NSF Workshop on Distributed Systems

September 29 and 30, 2005

MIT Stata Center

Call for position papers

The included position papers

The report

Thursday, September 29, 2005

Overview and background

• Brett Fleisch (What NSF wants)
• Tom Anderson (GENI)

Applications

• Debby Wallach
• Matt Welsh
• Carla Ellis
• Timothy Roscoe

Distributed Computing Platform

• Paulo Verissimo
• Jeff Mogul
• Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau
• David Kotz
• Vivek Pai
• Miguel Castro

Security, Storage, and Networks

• Satya
• Jeff Chase
• Mehul Shah
• Mema Roussopoulos
• David Andersen (presentation without slides!)
• David Clark

Breakouts

• Simplifying Management: Hank Levy
• Security: Andrew Myers
• Extensions for New Applications: Carla Ellis
• Operating 24x7: Amin Vahdat
• Storage: Mike Dahlin

Friday, September 30, 2005

Presentations from Breakouts

The slide reports are linked to the breakouts above.

Infrastructure Breakouts

• Testbeds: Ion Stoica
• Support for New Application Domains: David Andersen
• Simulation: Jeff Mogul

Presentations from Breakouts and Discussion of recommendations to NSF

The slide reports are linked to the breakouts above.