The common theme behind our work is to demonstrate the value
of deploying computational resources in the internetwork.
By moving computation to the appropriate points in the network,
for example, we can deploy a "virtual internet" to bounce packets
along better paths than those provided by today's Internet,
shape bursty requests to avoid causing congestion, enable flexible
binding between clients and servers via a programmable name service,
and cooperatively manage web proxy caches. Our approach is
vertically integrated, to systematically re-think all aspects of
network, distributed system, and application design starting from
this vision of ubiquitous remotely programmable resources (routers,
CPUs, disks, DRAM, and sensors).
Because we need an accurate head count, we would like you to reply
by May 29th 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/research/networking/detour, including the
tentative retreat agenda.
We are looking forward to seeing you at Rosario's!
Tom Anderson
Associate Professor
University of Washington