Saturday, June 14, 2003
9:00 a.m.–10:30 a.m.
GENERAL TRACK Fast Servers Kernel Support for Faster Web Proxies Marcel-Catalin Rosu and Daniela Rosu, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Multiprocessor Support for Event-Driven Programs Nickolai Zeldovich, Stanford University; Alexander Yip, Frank Dabek, and Robert T. Morris, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; David Mazières, New York University; Frans Kaashoek, Massachusetts Institute of Technology	INVITED TALKS Modeling the Internet Harry DeLano and Peter H. Salus, Matrix NetSystems It's a bird! It's a plane! Look! Up in the sky . . . If no one could agree on Superman, no wonder we aren't quite certain what the Internet looks like when it goes home to Smallville and takes off its Clark Kent suit. Thirty years ago, when the ARPAnet had well under 50 hosts, the diagram was easy; 20 years ago, when the number was 400, it could still be mastered. But today there are well over 200 million hosts. Several different approaches are currently being pursued to represent the stucture and population of the Internet, and much of the data is muddled and inconsistent. Thus, part of the challenge is to gather it into a coherent representation of what's out there.	FREENIX TRACK Experiences Session Chair: Keith Packard, HP Cambridge Research Labs Building a Wireless Community Network in the Netherlands Rudi van Drunen, Dirk-Willem van Gulik, Jasper Koolhaas, Huub Schuurmans, and Marten Vijn, Wireless Leiden Foundation OpenCM: Early Experiences and Lessons Learned Jonathan S. Shapiro, John Vanderburgh, and Jack Lloyd, Johns Hopkins University Free Software and High-Power Rocketry: The Portland State Aerospace Society James Perkins, Andrew Greenberg, Jamey Sharp, David Cassard, and Bart Massey, Portland State University	GURU SESSIONS Web Hosting Jan Saell, EurOpen.se Jan Saell is a UNIX consultant operating both in Sweden and internationally. His company, Irial, provides advanced UNIX and network consultancy. He is currently the chairman of EurOpen.SE. He has been working in the UNIX environment since 1983.
10:30 a.m.–11:00 a.m.   Break
11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
GENERAL TRACK Big Data Seneca: Remote Mirroring Done Write Minwen Ji, Alistair Veitch, and John Wilkes, Hewlett-Packard Labs Eviction-based Cache Placement for Storage Caches Zhifeng Chen and Yuanyuan Zhou, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Kai Li, Princeton University Fast, Scalable Disk Imaging with Frisbee Mike Hibler, Leigh Stoller, Jay Lepreau, Robert Ricci, and Chad Barb, University of Utah	INVITED TALKS Nanotechnology: As Hardware Becomes Software J. Storrs Hall, Institute for Molecular Manufacturing Designing a microprocessor has more in common with programming than it does with designing a steam engine. Similar tools—specification languages, simulators, rule checkers, profilers—and a similar level of complexity dominate over the distinction between matter and bits as the output. As nanotechnology advances to the point where we can specify and construct large, atomically precise systems, the same will become true of nanomachine design. This talk will describe such systems and the process of designing them.	FREENIX TRACK Privilege Management Session Chair: Angelos D. Keromytis, Columbia University POSIX Access Control Lists on Linux Andreas Gruenbacher, SuSE Linux AG Privman: A Library for Partitioning Applications Douglas Kilpatrick, Network Associates Laboratories The TrustedBSD MAC Framework: Extensible Kernel Access Control for FreeBSD 5.0 Robert Watson, Wayne Morrison, and Chris Vance, Network Associates Laboratories; Brian Feldman, The FreeBSD Project	GURU SESSIONS Sysadmin Management/General David Parter, University of Wisconsin, Madison David has been a system administrator at the University of Wisconsin Computer Science Department since 1991, serving as Associate Director of the Computer Systems Lab since 1995, guiding a staff of 8 fulltime sysdamins and supervising up to 12 student sysadmins at a time. His experiences in this capacity include working with other groups on campus; providing technical leadership to the group; managing the budget; dealing with vendors; dealing with faculty; and training students. As a consultant, he has dealt with a variety of technical and management challenges.
12:30 p.m.–2:00 p.m.   Lunch on your own
2:00 p.m.–3:30 p.m.
GENERAL TRACK I/O Guessing Games Robust, Portable I/O Scheduling with the Disk Mimic Florentina I. Popovici, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, and Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau, University of Wisconsin, Madison Controlling Your PLACE in the File System with Gray-box Techniques James A. Nugent, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, and Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau, University of Wisconsin, Madison Awarded Best Paper! Operating System I/O Speculation: How Two Invocations Are Faster Than One Keir Fraser, University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory; Fay Chang, Google Inc.	INVITED TALKS Infrastructure for Feature Film Visual Effects, or, Herding Cats in a Thunderstorm Wook, Consultant Contemporary feature film visual effects generally require a large digital (CGI—Computer Generated Imagery) component. The peculiar economics of this sector and how to scale to provide near-real-time response in addition to generating and integrating complex image sets will be discussed. The major infrastructure issues in this talk have to do with networking, multi-terabyte storage, the futility of backup, distributed processing, and asset management. A brief tangent on software for film restoration will be included.	FREENIX TRACK Kernel Session Chair: Ray Bryant, SGI Using Read-Copy-Update Techniques for System V IPC in the Linux 2.5 Kernel Andrea Arcangeli, SuSE; Mingming Cao, Paul McKenney, and Dipankar Sarma, IBM An Implementation of User-level Restartable Atomic Sequences on the NetBSD Operating System Gregory McGarry Providing a Linux API on the Scalable K42 Kernel Jonathan Appavoo, University of Toronto; Marc Auslander, Dilma Da Silva, David Edelsohn, Orran Krieger, Michal Ostrowski, Bryan Rosenburg, Robert W. Wisniewski, and Jimi Xenidis, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center	GURU SESSIONS AFS Garry Zacheiss, MIT, and Derrick Brashear, Carnegie Mellon University Garry Zacheiss has spent four years working for MIT Information Systems doing both development and system administration. As a member of the Athena Server Operations team, he works on maintaining and expanding the AFS cells used by Athena, MIT's Academic Computing Environment. Derrick Brashear is a systems programmer with the Computing Services division of Carnegie Mellon University and is on the OpenAFS Council of Elders, the guiding body for OpenAFS development. He claims to have his fingers in too many pies.
3:30 p.m.–3:45 p.m.   Break
3:45 p.m.–9:30 p.m.
Six Flags Fiesta Texas When the technical program ends on Saturday afternoon, get ready to play for the rest of the day! Board a shuttle bus with your friends to fun-filled Six Flags Fiesta Texas, a 200-acre family theme park with over 60 rides and attractions. This event will be fun for the entire family. Your registration fee covers one admission ticket and a voucher good at six casual restaurants in the park. Additional tickets may be purchased onsite at a special discounted price.