FREENIX Track 
All Technical Sessions: 
Thurs., June 13 | 
Fri., June 14 | 
Sat., June 15 | 
All in one file | 
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THURSDAY, JUNE 13, 2002   
Friday | Saturday
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11:00 am - 12:30 pm
 
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Building Applications 
Session Chair: Chris Demetriou, Broadcom Corp.
Interactive 3D Graphics for Tcl
 
Oliver Kersting and Juergen Doellner, Hasso-Plattner-Institute, University of Potsdam
 
The AGFL Grammar Work Lab 
Cornelis H.A. Koster and Erik Verbruggen, KUN
 
SWILL: A Simple Embedded Web Server Library 
Sotiria Lampoudi and David M. Beazley, University of Chicago
 
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12:30 pm - 2:00 pm   Lunch (on your own)
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2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
 
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Network Performance 
Session Chair: Craig Metz, Extreme Networks
Linux NFS Client Write Performance 
Chuck Lever, Network Appliance; and Peter Honeyman, CITI, University of Michigan
 
A Study of the Relative Costs of Network Security Protocols 
Stefan Miltchev and Sotiris Ioannidis, University of Pennsylvania; and Angelos Keromytis, Columbia University
 
Congestion Control in Linux TCP 
Pasi Sarolahti, University of Helsinki; and Alexey Kuznetsov, Institute for Nuclear Research at Moscow
 
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3:30 pm - 4:00 pm   Break
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4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
 
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Xtreme Xcitement 
Keith Packard, XFree86 Core Team & SuSE, Inc.
The Future Is Coming: Where the X Window System Should Go 
James Gettys, Compaq Computer Corp. 
XCL: An Xlib Compatibility Layer for XCB 
Jamey Sharp and Bart Massey, Portland State University 
Biglook: A Widget Library for the Scheme Programming Language 
Erick Gallesio, University of Nice; and Manuel Serrano, INRIA
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FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 2002   
Thursday | Saturday
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9:00 am - 10:30 am
 
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Hacking in the Kernel 
Session Chair: Chuck Cranor, AT&T LabsResearch
An Implementation of Scheduler Activations on the NetBSD Operating System 
Nathan J. Williams, Wasabi Systems Inc.
 
Authorization and Charging in Public WLANs Using FreeBSD and 802.1x 
Pekka Nikander, Ericsson Research NomadicLab
 
ACPI Implementation on FreeBSD 
Takanori Watanabe, Kobe University; and Michael Smith, The FreeBSD Project
 
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10:30 am - 11:00 am   Break
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11:00 am - 12:30 pm
 
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Analyzing Applications 
Session Chair: Jim McGinness, Consultant
Gscope: A Visualization Tool for Time-Sensitive Software 
Ashvin Goel and Jonathan Walpole, Oregon Graduate Institute, Portland
 
Inferring Scheduling Behavior with Hourglass
 
John Regehr, University of Utah
 
A Decoupled Architecture for Application-Specific File Prefetching 
Chuan-Kai Yang, Stony Brook University; Tulika Mitra, National University of Singapore; and Tzi-cker Chiueh, Stony Brook University
 
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12:30 pm - 2:00 pm   Lunch in the Exhibit Hall (free pizza and sodas!)
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2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
 
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Work-in-Progress Reports 
Session Chair: Amin Vahdat, Duke University
See the Full Technical Program for a description.
 
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3:30 pm - 4:00 pm   Break
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4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
 
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Access Control 
Session Chair: Robert Watson, NAI Labs & The FreeBSD Project
Design and Performance of the OpenBSD Stateful Packet Filter (pf) 
Daniel Hartmeier, Systor AG 
Enhancing NFS Cross-Administrative Domain Access 
Joseph Spadavecchia and Erez Zadok, Stony Brook University 
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SATURDAY, JUNE 15, 2002   
Thursday | Friday
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9:00 am - 10:30 am
 
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Engineering Open Source Software 
Session Chair: Niels Provos, University of Michigan
Ningaui: A Linux Cluster for Business 
Andrew Hume, AT&T LabsResearch; Scott Daniels, EDS
 
CPCMS: A Configuration Management System Based on Cryptographic Names 
Jonathan S. Shapiro, Johns Hopkins University
 
X Meets Z: Verifying Correctness in the Presence of POSIX Threads 
Bart Massey, Portland State University; and Robert T. Bauer, Rational Software Corp.
 
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10:30 am - 11:00 am   Break
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11:00 am - 12:30 pm
 
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File Systems 
Session Chair: Erez Zadok, Stony Brook University
Planned Extensions to the Linux Ext2/Ext3 Filesystem 
Theodore Ts'o, IBM; and Stephen Tweedie, Red Hat
 
Recent Filesystem Optimisations on FreeBSD 
Ian Dowse, Trinity College; David Malone, Dublin Institute of Technology
 
Filesystem Performance and Scalability in Linux 2.4.17 
Ray Bryant, SGI; Ruth Forester, IBM; and John Hawkes, SGI 
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12:30 pm - 2:00 pm   Lunch (on your own)
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2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
 
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Things to Think About 
Session Chair: Toon Moene, GNU Fortran Team
Speeding Up the Kernel Scheduler by Reducing Cache Misses 
Shuji Yamamura, Akira Hirai, Mitsuru Sato, Masao Yamamoto, Akira Naruse, and Kouichi Kumon, Fujitsu Laboratories, LTD 
Overhauling Amd for the '00s: A Case Study of GNU Autotools 
Erez Zadok, Stony Brook University 
Simple Memory Protection for Embedded Operating System Kernels 
Frank Miller, University of Maryland, Baltimore County 
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