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* 		The 4th International Workshop on Storage Network 
* 			Architecture and Parallel I/Os (SNAPI)
* 		September 24, 2007 (Monday), San Diego, California, USA 
* 	     In conjunction with the 24th IEEE Conference on Mass Storage 
* 			Systems and Technologies (MSST'07)
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* Important dates:  
* 	Paper submission: July 1
* 	Notification of acceptance: July 20 
* 	Final Camera-ready paper: August 20 
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Data are the life-blood of computing and the main asset of any organization. 
Therefore, disk I/O and data storage on which data reside are becoming "first 
class citizens" in today's information world. This workshop intends to bring 
together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to discuss 
cutting edge research on parallel and distributed data storage technologies.
By discussing ongoing research, the workshop will expose participants to the
most recent developments in storage network architectures and parallel I/O. 
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
  * 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 software 
  * Distributed metadata management

Authors are invited to submit an extended abstract no longer than 4 pages for 
consideration. Submissions should be viewable by Adobe Acrobat Reader (version
3.0 or higher). Accepted papers must be no longer than 8 single-spaced pages 
(including figures, references, and appendices) using 12pt font. All accepted 
papers will be presented at the workshop, included in a workshop proceedings
booklet (distributed at the workshop), and made available online.
  
Steering Chairs:
  Qing Yang, University of Rhode Island
  Hong Jiang, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

General Chairs:
  Xubin He, Tennessee Tech University
  Yifeng Zhu, University of Maine

IEEE Sponsor: 
  Merritt Jones, IEEE Technical Chair for Mass Storage

Program Committees:
  Ahmed Amer, University of Pittsburgh, USA
  Roger D. Chamberlain, Washington University, USA
  Phillip M. Dickens, University of Maine, USA
  Christian Engelmann, Oak Ridge National Lab, USA
  Dan Feng, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
  Jizhong Han, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
  Young-Sik Jeong, Wonkwang University, Korea
  David R. Kaeli, Northeastern University, USA
  Xueming Li, Chongqing University, China
  Ben Kobler, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA
  Beniamino Di Martino, Second Univ. of Naples, Italy
  Geyong Min, Bradford University, UK,
  Li Ou, Scalable Systems Group, Dell Inc, USA
  Dhabaleswar K. Panda, Ohio State University, USA
  Jehan-Francois Paris, University of Houston, USA
  Robert D. Russell, University of New Hampshire, USA
  Dilma Da Silva, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
  Peter Sobe, University of Lubeck, Germany
  Peter Varman, Rice University, USA
  Weijun Xiao, University of Rhode Island, USA
  Tao Xie, San Diego State University, USA
  Zhiyong Xu, Suffolk University, USA
  Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada