1. High performance interconnects for massively parallel systems -- 2. Commodity high performance interconnects -- 3. Ethernet vs. EtherNOT -- 4. System impact of integrated interconnects -- 5. Network interfaces for high performance computing -- 6. Network programming interfaces for high performance computing -- 7. High perofmrnace IP-based transports -- 8. Remote direct memroy access and iWARP -- 9. Accelerating communication services on multi-core platforms -- 10. Virtualized I/O -- 11. The message passing interface (MPI) -- 12. High performance event communication -- 13. The case of the fast financial feed -- 14. Date-movement approaches for HPC storage systems -- 15. Network simulation.