Tuesday, December 13

9:00 a.m.–10:15 a.m.    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 Y. Ko, Indranil Gupta, and Klara Nahrstedt, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

10:15 a.m.–10:45 a.m.    Break

10:45 a.m.–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, Michael Golightly, KyoungSoo Park, and Vivek S. Pai, Princeton University

Noon–1:30 p.m.    Lunch

1:30 p.m.–2:45 p.m.    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 Michael Closson and Paul Lu, University of Alberta

2:45 p.m.–3:15 p.m.    Break

3:15 p.m.–4:30 p.m.    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 Pai, Princeton University

4:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m.    Break

5:00 p.m.–6:00 p.m.    Panel: Free Services in a Profit-Driven World

Moderator: Brad Karp, University College London and Intel Research Speakers: Jeff Mogul, Hewlett-Packard Labs; Timothy Roscoe, Intel Research, Berkeley; Werner Vogels, Amazon; Vivek Pai, Princeton University

6:00 p.m.–7:00 p.m.    Demo Session

This year WORLDS will feature a demo session, in which researchers will have the opportunity to demonstrate the real, running distributed systems they have built. The demo session will take place during the Welcome Get Together for FAST '05, which is co-located with WORLDS '05.