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Cluster 2006 - The future of Cluster Networking Panel

Panel Chair: Renato Recio, DE and Chief Architect, eSystem IO - IBM

Committed Panelists

Stephen Garrison, VP Corporate Marketing - Force10Networks (Enet swiches)
Rama K Govindaraju, DE HPC Software - IBM (Cluster Adapters and Fabric)
Michael Kagan, VP of Architecture - Mellanox (IB Adapters and Fabric)
Brian Hausauer, Chief Architect - NetEffect (RNIC/NIC Adapters)
Greg Lindahl, Chief Scientist - Pathscale/QLogic (IB Adapters and Fabric)
Jakov Seizovic, CTO - Myricom (Myrinet Adapters and Fabric, Ethernet Adapters)

Panel Abstract:

This panel will describe the evolution of the Cluster Networking market over the next five years. The panel will address cluster networking requirement areas, including: functions (e.g. collective operations, accelerators,...), performance (bandwidth, latency, and CPU utilization), price/performance, scaling (to 10s K nodes), API stacks (e.g. which APIs stacks are needed and for what market segments), management simplification, RAS and cost. It will address how these requirement areas are being met by today's Cluster Networks. It will make evolutionary projections of how these requirement areas will be served in the future.

After the panelist introduce themselves, the panel will begin with a brief scope introduction by the panel chair. Each panelist will then have 15 minutes to present their view on how their network addresses the above cluster networking requirement areas today and in the future.

Following these short presentations we will have a 30 minute Q&A session. The panel chair will ask 1-2 questions to get the Q&A session going and then the Q&A session will be opened to questions from folks in attendance.

Panel Time: 2.5 hours

The audience is expected to be composed of cluster providers, users, and academics, from America, Europe, and Asia.