Announcement of the First International
             Workshop on Cluster Storage Technology

                           CluStor'06


Storage systems have an increasing importance for high performance
computing. Real applications from e.g. physics and bioinformatics
produce huge volumes of data that have to be managed efficiently.

The workshop concentrates on storage technologies where we follow the
principle of clustering of resources. This already proved viable for
providing CPU cycles and it is now extended to storage. However, the
research field is young and there are many open issues. The goal of
the workshop is to bring together researchers in that field and to
provide a platform for discussions and maybe common future
cooperations and projects.

Interesting topics include but are not restricted to:
 - File system internals
 - Performance measurement tools
 - Fault tolerance
 - Benchmarking of all aspects of the file systems
 - Performance modelling
 - Integration with resource management
 - Access optimizations
 - Language support

The workshop will be run according to the following guidelines:
 - We want to keep the workshop small in order to have lifely discussions
   For the moment participation is by invitation only
 - We want to have talks that present current and future work and
   would like to have open discussions. Thus, we will not make slides
   publicly available. Access to any material will be to the participants
   of the workshop only.
 - We want to concentrate on discussions. No papers will be published, just
   slides given to all participants.
 - There will only be a small fee that will be taken to cover the expenses
   for the workshop dinner and the coffee breaks.

Talk abstracts: please send a 1 page abstract of your talk or the
research you want to present to the organizers.

Date: September, 21/22 2006 (Thursday/Friday)
Location: Universität Heidelberg
Fee: 100 Euro

Dates:
  Deadline for abstracts:      now  :-)
  Notification of acceptance:  now + 3 days  :-)