Workshop on Network-I/O Convergence: Experience, Lessons, Implications (NICELI)

Workshop Program

Wednesday, August 27
	09:00-09:15	Opening remarks
	09:15-10:15	Invited Talk: David R. Cheriton, Stanford University Network-I/O Convergence in "Too Fast" Networks: Threats and Countermeasures
	10:15-10:45	Break
	10:45-12:30	Session 1: Promises and Reality Session chair: Prasenjit Sarkar, IBM Research Server I/O Networks Past, Present, and Future. Renato Recio (IBM) On the Elusive Benefits of Protocol Offload. [Position paper] Piyush Shivam, Jeff Chase (Duke University) Performance Measurements of a User-Space DAFS Server with a Database Workload. Samuel A. Fineberg, Don Wilson (HP NonStop Labs)
	12:30-13:00	Get boxed lunches
	13:00-13:45	Lunch + Invited talk: Wu-chun Feng, Los Alamos National Laboratory & The Ohio State University Bridging the Disconnect Between the Network and Large-Scale Scientific Applications
	13:45-14:00	Break (15 minutes)
	14:00-15:00	Session 2: Storage protocol designs Session chair: Jim Pinkerton, Microsoft Corporation NFS over RDMA. Brent Callaghan, Theresa Lingutla-Raj, Alex Chiu, Peter Staubach, Omer Asad (Sun Microsystems, Inc.) A Study of iSCSI Extensions for RDMA (iSER). Mallikarjun Chadalapaka (HP), Uri Elzur (Broadcom), Michael Ko (IBM Almaden Research Center), Hemal Shah (Intel), Patricia Thaler (Agilent Technologies)
	15:00-15:30	Break
	15:30-17:00	Session 3: Novel approaches Session chair: Jeff Chase, Duke University High-Speed I/O: The Operating System As A Signalling Mechanism. [Position paper] Matthew Burnside, Angelos Keromytis (Columbia University) Engineering a User-Level TCP for the CLAN Network. [Position paper] Kieran Mansley (University of Cambridge) A Case for Virtual Channel Processors. [Position paper] Derek McAuley, Rolf Neugebauer (Intel Research Cambridge)
	Evening	Social Event: Dinner & tour of Heidelberg and its Castle