28th IEEE Storage Conference

Sponsored by the IEEE Mass Storage Systems
Technical Committee

April 16^th — 20^th, 2012
Asilomar
Conference Grounds
Pacific Grove, CA

The 28^th IEEE Conference on Massive Data Storage (MSST 2012) will dedicate a full week to computer-storage technology. The symposium will include a day of tutorials, two days of invited papers, and two days of peer-reviewed research papers.

The MSST research track and SNAPI, the IEEE International Workshop on Storage Network Architecture and Parallel I/Os will combine to become the 28^th IEEE MSST/SNAPI conference. MSST/SNAPI 2012 will highlight the latest research in the architecture, design, implementation, and evaluation of local and networked storage and parallel I/O systems.

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MSST Tutorials

April 16^th (Monday)

Five important distributed file systems will be discussed: Lustre, GPFS, OrangeFS, Ceph, and HDFS. Two are old school and three are upstarts. They have different fundamentals and different intended uses. Top experts will guide you in what makes each of these technologies work. Whether you are an implementer, a decision maker, or both, this day will be an investment in your career.

Andreas Dilger
Whamcloud

Matt Foley
Hortonworks

Walter Ligon
Clemson

Ray Paden
IBM

Sage Weil
Ceph

MSST Symposium

April 17^th—18^th (Tuesday—Wednesday)

Our keynote speaker is Cray President and CEO, Peter Ungaro, who will address the synergy between massive computing and massive storage (abstract). Featured speaker Dr. Robert E. Fontana, IEEE Fellow and author of over 100 patents in magnetic storage, will provide an insider's view of the future of disk, tape, and solid-state memory technology (abstract). Other talks will address massive archives, cloud storage, and content management. Prominent consultant and blogger Henry Newman will challenge us on limits to the scalability of our current storage paradigms.

Keynote

Peter Ungaro
President & CEO, Cray

"Developing an exascale solution, including exa-IO, that is meaningful to the HPC community, is leading to significant changes in system architecture and a more holistic approach to super-computing."

Arnon Amir IBM	Dave Boomer IBM	Andreas Dilger Whamcloud	Erik Eyberg Texas Mem. Sys.	Dave Fellinger DataDirect	Matt Foley Hortonworks
Robert Fontana, Jr. IBM	Jeffrey Layton Dell	Walter Ligon Clemson	Henry Newman Instrumental	Jean-Ives Nief CC-IN2P3	Stephen O'Hearn JPL
Matthew O'Keefe U of Minn.	Ray Paden IBM	Franz-Josef Pfreundt Fraunhofer ITWM	Sage Weil Ceph	Gary Wright LDS

MSST/SNAPI Research Track

April 19^th—20^th (Thursday—Friday)
Program
Program Committee

Vendor Exposition

April 18^th—19^th (Wednesday—Thursday)

Media Sponsor

Complimentary subscriptions to HPCwire will be offered to all attendees,
compliments of the 28^th IEEE Conference on Massive Data Storage.

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Organizers
IEEE Sponsor	Merritt Jones
Conference Chair	Dr. Sam Coleman
Tutorial Chair	Sean Roberts
Program Chair	Harry Hulen
Research Track Co-Chairs	Dr. Ethan Miller, Dr. John Bent
Vendor Chair	Ben Kobler
Media Relations	Michael Stevens
Conference Organizer	Jane Everett