| Time | Event | |
|---|---|---|
| 8:15 - 8:30 | Poster Setup | |
| 8:30 - 8:45 | Welcome and Charge (Andrew Chien, David Culler) | |
| 8:45 - 9:30 | Eric Brewer, Making NOW Real: the Inktomi Experience | |
| 9:30 - 10:30 | Poster Session and Break | |
| 10:30 - 11:30 | Emerging Commercial Cluster Interconnects (Moderator: Andrew Chien) | |
| Robert Horst | Tandem ServerNet | |
| Andrew Erlichson | Super HiPPi | |
| Helen Raizen | SCI | |
| Rick Gillett | Digital Memory Channel | |
| Glenn Brown | Myricom Myrinet | |
| 11:30 - 11:50 | Panel Discussion on Commercial Interconnect Directions | |
| 11:50 - 1:00 | Lunch (provided by workshop/conference) | |
| 1:00 - 1:45 | Focused Discussion I: Clusters as Storage Servers (Moderator: Tom Anderson) | |
| Liuba Shrira | Transactional Storage | |
| Thomas Sterling | Beowulf | |
| Nisha Talagala | Tertiary Disk | |
| Klaus Schauser | UFO | |
| 1:45 - 2:30 | Focused Discussion II: Scheduling Perspectives on Clusters (Moderator: Kai Li) | |
| Robert Blumofe | Cilk | |
| Patrick Sobalvarro | Dynamic Coscheduling | |
| Clemens Szyperski | Gardens | |
| Miron Livny | Condor | |
| 2:30 - 3:15 | Poster Session and Break | |
| 3:15 - 4:00 | Focused Discussion III: Communications Layer "shootout" (Moderator: Charles Leiserson) | |
| Alan Mainwaring | Active Messages | |
| Scott Pakin | Fast Messages | |
| Anindya Basu | U-Net | |
| Thomas Warschko | Parastation | |
| Boon Ang | StarT Voyager | |
| Cezary Dubnicki | Shrimp | |
| 4:00 - 5:00 | Panel on Past, Present, and Future Research Challenges (Moderator: David Culler) | |
| Greg Papadopoulos | Sun Microsystems | |
| David Wood | U Wisconsin | |
| Ajei Gopal | IBM Power Parallel | |
| Arvind | MIT | |
| Kei Hiraki | University of Tokyo and Real World Computing Partnership | |
| Thorsten von Eicken | Cornell | |