Message from the General Chair

Welcome to the campus of Stanford University for the 11th annual Hot Interconnects Conference. This conference serves as the forum where designers and architects from leading companies and universities meet to discuss how new technologies can switch, route, and process packets sent over high-speed networks. Further, this conference explores how recent advances in circuit, wireless, and optic technologies will enable faster and more reliable transmission of data. Networks are the critical technology which move data within a chip, among processors in a cluster, over local area networks, and across wide area networks.

Our conference enjoys strong participation from participants in academia, industry, venture capitalists, and the government. We share common goals to identify and exploit new technologies that can improve the way in which information is exchanged. I hope that you enjoy the conference keynotes, technical presentations, panel discussion, and tutorials.

I would especially like to thank our organizing and steering committees

• Thanks are due to Bryan Lyles for serving as the program chair of the conference. He organized the technical program and led the technical committee which reviewed and critiqued the papers that appear in these proceedings.
• I wish to thank Fabrizio Petrini for organizing the conference panel on cluster computing. We look forward to a lively discussion on Thursday evening among a group of parallel system designers, developers of Gigabit Ethernet technology, and key visionaries of Infiniband.
• Thanks are due to James Sterbenz for organizing the tutorials. The Friday tutorials provide in-depth coverage of topics related to high-speed networks and low-latency communication.
• I greatly appreciate Liz Rogers for serving again as both the local chair and the webmaster of the conference. As a local chair, she coordinated use of the Stanford University facilities and arranged for great meals between the technical sessions. As the webmaster, she has put together a world-class web site that can be visited on-line as: http://www.hoti.org/.
• Thanks are due to Anne Watters for serving as the treasurer chair. Over the past five years, Anne has maintained precise accounting for the conference and ensured that the conference finances remain on budget.
• Our steering committee has provided long-term guidance for the conference. I thank Daniel Pitt, Mark Laubach, Allen J. Baum, Hasan Alkhatib, Paul Borrill, and Glenn Langdon for their continuing support.

• Global Velocity,
• IP Dynamics,
• Warthman Associates,
• Intel,
• Quadrics
• Mellanox

• Enterprise Network of Silicon Valley

Lastly, we thank our conference sponsor

• IEEE Computer Society

John W. Lockwood
Washington University