NLUUG spring conference CfP

NLUUG spring conference CfP

Every bit counts. From a single byte to billions of images, from one
line of text to a gigantic tangled semantic web of documents, from clay
tablets to 3D holographic memory, storage and the means to organize
storage have always been important to humanity. Never underestimate the
bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes, it was said; a sailboat
crossing the Atlantic still manages rates of a little over 1GB/s
end-to-end.

A petabyte of storage weighs about as much as a small car, but a large
physics experiment can fill that up in less than a week. The modern rate
of data production and amount of data storage --and crucially also data
search and retrieval-- have pushed the limits of computer storage and
the traditional file system further and further back.

The UNIX filesystem grew out of the need to organize storage on a single
(drum) mass storage device. The proliferation of devices and the need
for more spindles and more speed has led to the development of volume
managers above, below and beside the filesystem level; these storage
layer managers now abstract the view of the storage hardware from the
rest of the system. Filesystems themselves have evolved from
block-oriented setups to supporting journalling, logging, file
fragments, snapshots, extended attributes, forks, multiple encodings and
much more. The hardware of storage has been stood on its side with
perpendicular recording, and the means to connect storage to a system
has moved from flat cable to round cable to external to network.

The NLUUG Spring Conference 2009 focuses on storage and the means to
organise it: file systems, physical storage, connections and search. We
solicit contributions in the form of talks and workshops on the
following topics:

      * file system organization
      * file metadata
      * file search and retrieval
      * distributed storage
      * volume and storage space management
      * storage interconnect
      * humongous storage needs
      * cloud storage
      * federated storage
      * efficiency in storage

Important dates:
Deadline abstracts: January 6, 2009
Acceptance notification: January 12, 2009
Conference: May 7, 2009

For more information please visit the NLUUG spring conference website:

http://www.nluug.nl/events/vj09/