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For the Conference Proceedings (full text of Refereed Paper and XFree86 tracks), please click on the titles of the presentations below.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2001
10:00 am - 11:30 am

Opening Remarks, Awards, and Keynote

Keynote Address: Towards Petaflops Computing with Linux
Thomas Sterling, California Institute of Technology and NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

11:30 am - 1:30 pm   Lunch (on your own)
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm

INVITED TALKS TRACK

Home Beowulf Systems
Don Becker, Scyld Computing, Inc.

REFEREED PAPERS

Platforms
Session Chair: Jonathan Ward, Compaq

User-mode Linux
Jeff Dike

A Secure Linux Platform
Nigel Edwards, Joubert Berger and Tse Huong Choo, Hewlett Packard

Rapid Reaction Linux: Linux with Low Latency and High Timing Accuracy
Arnd Christian Heursch and Helmut Rzehak, University of Federal Armed Forces, Munich, Germany

XFREE86 WORKSHOPS

From 1:30pm - 5:00pm, the XFree86 Technical Conference will hold three different workshops:

  • Developing KDE Applications with KDevelop

  • GTK+/GNOME Development

  • Configuring XFree86

Look over the full descriptions.

3:00 pm - 3:30 pm   Break
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm

INVITED TALKS TRACK

Software Freedom: Creation and Danger
Robert Chassell, Free Software Foundation

REFEREED PAPERS

Clusters
Session Chair: Zach Brown, OSDL

Supermon: High-Performance Monitoring for Linux Clusters
Ronald G. Minnich, University of Toronto

Beowulf Cluster Design for Scientific PDE Models
Brian McGarvey, Robert Cicconetti, Nathan Bushyager, Edan Dalton, and Manos Tentzeris, Georgia Institute of Technology

An Integrated User Environment for Scientific Cluster Computing
Niclas Andersson and Peter Kjellström, National Supercomputer Centre, Sweden

XFREE86 WORKSHOPS

The Workshops continue:

  • Developing KDE Applications with KDevelop

  • GTK+/GNOME Development

  • Configuring XFree86

Look over the full descriptions.

5:15 pm - 6:15 pm

Getting in the Game: Effective Lobbying for Open Source Causes

Todd Main, Essential Information
DMCA, SSSCA, and new encryption standards represent a serious challenge to open source. This workshop will discuss strategies and techniques for effective Open Source lobbying at the state and federal levels. A special BoF will follow the talk.

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2001
9:00 am - 9:45 am

INVITED TALKS TRACK

REFEREED PAPERS

XFREE86 TECH CONFERENCE

Keynote: Reviving Dead Technology: How XFree86 and Open Source Prevailed Against the X Consortium

Dirk Hohndel, CTO, SuSE Inc.

9:45 am - 10:00 am   Break
10:00 am - 11:30 am

INVITED TALKS TRACK

Protecting Trademarks on Software in an Open Source Environment: The Linux Mark Experience

Gervaise (Gerry) Davis III, Davis & Schroeder, P.C.I.

REFEREED PAPERS

Performance 1
Session Chair: Doug Ledford, Red Hat, Inc.

Capturing Network Traffic with a MAGNeT
Jeffrey R. Hay, Wu-chun Feng, and Mark K. Gardner, Los Alamos National Laboratory

PMQS: Scalable Linux Scheduling for High End Servers
Hubertus Franke and Shailabh Nagar, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center; Mike Kravetz, IBM Linux Technology Center; and Rajan Ravindran, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

PenguinOMeter: A New File-I/O Benchmark for Linux
Ray Bryant, Dave Raddatz, and Roger Sunshine, Times N Systems

XFREE86 TECH CONFERENCE

Application Development
Session Chair: David Dawes, VA Linux Systems

A New Tree Widget for GTK+ 2.0
Jonathan Blandford, Red Hat, Inc.

The Xft Font Library: Architecture and Users Guide
Keith Packard, XFree86 Core Team, SuSE Inc.

Font Subsetting and Downloading in the PostScript Printer Driver of Qt/X11
Sivan Toledo, Tel-Aviv University, and Lars Knoll, Trolltech AS

11:30 am - 1:30 pm   Lunch (on your own)
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm

INVITED TALKS TRACK

SAGU: Open-Source Unified Management System for Educational Institutions

Cesar Brod, Univates and the Free Software Project

REFEREED PAPERS

Storage 1
Session Chair: Ted Ts'o

Awarded Best Paper!
Design and Implementation of a Linux SCSI Target for Storage Area Networks
Ashish Palekar, Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.; Narendran Ganapathym, Anshul Chadda, and Robert D. Russel, InterOperability Laboratory, University of New Hampshire

The Design, Implementation, and Framework for a Linux-Based Temperature-Sensitive Storage System
Venkatesh P. and K. Gopinath, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

XFREE86 TECH CONFERENCE

User Interactions
Session Chair: Stuart Anderson, Metro Link, Inc.

XCB: An X Protocol C Binding
Bart Massey, Portland State University

Salamander: The Quest to Build a Useful Handheld Computing Environment
Alexander Guy, Andern Research Labs

KDE "Hidden Features" for Power Users
Kurt Granroth, SuSE Inc.

3:00 pm - 3:30 pm   Break
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm

INVITED TALKS TRACK

A Competitive Assessment of Linux in the Enterprise

Tony Iams, D. H. Brown Associates, Inc.

REFEREED PAPERS

Case Studies
Session Chair: Kevin Stephens, Centermedia

Managing Distributions, from the Software Vendor's Perspective
James Bottomley and Paul Clements, SteelEye Technology

Chimera: Affordable Desktop Molecular Modeling on Linux Workstations
David Konerding, Conrad Huang, and Thomas Ferrin, University of California, San Francisco

Embedding Linux to Track Concealed Weapons
Alexander Perry, Quantum Magnetics; John Sturtz, Codeweavers; David Walsh, Vista Clara, and Brian Whitecotton, Quantum Magnetics

XFREE86 TECH CONFERENCE

Cooperating Applications
Session Chair: Keith Packard, SuSE

KDE: Interface, Standards, and Inter-Process Communication
Ellis Whitehead, KDE

XSETTINGS/XEMBED Cross-toolkit Protocols
Owen Taylor, Red Hat, Inc.

To Be Announced
David Dawes and Kevin Martin, VA Linux Systems, Inc.

5:00 pm - 5:15 pm   Break
5:15 pm - 6:15 pm

A Ten-Year History of Linux

Peter H. Salus, Historian

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2001
10:00 am - 11:30 am

INVITED TALKS TRACK

Open Source Issues and Opportunities for Security Tool Vendors

Gene Kim, Tripwire, Inc.

REFEREED PAPERS

Performance 2
Session Chair: Ray Bryant, TimesN Systems

Adaptive Page Replacement to Protect Thrashing in Linux
Song Jiang and Xiaodong Zhang, College of William and Mary

A Study in Malloc: A Case of Excessive Minor Faults
Phillip Ezolt, Compaq

Beyond Softnet
Jamal Hadi Salim, Znyx Networks; Robert Olsson, Uppsala University/Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences; and Alexey Kuznetsov, Swsoft/INR

EMBEDDED LINUX

Embedded Linux Success Stories, or, It's Beginning to Look a Lot like a Linux Christmas

Don Marti, LinuxJournal and Embedded Linux Journal

11:30 am - 1:30 pm   Lunch (on your own)
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm

INVITED TALKS TRACK

Work-in-Progress Reports

Short, pithy, and fun, Work-in-Progress reports introduce interesting, new, or on-going work, and the ALS audience provides valuable discussion and feedback. Presentations of student work are particularly welcome. A schedule of presentations will be posted at the conference. If you have work you'd like to share or a cool idea that's not quite ready for publication, send a short summary to alswips@usenix.org. WiPs presentations are strictly limited to five minutes each.

REFEREED PAPERS

Storage 2
Session Chair: Kevin Stephens, Centermedia

A Persistent Snapshot Device Driver for Linux
Suresh Siddha and K. Gopinath, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

A Directory Index for EXT2
Daniel Phillips

EMBEDDED LINUX

1:30 - 2:15 pm
Real-Time Performance in Native Linux
Kevin Morgan, MontaVista Software

2:15 - 3:00 pm
Embedding Linux: Issues, Questions, and a Few Answers
David Beal, Lineo, Inc.

3:00 pm - 3:30 pm   Break
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm

Closing Session

Where's The Bot?
Helen Greiner, iRobot

Tired of having to do everything for your machines? Are you wondering what happened to those robots that you read about in Sci Fi books? The closing session will answer the question "where's the bots?" by looking at the state of the art in robotics today, in the near future, and beyond. Ms Greiner will highlight robots being built at iRobot that run Linux.

iRobot Corporation, which Ms. Greiner co-founded when she was 23, has grown into a 100+ person organization with three locations. Under her leadership iRobot Corporation is pushing into consumer robot markets. In the past few years, she has concentrated on establishing IS Robotics as a world-class research organization by developing robots that push the state-of-the-art in mobility and intelligence. She holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and an M.S. in Computer Science, both from MIT. Her 10 years of experience in robotic technology includes work at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and MIT's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.


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