Large-Scale Distributed Systems and Middleware (LADIS)
Sponsored by IBM and the Technion Electrical Engineering Department

Program, 19 March, at the IBM Haifa Research Lab

Workshop Program PDF version for printing (348 KB) 08:30 Pickup from Holiday Inn lobby 09:00 Gathering, breakfast, registration 09:20 Opening remarks Oded Cohn, Director, IBM Haifa Research Lab 09:30 Keynote speaker: Quicksilver: A Scalable and Reliable Multicast Platform Ken Birman, Cornell 10:30 P2P for Enterprise Middleware David Chess, Mike Spreitzer, Malgorzata Steinder, Asser Tantawi, Ian Whalley, Chunqiang Tang, IBM Watson Research Center (Presentation) 11:10 Coffee break Middleware Support Large-scale Distributed Systems Chair: Gregory Chockler, IBM 11:30 Programming Language Support for Large-Scale Distributed Systems Patrick Eugster, Purdue University (Presentation) 12:10 Data-centric Networking Hans-Arno Jacobsen, University of Toronto 12:50 A Scalable P2P Architecture for Topic-based Event Dissemination Roberto Baldoni, Roberto Beraldi, Vivien Quema, Leonardo Querzoni, Sara Tucci-Piergiovanni, University of Roma (Presentation) 13:30 Lunch Systems, Storage, and Services: Recent Advances and Vision for the Future Chair: Eliezer Dekel, IBM 14:15 The Future Of Computer Systems - Is it Already Here? Yaron Weinsberg, Danny Dolev, Pete Wyckoff, Tal Anker, Hebrew University 14:55 High Performance Clusters Liran Liss, Mellanox 15:35 The Telco Data Grid: Xeround's Carrier Grade Real-time Gilad Zlotkin, Xeround (Presentation) 16:15 Efficient Distributed Collaboration via Geometric Constraints Assaf Schuster, Technion 16:55 Concluding remarks 17:00 Cocktail reception at IBM Haifa