USENIX '08 Technical Sessions

Protection Strategies for Direct Access to Virtualized I/O Devices
Paul Willmann, Scott Rixner, and Alan L. Cox, Rice University

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Bridging the Gap between Software and Hardware Techniques for I/O Virtualization
Jose Renato Santos, Yoshio Turner, and G. (John) Janakiraman, HP Labs; Ian Pratt, University of Cambridge

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INVITED TALKS

Grand Ballroom

Free and Open Source as Viewed by a Processor Developer
Peter Kronowitt, Intel

Intel designs, builds, and markets microprocessors. We are often viewed as being downstream of the work done by the closed source programming community. In fact, however, long before the term "free and open source" was coined, Intel was working to develop, release, and support software for many of the devices we and other firms design and manufacture. This talk highlights how Intel successfully utilized open source to support industry progress while fulfilling our own strategic corporate objectives.

Our experiences with being "good citizens" were not easy and did not "just happen." We hope that others can learn from both our successes and our failures and take these ideas back to their own firms. I will highlight areas where we at Intel learned from our missteps, ultimately improving our community standing.

The talk does not just look back: some of our open source projects initiated in the past twelve months will be examined, as we believe many in the audience will find them interesting and, we hope, will consider helping improve them.

THE GURU IS IN

Constitution B

Automated System Management
Æleen Frisch, Exponential Consulting

This session discusses tools for automating system management and monitoring. We can discuss Cfengine, Amanda, Bacula, SNMP+Nagios, and RRDTool+Front ends. Note that we will focus on general approaches and techniques rather than the most obscure nooks and crannies of any specific tool.

Æleen Frisch has been working as a system administrator for over 20 years. She currently looks after a pathologically heterogeneous network of UNIX and Windows systems. She is the author of several books, including Essential System Administration (now in its 3rd edition). Æleen was the program committee chair for LISA '03 and is a frequent presenter at USENIX and SAGE events, as well as presenting classes for universities and corporations worldwide.

10:30 a.m.–11:00 a.m. Break

11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m.

Wednesday

REFEREED PAPERS

Constitution A

Disk Storage

Session Chair: Sean Rhea, Meraki, Inc.

Idle Read After Write—IRAW
Alma Riska and Erik Riedel, Seagate Research

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Design Tradeoffs for SSD Performance
Nitin Agrawal, University of Wisconsin—Madison; Vijayan Prabhakaran, Ted Wobber, John D. Davis, Mark Manasse, and Rina Panigrahy, Microsoft Research, Silicon Valley

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Context-Aware Mechanisms for Reducing Interactive Delays of Energy Management in Disks
Igor Crk and Chris Gniady, University of Arizona

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INVITED TALKS

Grand Ballroom

From Flapping Birds to Space Telescopes: The Modern Science of Origami
Robert J. Lang, Artist and Consultant

The last decade of this past century has been witness to a revolution in the development and application of mathematical techniques to origami, the centuries-old Japanese art of paper-folding. The techniques used in mathematical origami design range from the abstruse to the highly approachable. In this talk I will describe how geometric concepts led to the solution of a broad class of origami folding problems—specifically, the problem of efficiently folding a shape with an arbitrary number and arrangement of flaps—and enabled origami designs of mind-blowing complexity and realism, some of which you'll see, too. As often happens in mathematics, theory developed for its own sake has led to some surprising practical applications. The algorithms and theorems of origami design have shed light on long-standing mathematical questions and have solved practical engineering problems. I will discuss how origami has enabled safer airbags, Brobdingnagian space telescopes, and more.

THE GURU IS IN

Constitution B

High Performance Virtualization Architectures
Richard McDougall, VMware

This guru session is about the operating system, hypervisor, and hardware architecture foundations for high-performance virtualization. We will explore virtualization, paravirtualization, and hardware virtualization assist technologies; their impact on operating system primitives; and the resulting application performance. We'll also talk about performance instrumentation strategies for virtualization. Bring your questions along; this is aimed at being an interactive session.

Richard McDougall is a Principal Engineer and the Chief Performance Architect in the Office of the CTO at VMware. A recognized expert in operating systems, virtualization, performance, resource management, and filesystem technologies, Richard is a frequent speaker and has published several papers and books on these topics. Prior to VMware, most recently he was a Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems, where he wrote the authoritative books Solaris Internals and Solaris Performance and Tools.

12:30 p.m.–2:00 p.m. Lunch (on your own)

2:00 p.m.–3:30 p.m.

Wednesday

REFEREED PAPERS

Constitution A & B

Network

Session Chair: Jeff Mogul, HP Labs

Optimizing TCP Receive Performance
Aravind Menon and Willy Zwaenepoel, EPFL

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ConfiDNS: Leveraging Scale and History to Detect Compromise
Lindsey Poole and Vivek S. Pai, Princeton University

Paper in PDF

Large-scale Virtualization in the Emulab Network Testbed
Mike Hibler, Robert Ricci, Leigh Stoller, and Jonathon Duerig, University of Utah; Shashi Guruprasad, Cisco Systems; Tim Stack, VMware; Kirk Webb, Morgan Stanley; Jay Lepreau, University of Utah

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INVITED TALKS

Grand Ballroom

Millicomputing: The Future in Your Pocket and Your Datacenter
Adrian Cockcroft, Netflix, Inc., and Homebrew Mobile Club

The fastest-moving part of the computer industry is now the compute power and storage capacity of the computers we carry in our pockets. The software we carry in our pockets is also migrating to a full-featured, flexible, and openly programmable operating system. This talk discusses the multicore graphical supercomputer for 2010, which won't burn your leg if you put it in your pocket, and the implications of these changes for both the personal computing space and the enterprise computing/green datacenter space. A millicomputer doesn't need heat-sinks or fans.

The kind of power and storage provided by iPhone-class systems will increase by a factor of four to eight times over the next two years. The component maker roadmaps also show the addition of high-performance 3D graphics, video stream processors, and several GFLOPS of floating-point number crunching within the same 250 milliwatt power budget as today's millicomputer CPUs.

The power envelope of Intel's 64-bit PC-class CPUs is on a collision course with mobile devices over the next few years. Intel is working down into this space to compete with the ARM-based CPUs which currently dominate battery-powered pocket devices.

Each new wave of computing has liberated its users and become more pervasive. In recent history the desktop PC and phone tied to a wired network have been replaced by the wireless laptop and mobile phone. In the next wave, the boundaries between laptop and phone will blur. They will be capable of running the same operating systems and applications and will talk to the same networks. Everyone will be online all the time. How will our lifestyle change? What are the new applications? What is ambient presence?

Datacenter power consumption is a hot topic. By leveraging CPU designs from the world of battery-powered devices and flash-memory-based storage, we can make very cool systems. A single millicomputer draws less than one watt, and enterprise millicomputer arrays provide large numbers of small computing units at a total cost, performance, and power consumption that redefine the limits of what is possible. These systems are being specified as open source hardware by their end users. This talk covers the roadmap of architecture and performance characteristics of millicomputers over the next two years.

THE GURU IS IN

Back Bay A

Playing Fast and Loose with the Sysadmin Space-Time Continuum
David N. Blank-Edelman, Northeastern University CCIS

Sometimes in the sysadmin world you get handed challenges that can't be dealt with using your standard approaches. Maybe the problem is too hard, complex, or off-the-wall to deal with in the usual manner. These situations call for an extra helping of creativity. Let's talk about how out-of-the-box thinking, creative and wacky solutions, and general mucking about with the rules can or have been applied to your sticky wickets. Bring your best problems and strangest solutions to share.

David N. Blank-Edelman is the Director of Technology at the Northeastern University College of Computer and Information Science and the author of the O'Reilly book Perl for System Administration. He has spent the past 20+ years as a system/network administrator in large multi-platform environments, including Brandeis University, Cambridge Technology Group, and the MIT Media Laboratory. He was the program chair of LISA '05 and was one of the LISA '06 Invited Talks co-chairs. He delights in finding how creativity can further the field as demonstrated in his off-the-beaten-path invited talks and tutorials at USENIX conferences.

3:30 p.m.–4:00 p.m. Break

4:00 p.m.–5:30 p.m.

Wednesday

REFEREED PAPERS

Constitution A & B

File and Storage Systems

Session Chair: Jason Flinn, University of Michigan

FlexVol: Flexible, Efficient File Volume Virtualization in WAFL
John K. Edwards, Daniel Ellard, Craig Everhart, Robert Fair, Eric Hamilton, Andy Kahn, Arkady Kanevsky, James Lentini, Ashish Prakash, Keith A. Smith, and Edward Zayas, NetApp, Inc.

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Fast, Inexpensive Content-Addressed Storage in Foundation
Sean Rhea, Meraki, Inc.; Russ Cox and Alex Pesterev, MIT CSAIL

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Adaptive File Transfers for Diverse Environments
Himabindu Pucha, Carnegie Mellon University; Michael Kaminsky, Intel Research Pittsburgh; David G. Andersen, Carnegie Mellon University; Michael A. Kozuch, Intel Research Pittsburgh

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INVITED TALKS

Grand Ballroom

Programming DNA: A 2-bit Language for Engineering Biology
Drew Endy, Cabot Assistant Professor of Biological Engineering at MIT and a co-founder of the BioBricks Foundation (BBF)

Biological engineering does not have to be confined to high-end industry laboratories. A more open culture of biological technology should be fostered. This talk is an effort in that direction: it aims to equip you with basic practical knowledge of biological engineering.

Genetic engineering is now a thirty-year-old technology. For reference, it was over a similar period of time that modern computing machines went from exclusive objects used to design weapons of mass destruction to the now ubiquitous panoply of personal computing devices that support mass communication and construction. Inspired by this and many other examples of overwhelmingly constructive uses of technology by individuals, we have been working over the past five years to develop new tools that will help to make biology easy to engineer. We have also been working to foster a constructive culture of future biological technologists who can reliably and responsibly conceive, develop, and deliver biological technologies that solve local problems.

This talk will introduce current best practice in biological engineering, including an overview of how to order synthetic DNA and how to use and contribute standard biological parts to an open source collection of genetic functions. The talk will also discuss issues of human practice, including biological safety; biological security; ownership, sharing, and innovation in biotechnology; community organization; and perception across many different publics. My hope is that the conference attendees will help me to understand how best to enable an overwhelmingly constructive hacker culture for programming DNA.

THE GURU IS IN

Back Bay A

Managing Large (to Massive) Storage Systems
Jacob Farmer, Cambridge Computer Services

Jacob Farmer is a well-known figure in the data storage industry. He has written numerous papers and articles and is a regular speaker at trade shows and conferences. In addition to his regular expert advice column in the "Reader I/O" section of InfoStor Magazine, the leading trade magazine of the data storage industry, Jacob also serves as the publication's senior technical advisor. Jacob has over 18 years of experience with storage technologies and is the CTO of Cambridge Computer Services, a national integrator of data storage and data protection solutions.

6:00 p.m.–7:30 p.m.

Wednesday

Poster Session & Happy Hour

Back Bay A/B/C

Session Chairs: Emre Kıcıman, Microsoft Research; Sam King, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Don't miss the cool new ideas and the latest preliminary research on display at the Poster Session & Happy Hour. Take part in discussions with your colleagues over complimentary drinks and snacks. Check out the list of accepted posters.

Tech Sessions: Wednesday, June 25 | Thursday, June 26 | Friday, June 27 | Invited Talk Speakers

Thursday, June 26

9:00 a.m.–10:30 a.m.

Thursday

Grand Ballroom

Awards Presentation: USENIX Lifetime Achievement Award and Software Tools User Group (STUG) Award

Keynote Address

Patterson

The Parallel Revolution Has Started: Are You Part of the Solution or Part of the Problem?
David Patterson, Director, U.C. Berkeley Parallel Computing Laboratory

This talk will explain:

Why the La-Z-Boy era of programming is over
Why the parallel revolution cannot be halted by a no-confidence vote from the USENIX community
The implications for the IT industry if the revolution should fail
The opportunities and pitfalls of this revolution
What Berkeley is doing to be at the forefront of this revolution

Power to the (manycore) processors!

10:30 a.m.–11:00 a.m. Break

11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m.

Thursday

REFEREED PAPERS

Constitution A & B

Web and Internet Services

Session Chair: John Wilkes, HP Labs

Handling Flash Crowds from Your Garage
Jeremy Elson and Jon Howell, Microsoft Research

Paper in HTML | PDF

Remote Profiling of Resource Constraints of Web Servers Using Mini-Flash Crowds
Pratap Ramamurthy, University of Wisconsin—Madison; Vyas Sekar, Carnegie Mellon University; Aditya Akella, University of Wisconsin—Madison; Balachander Krishnamurthy, AT&T Labs—Research; Anees Shaikh, IBM Research

Paper in HTML | PDF

A Dollar from 15 Cents: Cross-Platform Management for Internet Services
Christopher Stewart, University of Rochester; Terence Kelly and Alex Zhang, Hewlett-Packard Labs; Kai Shen, University of Rochester

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INVITED TALKS

Grand Ballroom

Xen and the Art of Virtualization Revisited
Ian Pratt, Senior Lecturer, University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory, and Fellow, King's College Cambridge

This is a talk in three parts. I'll give a summary of the Xen story so far, looking at how Xen made the transition from research project to enterprise software and the many challenges along the way. Next, I'll look at why virtualization is such a hot topic in IT and the failings of common operating systems that have led to this. I'll then look at how Xen has evolved since the 2004 SOSP paper, seeing how paravirtualization and software/hardware co-design have helped reduce the overhead of virtualization.

THE GURU IS IN

Back Bay A

Wireless Security, Setup, Troubleshooting, and the Future
Rudi van Drunen, Competa IT

Wireless is not limited to the WiFi at your favorite coffee-hangout or the 802.11b standard. New techniques, protocols, and technologies are emerging or are ready to be deployed. By attending this guru session you can get answers to most of your questions, whether it be what kind of antenna to use, how to deploy a campus/
community wireless network securely (for the enterprise and beyond), what kind of hardware to use, or why your clients keep failing to connect to the service or how solve the authentication question.

Rudi van Drunen is one of the co-founders of wireless Leiden, one of the leading Wireless community networks in The Netherlands. He works as a UNIX consultant/architect and CTO at a consulting company, focussing on large infrastructures. He has given talks and taught at (amongst others) various USENIX events and SANE conferences.

12:30 p.m.–2:00 p.m. Lunch (on your own)

2:00 p.m.–3:30 p.m.

Thursday

REFEREED PAPERS

Constitution A & B

Workloads and Benchmarks

Session Chair: Emre Kıcıman, Microsoft Research

Measurement and Analysis of Large-Scale Network File System Workloads
Andrew W. Leung, University of California, Santa Cruz; Shankar Pasupathy and Garth Goodson, NetApp Inc.; Ethan L. Miller, University of California, Santa Cruz

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Evaluating Distributed Systems: Does Background Traffic Matter?
Kashi Venkatesh Vishwanath and Amin Vahdat, University of California, San Diego

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Cutting Corners: Workbench Automation for Server Benchmarking
Piyush Shivam, Sun Microsystems; Varun Marupadi, Jeff Chase, Thileepan Subramaniam, and Shivnath Babu, Duke University

Paper in HTML | PDF

INVITED TALKS

Grand Ballroom

A Report on the Project Darkstar Anthropological Expedition Into the World of Massively Scaled Online Games
Jim Waldo, Sun Microsystems Labs

While the culture of enterprise computing, transaction processing, and Web services has developed, an entirely different culture centering on computing has been evolving in a different ecosystem. Although those in our culture tend to play with the artifacts produced by their culture and those in their culture tend to use the programming languages produced in our culture, in fact the two groups lost contact somewhere in the Colossal Cave and have had little real interaction since.

These cultures are about to be brought together again. The architectural move to multicore, multithreaded chips will require changes in the way games are programmed, while the requirements of scaling in games such as World of Warcraft require the use of distributed systems. As virtual worlds emerge, the distinction between business or scientific systems and games will start to disappear.

During the past two years, I have led a project at Sun Microsystems Laboratories to build a highly scalable, highly concurrent infrastructure for massive-scale online games and virtual worlds. This work has brought us into contact with the culture of games and the inhabitants of that culture. In this talk I will describe some of the ways in which the game world differs from the computing world most of us are used to, and I'll discuss the challenges facing that world that might profitably be approached in a cross-cultural fashion.

THE GURU IS IN

Back Bay A

Consulting
Adam Moskowitz, Permabit Technology Corporation

This session will focus mainly on the "nuts and bolts of consulting": record-keeping, rates and billing, tax rules, retirement plans, contracts, intellectual property, client management, etc. However, any question related to consulting will be entertained (and maybe even answered).

Adam started his career as a consultant in 1978; since then he has switched between consulting and full-time employment as opportunities and circumstances required. Adam's consulting experience includes programming, system administration, technical training, and infrastructure architecture. He currently works as a senior system administrator at Permabit Technology Corporation, but only to support his hobby of judging barbecue contests and to keep food in his puppy's bowl.

3:30 p.m.–4:00 p.m. Break

4:00 p.m.–5:30 p.m.

Thursday

REFEREED PAPERS

Constitution A & B

Short Papers

Session Chair: David Presotto, Google

Power-aware Remote Replication for Enterprise-level Disaster Recovery Systems
Kazuo Goda and Masaru Kitsuregawa, The University of Tokyo

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A Linux Implementation Validation of Track-Aligned Extents and Track-Aligned RAIDs
Jin Qian, Christopher Meyers, and An-I Andy Wang, Florida State University

Paper in HTML | PDF

Automatic Optimization of Parallel Dataflow Programs
Christopher Olston, Benjamin Reed, Adam Silberstein, and Utkarsh Srivastava, Yahoo! Research

Paper in HTML | PDF

A TCP-layer Name Service for TCP Ports
Sérgio Freire, PT Inovação/IEETA/University of Aveiro; André Zúquete, IEETA/IT/University of Aveiro

Paper in HTML | PDF

Using Causality to Diagnose Configuration Bugs
Mona Attariyan and Jason Flinn, University of Michigan

Paper in HTML | PDF

Diverse Replication for Single-Machine Byzantine-Fault Tolerance
Byung-Gon Chun, ICSI; Petros Maniatis, Intel Research Berkeley; Scott Shenker, University of California, Berkeley

Paper in HTML | PDF

INVITED TALKS

Grand Ballroom

Internet Surveillance: Building Our Own Trojan Horse
Susan Landau, Sun Microsystems

From its requirement that surveillance capabilities be built into VoIP communications systems to its expansion of warrantless wiretapping into any communications of which one end is "reasonably believed" to be located outside the United States, the U.S. federal government is slowly but steadily extending wiretapping capabilities onto the Internet. This effort is made in the name of national security, but building architected security breaches into a communications network carries real risks. In a world that includes al-Qaeda and Hurricane Katrina, does this increased wiretapping capability make us safer? We will examine what real security needs are in a post-9/11 world.

THE GURU IS IN

Back Bay A

Interoperability Issues in Heterogeneous Networks
Gerald Carter, Centeris/Samba Team

Network interoperability covers a broad variety of topics. Join this session with Gerald Carter to discuss topics such as Active Directory and Kerberos, Samba, and diagnosing communication problems between UNIX, Windows, and OS X hosts.

Gerald Carter has been a member of the Samba Development Team since 1998. He has been developing, writing about, and teaching on open source since the late 1990s. Currently employed by Centeris as a Samba and open source developer, Gerald has written books for SAMS Publishing and for O'Reilly Publishing.

6:00 p.m.–7:30 p.m.

Thursday

Conference Reception

Tech Sessions: Wednesday, June 25 | Thursday, June 26 | Friday, June 27 | Invited Talk Speakers

Friday, June 27

9:00 a.m.–10:30 a.m.

Friday

REFEREED PAPERS

Constitution A & B

Security and Bugs

Session Chair: Yuanyuan Zhou, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Awarded Best Student Paper!
Vx32: Lightweight User-level Sandboxing on the x86
Bryan Ford and Russ Cox, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Paper in HTML | PDF

LeakSurvivor: Towards Safely Tolerating Memory Leaks for Garbage-Collected Languages
Yan Tang, Qi Gao, and Feng Qin, The Ohio State University

Paper in HTML | PDF

Perspectives: Improving SSH-style Host Authentication with Multi-Path Probing
Dan Wendlandt, David G. Andersen, and Adrian Perrig, Carnegie Mellon University

Paper in HTML | PDF

Spectator: Detection and Containment of JavaScript Worms
Benjamin Livshits and Weidong Cui, Microsoft Research

Paper in HTML | PDF

INVITED TALKS

Grand Ballroom

Using Hadoop for Webscale Computing
Ajay Anand, Yahoo!

Apache Hadoop is an open source implementation of a distributed filesystem and map-reduce programming model combined into one package. Hadoop scales smoothly from tens to thousands of computers. The framework allows engineers to harness the power of these clusters very simply, taking advantage of three major features:

A reliable, non-hardware-based distributed filesystem: Hadoop DFS runs on any number of nodes, taking advantage of their combined storage to manage replication and recovery from failure.
A simple, functional programming model: Hadoop Map-Reduce is a parallelized implementation of a very simple programming methodology first popularized by the functional programming group in the 1970s.
Infrastructure to aid in the automation of job execution: Hadoop automates bringing user code to the data, and it manages parallel execution and handles node failure.

The talk will provide an overview of Apache Hadoop, along with examples of how this infrastructure is being used at Yahoo! and other organizations today.

THE GURU IS IN

Back Bay A

Parallel Programming Languages
Stephen C. Johnson, The MathWorks, Inc.

How will we program real applications in the new parallel world? By thinking about the effective use of, say, 32 processors, we can shed some toy solutions. A good place to start is to assess what has worked well historically and what has failed, at least as general techniques. I'll bring my lists and some additional ideas, and invite you to add to them and dispute them.

Steve Johnson is a former president of USENIX who has been involved with C and UNIX since their earliest days. He is the author of Yacc, lint, and the Portable C Compiler. He also spent 15 years in Silicon Valley, most recently at Transmeta. He is currently employed at The MathWorks, Natick, MA, where he works on the MATLAB language.

10:30 a.m.–11:00 a.m. Break

11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m.

Friday

REFEREED PAPERS

Constitution A & B

Memory and Buffer Management

Session Chair: Arkady Kanevsky, NetApp

A Compacting Real-Time Memory Management System
Silviu S. Craciunas, Christoph M. Kirsch, Hannes Payer, Ana Sokolova, Horst Stadler, and Robert Staudinger, University of Salzburg

Paper in HTML | PDF

Prefetching with Adaptive Cache Culling for Striped Disk Arrays
Sung Hoon Baek and Kyu Ho Park, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

Paper in HTML | PDF

Context-Aware Prefetching at the Storage Server
Gokul Soundararajan, Madalin Mihailescu, and Cristiana Amza, University of Toronto

Paper in HTML | PDF

INVITED TALKS

Grand Ballroom

Google Hacking: Making Competitive Intelligence Work for You
Tom Bowers

With more than 200 million searches a day, Google offers users a quick and easy solution to finding information with just a flick of a finger. Today, everything from online newspapers to public documents and search engines is being used to perform competitive intelligence analysis, and it's easier than ever. But how much information is truly available? Can it be used against you and your business? Is it possible to use simple, everyday tools like Google to gain—or forfeit—economic advantage over your competitors?

This presentation will examine Google hacking and how today's online search engines can double as competitive intelligence tools. Audience members will learn how, using basic Google tools, they can conduct competitive intelligence searches, analyze their information online, identify leaks, and minimize their business risk.

THE GURU IS IN

Back Bay A

Java as a System Language
Jim Waldo, Sun Microsystems Labs

Even though it is getting a little long in the tooth, and being buffetted by "hipper" languages like Ruby, Python, and JavaScript, there is still good reason to pick Java as the implementation language for large systems. In this session, I'll defend the use of Java in such circumstances, point out what aspects of the language help and which hurt, and talk about some of the more recent additions that might be better avoided. And, of course, I'll take questions and enter into non-terminating debates with anyone who wishes.

Jim Waldo is a Distinguished Engineer with Sun Microsystems Laboratories, where he investigates next-generation large-scale distributed systems. He is currently the technical lead of Project Darkstar, a multi-threaded, distributed infrastructure for massive multi-player on-line games and virtual worlds. Prior to Project Darkstar, Jim was the technical lead for Neuromancer, an investigation into support for large-scale medical sensing deployments.

12:30 p.m.–2:00 p.m. Lunch (on your own)

2:00 p.m.–3:30 p.m.

Friday

REFEREED PAPERS

Constitution A & B

Wide-Area Systems

Session Chair: Rebecca Isaacs, Microsoft Research

Free Factories: Unified Infrastructure for Data Intensive Web Services
Alexander Wait Zaranek, Tom Clegg, Ward Vandewege, and George M. Church, Harvard University

Paper in HTML | PDF

Wide-Scale Data Stream Management
Dionysios Logothetis and Kenneth Yocum, University of California, San Diego

Paper in HTML | PDF

Experiences with Client-based Speculative Remote Display
John R. Lange and Peter A. Dinda, Northwestern University; Samuel Rossoff, University of Victoria

Paper in HTML | PDF

INVITED TALKS

Grand Ballroom

Current and Next-Generation Digital Forensics
Golden G. Richard, University of New Orleans