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

Invited Talk Details The Failure of SSDs: How Integration into the Storage Hierarchy Will Advise SSD Design by Adam Leventhal, Sun Microsystems The design of Solid State Devices (SSDs) has primarily been guided by the goal of replacing conventional hard drives in existing systems. A completely different set of guiding priciples emerges when the focus shifts from displacing hard drives to complementing them in the storage hierarchy. Indeed, there are many different ways to augment the system with SSDs, and similarly different design goals placed on SSDs. This talk will focus on some key areas in which current SSD design is non-optimal, and suggest directions for both those building SSDs and those creating solutions that integrate SSDs. Speaker Bio Adam Leventhal Senior Staff Engineer Sun Microsystems, Fishwork Adam Leventhal is a Senior Staff Engineer in the Fishworks advanced product development team. One of his key areas of interest has been integrate flash memory into Sun's ZFS and future storage products. This effort produced the Hybrid Storage Pool, a novel mechanism to deliver the best combination of price, performance and power for storage. Adam is one of the three authors of DTrace for which he received Sun's chairman's award for technical excellence in 2004, was named one of InfoWorld's Innovators of 2005, won top honors from the 2006 Wall Street Journal's Innovation Awards, and was awarded the USENIX STUG prize in 2008 for DTrace as a significant enabling technology. Adam joined Sun after graduating cum laude from Brown University in 2001 with an ScB in Math and Computer Science, and spent his first five years in the Solaris kernel group.