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{{Event
|Acronym=FAST 2019
|Title=17th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies
|Series=FAST
|Type=Conference
|Field=File and Storage Technologies
|Start date=2019/02/25
|End date=2019/02/28
|Homepage=https://www.usenix.org/conference/fast19
|City=Boston, Sheraton Boston, 39 Dalton St
|State=MA 02199
|Country=USA
|Submission deadline=2018/09/26
|Paper deadline=2019/01/24
|Tutorial deadline=2018/09/26
|Notification=2018/12/11
|Has coordinator=Arif Merchant, Hakim Weatherspoon
|has tutorial chair=John Strunk, Eno Thereska
|Has PC member=Nitin Agrawal, Mahesh Balakrishnan, André Brinkmann
|Attendance fee currency=$
|On site regular=1460
|Early bird regular=1260
|On site student=840
|On site reduced=1335
|Early bird reduced=1135
|Submitted papers=145
|Accepted papers=58
|Accepted short papers=2
|has Proceedings Link=https://www.usenix.org/conference/fast19/technical-sessions
}}
The 17th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '19) brings together storage-system researchers and practitioners to explore new directions in the design, implementation, evaluation, and deployment of storage systems. Co-located with NSDI '19

==Topics==
*Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

**Archival storage systems
**Auditing and provenance
**Big data, analytics, and data sciences
**Caching, replication, and consistency
**Cloud storage
**Data deduplication
**Database storage
**Distributed and networked storage (wide-area, grid, peer-to-peer)
**Empirical evaluation of storage systems
**Experience with deployed systems
**File system design
**High-performance file systems
**Key-value and NoSQL storage
**Memory-only storage systems
**Mobile, personal, embedded, and home storage
**Parallel I/O and storage systems
**Power-aware storage architectures
**RAID and erasure coding
**Reliability, availability, and disaster tolerance
**Search and data retrieval
**Solid state storage technologies and uses (e.g., flash, byte-addressable NVM)
**Storage management
**Storage networking
**Storage performance and QoS
**Storage security
**Deployed Systems


==Submissions==
==Important Dates==

*Submissions due: Wednesday, September 26, 2018, 8:59 pm PDT
*Tutorial submissions due: Wednesday, September 26, 2018, 8:59 pm PDT
*Notification to authors: Tuesday, December 11, 2018
*Final papers due: Thursday, January 24, 2019

==Committees==

*Program Co-Chairs
**Arif Merchant, Google
**Hakim Weatherspoon, Cornell University
**Program Committee
**Nitin Agrawal, Samsung Research
**Mahesh Balakrishnan, Yale University and Facebook
**André Brinkmann, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz
**Vijay Chidambaram, The University of Texas at Austin
**Angela Demke Brown, University of Toronto
**Peter Desnoyers, Northeastern University
**Ashvin Goel, University of Toronto
**Ajay Gulati, ZeroStack
**Haryadi Gunawi, University of Chicago
**Tim Harris, Amazon
**Cheng Huang, Microsoft Research and Azure
**Bill Jannen, Williams College
**Rob Johnson, VMware Research Group
**Kim Keeton, Hewlett Packard Enterprise
**Geoff Kuenning, Harvey Mudd College
**Sungjin Lee, DGIST (Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology)
**Peter Macko, NetApp
**Umesh Maheshwari, Nimble Storage (an HPE company)
**Arif Merchant, Google
**Onur Mutlu, ETH Zurich and Carnegie Mellon University
**Sam H. Noh, UNIST (Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology)
**Florentina Popovici, Google
**Raju Rangaswami, Florida International University
**Ken Salem, University of Waterloo
**Jiri Schindler, Tranquil Data
**Bianca Schroeder, University of Toronto
**Keith A Smith, NetApp
**Ioan Stefanovici, Microsoft Research
**Swaminathan Sundararaman, ParallelM
**Nisha Talagala, ParallelM
**Vasily Tarasov, IBM Research
**Joseph Tucek, Amazon
**Carl Waldspurger, Carl Waldspurger Consulting
**Andrew Warfield, Amazon
**Hakim Weatherspoon, Cornell University
**Brent Welch, Google
**Ric Wheeler, Facebook
**Youjip Won, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
**Gala Yadgar, Technion—Israel Institute of Technology
**Yiying Zhang, Purdue University
**Work-in-Progress/Posters Co-Chairs
**Bill Jannen, Williams College
**Vasily Tarasov, IBM Research

*Test of Time Awards Committee
**Jiri Schindler, Tranquil Data
**Eno Thereska, Amazon
**Erez Zadok, Stony Brook University
**Tutorial Coordinators
**John Strunk, Red Hat
**Eno Thereska, Amazon
**Steering Committee
**Nitin Agrawal, Samsung Research
**Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau, University of Wisconsin—Madison
**Angela Demke Brown, University of Toronto
**Greg Ganger, Carnegie Mellon University
**Casey Henderson, USENIX Association
**Kimberly Keeton, HP Labs
**Geoff Kuenning, Harvey Mudd College
**Florentina Popovici, Google
**Raju Rangaswami, Florida International University
**Erik Riedel
**Jiri Schindler, Tranquil Data
**Bianca Schroeder, University of Toronto
**Keith A. Smith, NetApp
**Eno Thereska, Amazon
**Carl Waldspurger, Carl Waldspurger Consulting
**Ric Wheeler, Facebook
**Erez Zadok, Stony Brook University
Acceptance rate	40.0 +
Accepted papers	58 +
Accepted short papers	2 +
Acronym	FAST 2019 +
Attendance fee currency	$ +
Early bird regular	1,260.00 +
End date	February 28, 2019 +
Event in series	FAST +
Event type	Conference +
Has PC member	Nitin Agrawal +, Mahesh Balakrishnan + and André Brinkmann +
Has coordinates	42° 21' 37", -71° 3' 30"Latitude: 42.360252777778 Longitude: -71.058291666667 +
Has coordinator	Arif Merchant + and Hakim Weatherspoon +
Has location city	Boston +
Has location country	Category:USA +
Has location state	MA +
Has tutorial chair	John Strunk + and Eno Thereska +
Homepage	https://www.usenix.org/conference/fast19 +
IsA	Event +
Notification	December 11, 2018 +
On site regular	1,460.00 +
On site student	840.00 +
Paper deadline	January 24, 2019 +
Start date	February 25, 2019 +
Submission deadline	January 24, 2019 + and September 26, 2018 +
Submitted papers	145 +
Title	17th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies +
Tutorial deadline	September 26, 2018 +