USENIX Technical Program - The USENIX Windows NT Workshop 1997

Presentations Given at the
USENIX Windows NT Workshop
August 11-13, 1997
Seattle, Washington, USA

For full text of the refereed papers and abstracts of the poster sessions, see the Technical Program.

Keynote Address:
Windows NT to the Max - Just How Far Can It Scale Up (PowerPoint 6.5Mb) (HTML): Jim Gray, Microsoft Bay Area Research Center

Instrumentation and Optimization of Win32/Intel Executables Using Etch (PowerPoint 57Kb) (HTML): Ted Romer, Geoff Voelker, Dennis Lee, Alec Wolman, Wayne Wong, Hank Levy, and Brian Bershad, University of Washington, Brad Chen, Harvard University
DIGITAL FX!32 - Running 32-Bit x86 Applications on Alpha NT: Anton Chernoff and Ray Hookway, Digital Equipment Corporation
Spike: An Optimizer for Alpha/NT Executables (PowerPoint 678Kb) (HTML): Robert Cohn, David Goodwin, P. Geoffrey Lowney, and Norman Rubin, Digital Equipment Corporation
Improving Instruction Locality with Just-in-Time Code Layout (PowerPoint 108Kb) (HTML): J. Bradley Chen and Bradley D. D. Leupen, Harvard University

Tutorial Session: Available Tools - A Guided Tour of the Win32 SDK, Windows NT Resource Kit, VTune, etc.: K. Sridharan, Intel (PowerPoint 158Kb) (HTML); Louis Kahn, Microsoft (PowerPoint) (HTML)

The RTX Real-Time Subsystem for Windows NT (PowerPoint 125Kb) (HTML): Bill Carpenter, Mark Roman, Nick Vasilatos, and Myron Zimmerman, VenturCom, Inc.
A Scheduling Scheme for Network Saturated NT Multiprocessors (PowerPoint 282Kb) (HTML): Joergen Svaerke Hansen and Eric Jul, University of Copenhagen (DIKU)
Coordinated Thread Scheduling for Workstation Clusters Under Windows NT (PowerPoint 708Kb) (HTML): Matt Buchanan and Andrew A. Chien, University of Illinois
Creating User-Mode Device Drivers with a Proxy (PowerPoint 146Kb) (HTML): Galen C. Hunt, University of Rochester

Panel Session: Do You Need Source?: Thorsten von Eicken, Cornell University (moderator); Margo I. Seltzer, Harvard University; Werner Vogels, Cornell University; P. Geoffrey Lowney, Digital Equipment Corp. (PowerPoint 69Kb) (HTML); Nick Vasilatos, VenturCom, Inc.; Brian Bershad, University of Washington

Keynote Address:
What a Tangled Mess! Untangling User-Visible Complexity in Windows Systems (PowerPoint 905Kb) (HTML): Rob Short, Microsoft Corporation

Measuring Windows NT - Possibilities and Limitations (PowerPoint 98Kb) (HTML): Yasuhiro Endo and Margo I. Seltzer, Harvard University
Delivery of High Quality Uncompressed Video over ATM to Windows NT Desktop: Sherali Zeadally, University of Southern California
Dreams in a Nutshell (PowerPoint 105Kb) (HTML): Steven Sommer, Microsoft Research Institute, Macquarie University, Australia
Adding Response Time Measurement of CIFS File Server Performance to NetBench (PowerPoint 316Kb) (HTML): Karl L. Swartz, Network Appliance

Invited Talks and Panel: Building Distributed Applications - CORBA and DCOM: Carl Hewett, MIT (moderator); Peter de Jong, Hewlett Packard (PowerPoint 244Kb) (HTML); Nat Brown, Microsoft (PowerPoint 138Kb) (HTML)

Brazos: A Third Generation DSM System: Evan Speight and John K. Bennett, Rice University
Moving the Ensemble Communication System to NT and Wolfpack: K. Birman, W. Vogels, K. Guo, M. Hayden, T. Hickey, R. Friedman, R. van Renesse, and Al. Vaysburd, Cornell University; S. Maffeis, Olsen & Associates

Parallel Processing with Windows NT Networks (PowerPoint 258Kb) (HTML): Partha Dasgupta, Arizona State University
OPENNT: UNIX Application Portability to Windows NT via an Alternative Environment Subsystem (PowerPoint 205Kb) (HTML): Stephen R. Walli, Softway Systems, Inc.
UWIN - UNIX for Windows: David G. Korn, AT&T Laboratories

Implementing Security and Mobility Functions in Kernel Drivers: Yoshiyuki Tsuda, Masahiro Ishiyama, Atsushi Fukumoto, Atsushi Inoue, and Ken-ichi Yokoyama, Toshiba Corporation
Millipede: a User-Level NT-Based Distributed Shared Memory System with Thread Migration and Dynamic Run-Time Optimization of Memory References (PowerPoint 398Kb) (HTML): Ayal Itzkovitz, Assaf Schuster, and Lea Shalev, Technion, Haifa
High Performance Web Servers on Windows NT: Design and Performance: James C. Hu, Irfan Pyarali, and Douglas C. Schmidt, Washington University
IntelliJuke - a Caching Jukebox-Based Storage Server: Yitzhak Birk, Uri Kareev and Mark Mokryn, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Spike: An Optimizer for Alpha/NT Exeuctables: David Goodwin and P. Geoffrey Lowney, Digital Equipment Corporation
An Open Environment for Real-Time Applications: Z. Deng, L. Zhang, and J. Liu, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Keynote Address:
Operating System Security Meets the Internet (PowerPoint 122Kb) (HTML): Butler Lampson, Microsoft

Case Studies: Deep Ports: Ramu Sunkara, Oracle Corporation (PowerPoint 894Kb) (HTML); Steve Fanshier, NCR Corporation, Top End Product Center (PowerPoint 522Kb) (HTML)

Invited Talks: Windows NT Futures: Frank Artale, Director, Windows NT Program Management, Microsoft; Felipe Cabrera, Windows NT Architect, Microsoft

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