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WIESS Technical Sessions
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2000
8:00 am—8:15 am (Continental Breakfast available 7:30 am)
Opening Remarks
Dejan S. Milojicic, HP Labs
8:15 am—9:30 am
Invited Talk
James Gosling, Vice President & Sun Fellow, Sun Microsystems

9:30 am—10:00 am Break
10:00 am—11:30 am
System Architecture

Operational Information Systems: An Example from the Airline Industry
Van Oleson, Delta Airlines; Karsten Schwan, Greg Eisenhouer, Beth Plale, and Calton Pu, Georgia Institute of Technology; and Dick Amin, Delta Airlines

Experiences in Measuring the Reliability of a Cache-Based Storage System
Dan Lambright, EMC

HP Scalable Computing Architecture
Arun Kumar and Randy Wright, HP

12:00 noon—1:30 pm (Lunch Provided)
Invited Talk
To be announced

2:00 pm—3:00 pm
Performance

Stub-Code Performance Is Becoming Important
Andreas Haeberlen and Jochen Liedtke, Karlsruhe University; Yoonho Park, IBM Watson; Lars Reuther, Dresden University; and Volkmar Uhlig, Karslruhe University

HP Caliper: An Architecture for Performance Analysis Tools
Robert Hundt, HP

3:00 pm—3:30 pm Break
3:30 pm—5:00 pm
Tools

Incremental Linking on HP-UX
Dmitry Mikulin, Murali Vijayasundaram, and Loreena Wong, HP

Automatic Precompiled Headers: Speeding up C++ Application Build Times
Tara Krishnaswamy, HP

C++ Exception Handling for IA64
Christophe de Dinechin, HP

5:00 pm—6:00 pm
Panel: Systems Software Research and Technology Transfer
Andrew Tanenbaum, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam; Rob Pike, Bell Laboratories; Marshall Kirk McKusick, Author & Consultant; and Rob Gingell, Sun Microsystems

6:30 pm—7:30 pm
Invited Talk: Surfing Technology Curves
Steven Kleiman, Chief Technical Officer, Network Appliance Inc.

8:00 pm—10:00 pm
Outrageous Opinions,
Open Floor on Systems Software
Poster Presentations (Q &A during morning & afternoon breaks)

Application Programming on a Shared Memory Multicomputer
Todd Poynor and Tom Wylegala, HP Labs

Meeting Performance Goals with the HP-UX Workload Manager
Cliff McCarthy, Michael Murphy, and Indira Subramanian, HP

Dynamic Memory Management with Garbage Collection for Embedded Applications
Roberto Brega and Gabrio Rivera, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETHZ)

Implementation of Intra-Node Gang Scheduling on Hitachi Super Technical Server SR8000
Naoki Utsunomiya, Hiroyuki Takatsu, Yutaka Enkou, and Naonobu Sukegawa, Hitachi

A Fast Implementation of DES and Triple-DES on PA-RISC 2.0
Francisco Corella, HP


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