CALL FOR PAPERS

First Workshop On Performance and Scalability of Storage Systems (WOPSSS)
Held jointly with ISC, Frankfurt, Germany June 23, 2016

** Submission deadline: Extension to April 21 **

The Workshop On Performance and Scalability of Storage Systems (WOPSSS) aims
to present state-of-the-art research, innovative ideas, and experience that
focus on the design and implementation of HPC storage systems in both academic
and industrial worlds, with a special interest on their performance analysis.

The arrival of new storage technologies and scales unseen in previous practice
lead to significant loss of performance predictability. This will leave
storage system designers, application developers and the storage community at
large in the difficult situation of not being able to precisely detect
bottlenecks, evaluate the room for improvement, or estimate the matching of
applications with a given storage architecture.

WOPSSS intends to encourage discussion of these issues through submissions of
researchers or practitioners from both academic and industrial worlds.

** Publication and Special Journal Issue **

All accepted papers will be published in the Proceedings by Springer.
Extended versions of the best papers will be published in the ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review (http://www.sigops.org/osr.html) journal


** Topics of interest **
included but are not limited to:

Storage systems modeling and analysis tools
Feed-back and empirical evaluation of storage systems
Application I/O characterization
Parallel I/O and storage systems: consistency, caching, replication, reliability and fault recovery overhead
Network challenges and storage systems: Scalability, QoS, Partitionability
Low latency storage systems usability and analysis: memory-only, Flash, NVRAM, Storage Class Memory
File system design
Operating system stack optimization
Cloud and distributed storage

** Important Dates **

Submission deadline March 31
Author notification April 30
Camera Ready June 15
Workshop June 23

** Submission Guidelines **
Papers need to be submitted via Easychair (http://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wopsss2016)
Authors are invited to submit papers are required to be formatted in Springer
single column LNCS style (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0)
and within 10 pages, excluding the references.
The submissions are "single-blind", i.e. submissions are allowed to include the
author names.

** Organizing committee **

Jean-Thomas Acquaviva, Research Engineer, DDN, France
Jalil Boukhobza, Associate professor, Univ. Bretagne Occidentale, France
Phlippe Deniel, Head of Storage group, CEA/DIF, France
Massimo Lamanna, Leader - Data and Storage Services Group, CERN, Switzerland
Pedro Javier García, Associated Professor, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
Allen D. Malony, Full Professor, University of Oregon, USA

** Publicity Chairs **

Jesus Escudero-Sahuquillo, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
Kaoutar El Maghraoui, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA
Rekha Singhal, Tata CS Innovation Labs, India

** Program committee (to be completed) **

Francisco J. Alfaro, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
André Brinkmann, Mainz University, Germany
Jason Chun Xue, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Toni Cortes, BSC, Spain
Stefano Cozzini,CNR, Italy
Liu Duo, Chongqing University, China
Kaoutar El Maghraoui, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA
Maria E. Gomez,Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain
Pilar González-Férez, University of Murcia, Spain
J-Charles Lafoucrière, CEA, France
Manolis Marazakis, ICS-FORTH, Greece
Franz-Josef Pfreundt, Fraunhofer, Germany
Juan Piernas, University of Murcia, Spain
Andry Razafinjatovo, ATOS, France
Rekha Singhal, Tata CS Innovation Labs, India
Pierre Vigneras, ATOS, France
Josef Weidendorfer, Tech. Univ. of Munich, Germany
Soraya Zertal, University of Versailles, France

** Registration & Venue **

The workshop does not have a separate registration site. Attendees need to
use the registration system provided by ISC'16 (http://www.isc-hpc.com/registration.html)
WOPSSS is organized in conjunction the International Supercomputing Conference
(http://www.isc-hpc.com), Frankfurt, Germany.