Sunday, December 5

9:00 a.m.–10:15 a.m.
Platforms Session Chair: Steve Gribble Global-scale Service Deployment in the XenoServer Platform Evangelos Kotsovinos, Tim Moreton, Ian Pratt, Russ Ross, Keir Fraser, and Steven Hand, University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory; Tim Harris, Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK Safely Harnessing Wide Area Surrogate Computing or How to Avoid Building the Perfect Platform for Network Attacks Sachin Goyal and John Carter, School of Computing, University of Utah Implementing the Emulab-PlanetLab Portal: Experience and Lessons Learned Kirk Webb, Mike Hibler, Robert Ricci, Austin Clements, and Jay Lepreau, School of Computing, University of Utah
10:15 a.m.–10:45 a.m.   Break
10:45 a.m.–12:00 noon
Monitoring Session Chair: Steve Hand Design Considerations for Information Planes Brent Chun, Joseph M. Hellerstein, Ryan Huebsch, Petros Maniatis, and Timothy Roscoe, Intel Research, Berkeley A Shared Global Event Propagation System to Enable Next Generation Distributed Services Paul Brett, Rob Knauerhase, Mic Bowman, Robert Adams, Aroon Nataraj, Jeff Sedayao, and Michael Spindel, Intel Labs, Intel Corporation Distributed Resource Discovery on PlanetLab with SWORD David Oppenheimer, EECS Computer Science Division, University of California Berkeley; Jeannie Albrecht, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California San Diego; David Patterson, EECS Computer Science Division, University of California Berkeley; Amin Vahdat, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California San Diego
12:00 noon–1:00 p.m.   Workshop Luncheon
1:00 p.m.–2:15 p.m.
IT Happens Session Chair: Vivek Pai The Seven Deadly Sins of Distributed Systems Steve Muir, Department of Computer Science, Princeton University Beyond Availability: Towards a Deeper Understanding of Machine Failure Characteristics in Large Distributed Systems Praveen Yalagandula, The University of Texas at Austin; Suman Nath, Carnegie Mellon University; Haifeng Yu, Intel Research Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University; Phillip B. Gibbons, Intel Research Pittsburgh; Srinivasan Sesha, Carnegie Mellon University Lessons from E-speak Alan H. Karp, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories
2:15 p.m.–3:00 p.m.
Panel: Important, But Unpublishable Session Chairs: Timothy Roscoe and Brad Karp Panelists: David Mazières, New York University; Robert Morris, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Sean Rhea, UC Berkeley; Ben Zhao, UC Santa Barbara Deployment of a Large-scale Peer-to-Peer Social Network Mao Yang and Hua Chen, Peking University, Beijing, China; Ben Y. Zhao, U. C. Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA; Yafei Dai, Peking University, Beijing, China; Zheng Zhang, Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing, China
3:00 p.m.–3:30 p.m.   Break
3:30 p.m.–4:45 p.m.
Distributed Information Session Chair: Lucy Cherkasova Deploying Large File Transfer on an HTTP Content Distribution Network KyoungSoo Park and Vivek S. Pai, Department of Computer Science, Princeton University Towards a Deployable IP Anycast Service Hitesh Ballani and Paul Francis, Cornell University DISC: A System for Distributed Data Intensive Scientific Computing George Kola, Tevfik Kosar, Jaime Frey, and Miron Livny, Computer Sciences Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Robert Brunner, Department of Astronomy and NCSA, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Michael Remijan, NCSA, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
4:45 p.m.–5:30 p.m.
Panel: Perspectives on the Future Internet: Grid vs. Networked Systems Session Chairs: David Culler and Ian Foster Panelists: Carl Kesselman, Greg Papadopoulos, and Larry Peterson