7th Parallel Data Storage Workshop
(held in conjunction with supercomputing '12)

Chair: Rob Ross, ANL

Monday, November 12, 2012
9:00 am - 5:30 pm
Room TBA
Calvin L. Rampton Salt Palace Convention Center
Salt Lake City, UT, USA

http://www.pdsw.org/

Workshop abstract

Peta- and exascale computing infrastructures make unprecedented demands on storage capacity, performance, concurrency, reliability, availability, and manageability. This one-day workshop focuses on the data storage problems and emerging solutions found in peta- and exascale scientific computing environments, with special attention to issues in which community collaboration can be crucial for problem identification, workload capture, solution interoperability, standards with community buy-in, and shared tools. This workshop seeks contributions on relevant topics, including but not limited to:

performance and benchmarking
failure tolerance problems and solutions
APIs for high performance features
parallel file systems
high bandwidth storage architectures
wide area file systems
metadata intensive workloads
autonomics for HPC storage
virtualization for storage systems
archival storage advances
resource management innovations
storage systems for big data and analytics
and incorporation of emerging storage technologies.

The parallel data storage workshop holds a peer reviewed competitive process for selecting extended abstracts and short papers. Submit a not previously published extended abstract of up to UPDATED - 6 PAGES, not less than 10 point font, in a PDF file as instructed on the workshop web site. Submitted papers will be reviewed under the supervision of the workshop program committee. Submissions should indicate authors and affiliations. Final papers must not be longer than 5 pages. Selected papers and associated talk slides will be made available on the workshop web site; the papers will also be published in the digital library of the IEEE or ACM.

PAPER SUBMISSION WEBSITE: coming soon

Due: September 30, 2012 (hard deadline)
Notification to authors: October 17, 2012
Camera-ready due: November 7, 2012
Slides due: Saturday, November 10, 2012, 5:00 pm ET, BEFORE the workshop

Call for posters

Poster Presentations:
There will also be a poster presentation opportunity at the workshop. Parties interested in presenting a related technical poster (posters with technical results for storage products are also encouraged) should submit a paragraph or two proposal describing a poster's contents through the above web site no later than November 1X, 2012. Poster acceptance will be communicated on or before November X, 2012.

Poster Submission Website: coming soon
Due: TBD
Notification: TBD

The PDSW program committee highly encourages authors of accepted papers to present posters of their work -- accepted papers ALWAYS be accepted for a poster.

Additional submissions for technical poster presentation will be considered if they are marked as such and include title and author list and a short abstract. Further specifications for poster production will be available on the workshop web site.

Program committee:

Robert Ross, Argonne National Laboratory (PC Chair)
Ahmed Amer, University of California, Santa Clara
John Bent, EMC
Yong Chen, Texas Tech University
Matthew Curry, Sandia National Laboratories
Garth Gibson, Carnegie Mellon University and Panasas Inc.
Dean Hildebrand, IBM
Dries Kimpe, Argonne National Laboratory
Bill Kramer, National Center for Supercomputing Applications
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Xiaosong Ma, North Carolina State University
Carlos Maltzahn, University of California, Santa Cruz
Narasimha Reddy, Texas A&M University
Brad Settlemyer, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Galen Shipman, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Matthew Wolf, Georgia Tech
Sage Weil, DreamHost

Steering committee:

John Bent, EMC
Scott Brandt, University of California, Santa Cruz
Evan J. Felix, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Garth A. Gibson, Carnegie Mellon University and Panasas Inc.
Gary Grider, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peter Honeyman, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor,
Center for Information Technology Integration
Bill Kramer, National Center for Supercomputing Applications
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Darrell Long, University of California, Santa Cruz
Carlos Maltzahn, University of California, Santa Cruz
Philip C. Roth, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
John Shalf, National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center,
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Lee Ward, Sandia National Laboratories