I direct the Brazos Project at Rice University. Brazos is a parallel programming environment for clusters of multiprocessors running Windows NT. Brazos supports both shared memory (using OpenMP)and message passing (using MPI) programming. Our paper on the thread migration and checkpointing mechanisms of Brazos will be presented at the conference. Additional information can be found at www-brazos.rice.edu/brazos.

Consultant at the Compaq Enterprise Solutions Center for Windows. Work on Internet, Security, VPN's, web servers, and e-commerce.

I am in a Unix System Administration group supporting primarily Sun servers and workstations for product develpment and engineering. I have been involved in integrating NT into the engineering computing environment. Experience has been gained with Windows Terminal Server and Samba. Work to date has been done with pilot groups, with a move now to providing a production support environment.

Phil's research focuses on high performance networking and I/O for distributed systems. His present work involves the design and analysis of the Virtual Interface Architecture. Using implementations of the VI Architecture on the Myrinet System Area Network, he has investigated high performance application design and robust network protocol schemes over this architecture. The results of this work include the Millenium Sort application on Windows NT and a version of Active Messages over the VI Architecture. Phil's future work will be to investigate new I/O systems (e.g. Future I/O and NGIO) and the various issues surrounding these architectures.

We are developing real-time extensions and tools for NT and CE.
My primary interests are NT internals, drivers, operating systems and environments, real-time programming tools, middleware and RPC (e.g., COM), APIs, NT stability and performance, IA32-based platforms.

CERN (http://www.cern.ch) has a wide variety of hardware and operating systems and the main goal for the IT people is integration, mainly between UNIX (4k machines) and Windows (600 WNT + 4.8k W95) with projects like a common file system, central print service...
I work in the IT/DIS group responsible for the common infrastructure of UNIX (SUE) and Windows (NICE).

I look into NT and Unix integration issues and into scientific computing solutions under NT and Unix.

Using Windows NT for reasearch for 4 years now. Have substantial experience with parallel processing with Win NT. Current project involves buildin middleware solutions for general purpose distributed computing, using API interception.

I am working in the area of the integration of Windows NT systems into existing infrastructures which consist mainly of AIX systems. Of particular interest is the merge of Active Directory and standards based LDAP systems.

I manage a small group of PC support personnel in a mixture of NT and 9X. We work in an R&D environment, with most of our development taking place in UNIX. My role is to guage the importance of upcoming technology in helping my customer base to better perform their job (development of new products). Some of the current issues I'm dealing with are:
ClearCase NT client administration;
UNIX/NT integration, using Samba;
Mobile computing

At the moment I am not doing research with Windows NT. However, I am contemplating extending some of my Unix-based research to NT: particularly my work on multithreaded-program performance, as well as work on web caching.

My research is concerned with network and operating system support for distributed virtual environments (VEs) in general and with the distributed nanoManipulator system in particular. The nanoManipulator is a virtual reality interface to a scanned probe microscope (SPM) constructed by UNC-CH computer scientists. It allows chemists, biologists, and physicists to "see" the surface of a material at atomic (nanometer) scale and "feel" the properties of the surface through the use of a haptic, force-feedback device. This is accomplished by integrating an SPM with high-performance 3D graphics and a tracking/force-feedback haptic device. This interface has enabled new scientific investigations that were otherwise not possible to be conceived and performed.
The current system structure couples a graphics processor (an Intel 4-way MP with high-end graphics cards), an Intel-processor based microscope/controller (a TopoMetrix, Inc. Explorer) and an Intel-processor based hand-tracking/force-feedback controller (a SensAble Devices, Inc. Phantom) via a network (a dedicated switched Ethernet). We are now exploring new designs that will allow interconnection of these components over the Internet to create a "virtual microscopy laboratory." Highly interactive virtual environments that provide true telepresence require low-latency, real-time communication between system components and real-time computation within components.
Realizing these requirements on commodity computing engines, and commonly deployed packet-switched networks such as the Internet, is the essence of this research. Unfortunately, current networks are subject to highly variable latency, bandwidth, and rates of packet loss, all of which present significant research issues in distributed immersive environments.
We have recently migrated all components of the system to run on Windows NT and are now addressing issues concerned with performance for distributed operation. The key issues are (a) high performance for the 3D graphics, (b) high-speed network support, and (c) real-time support.

My primary involvement with Windows NT has been in the area of high performance networking and I/O in NT clusters. This includes work on both ServerNet I and ServerNet II. At the conference, I will be presenting results of a high performance commercial sort run on a 72-node NT cluster. In addition, I have developed a message-passing library for VIA on Windows NT called libVI and I have ported several large scientific benchmarks to NT using MPI/Pro (from MPI Software Technology).

I maintain Windows NT environment in our company, and integrate it with existing traditional UXIX environment

I want to keep track of R&D on Windows NT and meet people.

I work in the field of parallel languages and algorithms, with a particular emphasis on high-performance systems. I've also become interested in the practical issues of constructing and running NT clusters.

Integration of Unix and Windows NT.

Interested observer.

The Boeing Company uses the CATIA CAD/CAM system on a very large scale. Currently we have about 7,000 centrally administered IBM RS/6000 "Single Glass" workstations just within the commercial airplane division, which deliver CATIA along with hundreds of other engineering applications. We are planning to migrate to a Windows NT platform in the coming years to deliver CATIA and these other applications.

We are considering using Windows NT for research projects in computer graphics and geometric modeling with OpenGL, image analysis and numerical analysis using MPI, and security testing and evaluation. Our main efforts center around finding the "NT way" to solve many of the problems we've solved in UNIX.

Client and Software Leader for GE MEdical Systems. I develop the standards for NT and UNIX desktop development systems. I lead key projects in infrastructure implementation and support standards. My role is extends to software validation and implementation. I work globally with my companies poles in France and Asia.

At the Erasmus University NT is positioned as the primary workstation OS both for researchers and for educational use. Currently, our main interest is the integration of NT applications with major administrative services mostly running on non-NT servers. This is where most of our resources are focussed. Yet also, researchers are increasingly turning to clusters of classroom machines running NT for running computationally intensive simulations. We're investigating the tools necessary that extend NT to make the CPU cycles accessable to the university community.

I must admit that my background is almost entirely Unix based. Just recently I was given the assignment of doing research in the area of NT-Unix integration.
My company sells BIG Unix systems which are used as database servers. Is many cases our customers run 'multi-tier' applications with NT servers on one tier.
The challenge is in designing a complete solution involving both Unix and NT which is easy to manage.

I have been involved with Windows NT since 3.1. My present environment deals with software developers who use the MSDN CD especially Visual C++ 6.0. Most of my users use NT 4.0 with SP4. Some are dual booted with Windows 98; we also have Services for Macintosh running for a small community of Macintosh users. My servers also interact with several Unix servers running Samba. I manage seven NT 4.0 sp4 servers. My servers include WINS, DHCP, file/print, IIS, SQL 7.0/SMS 2.0 services. Three servers also have Microsoft SourceSafe and Rational's ClearCase code management software loaded. I am presently configuring two new IBM Netfinity 7000 servers to use NT 4.0 Enterprise for clustering services. These servers will be hooked into an IBM storage array.

My research touches NT when developing methods to generate massive architectural simulation data sets, and to consume, analyze and share the data.
See "High-End Workstation Compute Farms Using Windows NT", presented at this conference.

* NT-SwiFT: Software Implemented Fault-tolerance on Windows NT. Components include . One-IP for IP packet dispatching and re-routing; . Watchd for process and machine failure detection and recovery; . Winckp for transparent checkpoint of application state, logging/replaying of window messages; . REPL for on-line file replication; . Libft for process checkpoint and communication message logging/replaying.
* DCOM-SwiFT: Software Implemented Fault-Tolerance for DCOM Applications.
* Threading model comparison of DCOM and CORBA.

Aurema is a leader in system resource management software. Our products provide real time control of resource allocation with policy settings being stored and manipulated hierarchically. Our product ShareII is available on Cray, SGI and SNI systems, and is the basis of Sun's SRM product.
We are actively exploring the need for this kind of technology on Windows NT servers.

I'm an administrator of a UNIX network that is in the process of intergrating Windows NT into our lans.

Working to delvelop the means to reliably run mission critical services on Nt servers in dark sites.

As a system administrator, I deal every day directly with the Windows NT environment.
Currently we are starting to configure our first clusters in our environment. There is alot of room for my team to further their knowledge of Microsoft Clusters.
Also, we are currently undergoing a migration evaluation from Novell to Windows NT in one of our other sites. As well as our entire team throughout the US is undergoing Windows 2000 evaluation and knowledge building. I have never attended a Usenix conference before, however, our UNIX administrators have and indicate that it is well worth the time.
I hope to gain more information from the experts from this conference so that I can come back and share it with our team.

My interest in NT technology stems from our migration from UNIX to NT for EDA tool use.

I support engineering and manufacturing systems of NT and W95. We also support the engineering community with UNIX (solaris 2.6, HP10.2).
We build, support, backup and repair over 550 systems in our Division. I wish to learn about tools that will help us in speedy disaster recovery. We are currently using Legato backup software, and have begun to backup manufacturing systems with disk image (from Power Quest), to enable us to quickly recover from a manufacturing PC disk failure. I also want to see what will nbe coming out with the new Windows O/S (2000).

I am a tech session speaker.
Interested in meeting other researchers who are building distributed batch systems and parallel computation systems on top of NT clusters. Also, interested in talking to people to get their experience on Unix-NT data/file sharing, and Unix-NT migration experiences. Interested in understanding usage and experiences with NT (using Intel Arch machines) in scientific computing.

I work on a systems engineering group that plans, designs, and performs high-level administration of a 6,000 seat, 150 server NT network. Integration with legacy systems, mainly UNIX and AS400, is also part of our reponsibilities. We develop custom applications for our administrative groups to streamline tasks, and for monitoring of our NT network. I am also involved in corporate information security planning and auditing. My group researches and approves for installation, new NT based services/applications that are requested by other departments. I also play a "consulting" role to other departments that have NT deployments within the company and for our other companies.

I am involved in the development and implmentation of Unix and NT integration.

My organization within Xerox is currently doing it's research under Windows NT.

Interested in general issues concerning administration of large NT system (> 10000 desktops and > 1000 servers) with a focus on software distribution; configuration; installation; staging and updating of the environment in a controlled way.

Traditional software development cycles consist of four phases: program development; testing and quality assurance; distribution; and maintenance. Performance tuning of the program is usually performed prior to the distribution phase and is primarily concentrated in the area of algorithm optimizations. Opportunities for performance improvement are identified based upon program profiling information.
The identified hot spots in the program are then examined, modified, tested and the process repeated until a satisfactory level of performance is obtained.
An emerging trend in software tuning is the use of profile-directed feedback optimizations. The goal of these techniques is to modify a fully linked application using profiling information to achieve increases in performance. Common optimizations performed by these systems include instruction movement to improve I-cache performance, dead-code elimination to reduce code paths, and register allocation or reallocation to improve register usage.
Our group is examining existing technologies and developing new ones to assist in feedback directed optimizations given profile information. We are currently expanding the Atom technology (NT-Atom) for the Windows NT Alpha platform to allow for the arbitrary modification of executable images. NT-Atom and profiling tools such as Compaq's DCPI (Digital Continuous Profiling Infrastructure) can be used to quickly build and prototype algorithms for optimizing the layout and instructions within a program to enhance program performance.

Our organization consists of a mixture of UNIX (different flavors) and NT. We are in the processing of migrating from UNIX to NT. During the migration period, we have several interoperability issues, such as sending mail attachments, sharing of calendars, migrating UNIX mail to Exchange mail, porting UNIX home-grown applications to a native NT version, etc.

Compaq's Corporate Design Automation group provides the engineering computing environment for product engineering groups throughout the company. Traditionally, this engineering work has been the realm of UNIX, but over the past two years, Compaq's hardware design community has been migrating to NT. During this transitional time, our group has been forced to create a reliable mixed UNIX and NT design environment.
My areas of focus in this process have been multiprotocol fileservers, backups, and compute server farms for distributed computing. In the area of fileservers, I have concentrated on Auspex NeTservices and Network Appliance. Backup products used include Legato Networker on NT and Intelliguard's BudTool on UNIX. The Compute server farm on UNIX is an internally developed beast based on the ISIS toolkit. On NT, we use Platform Computing's Load Sharing Facility (LSF) as a base for our compute farm for ASIC chip design, simulation, and verification.
I am interested in hearing about other's experiences in these and other UNIX/NT interoperation areas.

My background and interests are in distributed systems, with an emphasis on distributed operating systems, self-organizing systems, and ubiquitous computing. Since I work for Microsoft Research, I try to apply my interests in the context of Windows-NT.

The Computing Facility of the Laboratory for Computer Science Research has committed to supporting, within the Rutgers University Department of Computer Science, instructional, research, and administrative use of Windows/NT in the coming year. This presents problems of scale, since Windows/NT (up til now) has assumed that all administrative tasks will be taken care of by the user of the workstation. In our environment, this assumption will be seriously broken. We are looking for anyone who has addressed this problem (successfully or otherwise) for hints as to what direction to proceed. We have decided, given our historical UNIX orientation, that Samba is the way to provide most of our central services. We are currently working on ways to deal with the problem of providing a unified user-name/password space between our UNIX servers and our NT workstations.

My company is currently in the process of analyzing real-time COTS systems for possible future implementation into DoD mission-critical applications. My primary task is to determine whether Windows NT is a viable real-time operating system candidate. This process entails testing various areas of Windows NT functionality by using benchmarks developed primarily in-house. All of our benchmarks were originally written for UNIX- based systems, so I have also been porting these to Windows NT. Most of the benchmarks I work with are for analyzing low-level operating system performance (kernel-, process-, and thread-level behavior, and interprocess communication).
Since Windows NT leaves much to be desired in the realm of real-time performance, I am also in the process of examining VenturComâs RTX real-time subsystem.
Lastly, my companyâs near-future goal is to develop a distributed computing environment. As a result, we have a very significant desire to investigate DCOM (as well as CORBA).

We're in our third year of migrating a large portion of our users to WinNT4.0 and plannning for Windows 2000.

I have participated in a number of research projects on Windows NT, including performance measurement, binary analysis tool, and profile-based optimization. My current research focuses on the analysis of real-user profiles for large interactive applications on Windows NT. The goal is to evaluate the user-specific and run-time approaches to program optimization. My paper "Evaluating the Importance of User-Specific Profiling" was presented at the 2nd Windows NT Symposium.

I've previously ported a traditionally stand alone networking environment to run on top of NT (in the kernel). Additionally our group is building a Merced OS, that, in addition to running natively on Merced, will be hosted on NT. Our group is also considering porting various networking services to NT.

I started on a Novell 3.12 network. I am an MCSE and have been working on NT for 4 years. 2 years as an administrator and 2 years doing performance and capacity analysis. I am now starting to look at Win2000.

I am responsible for selling Windows NT server.