Monday, July 12, 1999

8:30 am - 8:45 am   Welcome

8:45 am - 9:45 am    Keynote Address
Jim Cannavino, CEO/Chairman, CyberSafe Corporation

Business Computing: The Evolution of Opportunity
Technology in the business process has evolved significantly in the last 30 years: the 1960's-70's automated the back office, the 1980's-90's automated the front office. Now the Internet is automating the last inefficient piece of the business process: the consumer. Against this backdrop, Jim will look at today's Web-centric communication and its impact on security, as well as the advent of e-business and what it means for the future.

Jim Cannavino is CEO at CyberSafe, Inc. A former executive at both Perot Systems and IBM, he leads the company that develops leading security products for critical enterprise applications. In two years at Perot Systems, he grew the company from $300 million to $800 million. He held many positions during his 32-year tenure at IBM, retiring from the company as senior vice president for strategy and development. Prior to that, he led the company's restructuring of the PC business to form the IBM PC Company. Additionally, he forged IBM's alliance with Apple Computer and Motorola that led to the Power PC chip.

9:45 am - 10:15 am    Break

Efficient User-Level Thread Migration and Checkpointing on Windows NT Clusters
Hazim Abdel-Shafi, Evan Speight, and John K. Bennett, Rice University

High-End Workstation Compute Farms Using Windows NT
Srinivas Nimmagadda, Joshua LeVasseur, and Rumi Zahir, Intel Corporation

High-Performance Distributed Objects over System Area Networks
Alessandro Forin, Galen Hunt, Microsoft Research, Microsoft Corporation; Li Li, Cornell University; and Yi-Min Wang, Microsoft Research, Microsoft Corporation

11:45 am - 1:00 pm    Lunch (on your own)

MTEX - A Bridge for Migrating CAD Design Environment from UNIX to NT
Ty Tang, Vipul Lal, and Shesha Krishnapura, Intel Corporation

Porting Legacy Engineering Applications onto Distributed NT Systems
Nick Allsopp, Tim Cooper, P. Ftakas, Parallel Applications Center; and Patrick Macey, SER Systems, Ltd.

Porting a User-Level Communication Architecture to NT: Experiences and Performance
Yuqun Chen, Stefanos N. Damianakis, Sanjeev Kumar, Xiang Yu, and Kai Li, Princeton University

2:30 pm - 3:00 pm    Break

Windows NT in a ccNUMA System
Bishop Brock, Gary Carpenter, Eli Chiprout, Mark Dean, Elmootazbellah Elnozahy, David Glasco, James Peterson, Ramakrishnan Rajamony, Freeman Rawson, Ron Rockhold, and Andrew Zimmerman, IBM, Austin Research Lab

The Record-Breaking Terabyte Sort on a 72-node Compaq Cluster
Pankaj Mehra and Samuel A. Fineberg, Compaq Computer Corporation - Tandem Labs

Millennium Sort: A Cluster-Based Application for Windows NT Using DCOM, River Primitives and the Virtual Interface Architecture
Philip Buonadonna, Joshua Coates, Spencer Low, and David E. Culler, University of California, Berkeley

4:30 pm - 4:45 pm    Break

Poster and demo sessions will provide an open forum for symposium participants to describe their work in an informal setting. Anyone interested in setting up a poster or demo should send email to usenix-nt-posters@usenix.org.