Technical Sessions
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
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10:00 am - 11:30 am
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Opening Remarks, Awards, and Keynote
Keynote Address: Towards Petaflops Computing with Linux
Thomas Sterling, California Institute of Technology and NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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11:30 am - 1:30 pm Lunch (on your own)
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1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
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INVITED TALKS TRACK
Home Beowulf Systems
Don Becker, Scyld Computing, Inc.
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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
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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.
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3:00 pm - 3:30 pm Break
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3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
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INVITED TALKS TRACK
Software Freedom: Creation and Danger
Robert Chassell, Free Software Foundation
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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
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XFREE86 WORKSHOPS
The Workshops continue:
- Developing KDE Applications with KDevelop
- GTK+/GNOME Development
- Configuring XFree86
Look over the full descriptions.
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5:15 pm - 6:15 pm
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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.
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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2001
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9:00 am - 9:45 am
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INVITED TALKS TRACK
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REFEREED PAPERS
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XFREE86 TECH CONFERENCE
Keynote: Reviving Dead Technology:
How XFree86 and Open Source Prevailed Against the X Consortium
Dirk Hohndel, CTO, SuSE Inc.
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9:45 am - 10:00 am Break
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10:00 am - 11:30 am
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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.
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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
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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
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11:30 am - 1:30 pm Lunch (on your own)
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1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
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INVITED TALKS TRACK
SAGU: Open-Source Unified
Management System for Educational Institutions
Cesar Brod, Univates and the Free Software Project
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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
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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.
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3:00 pm - 3:30 pm Break
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3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
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INVITED TALKS TRACK
A Competitive Assessment of
Linux in the Enterprise
Tony Iams, D. H. Brown Associates, Inc.
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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
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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.
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5:00 pm - 5:15 pm Break
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5:15 pm - 6:15 pm
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A Ten-Year History of Linux
Peter H. Salus, Historian
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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2001
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10:00 am - 11:30 am
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INVITED TALKS TRACK
Open Source Issues and
Opportunities for Security Tool Vendors
Gene Kim, Tripwire, Inc.
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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
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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
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11:30 am - 1:30 pm Lunch (on your own)
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1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
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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.
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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
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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.
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3:00 pm - 3:30 pm Break
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3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
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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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