Second NOW/Cluster Workshop: Building Systems of Systems

Preliminary Schedule

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