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FREENIX Track | Invited Talks Track | Guru is in Sessions

Friday, April 15, 2005
9:00 a.m.–10:30 a.m.			Friday

GENERAL TRACK Salon E Speeding Up Things Session Chair: Erich Nahum, IBM Research A Portable Kernel Abstraction for Low-Overhead Ephemeral Mapping Management Khaled Elmeleegy, Anupam Chanda, and Alan L. Cox, Rice University; Willy Zwaenepoel, EPFL Adaptive Main Memory Compression Irina Chihaia Tuduce and Thomas Gross, ETH Zürich Drive-Thru: Fast, Accurate Evaluation of Storage Power Management Daniel Peek and Jason Flinn, University of Michigan

INVITED TALK/FREENIX TRACK Salon F Linux and JPL's Mars Exploration Rover Project: Earth-based Planning, Simulation, and Really Remote Scheduling Scott Maxwell and Frank Hartman, NASA JPL Listen in MP3 format NASA/JPL's Mars Exploration Rover project is the first time a JPL flight project has used Linux systems for critical mission operations. Scott Maxwell and Frank Hartman, two of MER's rover drivers, also wrote the Rover Sequencing and Visualization Program (RSVP), the Linux-based software used on Earth to drive Spirit and Opportunity. Scott and Frank will discuss the software they developed, as well as their experiences using Linux to drive two vehicles across the Martian terrain, a hundred million miles from Earth.

GURU SESSIONS Salon 3 System Administration David Parter, University of Wisconsin David Parter has been a system administrator at the University of Wisconsin since 1991, in addition to serving as Associate Director of the Computer Systems Lab since 1995. He has sat on the SAGE executive committee since December 1999, serving as SAGE President in 2001–2002.

10:30 a.m.–11:00 a.m.   Break
11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m.			Friday
GENERAL TRACK Salon E Large Systems Session Chair: Jason Nieh, Columbia University Awarded General Track Best Student Paper Award! Itanium—A System Implementor's Tale Charles Gray, University of New South Wales; Matthew Chapman and Peter Chubb, University of New South Wales and National ICT Australia; David Mosberger-Tang, Hewlett-Packard Labs; Gernot Heiser, University of New South Wales and National ICT Australia Providing Dynamic Update in an Operating System Andrew Baumann and Gernot Heiser, University of New South Wales and National ICT Australia; Jonathan Appavoo, Dilma Da Silva, Orran Krieger, and Robert W. Wisniewski, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center; Jeremy Kerr, IBM Linux Technology Center SARC: Sequential Prefetching in Adaptive Replacement Cache Binny S. Gill and Dharmendra S. Modha, IBM Almaden Research Center	INVITED TALKS Salon F Possible Futures for Software Vernor Vinge, Hugo award-winning sci-fi author of the Across Real Time series, The Witling, True Names, and A Fire Upon the Deep View presentation slides Listen in MP3 format No one knows what software technology will be in twenty years. However, there are variables that will probably drive the outcome, for example, hardware improvements, success at managing large projects, and demand for "secure computing". In this talk, I consider four scenarios for the software future, based on different values for these drivers. There are things to love and things to loathe in these scenarios, but consideration of their various onset symptoms could be helpful in adapting to (or affecting) what really happens in our future.	FREENIX TRACK Salon G/H/J/K Multimedia Session Chair: Andy Adamson, University of Michigan OpenCSG: A Library for Image-Based CSG Rendering Florian Kirsch and Jürgen Döllner, University of Potsdam FreeVGA: Architecture Independent Video Graphics Initialization for LinuxBIOS Li-Ta Lo, Gregory R. Watson, and Ronald G. Minnich, Los Alamos National Laboratory The Ethernet Speaker System David Michael Turner and Vassilis Prevelakis, Drexel University	GURU SESSIONS Salon 3 Databases John Sellens, SYONEX John Sellens has been involved in system and network administration since 1986 and is the author of several related USENIX papers, a number of ;login: articles, and the SAGE Short Topics in System Administration booklet #7, System and Network Administration for Higher Reliability. He avoided using databases as long as possible, but now finds them (almost) indispensable (but still makes a lot of use of the "classic" UFS database).
12:30 p.m.–2:00 p.m.   Lunch (on your own)
2:00 p.m.–3:30 p.m.			Friday
GENERAL TRACK Salon E Improving OS Components Session Chair: Vivek Pai, Princeton University SLINKY: Static Linking Reloaded Christian Collberg, John H. Hartman, Sridivya Babu, and Sharath K. Udupa, University of Arizona CLOCK-Pro: An Effective Improvement of the CLOCK Replacement Song Jiang, Los Alamos National Laboratory; Feng Chen and Xiaodong Zhang, College of William and Mary Group Ratio Round-Robin: O(1) Proportional Share Scheduling for Uniprocessor and Multiprocessor Systems Bogdan Caprita, Wong Chun Chan, Jason Nieh, Clifford Stein, and Haoqiang Zheng, Columbia University	INVITED TALKS Salon F Flying Linux Dan Klein, USENIX Listen in MP3 format We all know that "Linux is better than Windows." Few intelligent people would board a fly-by-wire airplane that was controlled by Microsoft Windows. So how about Linux? When your life is at stake, your attitudes change considerably. Better than Windows, yes—but better enough? This talk will look at what it takes to make software truly mission-critical and man-rated. We'll go back to the earliest fly-by-wire systems—Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo—and look at such diverse (but critical!) issues as compartmentalization, trojans and terrorism, auditing and accountability, bugs and boundary conditions, distributed authoring, and revision control. At the end of this talk, what you thought might be an easy answer will be seen to be not so easy.	FREENIX TRACK Salon G/H/J/K Measurement Session Chair: Karen Hackett, Sun Microsystems A PC-Based Open-Source Voting Machine with an Accessible Voter-Verifiable Paper Ballot Arthur M. Keller, UC Santa Cruz and Open Voting Consortium; Alan Dechert, Open Voting Consortium; Karl Auerbach, InterWorking Labs; David Mertz, Gnosis Software, Inc.; Amy Pearl, Software Innovations; Joseph Lorenzo Hall, UC Berkeley SIMS Auto-pilot: A Platform for System Software Benchmarking Charles P. Wright, Nikolai Joukov, Devaki Kulkarni, Yevgeniy Miretskiy, and Erez Zadok, Stony Brook University Interactive Performance Measurement with VNCPlay Nickolai Zeldovich and Ramesh Chandra, Stanford University	GURU SESSIONS Salon 3 Security Rik Farrow, Security Consultant Rik Farrow provides UNIX and Internet security consulting and training. He has been working with UNIX system security since 1984 and with TCP/IP networks since 1988. He has taught at the IRS, Department of Justice, NSA, NASA, US West, Canadian RCMP, Swedish Navy, and for many US and European user groups. He is the author of UNIX System Security, published by Addison-Wesley in 1991, and System Administrator's Guide to System V (Prentice Hall, 1989). Farrow writes a column for ;login: and a network security column for Network magazine.
3:30 p.m.–4:00 p.m.   Break
4:00 p.m.–5:30 p.m.			Friday
USENIX GAME SHOW Salon E Closing out this year's conference, the USENIX Game Show will pit attendees against each other in a test of technical knowledge and cultural trivia. Host Rob Kolstad and sidekick Dan Klein will provide the questions and color commentary for this always memorable event.