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2nd Workshop on Real, Large Distributed Systems (WORLDS '05)
Sponsored by USENIX, The Advanced Computing Systems Association
Co-located with the 4th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '05), December 13–16, 2005
 About WORLDS '05
Overview

Organizers

Preliminary Program
 For Participants
Instructions for Authors of Accepted Papers
 Important Dates
Notification to authors:
September 13, 2005

Demo submissions due:
October 17, 2005

Final papers due:
October 17, 2005
 Call for Papers
Original Call for Papers
 Registration
The complete program and registration forms will be available here in September 2005.
 Hotel & Travel
Hotel & Travel Information

About San Francisco
 Past Workshop
Check out the Proceedings of the past WORLDS workshop.
Tuesday, December 13

9:00–10:15: Infrastructure
Session Chair: Steve Muir, Princeton University

Experience with Some Principles for Building an Internet-Scale Reliable System
Mike Afergan, Akamai and MIT; Joel Wein, Akamai and Polytechnic University; Amy LaMeyer, Akamai

Deploying Virtual Machines as Sandboxes for the Grid
Sriya Santhanam, Pradheep Elango, Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau, and Miron Livny, University of Wisconsin, Madison

MON: On-Demand Overlays for Distributed System Management
Jin Liang, Steven Ko, Indranil Gupta, and Klara Nahrstedt, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

10:15–10:45: Break

10:45–Noon: Choosing Wisely
Session Chair: Neil Spring, University of Maryland

Supporting Network Coordinates on PlanetLab
Peter Pietzuch, Jonathan Ledlie, and Margo Seltzer, Harvard University

Fixing the Embarrassing Slowness of OpenDHT on PlanetLab
Sean Rhea, Byung-Gon Chun, John Kubiatowicz, and Scott Shenker, University of California, Berkeley

(Re)Design Considerations for Scalable Large-File Content Distribution
Brian Biskeborn, Princeton University; Michael Golightly, University of California, Irvine; KyoungSoo Park and Vivek S. Pai, Princeton University

Noon–1:30: Lunch

1:30–2:45: Miscellaneous
Session Chair: Sean Rhea, MIT

The Julia Content Distribution Network
Danny Bickson, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Dahlia Malkhi, Microsoft Research Silicon Valley and The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Detecting Performance Anomalies in Global Applications
Terence Kelly, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories

Bridging Local and Wide Area Networks for Overlay Distributed File Systems
Mike Closson and Paul Lu, University of Alberta

2:45–3:15: Break

3:15–4:30: From the Trenches
Session Chair: Mic Bowman, Intel

Non-Transitive Connectivity and DHTs
Michael J. Freedman, New York University; Karthik Lakshminarayanan, Sean Rhea, and Ion Stoica, University of California, Berkeley

Why It Is Hard to Build a Long-Running Service on PlanetLab
Justin Cappos and John Hartman, University of Arizona

Using PlanetLab for Network Research: Myths, Realities, and Best Practices
Neil Spring, University of Maryland; Larry Peterson, Andy Bavier, and Vivek S. Pai, Princeton University

4:30–5:00: Break

5:00–6:00: Panel: Free Services in a Profit-Driven World
Panelists: TBD

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