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OSDI '96

Works In Progress Reports - Session Program

October 29, 1996
Seattle, Washington


During OSDI '96, the last afternoon session on Tuesday October 29th, was dedicated to present Works In Progress (WIPs). Each abstract got four (4) minutes for presentation and two (2) minutes for questions from the audience.

The SMART scheduler
Jason Nieh and Monica S. Lam (Stanford University)
FM_DCS: An Implementation of Dynamic Coscheduling on a Workstation Cluster
Patrick Sobalvarro, Scott Pakin, Andrew Chien and William Weihl (MIT)
Resource-aware Mobile Programs
Anurag Acharya, M. Ranganathan, Shamik Sharma, and Joel Saltz (University of Maryland)
A Protection Scheme for Java Mobile Code
D. Hagimont (INRIA)
Strong Cache Consistency for the World-Wide Web
Chengjie Liu and Pei Cao (University of Wisconsin)
WebFS: A Global File System for Fine-Grained Sharing
Amin Vahdat, Michael Dahlin, Paul Eastham, and Thomas Anderson (University of California, Berkeley and Univeristy of Texas at Austin)
Improving the Performance of Log-Structured File Systems With Adaptive Methods
Jeanna Neefe Matthews, Randoph Y. Wang, Drew S. Roselly, and Thomas Anderson, (University of California, Berkeley)
Efficient Client Caching for Distributed Object Storage Systems
M. Castro, A. Adya, B. Liskov, U. Maheshwari, and A. C. Myers (MIT)
The Case For An Integrated Multimedia File System
Pawan Goyal, Sriram S. Rao, Prashant J. Shenoy, and Marrik M. Vin(Univesity of Texas at Austin)
Network Attached Secure Disks
Garth A. Gibson, David F. Nagle, Khalil Amiri, Fay W. Chang, Eugene M. Feinberg, Howard Gobioff, Chen Lee, Berend Ozceri, David Rochberg, and J. Zelenka (CMU)
Eliminating storage headaches through self-management
Elizabeth Borowsky, Richard Golding, Arif Merchant, Elizabeth Shriver, Mirjana Spasojevic, and John Wilkes (Storage Systems Program - HP Labs)
Express
Olin Shivers (MIT)
Component Based Operating System
Patty Kostkova, Kevin Murray and Tim Wilkinson (City University, London)
Inferno: la Commedia Interattiva
Sean Dorward, Rob Pike, Dave Presotto, Howard Trickey, and Phil Winterbottom (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies)
System Software Support for High Performance Servers
Gregory R. Ganger, Hector Brice~o, and M. Frans Kaashoek (MIT)
Virtual memory alternatives for client buffer management in transaction systems
Dylan McNamee, Vivek Narasayya, Ashutosh Tiwary, and Henry Levy (University of Washington), Jeffrey Chase, and Yong Gao (Duke University)
CPI: Continuous Profiling Infrastructure
Lance Berc, Sanjay Ghemawhat, Monika Henzinger, Shun-Tak Leung, Dick Sites, Mark Vandevoorde, Carl Waldspurger, and Bill Weihl (DEC SRC)