1st Workshop on Theory and Practice of Provenance (TaPP)

Call for Participation

1st Workshop on Theory and Practice of Provenance (TaPP)

February 23, 2009

San Francisco, California

Provenance, or meta-information about computations, computer systems, database queries, scientific workflows, and so on, is emerging as a central issue in a number of disciplines. The TaPP workshop continues an informal series of workshops on Principles of Provenance organized in 2007–2008. We hope both to attract serious cross-disciplinary, foundational, and highly speculative research and to facilitate needed interaction with the broader systems community and with industry.

Full program details are available here.

http://www.usenix.org/events/tapp09/tech/tech.html

SNIA announces Initial Green Storage Power Measurement Specification

SNIA today announced the availability of Initial Green Storage Power Measurement Specification for public review.

The initial Green Storage Power Measurement Specification includes a “Green Storage Taxonomy” for classifying storage products based on energy consumption characteristics and application environments, as well as a baseline standard for idle power metrics which can be applied as a uniform method for collecting idle power consumption measurements.

Specification for review is available at

http://www.snia.org/tech_activities/publicreview/