USENIX - Technical Program USENIX '97 Conference
USENIX 1997 Conference
January 6-10, 1997
Anaheim, California, USA
Wednesday, January 8
Performance I
- Embedded Inodes and Explicit Grouping: Exploiting Disk Bandwidth for Small Files
- Gregory R. Ganger; M. Frans Kaashoek, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
("Best Paper" Award!)
- ;login: summary by Peter Collinson
- Observing the Effects of Multi-Zone Disks
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Rodney Van Meter, Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California
- ;login: summary by Peter Collinson
- A Revisitation of Kernel Synchronization Schemes
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Christopher Small, Stephen Manley, Harvard University
- ;login: summary by Peter Collinson
Interface Tricks
- Porting UNIX to Windows NT
- David G. Korn, AT&T Labs-Research
- ;login: summary by Michael Stok
- Protected Shared Libraries-A New Approach to Modularity and Sharing
- Arindam Banerji, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories; John M. Tracey,
T.J. Watson Research Center; David L. Cohn, University of Notre Dame
("Best Student Paper" Award!)
- Extending the Operating System at the User-Level: the Ufo Global File System
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Albert D. Alexandrov; Maximilian Ibel; Klaus E. Schauser;
Chris J. Scheiman, University of California, Santa Barbara
- ;login: summary by Michael Stok
Client Tricks
- Network-aware Mobile Programs
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Mudumbai Ranganathan; Anurag Acharya; Shamik Sharma; Joel Saltz, University of Maryland
- ;login: summary by Peter Collinson
- Using Smart Clients to Build Scalable Services
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Chad Yoshikawa; Brent Chun; Paul Eastham; Amin Vahdat; Thomas Anderson; David Culler
University of California, Berkeley
- ;login: summary by Peter Collinson
Thursday, January 9
Clustering
- Building Distributed Process Management on an Object-Oriented Framework
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Ken Shirriff, Sun Microsystems Laboratories
- ;login: summary by Gordon Galligher
- Adaptive and Reliable Parallel Computing on Networks of Workstations
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Robert D. Blumofe, University of Texas, Austin; Philip
A. Lisiecki, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- ;login: summary by Gordon Galligher
- A Distributed Shared Memory Facility for FreeBSD
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Pedro A. Souto; Eugene W. Stark, State University of New York, Stony Brook
- ;login: summary by Gordon Galligher
Tools
- Cdt: A General and Efficient Container Data Type Library
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Kiem-Phong Vo, AT&T Labs-Research
- ;login: summary by Gordon Galligher
- A Simple and Extensible Graphical Debugger
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David R. Hanson; Jeffrey L. Korn, Princeton University
- ;login: summary by Gordon Galligher
- Cget, Cput, and Stage-Safe File Transport Tools for the Internet
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Bill Cheswick, Bell Laboratories
- ;login: summary by Gordon Galligher
Friday, January 10
User Tools
- WebGlimpse-Combining browsing and searching
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Udi Manber; Michael Smith; Burra Gopal, University of Arizona
- Mailing List Archive Tools
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Sam Leffler and Melange Tortuba, Silicon Graphics
- Experience with GroupLens: Making Usenet Useful Again
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Bradley N. Miller; John T. Riedl; Joseph A. Konstan, University of Minnesota
Performance II
- Overcoming Workstation Scheduling Problems in a Real-Time Audio Tool
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Isidor Kouvelas; Vicky Hardman, University College London
- On Designing Lightweight Threads for Substrate Software
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Matthew Haines, University of Wyoming
- High-Performance Local-Area Communication With Fast Sockets
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Steven H. Rodrigues; Thomas E. Anderson; David E. Culler, University of
California, Berkeley
Caching and Stashing
- An Analytical Approach to File Prefetching
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Hui Lei; Dan Duchamp, Columbia University
- ;login: summary by Michael Stok
- Optimistic Deltas for WWW Latency Reduction
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Gaurav Banga, Rice University; Fred Douglis; Michael Rabinovich, AT&T Labs-Research
- ;login: summary by Michael Stok
- A Toolkit Approach to Partially Connected Operation
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Dan Duchamp, Columbia University
- ;login: summary by Michael Stok
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