The document summarizes the 8th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '10) that took place from February 23-26, 2010. Some of the key highlights included tutorials on solid-state storage technologies and storage deduplication. Keynote speeches focused on technology for developing regions and enterprise analytics. Best paper awards were given for papers on providing the right file version and operating system support for restartable file systems. The conference included papers on improving file systems, diagnosing problems in parallel file systems, managing storage errors and lifetimes, and accelerating I/O.

1. 8th
USENIX
Conference
on
File
and
Storage
Technologies
(FAST
’10)
2010 3 31

2. USENIX
•
– Annual
Technical
Conference
– FAST:
Conference
on
File
and
Storage
Technologies
– LISA:
Large
InstallaEon
System
AdministraEon
Conference
– OSDI:
Symposium
on
OperaEng
Systems
Design
and
ImplementaEon
– NSDI:
Symposium
on
Networked
Systems
Design
and
ImplementaEon
– Security
Symposium
•
– Hot{Cloud,
Dep,
Mobile,
OS,
Par,
Power,
Sec,
Storage}

3. FAST’10
• 2010 2 23 26
•
•
• 20% 18/89
• 350+
– NEC
NEDO
hZp://www.usenix.org/
events/fast10/

4. Tutorials
• Solid-­‐State
Storage:
Technology,
Design,
and
ApplicaBon,
Richard
Freitas
and
Larry
Chiu,
IBM
– PCM
• ASPLOS
2010 Best
paper PCM
– Quick
Silver SSD
• SSD
• Storage
and
Network
DeduplicaBon
Technologies,
Michael
Condict,
NetApp
– dedup
– dedup
• Clustered
and
Parallel
Storage
System
Technologies,
Marc
Unangst,
Panasas

5. Keynote
Addresses
• Technology
for
Developing
Regions
Eric
Brewer,
University
of
California,
Berkeley
– IT
• WiLDNet WiFi
• TierStore FS
• Enterprise
AnalyBcs
on
Demand
Oliver
Ratzesberger,
eBay,
Inc.
– eBay PayPal IO
intensive
– AnalyEcs
as
a
Service

6. Best
Paper
Awards
• quFiles:
The
Right
File
at
the
Right
Time
Kaushik
Veeraraghavan
and
Jason
Flinn,
University
of
Michigan;
Edmund
B.
NighEngale,
MicrosoB
Research,
Redmond;
Brian
Noble,
University
of
Michigan
–
– Versioning Security
(Context-­‐aware) Odyssey
(ApplicaEon-­‐
aware) Plahorm-­‐specific
display
• Membrane:
OperaBng
System
Support
for
Restartable
File
Systems
Swaminathan
Sundararaman,
Sriram
Subramanian,
Abhishek
Rajimwale,
Andrea
C.
Arpaci-­‐Dusseau,
Remzi
H.
Arpaci-­‐Dusseau,
and
Michael
M.
Swik,
University
of
Wisconsin—Madison
–
•
– Linux
FS
sub
system

7. Build
a
BeQer
File
System
and
the
World
Will
Beat
a
Path
to
Your
Door
• [Best
Paper]
quFiles:
The
Right
File
at
the
Right
Time
Kaushik
Veeraraghavan
and
Jason
Flinn,
University
of
Michigan;
Edmund
B.
NighHngale,
MicrosoB
Research,
Redmond;
Brian
Noble,
University
of
Michigan
• Tracking
Back
References
in
a
Write-­‐Anywhere
File
System
Peter
Macko
and
Margo
Seltzer,
Harvard
University;
Keith
A.
Smith,
NetApp,
Inc.
– FS CoW writable
snapshot
inode back
reference
• End-­‐to-­‐end
Data
Integrity
for
File
Systems:
A
ZFS
Case
Study
Yupu
Zhang,
Abhishek
Rajimwale,
Andrea
C.
Arpaci-­‐Dusseau,
and
Remzi
H.
Arpaci-­‐Dusseau,
University
of
Wisconsin—
Madison
– fault
injecEon ZFS

8. Looking
for
Trouble
• Black-­‐Box
Problem
Diagnosis
in
Parallel
File
Systems
Michael
P.
Kasick,
Carnegie
Mellon
University;
Jiaqi
Tan,
DSO
NaHonal
Labs,
Singapore;
Rajeev
Gandhi
and
Priya
Narasimhan,
Carnegie
Mellon
University
– BlueGene/P
PVFS
– ”Limping-­‐but-­‐alive” IO
• A
Clean-­‐Slate
Look
at
Disk
Scrubbing
Alina
Oprea
and
Ari
Juels,
RSA
Laboratories
– Disk
Scrubbing (LSE)
– LSE Staggering adapEve
rate
– SIGMETRICS’07 L.N.Bairavasundaram
• Understanding
Latent
Sector
Errors
and
How
to
Protect
Against
Them
Bianca
Schroeder,
SoErios
Damouras,
and
Phillipa
Gill,
University
of
Toronto
– Scrubbing Intra-­‐disk
redundancy
– NetApp LSE 20-­‐60%
10 50%

9. Flash:
Savior
of
the
Universe?
• DFS:
A
File
System
for
Virtualized
Flash
Storage
William
K.
Josephson
and
Lars
A.
Bongo,
Princeton
University;
David
Flynn,
Fusion-­‐io;
Kai
Li,
Princeton
University
– Fusion-­‐io ioDrive
–
• Extending
SSD
LifeBmes
with
Disk-­‐Based
Write
Caches
Gokul
Soundararajan,
University
of
Toronto;
Vijayan
Prabhakaran,
Mahesh
Balakrishnan,
and
Ted
Wobber,
MicrosoB
Research
Silicon
Valley
– Griffin SSD HDD
– sequenEal
write HDD
• Write
Endurance
in
Flash
Drives:
Measurements
and
Analysis
Simona
Boboila
and
Peter
Desnoyers,
Northeastern
University
– USB FTL Flash
TranslaEon
Layer
– IO HDD→ → GC
–

10. I/O,
I/O,
to
Parallel
I/O
We
Go
• AcceleraBng
Parallel
Analysis
of
ScienBfic
SimulaBon
Data
via
Zazen
Tiankai
Tu,
Charles
A.
Rendleman,
Patrick
J.
Miller,
Federico
SacerdoE,
and
Ron
O.
Dror,
D.E.
Shaw
Research;
David
E.
Shaw,
D.E.
Shaw
Research
and
Columbia
University
– Zazen
• Efficient
Object
Storage
Journaling
in
a
Distributed
Parallel
File
System
Sarp
Oral,
Feiyi
Wang,
David
Dillow,
Galen
Shipman,
and
Ross
Miller,
NaHonal
Center
for
ComputaHonal
Sciences
at
Oak
Ridge
NaHonal
Laboratory;
Oleg
Drokin,
Lustre
Center
of
Excellence
at
Oak
Ridge
NaHonal
Laboratory
and
Sun
Microsystems
Inc.
– Spider Jaugar Lustre
240GB/s asynchronous
journaling
commit
• Panache:
A
Parallel
File
System
Cache
for
Global
File
Access
Marc
Eshel,
Roger
Haskin,
Dean
Hildebrand,
Manoj
Naik,
Frank
Schmuck,
and
Renu
Tewari,
IBM
Almaden
Research
– pNFS NFS
4.1 GPFS

11. Making
Management
More
Manageable
• BASIL:
Automated
IO
Load
Balancing
Across
Storage
Devices
Ajay
GulaE,
Chethan
Kumar,
and
Irfan
Ahmad,
VMware,
Inc.;
Karan
Kumar,
Carnegie
Mellon
University
– IO
• Discovery
of
ApplicaBon
Workloads
from
Network
File
Traces
Neeraja
J.
Yadwadkar,
Chiranjib
BhaZacharyya,
and
K.
Gopinath,
Indian
InsHtute
of
Science;
Thirumale
Niranjan
and
Sai
Susarla,
NetApp
Advanced
Technology
Group
– profile
HMM NFS opecode
trace make
find tar
• Provenance
for
the
Cloud
Kiran-­‐Kumar
Muniswamy-­‐Reddy,
Peter
Macko,
and
Margo
Seltzer,
Harvard
School
of
Engineering
and
Applied
Sciences
– Data
provenance
• TaPP
(Theory
and
PracEce
of
Provenance)
’10
– DAG

12. ConcentraBon:
The
DeduplicaBon
Game
• I/O
DeduplicaBon:
UBlizing
Content
Similarity
to
Improve
I/O
Performance
Ricardo
Koller
and
Raju
Rangaswami,
Florida
InternaHonal
University
– on-­‐disk OS IO dedup
• HydraFS:
A
High-­‐Throughput
File
System
for
the
HYDRAstor
Content-­‐Addressable
Storage
System
CrisEan
Ungureanu,
NEC
Laboratories
America;
Benjamin
Atkin,
Google;
Akshat
Aranya,
Salil
Gokhale,
and
Stephen
Rago,
NEC
Laboratories
America;
Grzegorz
Całkowski,
VMware;
Cezary
Dubnicki,
9LivesData,
LLC;
Aniruddha
Bohra,
Akamai
– CAS HYDRAstor FAST’09
• Bimodal
Content
Defined
Chunking
for
Backup
Streams
Erik
Kruus
and
CrisEan
Ungureanu,
NEC
Laboratories
America;
Cezary
Dubnicki,
9LivesData,
LLC
– dedup CDC
– DER

13. The
Power
BuQon
• EvaluaBng
Performance
and
Energy
in
File
System
Server
Workloads
Priya
Sehgal,
Vasily
Tarasov,
and
Erez
Zadok,
Stony
Brook
University
– web,
fs,
mail,
db FS ext2,
ext3,
xfs,
reiserfs
ops/k
joule ops/sec
– ops/sec
• SRCMap:
Energy
ProporBonal
Storage
Using
Dynamic
ConsolidaBon
Akshat
Verma,
IBM
Research,
India;
Ricardo
Koller,
Luis
Useche,
and
Raju
Rangaswami,
Florida
InternaHonal
University
–
• [Best
Paper]
Membrane:
OperaBng
System
Support
for
Restartable
File
Systems
Swaminathan
Sundararaman,
Sriram
Subramanian,
Abhishek
Rajimwale,
Andrea
C.
Arpaci-­‐Dusseau,
Remzi
H.
Arpaci-­‐Dusseau,
and
Michael
M.
Swik,
University
of
Wisconsin—Madison

14. Intel
Museum
IBM
PC
(1981)
Busicom
141-­‐PF 1972
ALTAIR
8800
(1975)