SNAPI 2008 5th IEEE International Workshop on Storage Network Architecture and Parallel I/Os September 22, 2008 (Monday) Sheraton Inner Harbor, Baltimore, Maryland, USA http://www.snapi08.wustl.edu In conjunction with the 25th IEEE Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies (MSST'08) http://storageconference.org Important dates * Paper submission: May 5 (revised) * Notification of acceptance: July 1 * Final camera-ready paper: July 20 Description The tremendous need for storage capacity and I/O performance has become a critical factor for computing systems, generally, from enterprise systems to computational science and everything in between. As a result, disk I/O and data storage on which data reside have clearly become "first class citizens" in the modern information world. In addition, parallelism is now ubiquitous in computing, from multi-core processors within a single enclosure to massively parallel I/O systems that span many racks of equipment. SNAPI08 brings together experts from academia and industry to discuss cutting edge research on parallel and distributed data storage technologies, storage interconnects, and storage management. 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 systems * Distributed metadata management * Integration of storage and computation Author Instructions Authors are invited to submit a manuscript of no longer than 8 single-spaced pages (including figures, references, and appendices) using 10pt or larger font. Submissions should be viewable by Adobe Acrobat Reader (version 3.0 or higher), and should be emailed to snapi08@wustl.edu. All accepted papers will be presented at the workshop, included in a workshop proceedings (distributed at the workshop), and made available via the IEEE digital library. Steering Committee Qing Yang, University of Rhode Island Hong Jiang, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Xubin He, Tennessee Tech University General Chairs André Brinkman, University of Paderborn, Germany Roger D. Chamberlain, Washington University, USA Sponsorship IEEE Mass Storage Systems Technical Committee (MSSTC), Merritt Jones, Chair Program Committee Ahmed Amer, University of Pittsburgh, USA Angelos Bilas, FORTH and University of Crete, Greece Yitzhak Birk, Technion Haifa, Israel Toni Cortes, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain Dilma DaSilva, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Beniamino DiMartino, Second Univ. of Naples, Italy Christian Engelmann, Oak Ridge National Lab, USA Jizhong Han, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Young-Sik Jeong, Wonkwang University, Korea David R. Kaeli, Northeastern University, USA Ben Kobler, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA Thomas Ludwig, University of Heidelberg, Germany Ethan Miller, UC Santa Cruz, USA Geyong Min, Bradford University, UK Christine Morin, Inria, France Dhabaleswar K. Panda, Ohio State University, USA Jehan-Francois Paris, University of Houston, USA Maria Perez, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain Ulrich Rueckert, University of Paderborn, Germany Robert D. Russell, University of New Hampshire, USA Peter Sobe, University of Luebeck, Germany Peter Varman, Rice University, USA Tao Xie, San Diego State University, USA Zhiyong Xu, Suffolk University, USA Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Yifeng Zhu, University of Maine, USA