***********************CALL FOR PAPERS******************************
*************************SNAPI'05***********************************
  Int'l Workshop on Storage Network Architecture and Parallel I/Os
********************************************************************

	SUBMISSION DEADLINE: July 24, 2005

	Saint Louis, Missouri,  September 18, 2005
To be held with the 14th International Conference on Parallel Architectures and
Compilation Techniques,

  http://rcf.unl.edu/~abacus/SNAPI_05/SNAPI_05_CFP.html


Saint Louis, Missouri

Data are the "life-blood" of computing and the main asset of any organization. T
herefore, disk I/O and data storage on which data reside are becoming "first cla
ss citizens" in today's information world. This workshop intends to bring togeth
er researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to discuss cutting e
dge research on parallel and distributed data storage technologies. By discussin
g ongoing research, the workshop will expose participants to the most recent dev
elopments in storage network architectures and parallel I/O. Topics of interest
include but are not limited to:

   1. Storage Manageability, Reliability, Availability, and Security
   2. Storage Performance and Scalability
   3. File systems, Object-based storage, block-level storage
   4. NAS and SAN architectures
   5. Storage networking: e.g. Fibre Channel, InfiniBand, IP Storage, iSCSI
   6. Parallel I/O architectures
   7. Caching and consistency
   8. Evaluation of storage architectures
   9. Storage management software

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. Submit one electronic copy of the abstract in PDF format to
online submission  by July 24.

  http://rcf.unl.edu/~abacus/SNAPI_05/SNAPI_05_CFP.html

Notification of acceptance will be sent out
by August 15th, and camera-ready papers will be due by September 1st.
All accepted papers will be presented at the workshop, will be included
in a workshop proceedings booklet (distributed at the workshop), and
will be made available online.


      Important dates:

    * Paper submission: July 24 (Extended)
    * Notification of acceptance: August 14
    * Final Camera-ready paper: September 1st


  Organizer:

Qing (Ken) Yang
Dept. of ECE
University of Rhode Island
Kingston, RI 02881
Email: qyang@ele.uri.edu
Tel: 401-874-5880
Fax: 401-782-6422

Co-Organizer

Hong Jiang

Dept. of CSE
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Lincoln, NE 68588-0115 USA
Phone: 402-472-6747
Fax: 402-472-7767
E-mail: jiang@cse.unl.edu
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
* To unsubscribe yourself from this mailing list:
email to tcca-request@ele.uri.edu with message body: unsubscribe