4th International Workshop on Storage Network Architecture and Parallel I/Os
(SNAPI 2007)

Advance Technical Program

In conjunction with IEEE MSST'2007

Paradise Point Resort and Spa, San Diego, CA

8:00am-5:30pm , September 24, 2007

General Co-chairs: Dr. Xubin He (Tennessee Tech U.) and Dr. Yifeng Zhu (U. of Maine)

8:00-8:15am	Welcome
8:15-9:45am	Session 1: Storage Reliability and Fault Tolerance Chair: Xubin He Paper #21: Snapshots and Continuous Data Replication in Cluster Storage Environments, Andre Brinkmann, Sascha Effert, University of Paderborn Paper #42: Outshining Mirrors: MTTDL of Fixed-Order SSPiRAL Layouts Ahmed Amer, Vincent Ciotola, James Larkby-Lahet, University of Pittsburg Jehan-Francois Paris, University of Houston Thomas Schwarz, Santa Clara University Paper #43: Parity Redundancy in a Clustered Storage System Sumit Narayan and John A. Chandy, University of Connecticut Paper #57: Coding and Scheduling Considerations for Peer-to-Peer Storage Backup Systems Yitzhak Birk, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology Tomer Kol, Google Inc.
10:00-11:50am	Session 2: Parallel IO, Storage Networking and QoS Chair: Roger Chamberlain Paper #22: A Packet Forwarding Method for the iSCSI Virtualization Switch Yi-Cheng Chung, Stanley Lee, Industrial Technology Research Institute Chung-Ho Chen, National Cheng-Kung University Paper #24: OPAL: An Open-Source MPI-IO Library over Cray XT Weikuan Yu, Jeffrey S. Vetter, R. Shane Canon, Oak Ridge National Lab Paper #50: Disk Tree: A Fat-tree Based Heterogeneous Multi-tier Storage Architecture Zhikun Wang, Ke Zhou, Dan Feng, and Junping Liu, Huazhong University of Science and Technology Paper #56: On RDBMS-Integrated Disk-Based Architecture for Managing Massive Dormant Data in a Compressed Format Miroslav Dzakovic, Intel Corp. Charles M. Ellison, University of Illinois Paper #59: Controlling Network Bandwidth to Support Storage QoS Junkil Ryu and Chanik Park, Pohang University of Science and Technology
11:50am-1:30pm	Lunch
1:30-3:00pm	Session 3: Storage Systems Evaluation and Benchmarking Chair: Tao Xie Paper #23: Direct-Attached Disk Subsystem Performance Assessment Roger D. Chamberlain, Exegy, Inc. and Washington University in St. Louis Berkley Shands, Washington University in St. Louis Paper #25: A Benchmark Suite for Unstructured Data Processing Clinton Wills Smullen, IV, Shahrukh Rohinton Tarapore, and Sudhanva Gurumurthi, University of Virginia Paper #40: Characteristics Analysis of Aggregate Storage Devices Min Wang and Lu Xu, Chinese Academy of Science Paper #58: Enhancing the Performance of NFSv4 with RDMA Ranjit Noronha, Lei Cai, Dhabaleswar K. Panda, Ohio State University Spencer Shepler, Sun MicroSystems
3:00-3:30pm	Break

3:30-5:20pm

Session 4: Object Storage Systems Chair: Hong Jiang Paper #28: WPAR: A Weight-based Metadata Management Strategy for Petabyte-scale Object Storage Systems Wujuan Lin, Hitachi Asia Ltd. Qingsong Wei, Data Storage Institute Bharadwaj Veeravalli, National Univ. of Singapore Paper #34: iSER Storage Target for Object-based Storage Systems Dennis Dalessandro, Ananth Devulapalli, and Pete Wyckoff, Ohio Supercomputer Center Paper #35: QoS-aware Striping with Replication for Object-based Multimedia Storage Qingsong Wei, Data Storage Institute Wujuan Lin, Hitachi Asia Ltd. Bharadwaj Veeravalli, Lingfang Zeng, National Univ. of Singapore Paper #61: Teleport: Load Balancing with Dynamic Adjustment Strategy based on OSD Storage System Bin Yan, Hongyi Wang, Youhui Zhang, Chuanyi Liu, and Dongsheng Wang, Tsinghua University Paper #65: Implementation and Performance Evaluation of an Object-based Storage Device Shuibing He and Dan Feng, Huazhong University of Science and Technology

5:20-5:30pm

Concluding Remarks