I got back from the USENIX File And Storage Technologies conference yesterday. It actually ended on Friday, but I don’t much care for flight schedules that get me to Boston well after midnight so I stayed in San Jose for the rest of the day. As always, it was an awesome conference. The mix of familiar old-timers and enthusiastic newcomers, all focused on making data storage better, is very energizing.
My own cloud-storage tutorial on Tuesday went well. We had a bit of trouble with the projection video at the beginning, but the USENIX folks are real pros so we got through it. I also had a moment of terror near the beginning when I got a persistent tickle in my throat (it is still flu season after all) and started to wonder if my voice would hold out for the full three hours, but I was able to get things under control. Thanks to the feedback from last year I think it was a much stronger presentation this time, and the general audience engagement seemed much higher. We spent the entire half-hour break continuing discussions in the middle of the room, and throughout the conference – even on the last day – people were still coming up to me to talk about the material. I’m grateful to everyone who made it possible, and everyone who made it awesome.
With that, it was on with the real show – the refereed papers, plus work-in-progress talks, birds-of-a-feather sessions, and posters. To be quite honest, there seemed to be a lower percentage of papers this year that were interesting to me personally, but that’s more a reflection of my interests than on the papers themselves which were all excellent. Here’s the full list.
FAST ’13 Technical Sessions
Posters and Work-in-Progress Reports (WiPs)
From my own perspective as a filesystem developer, here are some of my own favorites.
I can definitely see myself trying to apply some of the ideas from Tuner and Gecko to my own work. Who knows? Maybe I’ll even come up with something interesting enough to submit my own paper next year. There’s a lot more good stuff there, too, so check out the full proceedings.
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