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INFLOW '13

Interactions of NVM/Flash with Operating-Systems and Workloads
SOSP'13 Workshop, Nov 3, 2013 at Nemacolin Woodlands Resort, PA.
https://sites.google.com/site/2013inflow/

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The goal of INFLOW’13 is to bring together researchers and practitioners
working in systems, across the hardware/software stack, who are interested
in the cross-cutting issues of NVM/Flash technologies, Operating Systems,
and emerging Workloads.

In recent years, NVM based storage devices have been gaining popularity as
a medium of storage. Flash based SSDs in particular have had a widespread
adoption by the industry driven by the need for greater storage performance.
NVM storage devices have dramatically different properties than conventional
hard disks. Yet, most of these devices are still exposed to operating systems
as block-level devices similar to hard disks. There are still several
fundamental research issues to be explored on how to efficiently interface
with NVM and Flash based storage devices, and the implications of such devices
in large scale workload deployments and on emerging workloads such as
Analytics applications.

The INFLOW Workshop is an attempt to bring top researchers across the World to
exchange ideas and discuss recent innovations related to NVM/Flash technologies
and their interactions with Operating systems and workloads, and doing this in
the context of current enterprises and consumer markets.

Checkout the CFP: https://sites.google.com/site/2013inflow/


Important Dates
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Full paper submission due: Monday, July 1, 2013
Notification of acceptance: Friday, July 26, 2013
Final papers due: Friday, August 16, 2013
Conference: November 3, 2013


Topics
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We invite research papers from all areas of Flash SSD and its interactions
with operating systems and workloads.
Major Areas of interests include, but are not limited to:

* Operating systems support for Flash and other NVM technologies
* New filesystem / storage software design ideas to support Flash
* Virtualization trends for SSD storage
* Application/OS optimizations tailored for Flash storage unique properties
* Application/OS optimizations tailored for other NVM technologies
* SSD caching techniques
* Workload characterization using NV
* Hybrid SSD technologies and their implications on workloads
* Acceleration techniques for Flash Storage and NVM technologies
* Flash SSD and NVM in Cloud Computing



Submission Site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=inflow2013
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Workshop Organizers and Committee:
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Workshop Chairs:

Gokul Kandiraju, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
Kaoutar El Maghraoui, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center

Program Committee:

Ricardo Bianchini, Rutgers University
Peter Desnoyers, Northeastern University
Michael Factor, IBM Research, Haifa, Israel
Sudhanva Gurumurthy, Univ. of Virginia & AMD
Dilma Da Silva, Qualcomm
Jin-Soo Kim, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea
Vijayan Prabhakaran, Microsoft Research
Michael Swift, University of Wisconsin
Youngjae Kim, Oak Ridge National Labs
Carlos Varela, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Lamia Youseff, Google
Erez Zadok, Stony Brook University

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