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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2000
10:00 am - 11:30 am
HACK LINUX

Security
Session Chair: Bryan C. Andregg, Red Hat

Enhancements to the Linux Kernel for Blocking Buffer Overflow Based Attacks
Massimo Bernaschi, Italian National Research Council; Emanuele Gabrielli and Luigi V. Mancini, Università di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy

Domain and Type Enforcement for Linux
Serge Hallyn and Phil Kearns, College of William and Mary

Piranha Audit: Kernel Enhancements And Utilities To Improve Audit/Logging
Vincenzo Cutello, Emilio Mastriani, and Francesco Pappalardo, University of Catania, Italy

EXTREME LINUX

File Systems and IO
Session Chair: Walt Ligon, Clemson University

PVFS: A Parallel File System for Linux Clusters
Philip H. Carns and Walter B. Ligon III, Clemson University; Robert B. Ross and Rajeev Thakur, Argonne National Laboratory

Linux Disk Subsystem I/O Performance
Thomas M. Ruwart, University of Minnesota

IO for Large Scale Systems Panel
Moderated by Walt Ligon.
Panelists to be announced.

USE LINUX

Linux Tools and Applications

Large Scale Linux Configuration with LCFG
Paul Anderson and Alastair Scobie, University of Edinburgh

Perspecitive on Printing
Ben Woodard and Mark Pruett, VA Linux Systems

Building a Self-Contained Autoconfiguring Linux System on an ISO9660 File System
Klaus Knopper, KNOPPER.NET

11:30 am - 1:00 pm   Lunch (on your own)
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
HACK LINUX

Kernel Performance II
Session Chair: Bryan C. Andregg, Red Hat

Lockmeter: Highly Informative Instrumentation for Spin Locks in the Linux Kernel
Ray Bryant, IBM Linux Technology Center; John Hawkes, SGI
(30 minutes)

The Elements of Cache Programming Style
Chris Sears, Google, Inc.
(1 hour)

EXTREME LINUX

Networks and performance
Session Chair: William Saphir, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratories

Maximizing Beowulf Performance
Robert G. Brown, Duke University

Software Distributed Shared Memory over Virtual Interface Architecture: Implemenation and Performance
Muralidharan Rangarajan and Liviu Iftode, Rutgers University

Performance Comparison of LAM/MPI, MPICH, and MVICH on a Linux Cluster Connected by a Gigabit Ethernet Network
Hong Ong and Paul A. Farrell, Kent State University

USE LINUX

Linux Solutions

The Linux Terminal Server Project: Thin Clients and Linux
Jim McQuillan, Linux Terminal Server Project
(30 minutes)

Invited Talk

Eazel and The Nautilus Project: Bringing the Power of Linux to More Users
Darin Adler, Eazel Inc.
(1 hour)

2:30 pm - 3:30 pm   Break
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
HACK LINUX

Networking/Clustering
Session Chair: Bryan C. Andregg, Red Hat

A PPPoE Implementation for Linux
David Skoll, Roaring Penguin Software Inc.

Linux-HA Heartbeat System Design
Alan Robertson, SuSE Labs

Work-in-Progress Reports (WiPs)

Do you have interesting work you would like to share, or a cool idea that is not yet ready to be published? The ALS audience provides valuable discussion and feedback. Presentations of student work are particularly welcome. To schedule your short report, send email to alswips@usenix.org.

USE LINUX

Linux Integration

Introducing Linux File Services into a Windows NT Network
Richard R. Morgan, VistaRMS, Inc.

Plex86: An i80x86 Virtual Machine
Kevin P. Lawton, MandrakeSoft

Gaining the Middleground: A Linux-based Open-Source Middleware Initiative
Greg Wettstein and Johannes Grosen, North Dakota State University

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