The 24th ASME annual conference on information storage and processing systems, Santa Clara, CA, USA

Abstract

ISPS 2014 had seen good attendance and a balanced geographic and academic/industry mix in the audience. We had about 80 presentations covering the abovementioned areas in our 2-day conference. We were very pleased and honored to have three guest speakers for our event. Professor Eric Fullerton (University of California, USA) gave the distinguished talk in the conference opening and covered some fundamental research topics like future storage. Mr. Greg Kittilson (VP of hardware engineering, Dot Hill Systems) presented the dinner banquet speech outlining ever evolving value chain of storage. And Mr. K.R. Kishore (Associate Technical Director, Broadcom) introduced a storage-over-ethernet and its futures in his special keynote. To facilitate easy reference in future, authors of presentations at the conference were invited to submit their full papers for consideration of publication in this special issue of microsystem technologies. All papers submitted went through a rigorous peer review process; many reviewers are leading experts in their areas of research and many of the papers had gone through a number of revisions before they were accepted for publication in the journal to ensure the quality of the journal. We would like to take this opportunity to express our sincerest gratitude to all our reviewers, who, despite their tight work schedule, have helped us review the papers in a timely manner on a voluntary basis. We would also reiterate our thanks to Prof. Bharat Bhushan and his colleagues at MST journal for the long time support for ISPS. Without their great efforts, this special issue of microsystems technologies would not be possible. It was our great honor and pleasure to host the 24th ASME annual conference on information storage and processing systems (ISPS 2014) at Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA, USA from June 23 to June 24, 2014. ISPS 2014 continued to offer an outstanding platform for researchers from both academic and industry to present their latest research progresses, exchange ideas and explore collaborate opportunities. The conference covered a wide spectrum of research topics that include all legacy ISPS technical area and a new technical session storage systems and future technologies to track the new trends arising from big data and data centers. Papers presented at the conference highlighted scientific and technological advancements in: