Location March 7, 2009 Hamilton Crowne Plaza, Washington DC, USA Important Dates Submission due: Dec 15, 2008 11:59 PM (PST)(No Extension) Notification to authors: Jan 25, 2009 Final copy deadline: Feb 10, 2009 Workshop: Mar 7, 2009 Workshop Organizers Co-Organizers Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Penn State Sudhanva Gurumurthi, University of Virginia Web and Publicity Chair Byung Chul Tak, Penn State Program Committee Frank Bellosa, University of Karlsruhe Mahmut Kandemir, Penn State Chul Lee, Samsung Electronics Mircea Stan, University of Virginia Tom Wenisch, University of Michigan

Program 8:30 - 8:50 a.m. Introductory remarks 8:50 - 9:30 Invited speaker 1 (Frank Hady, Intel) Integrating NAND Flash into the Storage Hierarchy ... Research or Product Design?    [Talk Slides] 9:30 - 9:50 FRP: a Nonvolatile Memory Research Platform Targeting NAND Flash John D. Davis, Lintao Zhang (Microsoft Research) 9:50 - 10:10 Combo Drive: Optimizing Cost and Performance in a Heterogeneous Storage Device Hannes Payer (University of Salzburg), Marco A.A. Sanvido (Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Research), Zvonimir Z. Bandic (Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Research), Christoph M. Kirsch (University of Salzburg) 10:10 - 10:40 Break 10:40 - 11:20 Invited speaker 2 (Adam Leventhal, Sun) The Failure of SSDs: How Integration into the Storage Hierarchy Will Advise SSD Design    [Talk Slides] 11:20 - 11:40 Enabling Enterprise Solid State Disks Performance Milo Polte, Jiri Simsa, Garth Gibson (Carnegie Mellon University) 11:40 - 12:00 FEARLESS: Flash Enabled Active Replication of Low End Survivable Storage Vamsi Kundeti, John A. Chandy (University of Connecticut) 12:00 - 12:20 In Search of Alternative Uses of Byte-Addressable Non-Volatile RAM: A Case Study of a Green Web Server Cluster In Hwan Doh, Young Je Moon, Jung Soo Park, Eunsam Kim (Hongik University), Jongmoo Choi (Dankook University), Donghee Lee (University of Seoul), Sam H. Noh (Hongik University) 12:20 - 12:30 Concluding remarks CFP can be found here.