Tuesday, July 13, 1999

VMware Virtual Platform Technology
VMware Virtual Platform is a software system that allows multiple operating system environments to run concurrently on a standard x86-based PC. By adapting some new twists to virtual machine monitor technology originally employed in the 1960's, the Virtual Platform provides virtualization of the non-virtualizable Intel x86 processor. VMware Virtual Platform also handles the large diversity of hardware available for the PC. The resulting system features both high performance and high portability, as well as ease of installation.

This talk will cover some of the major challenges of implementing in software a virtual machine monitor for a commodity, x86-based PC. The talk will also describe the solutions to these problems as implemented in VMware Virtual Platform.

Mendel Rosenblum, Ph.D., is Co-founder and Chief Scientist of VMware, Inc. He is a 1992 recipient of the National Science Foundation's National Young Investigator award and a 1994 recipient of an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship. He was a co-winner of the 1992 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award for his work on log-structured file systems. Dr. Rosenblum is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, where he leads the operating systems research group of the FLASH project. Together with his students, he developed the Hive scalable operating system, the SimOS complete machine simulator environment and the Disco scalable virtual machine monitor.

9:30 am - 10:00 am    Break

10:00 am - 11:30 am    Real Time and Not
Session Chair: Susan Owicki, InterTrust Technologies Corporation

CPU Reservations and Time Constraints: Implementation Experience on Windows NT
Michael B. Jones, Microsoft Research, Microsoft Corporation; and John Regehr, University of Virginia

Hard Real-time with RTX on Windows NT
Mike Cherepov and Chris Jones, VentureCom, Inc.

Higher-Order Concurrent Win32 Programming
Riccardo Pucella, Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies

11:30 am - 1:00 pm     Symposium Luncheon

1:00 pm - 2:30 pm    Indirection
Session Chair: Michael B. Jones, Microsoft Research, Microsoft Corporation

FIFS: A Framework for Implementing User-Mode File Systems in Windows NT
Danilo Almeida, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Detours: Binary Interception of Win32 Functions
Galen Hunt and Doug Brubacher, Microsoft Research, Microsoft Corporation

Evaluating Windows NT TSE Performance
Alexander Ya-li Wong and Margo Seltzer, Harvard University

2:30 pm - 3:00 pm    Break

3:00 pm - 4:30 pm    Internet
Session Chair: Karin Petersen, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center

HACC: An Architecture for Cluster-Based Web Servers
Xiaolan Zhang, Michael Barrientos, J. Bradley Chen, and Margo Seltzer, Harvard University

A Technique for Reducing Startup Latency in Mobile and Desktop Applications
Dennis Lee, Jean-Loup Baer, Brian Bershad, and Tom Anderson, University of Washington

4:30 pm - 6:00 pm    NT Futures
George Spix, Chief Architect, Consumer Platforms Division, Microsoft Corporation, and Filipe Cabrera, Windows 2000 Storage Architect, Microsoft Corporation

In this session two of the most influential architects of Windows 2000 will talk about issues such as 64-bit, SMP, and cluster scaleup issues, the improved manageability of the data center product, and other interesting future developments. The session has a very informal nature with lots of room for discussion with the symposium participants.

7:00 pm - 10:00 pm    
Reception at Jillian's Sponsored by Microsoft
(Tutorial & LISA-NT attendees welcome too)