USENIX Windows NT Symposium Technical Sessions

USENIX Windows NT Symposium - August 3-5, 1998 - Modison Renaissance Hotel, Seattle, Washington

Technical Sessions Monday, August 3

[Monday, August 3] [Tuesday, August 4]

8:30 am - 8:45 am	Welcome

8:45 am - 9:45 am	Keynote Address Justin Rattner, Intel Fellow and Director, Server Architecture Lab

9:45 am - 10:15 am	Break

10:15 am - 11:45 am	Technical Session 1: Performance Session Chair: Ed Lazowska, University of Washington A Performance Study of Sequential I/O on Windows NT 4.0 Erik Riedel, Carnegie Mellon University, Catharine van Ingen, Jim Gray, Microsoft Reseach, Microsoft Corporation Scalability of the Microsoft Cluster Service Werner Vogels, Dan Dumitriu, Ashutosh Agrawal, Teck Chia, Katherine Guo, Cornell University Evaluating the Importance of User-Specific Profiling Zheng Wang, Harvard University,Norm Rubin, Digital Equipment Corporation

11:45 am - 1:00 pm	Hosted Symposium Luncheon

1:00 pm - 2:30 pm	Technical Session 2: From UNIX to NT to UNIX Session Chair: Stephen Walli, Softway Systems, Inc. Cygwin32: A Free UNIX Porting Layer for Win32 Geoffrey J. Noer, Cygnus Solutions Win32 API Emulation on UNIX for Software DSM Sven M. Paas, Thomas Bemmerl, Karsten Scholtyssik, RWTH Aachen, Lehrstuhl fuer Betriebssysteme NT-SwiFT: Software Implemented Fault Tolerance for Windows NT Yennun Huang, P. Emerald Chung, Chandra Kintala, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, De-Ron Liang, Chung-Yih Wang, Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taipei

2:30 pm - 3:00 pm	Break

3:00 pm - 4:30 pm	Technical Session 3: Threads Session Chair: Rumi Zahir, Intel Corporation A Thread Performance Comparison: Windows NT and Solaris on a Symmetric Multiprocessor Fabian Zabatta and Kevin Ying, Brooklyn College A System for Structured High-Performance Multithreaded Programming in Windows NT John Thornley, K. Mani Chandy, and Hiroshi Ishii, California Institute of Technology A Transparent Checkpoint Facility On NT Johny Srouji, Paul Schuster, Maury Bach, Yulik Kuzmin, Intel Corporation

4:30 pm - 4:45 pm	Break

4:45 pm - 6:00 pm	Poster Session, Demos, and Sherry Session Chair: John Bennett, Rice University Poster and demo session will provide an open forum for symposium participants to describe their work in an informal setting. Sherry and other refreshments will be served. Anyone interested in setting up a poster or demo should contact John Bennett.

6:00 pm - 8:00 pm	Dinner (on your own)

8:00 pm - 11:00 pm	Birds-of-a-Feather Sessions

[Monday, August 3] [Tuesday, August 4]


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