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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2000
HACK LINUX Kernel Performance Session Chair: Stephen Tweedie, Red Hat Analyzing the Overload Behavior of a Simple Web Server Niels Provos, University of Michigan; Chuck Lever, AOL-Netscape; Stephen Tweedie, Red Hat Linux Kernel Hash Table Behavior: Analysis and Improvements Chuck Lever, Sun-Netscpe Alliance Dynamic Buffer Cache Management Scheme Based on Simple and Aggressive Prefetching H. Seok Jeon and Sam H. Noh, Hong-Ik University	EXTREME LINUX Potpourri Session Chair: Donald Becker, Scyld Computing The Linux BIOS Ronald G. Minnich, James Hendricks, and Dale Webster, Los Alamos National Labs LOBOS (Linux OS Boots OS): Booting a Kernel in 32-bit Mode Ronald Minnich, Los Alamos National Labs KLAT2's Flat Neighborhood Network H.G. Dietz and T.I. Mattox, University of Kentucky	USE LINUX Linux on the Desktop Xfce : A Lightweight Desktop Environment Olivier Fourdan, Xfce The State of the Arts - Linux Tools for the Graphic Artist Michael J. Hammel, The Graphics Muse Open-Source Group Calendaring: GCTP and OpenFlock David Sifry, Linuxcare
HACK LINUX XFree86 Session Chair: Leonard Zubkoff, VA Linux Systems Translucent Windows in X Keith Packard, XFree86 Core Team, SuSE Inc. (30 minutes) Developing Drivers and Extensions for XFree86-4.x Dirk Hohndel, SuSE Linux AG; Robin Cutshaw, Intercore (30 minutes) Invited Talk Using KDE Components (KParts) Kurt Granroth, KDE KParts, the new KDE component architecture, makes creating embedded componentsan almost trivial endeavor. This talk will show you both how to useexisting components as well as the basic steps needed to create yourown. (30 minutes)	EXTREME LINUX Applications Session Chair: David Halstead, Iowa State University BLASTH, a BLAS Library for Dual SMP Computers Guignon Thomas, Laboratoire ASCI Sequence Analysis on a 216-Processor Beowulf Cluster Katerina Michalickova, Moyez Dharsee, and Christopher W.V. Hogue Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute The Development and Integration of a Distributed 3D FFT for a Cluster of Workstations Christopher E. Cramer and John A. Board, Duke University	USE LINUX Miscellaneous Dynamic Probes and Generalised Kernel Hooks Interface for Linux Richard J. Moore, IBM UK DocBook: A Tutorial for Hackers and Writers Dave Mason, Red Hat Knowing When to Say No Allan Cantos, Acrylis, Inc.
HACK LINUX Kernel ports Session Chair: Jes Sorensen, Linux Care Linux on the System/390 Adam Thornton, Sine Nomine Assoc. A user-mode port of the Linux kernel Jeff Dike Embedded Linux Nicholas McGuire	EXTREME LINUX Clusters Chair and Moderator: David Greenberg, Center for Computing Sciences First-come, first-serve 5 minute descriptions of existing clusters, their shortcomings, and plans for improvements.	USE LINUX Linux Development Mozilla as a cross-platform application development framework David Ascher, Eric Promislow, and Dick Hardt, ActiveState Tool Corporation Perl, Python and Zope Dick Hardt and Gisle Aas, ActiveState Tool Corporation; Paul Everitt, Di gital Creations Library Interface Versioning in Solaris and Linux David J. Brown and Karl Runge, Solaris Engineering, Sun Microsystems
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2000
HACK LINUX File Systems Session Chair: Theodore Ts'o, VA Linux Systems JFS Log: How the Journaled File System Performs Logging Steve Best, IBM Linux Technology Center Scalability and Failure Recovery in a Linux Cluster File System Kenneth Preslan, Andrew Barry, Jonathan Brassow, Michael Declerck, A.J. Lewis, Adam Manthei, Ben Marzinski, Erling Nygaard, Seth Van Oort, David Teigland, Mike Tilstra, Steve Whitehouse, and Matthew O'Keefe, Sistina Software, Inc. The Tux2 Failsafe Filesystem Daniel Phillips	EXTREME LINUX Systems Session Chair: Remy Evard, Argonne National Laboratory The Portable Batch Scheduler and the Maui Scheduler on Linux Clusters Brett Bode, David M. Halstead, Ricky Kendall, and Zhou Lei, Ames Laboratory, DOE; David Jackson, Maui High Performance Computing Center (30 minutes) Cluster Administration Has Been Solved, or Has It? Moderator: Remy Evard, Argonne Panelists: Susan Coghlan, TurboLinux, Richard Ferri, IBM, Brian Finley, VA Linux, Greg Lindahl, HPTi, John-Paul Navarro, Argonne National Laboratory, Lee Ward, Sandia National Laboratory, and Stephen L. Scott, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (1 hour) In this panel, we will examine systems administration solutions from a variety of vendors and the approaches of several large cluster managers. Our goal is to understand what systems administration challenges remain for the community of large-scale cluster. Where do large-scale cluster have special problems? What problems have been solved by vendor and open source solutions? What does the future hold?	USE LINUX The XFree86 Loadable Architecture & Whazzup with XFree86 Stuart Anderson, Metro Link, Inc/XFree86 Core Team This talk will provide some history and technical information on the new Loadable Architecture in XFree86 4.0. The following will be included: The origins of the Loader itself How the architecture developed How it evolved Benefits of the new architecture Using the new architecture Rules for developing for this architecture Where this architecture is heading The second part of the talk will be a classic state-of-the-project talk, including the status of XFree86 4.0, its features, card support, platform support, looking at XFree86 4.next, and current thinking at the time.
HACK LINUX Potpourri Session Chair: Victor Yodaiken, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology VA SystemImager Brian Elliot Finley, VA Linux Systems GCC 3.0: The State of the Source Mark Mitchell and Alexander Samuel, CodeSourcery, LLC SMP Scalability Comparisons of Linux Kernels 2.2.14 and 2.3.99 Ray Bryant, Bill Hartner, Qi He, and Ganesh Venkitachalam, IBM Linux Technology Center	EXTREME LINUX Clusters Design of a Very-large Linux Cluster for Providing Reliable and Scalable Speech-to-Email Service Randy Brumbaugh and Todd Vernon, Evoke Communications (30 minutes) Cluster Applications: Experiences and Desires Chair and Moderator: Pete Beckman, TurboLabs (1 hour) First-come, first-serve 5 minute descriptions of cluster applications and their requirements.	USE LINUX Security Applications Samba and SSL Daniel Carrere, Open Systems Consulting International SSH Port Forwarding Giles Orr and Jacob Wyatt, Georgia College & State University Invited Talk The Aging of Wine Jeremy White, Codeweavers This talk will discuss the status of Wine and Winelib. Wine enables users to run Windows binaries on Linux and Winelib enables developers to port Windows software to Linux. The talk will cover the current state of Wine, the task list required for version 1.0, and the current progress towards 1.0.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2000
HACK LINUX Security Session Chair: Bryan C. Andregg, Red Hat Enhancements to the Linux Kernel for Blocking Buffer Overflow Based Attacks Massimo Bernaschi, Italian National Research Council; Emanuele Gabrielli and Luigi V. Mancini, Università di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy Domain and Type Enforcement for Linux Serge Hallyn and Phil Kearns, College of William and Mary Piranha Audit: Kernel Enhancements And Utilities To Improve Audit/Logging Vincenzo Cutello, Emilio Mastriani, and Francesco Pappalardo, University of Catania, Italy	EXTREME LINUX File Systems and IO Session Chair: Walt Ligon, Clemson University PVFS: A Parallel File System for Linux Clusters Philip H. Carns and Walter B. Ligon III, Clemson University; Robert B. Ross and Rajeev Thakur, Argonne National Laboratory Linux Disk Subsystem I/O Performance Thomas M. Ruwart, University of Minnesota IO for Large Scale Systems Panel Moderated by Peter Braam and Walt Ligon. Panelists to be announced.	USE LINUX Linux Tools and Applications Large Scale Linux Configuration with LCFG Paul Anderson and Alastair Scobie, University of Edinburgh Perspecitive on Printing Ben Woodard and Nick Moffitt, VA Linux Systems Building a Self-Contained Autoconfiguring Linux System on an ISO9660 File System Klaus Knopper, KNOPPER.NET
HACK LINUX Kernel Performance II Session Chair: Bryan C. Andregg, Red Hat Lockmeter: Highly Informative Instrumentation for Spin Locks in the Linux Kernel Ray Bryant, IBM Linux Technology Center; John Hawkes, SGI (30 minutes) The Elements of Cache Programming Style Chris Sears, Google, Inc. (1 hour)	EXTREME LINUX Networks and performance Session Chair: William Saphir, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratories Maximizing Beowulf Performance Robert G. Brown, Duke University Software Distributed Shared Memory over Virtual Interface Architecture: Implemenation and Performance Muralidharan Rangarajan and Liviu Iftode, Rutgers University Performance Comparison of LAM/MPI, MPICH, and MVICH on a Linux Cluster Connected by a Gigabit Ethernet Network Hong Ong and Paul A. Farrell, Kent State University	USE LINUX Linux Solutions The Linux Terminal Server Project: Thin Clients and Linux Jim McQuillan, Linux Terminal Server Project (30 minutes) Invited Talk Eazel and The Nautilus Project: Bringing the Power of Linux to More Users Darin Adler, Eazel Inc. (1 hour)
HACK LINUX Networking/Clustering Session Chair: Bryan C. Andregg, Red Hat A PPPoE Implementation for Linux David Skoll, Roaring Penguin Software Inc. Linux-HA Heartbeat System Design Alan Robertson, SuSE Labs	EXTREME LINUX Work-in-Progress Sessions (WiPs)	USE LINUX Linux Integration Introducing Linux File Services into a Windows NT Network Richard R. Morgan, VistaRMS, Inc. Plex86: An 180x86 Virtual Machine Kevin P. Lawton, MandrakeSoft Gaining the Middleground: A Linux-based Open-Source Middleware Initiative Greg Wettstein and Johannes Grosen, North Dakota State University