TABLE OF CONTENTS: USENIX 1995 Technical Conference

USENIX 1995 Technical Conference Proceedings

January 16-20, 1995
New Orleans, Louisiana

Opening Remarks:: Peter Honeyman, Program Chair
USENIX 20th Anniversary:: Steve Johnson, President of USENIX Board of Directors
Keynote Address:: Mark Weiser, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center

Portals in 4.4BSD: W. Richard Stevens, Consultant; Jan-Simon Pendry, Sequent Corporation
Dynamic Vnodes - Design and Implementation: Aju John, Digital Equipment Corporation
Union Mounts in 4.4BSD-Lite: Jan-Simon Pendry, Sequent Corporation; Marshall Kirk McKusick, Author and Consultant

Evaluation of Design Alternatives for a Cluster File System: Murthy Devarakonda, Ajay Mohindra, Jill Simoneaux, William H. Tetzlaff, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
Multi-resident AFS: An Adventure in Mass Storage: Jonathan S. Goldick, Kathy Benninger, Christopher Kirby, Christopher Maher, and Bill Zumach, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
RAMA: Easy Access to a High-Bandwidth Massively Parallel File System: Ethan L. Miller, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Randy H. Katz, University of California, Berkeley

Implementing Real Time Packet Forwarding Policies Using Streams: Ian Wakeman, Atanu Ghosh, Jon Crowcroft, University College London; Van Jacobson, Sally Floyd, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Scaling the Web of Trust: Combining Kerberos and PGP to Provide Large Scale Authentication: Jeffrey I. Schiller, Derek Atkins, MIT
Flexible and Safe Resolution of File Conflicts: Puneet Kumar, M. Satyanarayanan, Carnegie Mellon University

OODCE: A C++ Framework for the OSF Distributed Computing Environment: John Dilley, Hewlett-Packard
Mach-US: Unix On Generic OS Object Servers: J. Mark Stevenson, Carnegie Mellon University; Daniel P Julin, ISIS Distributed Systems
Events in an RPC Based Distributed System: Jim Waldo, Ann Wollrath, Geoff Wyant, Samuel C. Kendall. Sun Microsystems Laboratories, Inc.

Turning the AIX Operating System into an MP-capable OS: Jacques Talbot, BULL
A Flash-Memory Based File System: Atsuo Kawaguchi, Shingo Nishioka, Hiroshi Motoda, Hitachi, Ltd.
TRON: Process-Specific File Protection for the UNIX Operating System: Andrew Berman, Virgil Bourassa, Erik Selberg, University of Washington

SIFT - a Tool for Wide-Area Information Dissemination: Tak W. Yan, Hector Garcia-Molina, Stanford University
Performance Implications of Multiple Pointer Sizes: Jeffrey C. Mogul, Joel F. Bartlett, Robert N. Mayo and Amitabh Srivastava, Digital Equipment Corporation, Western Research Laboratory
Idleness is Not Sloth: Richard Golding, Peter Bosch, Carl Staelin, Tim Sullivan, and John Wilkes, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories

Libckpt: Transparent Checkpointing under UNIX: James S. Plank, Micah Beck, Gerry Kingsley, University of Tennessee; Kai Li, Princeton University
Optimizing the Performance of Dynamically-Linked Programs: W. Wilson Ho, Wei-Chau Chang, Lilian H. Leung, Silicon Graphics Computer Systems
DP: A Library for Building Portable, Reliable Distributed Applications: David M. Arnow, Brooklyn College, CUNY

File System Logging versus Clustering: A Performance Comparison: Margo Seltzer, Keith A. Smith, Harvard University; Hari Balakrishnan, Jacqueline Chang, Sara McMains, Venkata Padmanabhan, University of California, Berkeley
Metadata Logging in an NFS Server: Uresh Vahalia, EMC Corporation; Cary G. Gray, Abilene Christian University; Dennis Ting, Digital Equipment Corporation
Heuristic Cleaning Algorithms in Log-Structured File Systems: Trevor Blackwell, Jeffrey Harris, Margo Seltzer, Harvard University

The New Jersey Machine-Code Toolkit: Norman Ramsey, Bell Communications Research; Mary F. Fernandez, Princeton University
ATOM: A Flexible Interface for Building High Performance Program Analysis Tools: Alan Eustace, Amitabh Srivastava, Digital Equipment Corporation, Western Research Laboratory
Adaptable Binary Programs: Susan L. Graham, Steven Lucco, Robert Wahbe, University of California, Berkeley