May 24-26, 2010
Haifa, Israel

Call for Papers

The IBM Haifa Research Lab and the IBM Systems and Technology Group Lab, in collaboration with Caesarea Rothschild Institute (CRI) at the University of Haifa are organizing SYSTOR 2010, a successor to the highly successful SYSTOR conference and workshops on systems and storage held at the IBM Haifa Research Lab. The goal of the conference is to promote systems research and foster stronger ties between the Israeli and worldwide systems research communities and industry. Therefore, international submissions are specially encouraged.

SYSTOR 2010 will be a three-day conference. Each day will include a keynote by a well-known international researcher on one of the conference topics.

Submissions of a practical and experimental nature are solicited. The conference is open to all systems research topics, including (but not limited to):

• General computer systems issues in operating systems, architecture, memory hierarchy, compilation, hypervisors and embedded systems
• Distributed systems such as peer-to-peer systems, sensor networks and overlays, fault-tolerance, and resource allocation
• Storage systems issues related to long-term preservation, archival storage, Internet-scale storage, replication and consistency, designs with solid-state devices and phase-change memory
• Cross-cutting issues such as workload modeling, performance metrics, power consumption, security, usability, and experience with real systems and failures
• Performance aspects of computing systems with emphasis on end-to-end performance issues, analysis, improvements and detection, including performance tools that addresses these aspects

In particular, we would like to emphasize the following themes:

• Cloud systems: security, consistency and reliability, storage architectures, performance tooling
• Virtualization infrastructure and virtualization-aware system design
• Multi-core architectures and the operating system facilities and programming environments that use them
• Power consumption and management
• Managing the explosive growth in storage and the increasing need to store, find and manage data for long periods

Papers should report original research or describe the technologies behind real products and the considerations that shaped the product’s design and functionality. If part of the material submitted was published previously, the paper should so indicate and should provide substantial additional results and material.

Submissions
Paper submissions should be up to 14 pages in 11 pt font, in PDF format. To submit, please use the conference submission website. Submitted papers will be reviewed by the program committee. Proceedings including all accepted papers will be published by ACM in the ACM Digital Library.

Important Dates

Paper Submission:	31 January, 2010
Paper Notification:	20 March, 2010
Paper Final Version:	10 April, 2010

Student Activities
As part of the conference, students will have the opportunity to interact with senior researchers and obtain feedback on their research. To promote such interactions, we will have a poster session where students present their work. We will also have a lunch where members of the program committee and IBM researchers will be matched with students for more intensive interaction.

Venue and Social Event
The conference will be held in the lovely city of Haifa, which overlooks the Mediterranean Sea, and is home to Jews, Muslims, Christians and Baha’is. Systor 2010 excursion activities will include trips and museum tours focusing on the historical periods of the holy land via special visits
to Hecht museum, Jordan river, Sea of Galilee and amazing sites in the old city of Jerusalem.

The conference will take place at the IBM Research Lab in Haifa and in locations at the Haifa University.

Call for Papers printing version (50KB)

• Gadi Haber
• Ilya Shnayderman

In Cooperation With

The proceedings of the conference will be published as a volume in the ACM International Conference Proceedings Series made available through the ACM Digital Library.