Proceedings Front Matter: Title Page and List of Organizers | Table of Contents | Message from the Program Co-Chairs| Errata Slip

Complete Proceedings (PDF)

Opening Remarks and Best Paper Awards

FAST '11 Program Co-Chairs: Greg Ganger, Carnegie Mellon University; John Wilkes, Google

Deduplication

Session Chair: Cristian Ungureanu, NEC Labs

A Study of Practical Deduplication
Dutch T. Meyer, Microsoft Research and the University of British Columbia; William J. Bolosky, Microsoft Research

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Tradeoffs in Scalable Data Routing for Deduplication Clusters
Wei Dong, Princeton University; Fred Douglis, EMC; Kai Li, Princeton University and EMC; Hugo Patterson, Sazzala Reddy, and Philip Shilane, EMC

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Specializing Storage

Session Chair: Michael A. Kozuch, Intel Labs Pittsburgh

Capo: Recapitulating Storage for Virtual Desktops
Mohammad Shamma, Dutch T. Meyer, Jake Wires, Maria Ivanova, Norman C. Hutchinson, and Andrew Warfield, University of British Columbia

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Exploiting Half-Wits: Smarter Storage for Low-Power Devices
Mastooreh Salajegheh, University of Massachusetts Amherst; Yue Wang, Texas A&M University; Kevin Fu, University of Massachusetts Amherst; Anxiao (Andrew) Jiang, Texas A&M University; Erik Learned-Miller, University of Massachusetts Amherst

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Consistent and Durable Data Structures for Non-Volatile Byte-Addressable Memory
Shivaram Venkataraman, HP Labs, Palo Alto, and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Niraj Tolia, Maginatics; Parthasarathy Ranganathan, HP Labs, Palo Alto; Roy H. Campbell, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Flash

Session Chair: Christos Karamanolis, VMware

CAFTL: A Content-Aware Flash Translation Layer Enhancing the Lifespan of Flash Memory based Solid State Drives
Feng Chen, Tian Luo, and Xiaodong Zhang, The Ohio State University

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Leveraging Value Locality in Optimizing NAND Flash-based SSDs
Aayush Gupta, Raghav Pisolkar, Bhuvan Urgaonkar, and Anand Sivasubramaniam, The Pennsylvania State University

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Reliably Erasing Data from Flash-Based Solid State Drives
Michael Wei, Laura Grupp, Frederick E. Spada, and Steven Swanson, University of California, San Diego

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The Disk Ain't Dead

Session Chair: Benjamin Reed, Yahoo! Research

A Scheduling Framework That Makes Any Disk Schedulers Non-Work-Conserving Solely Based on Request Characteristics
Yuehai Xu and Song Jiang, Wayne State University

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Improving Throughput for Small Disk Requests with Proximal I/O
Jiri Schindler, Sandip Shete, and Keith A. Smith, NetApp, Inc.

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FastScale: Accelerate RAID Scaling by Minimizing Data Migration
Weimin Zheng and Guangyan Zhang, Tsinghua University

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Poster Session and Reception

The poster session will allow researchers to present recent and ongoing projects and will include posters for today's papers. Enjoy dinner and drinks while chatting with poster presenters and mingling with other attendees, speakers, and conference organizers. Find out how to submit a poster here.

Scaling Well

Session Chair: Steve Hand, University of Cambridge

The SCADS Director: Scaling a Distributed Storage System Under Stringent Performance Requirements
Beth Trushkowsky, Peter Bodík, Armando Fox, Michael J. Franklin, Michael I. Jordan, and David A. Patterson, University of California, Berkeley

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Scale and Concurrency of GIGA+: File System Directories with Millions of Files
Swapnil Patil and Garth Gibson, Carnegie Mellon University

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AONT-RS: Blending Security and Performance in Dispersed Storage Systems
Jason K. Resch, Cleversafe, Inc.; James S. Plank, University of Tennessee

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Making Things Right

Session Chair: John Bent, Los Alamos National Lab

Emulating Goliath Storage Systems with David
Nitin Agrawal, NEC Laboratories America; Leo Arulraj, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, and Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau, University of Wisconsin—Madison

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Just-in-Time Analytics on Large File Systems
H. Howie Huang, Nan Zhang, and Wei Wang, George Washington University; Gautam Das, University of Texas at Arlington; Alexander S. Szalay, Johns Hopkins University

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Making the Common Case the Only Case with Anticipatory Memory Allocation
Swaminathan Sundararaman, Yupu Zhang, Sriram Subramanian, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, and Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau, University of Wisconsin—Madison

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Work-in-Progress Reports (WiPs)

Session Chair: John Wilkes, Google

The FAST technical sessions will include a session for Work-in-Progress reports, preliminary results, and "outrageous" opinion statements. Find out how to submit a WiP here.

Flash the Second

Session Chair: Hakim Weatherspoon, Cornell University

Exploiting Memory Device Wear-Out Dynamics to Improve NAND Flash Memory System Performance
Yangyang Pan, Guiqiang Dong, and Tong Zhang, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA

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FAST: Quick Application Launch on Solid-State Drives
Yongsoo Joo, Ewha Womans University; Junhee Ryu, Seoul National University; Sangsoo Park, Ewha Womans University; Kang G. Shin, Ewha Womans University and University of Michigan

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Cost Effective Storage using Extent Based Dynamic Tiering
Jorge Guerra, Florida International University; Himabindu Pucha, Joseph Glider, and Wendy Belluomini, IBM Research Almaden; Raju Rangaswami, Florida International University

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Poster Session and Reception

Join us for a second evening of dinner, drinks, and the opportunity to learn about new or ongoing work. This second poster session will have different posters from last night's session and will include posters for the Thursday papers and WiPs, providing an opportunity for follow-up with speakers. Find out how to submit a poster here.