USENIX - USENIX'97 Conference Summaries from ;login:

Summaries on the 1997 USENIX Annual Technical Conference
Anaheim, California

Our thanks to the summarizers: Peter Collinson, Rik Farrow, Idajean M. Fisher, Gordon Galligher, Jerry Peek, Peter Salus, Michael Stok, and Bruce Alan Wynn.

These reports were originally published in ;login: Vol. 22, No. 2, April 1997.

Keynote

Summary by Idajean Fisher

Developing on "Internet Time": James Gosling, Sun Microsystems

Technical Session: Performance I

Summaries by Peter Collinson

Embedded Inodes and Explicit Grouping: Exploiting Bandwidth for Small Files: Gregory R. Ganger and M. Frans Kaashoek, MIT
Observing the Effects of Multi-Zone Disks: Rodney Van Meter, Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California
A Revisitation of Kernel Synchronization Schemes: Christopher Small and Stephen Manley, Harvard University

Interface Tricks

Summaries by Michael Stok

Porting UNIX to Windows NT: David G. Korn, AT&T Research
A Novel Way of Extending the Operating System at the User Level: The UFO Global File System: Albert D. Alexandrov, Maximilian Ibel, Klaus E. Schauser, and Chris Scheiman, University of California, Santa Barbara

Client Tricks

Summaries by Peter Collinson

Network Aware Mobile Programs: Mudumba Ranganathan, Anurag Acharya, Shamik Sharma, and Joel Saltz, University of Maryland
Using Smart Clients to Build Scalable Services: Chad Yoshikawa, Brent Chun, Paul Eastham, Amin Vahdat, Thomas Anderson, and David Culler, University of California, Berkeley

Clustering

Summaries by Gordon Galligher

Building Distributed Process Management on an Object-Oriented Framework: Ken Shirriff, Sun Microsystems Laboratories
Adaptive and Reliable Parallel Computing on Networks of Workstations: Robert D. Blumofe, University of Texas, Austin, and Philip A. Lisiecki, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
A Distributed Shared Memory Facility for FreeBSD: Pedro Souto and Eugene Stark, State University of New York, Stony Brook

Tools

Summaries by Gordon Galligher

Libcdt: A General and Efficient Container Data Type Library: Kiem-Phong Vo, AT&T Labs-Research
A Simple and Extensible Graphical Debugger: David Hanson and Jeffrey Korn, Princeton University
Cget, Cput, and Stage-Safe File Transport Tools for the Internet: Bill Cheswick, Bell Laboratories

Caching and Stashing

Summaries by Michael Stok

An Analytical Approach to File Prefetching: Hui Lei and Dan Duchamp, Columbia University
Optimistic Deltas for WWW Latency Reduction: Gaurav Banga, Rice University; Fred Douglis and Michael Rabinovich, AT&T Research
A Toolkit Approach to Partially Connected Computing By Dan Duchamp, Columbia University

Invited Talks

If Cryptography is So Great, Why Isn't it Used More?: Matt Blaze, AT&T Labs; Summary by Gordon Galligher
The Inktomi Search Engine: Eric Brewer, University of California, Berkeley; Summary by Jerry Peek
The AltaVista Web Search Engine: Louis Monier, Digital Equipment Corporation; Summary by Jerry Peek
IPv6: The New Version of the Internet Protocol: Steve Deering, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center; Summary by Peter Salus
Stupid Net Tricks: Bill Cheswick. Bell Laboratories; Summary by Jerry Peek

Uselinux Track

Linux: What It Is And Why It Is Significant: Mark Balzern, Work group Solutions, and Tom Miller, X Engineering Software Systems; Summary by Jerry Peek
The SPARC Port of Linux: By David S. Miller, Rutgers CAIP, and Miguel de Icaza, Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico; Summary by Gordon Galligher
Advanced Device Drivers: Alessandro Rubini, Universita di Pavia, Italy; Summary by Bruce Alan Wynn
Future of the Linux Kernel: Linus Torvalds, Helsinki University; Summary by Gordon Galligher
Real-Time: Victor Yodaiken and Michael Barabanov, New Mexico Institute of Technology; Summary by Bruce Alan Wynn
/proc: Stephen Tweedie, Digital Equipment Corporation; Summary by Bruce Alan Wynn
Connecting Legacy and Open Systems: Michael Callahan, Stelias Computing Inc.; Summary by Gordon Galligher
Linux and Distribution Channels: Ways to Enter the Commercial Market: Don Rosenberg, Stromian Technologies; Summary by Bruce Alan Wynn