Opening Remarks

Message from the General Chair
• John Lockwood, General Chair
Message from the Program Chair
• Bryan Lyles, Program Chair

Opening Remarks

• Message from the Tutorial Chair
  • James Sterbenz, Tutorial Chair

Tutorials

• T1:High-Speed Networking: A Systematic Approach to High-Bandwidth Low-Latency Communication:

  James Sterbenz (BBN)

  (First half of full-day tutorial)
  
  

• T2:Designing Next Generation Clusters, Cluster-based Servers and Datacenters with InfiniBand: Opportunities and Challenges:

  Dhabaleswar Panda (Ohio State)

  (half-day tutorial)

Keynote

• RFID: The New Network of Objects
  
  • Stav Prodromou
    (Chief Executive Officer, Alien Technology Corp.)

Keynote

Policy-based Virtual Networking

• Hasan Alkhatib
  (President, CEO, and Chairman: IP Dynamics)

Interconnects

• Session Chair: Bryan Lyles

Using GALS Interconnect for Single Clock cycle SoC Design
• Andrew Lines (Fulcrum Microsystems)
A Wave-Pipelined On-chip Interconnect Structure for Networks-on-Chips
• Jiang Xu, Wayne Wolf (Princeton)
Dynamic Power Management for Power Optimization of Interconnection Networks Using On/Off Links
• Vassos Soteriou, Li-Shiuan Peh (Princeton)
PCI Express and Advanced Switching: Evolutionary Path to Building Next Generation Interconnects
• David Mayhew,Venkata Krishnan (Stargen)

Packet Processors

• Session Chair: James Sterbenz

ETA: Experience with an Intel Xeon Processor as a Packet Processing Engine
• Greg Regnier, Dave Minturn, Gary McAlpine, Vikram Saletore, Annie Foong (Intel)
Network Processors as Building Blocks in Overlay Networks
• Ada Gavrilovska, Karsten Schwan (Georgia Tech)
Architecture for a Hardware Based, TCP/IP Content Scanning System
• David V. Schuehler, James Moscola, and John Lockwood (WashU)

Associative Technologies

• Session Chair: Dan Pitt

A Rule Grouping Technique for Weight-Based TCAM coprocessors
• Hao Che, Yong Wang, Zhijun Wang (University of Texas at Arlington)
A Dual-Level Matching Algorithm for 3-Stage Clos-Network Packet Switches
• H. Jonathan Chao, Soung Y. Liew, Zhigang Jing, (Polytechnic University)
Deep Packet Inspection Using Parallel Bloom Filters
• Sarang Dharmapurikar, Praveen Krishnamurthy, Todd Sproull, John Lockwood (WashU)

Optical Networks

• Session Chair: John Lockwood

On Slotted WDM Switching in Bufferless All-Optical Networks
• Soung Y. Liew, H. Jonathan Chao, Soung Yue Liew (Polytechnic University)
Design of Optical Burst Switches based on Dual Shuffle-exchange Network and Deflection Routing
• Man-Ting Choy, Yun Deng, Tony T.Lee (CUHK)
Dynamic Scheduling of Optical Data Bursts in Time-Domain Wavelength Interleaved Networks
• Kevin Ross, Nicholas Bambos, Krishnan Kumaran, Iraj Saniee, Indra Widjaja (Stanford, Bell Laboratories)

Tutorials

• T1 (cont): High-Speed Networking: A Systematic Approach to High-Bandwidth Low-Latency Communication:

  James Sterbenz (BBN)

  (Second half of full-day tutorial)
  
  

• T3:SLA/QoS in Partially Available and Intermittent Network Services:

  Petre Dini (Cisco)

  (half-day tutorial)
  
  

Network and Clustering Technologies

• Session Chair: Fabrizio Petrini

Scalable Collective Communication on the ASCI Q Machine
• Fabrizio Petrini, Salvador Coll, Juan Fernandez Peinador, Eitan Frachtenberg (LANL)
Micro-Benchmark Level Performance Comparison of High-Speed Cluster Interconnects
• Jiuxing Liu, Balasubramanian Chandrasekaran, Weikuan Yu, iesheng Wu, Darius Buntinas, Sushmitha Kini, Peter Wyckoff, Dhabaleswar K. Panda (Ohio State)
A Case for Network-Centric Buffer Cache Organization
• Gang Peng, Srikant Sharma, Tzi-cker Chiueh (Stony Brook)

Hardware Accelerators and Network Interfaces

• Session Chair: David Mayhew

Initial End-to-End Performance Evaluation of 10-Gigabit Ethernet
• Justin (Gus) Hurwitz, Wu-chun Feng (LANL)
Implementation of a Streaming Content Search-and-Replace Module for an Internet Firewall
• James Moscola, Michael Pachos, John Lockwood, Ronald Loui (WashU)
Efficient Exploitation of Kernel Access to Infiniband: a Software DSM Example
• Liran Liss, Yitzhak Birk, Assaf Schuster (Technion)

Panel

• High-Performance Interconnection Networks for Cluster Computing
  
  Fabrizio Petrini [Moderator] (LANL)
  Greg Pfister (IBM Austin)
  Kevin Daierling (Mellanox)
  Moray McLaren (Quadrics)
  Ron Brightwell (Sandia)
  David Mayhew (Stargen)