tom
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We would like to invite you to attend the kickoff
retreat for the Detour/WebOS/WebCache projects,
to be held at the Rosario Resort, Orcas Island, Washington,
June 29-30, 1998. Because we need an accurate head count,
we would like you to reply by Memorial Day, May 25th,
to Lisa Stuebing, lisas@cs.washington.edu as to whether you
can attend. For those of you travelling from out of town,
please contact Lisa for information on getting to Rosario's;
we will be leaving at approximately 8am on the 29th by van
from Seattle -- the exact time of departure is dependent
on the summer ferry schedule.
In replying to Lisa, please indicate if you will be attending
one or both days, whether you will need space on the van, and if you have
any dietary restrictions, etc.
More information about our project can be found at
http://www.cs.washington.edu/networking/detour, including
the tentative retreat agenda. As a brief synopsis of the project,
the focus of our work is to exploit computational resources in the
internetwork to to attack a series of problems in wide area distributed
computing. By moving computation to the appropriate point in the network,
we can (i) reduce latency (because of speed of light considerations,
quickly becoming the dominant factor in the end-to-end performance
of wide area distributed systems), (ii) reduce congestion (by
reducing bytes transferred, by more carefully managing router
buffers, and by making better use of redundant paths),
(iii) improve end-to-end availability (e.g., single point failures
should be transparently and quickly hidden), (iv) and simplify
protocols (e.g., by moving responsibility for congestion control
into the network), particularly for "thin" clients such as
network attached sensors and hand-held mobile devices.
Our approach has been to systematically re-think all aspects
of network and distributed system design starting from this
vision of ubiquitous remotely programmable resources
(routers, CPUs, disks, DRAM, and sensors).
We are looking forward to seeing you at Rosario's!
Tom Anderson
Associate Professor
University of Washington
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Invitees
Faculty
Tom Anderson (tom)
John Zahorjan (zahorjan)
Anna Karlin (karlin)
Ed Lazowska (lazowska)
Hank Levy (levy)
Gaetano Boriello (boriello)
Alon Levy (alon)
Staff
David Becker (becker)
Steve Corbato
Eric Hoffman (hoffman)
Lisa Stuebing (lisas)
Students
Andy Collins (acollins)
Stefan Savage (savage)
Neal Cardwell (cardwell)
Amit Aggarwal (amit)
Amin Vahdat (vahdat)
Kenichi Ishikawa (ishi)
Geoff Voelker (voelker)
Gretta Bartels (gretta@cs.duke.edu)
Tashana Landray (tkl)
Molly Brown (molly)
Nitin Sharma (nitin)
Alec Wolman (alec)
Mike Swift (mikesw@microsoft.com)
Visitors
Mike Dahlin (dahlin@cs.utexas.edu)
Greg Minshall (minshall@acm.org)
Chase Bailey (chase@cisco.com)
Tom Alexander (Tom_Alexander@pmc-sierra.com)
Paul Pierce (prp@ichips.intel.com)
Hilarie Orman (orman@darpa.mil)
Dave Tennenhouse (dlt@darpa.mil)
Scott Shynes (shynes@rl.af.mil)
Steve McCanne (mccanne@cs.berkeley.edu)