The tremendous need for storage capacity and I/O performance has become a critical factor for computing systems, generally, from enterprise systems to computational science and everything in between. As a result, disk I/O and data storage on which data reside have clearly become “first class citizens” in the modern information world. In addition, parallelism is now ubiquitous in computing, from multi-core processors within a single enclosure to massively parallel I/O systems that span many racks of equipment. SNAPI08 brings together experts from academia and industry to discuss cutting edge research on parallel and distributed data storage technologies, storage interconnects, and storage management.
Some of the topics of interest are:
- Networked storage manageability, reliability, and availability
- Networked storage performance and scalability
- File systems, object-based storage, block-level storage
- NAS and SAN architectures
- Storage networking: e.g. Fibre Channel, InfiniBand, IP Storage, iSCSI
- Parallel I/O architectures
- Caching and consistency
- Evaluation of networked storage architectures
- Storage management system
- Distributed metadata management
- Integration of storage and computation
Follow the links for more information,
http://www.snapi08.wustl.edu
http://storageconference.org
