Technical Session, Monday

Technical Sessions Monday, August 11, 1997

9:00am - 9:10am	Opening Remarks Michael B. Jones, Microsoft Research Ed Lazowska, University of Washington

9:10am - 10:10am	Keynote Address Windows NT to the Max - Just How Far Can It Scale Up Jim Gray, Microsoft Bay Area Research Center Windows NT is a great file and print server. It also makes a good web, mail, and SQL server. But how does it behave when you attach several hundred disks to a single NT node and run a database application against it? What happens when you spread an application across thirty NT servers and a thousand disks? This talk describes some high-end applications built with NT, and describes some of the unsolved problems these applications present. Jim Gray is a specialist in database and transaction processing computer systems. His research focuses on scaleable computing: building super-servers and workgroup systems from commodity software and hardware. He is editor of the Performance Handbook for Database and Transaction Processing Systems, and co-author of Transaction Processing Concepts and Techniques. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, Fellow of the ACM, editor-in-chief of the VLDB Journal, and editor of the Morgan Kaufmann series on Data Management.

10:10am - 10:30am	Break Back to Technical Sessions Overview

10:30am - Noon	Refereed Paper Session: Mangling Executables
10:30am - Noon		Instrumentation and Optimization of Win32/Intel Executables Ted Romer, Geoff Voelker, Dennis Lee, Alec Wolman, Wayne Wong, Hank Levy, and Brian N. Bershad, University of Washington, J. Bradley Chen, Harvard University DIGITAL FX!32 - Running 32-Bit x86 Applications on Alpha NT Anton Chernoff and Ray Hookway, Digital Equipment Corporation Spike: An Optimizer for Alpha/NT Executables Robert Cohn, David Goodwin, P. Geoffrey Lowney, and Norman Rubin, Digital Equipment Corporation Improving Instruction Locality with Just-in-Time Code Layout J. Bradley Chen and Bradley D. D. Leupen, Harvard University

Noon - 1:30pm	Lunch (on your own) Back to Technical Sessions Overview

1:30pm - 3:00pm	Tutorial Session: Available Tools - A Guided Tour of the Win32 SDK, Windows NT Resource Kit, VTune, Etc. K. Sridharan, Intel Louis Kahn, Microsoft Corporation

3:00pm - 3:30pm	Break Back to Technical Sessions Overview

3:30pm - 5:00pm	Refereed Paper Session: Driver Tricks
3:30pm - 5:00pm		The RTX Real-Time Subsystem for Windows NT Bill Carpenter, Mark Roman, Nick Vasilatos, and Myron Zimmerman, VenturCom, Inc. A Scheduling Scheme for Network Saturated NT Multiprocessors Joergen Svaerke Hansen and Eric Jul, DIKU Coordinated Thread Scheduling for Workstation Clusters Under Windows NT Matt Buchanan and Andrew A. Chien, UIUC Creating User-Mode Device Drivers with a Proxy Galen C. Hunt, University of Rochester

5:00pm - 5:30pm	Break Back to Technical Sessions Overview

5:30pm - 7:00pm	Panel Session: Do You Need Source? This session will examine what you do and don't need Windows NT source code for as a researcher.
5:30pm - 7:00pm

8:30pm - 11:00pm	Dessert Reception, Seattle Aquarium Sponsored by Microsoft Research and the Microsoft NT group

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