High Performance Interconnects
for Distributed Computing (HPI-DC)

Program Highlights:
Keynote talks by Pankaj Mehra, HP, and Jamie Riotto, Cisco (Topspin)
Panel on the future of RDMA

The HPI-DC 2005 workshop will be held in conjunction with the 14th International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC-14), in Research Triangle Park, NC.

The emergence of 10.0 GigE, InfiniBand, programmable NICs, network processors, and protocols like DDP and RDMA over IP, make it possible to create tightly linked systems across physical distances that exceed those of traditional single cluster or server systems. Further, these technologies can deliver communication capabilities that achieve the performance levels needed by high end applications in enterprise systems and like those produced by the high
performance computing community.

The purpose of this workshop is to explore the confluence of WAN technologies with high performance interconnects, as applicable or applied to realistic high end applications. The intent is to create a venue that will act as a bridge between researchers developing tools and platforms for high-performance distributed computing, end user applications seeking high performance solutions, and technology providers aiming to improve interconnect and networking technologies for future systems. The hope is to foster knowledge creation and intellectual interchanges between HPC end users and technology developers in the specific domain of high performance interconnects.

Topics of interest include:

• Hardware/software architectures for communication infrastructures for HPC

• Data and control protocols for interactive and large data volume applications

• Novel devices and technologies to enhance interconnect properties

• Interconnect-level issues when extending high performance beyond single machines, including  architecture, protocols, services, QoS, and security

• Remote storage (like iSCSI), remote databases, and datacenters, etc