TECHNICAL SESSIONS

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Thursday, July 1
9:00 a.m.–10:00 a.m.	Thursday
Plenary Session Cheap Hardware + Fault Tolerance = Web Site Rob Pike, Google, Inc. Listen in MP3 format The Web is too large to fit on a single machine, so it's no surprise that searching the Web requires the coordination of many machines, too. A single Google query may touch over a thousand machines before the results are returned to the user, all in a fraction of a second. With all those machines, the opportunities for parallelism and distributed computation are offset by the likelihood of hardware failure. If one machine breaks on average every few years, a pool of a thousand machines will have machines break on a daily basis. A key part of the Google story is that by designing a system to cope with breakage, we can provide not only robustness, but also parallelizability, efficiency, and economies of scale. Rob Pike is a member of the Systems Lab at Google, Inc. In 1981, while at Bell Labs, he wrote the first bitmap window system for UNIX. He has since written a dozen more. He is a principal designer and implementer of the Plan 9 and Inferno operating systems and co-author with Brian Kernighan of The UNIX Programming Environment and The Practice of Programming.
10:00 a.m.–10:30 a.m.   Break
10:30 a.m.–12:00 p.m.	Thursday
FREENIX SESSIONS Free Desktop Glitz: Hardware Accelerated Image Compositing Using OpenGL Peter Nilsson and David Reveman, Umeå University High Performance X Servers in the Kdrive Architecture Eric Anholt, LinuxFund How Xlib Is Implemented (and What We're Doing About It) Jamey Sharp, Portland State University
SIG SESSIONS UseLinux SIG The FlightGear Flight Simulator Alexander R Perry, PAMurray Making RCU Safe for Deep Sub-Millisecond Response Realtime Applications Dipankar Sarma and Paul E. McKenney, IBM Making Hardware Just Work Robert Love, Ximian
GURU SESSIONS Deploying the Lustre Cluster File Systems Phil Schwan, Cluster File Systems, Inc. Lustre is the only Linux cluster fileystem to be POSIX compliant and to be released under the GNU General Public License (GPL). Lustre powers four of the top five Linux-based supercomputers in the world. Phil, as a major implementer of Lustre, will be here to discuss using issues regarding cluster filesystems.
12:00 p.m.–1:30 p.m.   Lunch (on your own)
1:30 p.m.–3:00 p.m.	Thursday
FREENIX SESSIONS Security Awarded Best Student Paper! Design and Implementation of Netdude, a Framework for Packet Trace Manipulation Christian Kreibich, University of Cambridge, UK Trusted Path Execution for the Linux 2.6 Kernel as a Linux Security Module Niki A. Rahimi, IBM Modular Construction of DTE Policies Serge E. Hallyn, IBM Linux Technology Center, and Phil Kearns, College of William and Mary
SIG SESSIONS UseLinux SIG Custom Debian Distributions Benjamin Mako Hill, Debian Project Building and Maintaining an International Volunteer Linux Community Jenn Vesperman, Author and Consultant, and Val Henson, Sun Microsystems Indexing Arbitrary Data with SWISH-E Josh Rabinowitz, SkateboardDirectory.com
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 full-time 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.
3:00 p.m.–3:30 p.m.   Break
3:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m.	Thursday
FREENIX SESSIONS Demonstration: Croquet, a Networked Collaborative 3D Immersive Environment Dave Reed, Hewlett-Packard Labs
SIG SESSIONS UseLinux SIG Linux and Genomics: The Two Revolutions Martin Krzywinski and Yaron Butterfield, Genome Sciences Centre Thin Client Linux, a Case Presentation of Implementation Martin Echt, Capital Cardiology Associates, and Jordan Rosen, Lille Corp. Towards Carrier Grade Linux Platforms Presentation Slides (PDF) Ibrahim Haddad, Ericsson Research