[linuxkernelnewbies] USENIX 1996 ANNUAL TECHNICAL CONFERENCE

[Peter Teoh]

http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sd96/ USENIX 1996 Annual Technical Conference January 22-26, 1996 San Diego, CA Sponsored by the USENIX Association. Original Program with Tutorial Descriptions Program Committee External Reviewers Hard-copy proceedings ordering information Wednesday, January 24 Keynote Address: Nature and Nurture: The Interplay of UNIX and Networking Van Jacobson, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory FILE SYSTEMS Chair: John Ousterhout, Sun Microsystems Laboratories Scalability in the XFS File System Adam Sweeney, Silicon Graphics A Comparison of FFS Disk Allocation Policies Keith A. Smith and Margo Seltzer, Harvard University AFRAID--A Frequently Redundant Array of Independent Disks Stefan Savage, University of Washington; John Wilkes, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories Invited Talk: Linux: Architecture, Experiences, and Future Linus Torvalds, University of Helsinki OS EXTENSIONS Chair: Darrell Long, University of California, Santa Cruz A Comparison of OS Extension Technologies Christopher Small and Margo Seltzer, Harvard University An Extensible Protocol Architecture for Application-Specific Networking Marc E. Fiuczynski and Brian N. Bershad, University of Washington Linux Device Driver Emulation in Mach Shantanu Goel and Dan Duchamp, Columbia University Invited Talk Panel Discussion: Opinions on Recent Legal Decisions Moderator: Ed Gould, Digital Equipment Corporation Panelists: Dan Appelman, Partner, Heller, Ehrman, White, and McAuliffe; Mitch Dembin, Assistant U.S. Attorney--Chief, Financial Fraud Section; Mike Godwin, Staff Counsel, Electronic Frontier Foundation MULTIMEDIA Chair: Brent Welch, Sun Microsystems Laboratories Calliope: A Distributed, Scalable Multimedia Server Andrew Heybey, Mark Sullivan, and Paul England, Bellcore Simple Continuous Media Storage Server on Real-Time Mach Hiroshi Tezuka and Tatsuo Nakajima, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology Invited Talk: Cryptography in the 21st Century Bruce Schneier, Counterpane Systems Thursday, January 25 NETWORKS Chair: John Kohl, Atria Software Eliminating Receive Livelock in an Interrupt-driven Kernel Jeffrey Mogul, Digital Equipment Corp., Western Research Laboratory; K. K. Ramakrishnan, AT&T Bell Laboratories Implementation of IPv6 in 4.4 BSD Randall Atkinson, Daniel McDonald, and Bao Phan, Naval Research Laboratory; Craig Metz, Kaman Sciences Corporation; Kenneth Chin, Naval Research Laboratory Supporting Mobility in MosquitoNet Mary Baker, Xinhua Zhao, Stuart Cheshire, and Jonathan Stone, Stanford University Invited Talk: Why Threads Are A Bad Idea (for most purposes) John Ousterhout, Sun Microsystems Laboratories WEB Chair: Christopher Small, Harvard University World Wide Web Cache Consistency James Gwertzman and Margo Seltzer, Harvard University A Hierarchical Internet Object Cache Anawat Chankhunthod, Peter Danzig, and Chuck Neerdaels, University of Southern California; Michael F. Schwartz and Kurt J. Worrell, University of Colorado, Boulder Tracking and Viewing Changes on the Web Fred Douglis and Thomas Ball, AT&T Bell Laboratories Invited Talk Track: Vmalloc: The Search Ends? Kiem-Phong Vo, AT&T Bell Laboratories WORKS-IN-PROGRESS Invited Talk Track: Forming a More Perfect Net Governance Carey Eugene Heckman, Adjunct Professor of Law, Stanford Law School and Co-Director, Stanford Law and Technology Policy Center DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS Chair: David Black, Open Software Foundation Research Institute Implementation of a Reliable Remote Memory Pager Evangelos P. Markatos and George Dramitinos, Institute of Computer Science, FORTH, Crete Solaris MC: A Multi Computer OS Yousef A. Khalidi, Jose M. Bernabeu, Vlada Matena, Ken Shirriff, and Moti Thadani, Sun Microsystems Laboratories A New Approach to Distributed Memory Management in the Mach Microkernel Stephan Zeisset, Stefan Tritscher, and Martin Mairandres, Intel GmbH Fault Tolerance in a Distributed CHORUS/MiX System Sunil Kittur, Online Media; Francois Armand, Chorus Systemes; Douglas Steel, ICL High Performance Systems; Jim Lipkis, Chorus Systemes Invited Talk Panel Discussion: Selling Stuff that's Free: the Commercial Side of Free Software Moderator: Mary Baker, Stanford University Panelists: Bob Bruce, Walnut Creek CD-ROM; William H. Davidow, Mohr, Davidow Ventures; Michael Tiemann, Cygnus Support; Linus Torvalds, University of Helsinki Friday, January 26 PROTOCOLS Chair: Jonathan Smith, University of Pennsylvania FLIPC: A Low Latency Messaging System for Distributed Real Time Environments David L. Black, Randall D. Smith, Steven J. Sears, and Randall W. Dean, Open Software Foundation Research Insititute An Analysis of Process and Memory Models to Support High-Speed Networking in a UNIX Environment B. Murphy, University of Cambridge; S. Zeadally and C. J. Adams, University of Buckingham Zero-Copy TCP in Solaris H. K. Jerry Chu, SunSoft, Inc. Invited Talk: Highlights from 1995 USENIX Conferences PERFORMANCE Chair: Miche Baker-Harvey, Digital Equipment Corporation A Performance Comparison of UNIX Operating Systems on the Pentium Kevin Lai and Mary Baker, Stanford University lmbench: Portable Tools for Performance Analysis Larry McVoy, Silicon Graphics; Carl Staelin, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories Process Labeled Kernel Profiling: A New Facility to Profile System Activities Shingo Nishioka, Atsuo Kawaguchi, and Hiroshi Motoda, Hitachi Advanced Research Laboratory Invited Talk Track: CitySpace: Come Build It Yourself--A User-Extensible Virtual Environment for Real-time Play Coco Conn and Zane Vella, Digital Circus Productions POT POURRI Chair: Matt Blaze, AT&T Bell Laboratories Cut-and-Paste File-Systems: Integrating Simulators and File-Systems Peter Bosch and Sape J. Mullender, Universiteit Twente Predicting Future File-System Actions From Prior Events Tom M. Kroeger and Darrell D. E. Long, University of California, Santa Cruz Transparent Fault Tolerance for Parallel Applications on Networks of Workstations Daniel J. Scales, Digital Equipment Corporation Western Research Laboratory; Monica S. Lam, Stanford University Why Use a Fishing Line When you Have a Net? An Adaptive Multicast Data Distribution Protocol Steve Kotsopoulos and Jeremy Cooperstock, University of Toronto Invited Talk Panel Discussion: Technical Executive Summary: 90 Minutes, 8 Talks, No Regrets Moderator: Keith Bostic, Berkeley Software Design, Inc. Joint Closing Session