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Dear Alok and Pradeep, </div>
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Vijay Inavolu had sent us a similar request about workshop registration and the invitation letter regarding your paper, although he was not one of the authors. Below was my response to the earlier e-mail. </div>
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Hello, I am Bryan S. Kim, one of the program committee co-chairs for this year's HotStorage. I first want to congratulate you on the (conditional) acceptance of your work. Please work with your assigned shepherd (Eunji Lee) to complete the final version of
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To register for the workshop, please visit <a href="https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fsigops.org%2fs%2fconferences%2fsosp%2f2026%2findex.html%23registration&c=E,1,mak05Mrks-NAz4XKHStDAfVaskI5A31MiJzNrFT_Ll2gRKgdzS3ydL6_1BjCZ1Gc6jr3o3gd_X4X64Ftcxv9q9F3sx_SjYNAvAyKo4V_yQEUtqJN&typo=1" target="_blank" id="OWAe3c11a79-acd4-0722-7044-bfbfbacedd7f" class="OWAAutoLink" title="https://sigops.org/s/conferences/sosp/2026/index.html#registration" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="0" style="margin: 0px;">
this year's SOSP (Symposium on Operating Systems Principles) webpage</a>. This year's HotStorage is co-located with SOSP, and SOSP will handle the registration. At least one author needs to register to travel to the workshop for the presentation, once conditionally
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The invitation letter (for VISA) can be obtained through <a href="https://supportletters.acm.org/" target="_blank" id="OWA3906a6aa-c5e3-a62d-3ffb-2d4853aa4cd1" class="OWAAutoLink" title="https://supportletters.acm.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="1" style="margin: 0px;">
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We hope to see you and hear more about your work at the workshop. </div>
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-Bryan S. Kim</div>
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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, July 28, 2026 20:50<br>
<b>To:</b> organizers26@hotstorage.org <organizers26@hotstorage.org><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Pradeep Kumar Nalla <pnalla@marvell.com><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Hotstorage-organizers] Invitation Letter for 18th ACM</font>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Dear HotStorage '26 Organizing Committee,</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">We are planning to attend The 18th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems (HotStorage '26),
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">which will be held in person on September 28-29, 2026, in Prague, Czech Republic.</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> </span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">We are co-authors of the accepted paper:</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">"CXL Memory for LLM Inference Staging via an On-Device DMA Controller"</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">As co-authors of this accepted paper, we plan to participate in the workshop and
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">would like to request an official invitation letter to support our visa and travel application process.</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> </span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">NAME OF PERSON TRAVELLING.</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">1.ALOK PRASAD</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">2.PRADEEP KUMAR NALLA</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> </span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">We would greatly appreciate your assistance in providing the invitation letter at your earliest convenience.</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> </span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Regards</span></p>
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