"Buying Computing and Storage by the Slice" is a combination of distributed and clustered computing technologies. It has been available for 20 years with specialized systems but is only now slowly emerging in standards based hardware as a commercially compelling replacement of large SMP and scientific computers.

This presentation examines the commercial status of "Buying Computing and Storage by the Slice" ... the hardware and software techniques, the economic development and deployment incentives, the hardware and software barriers and limitations, and current commercial case studies.

Keynote Address: Here Comes nUMA: The Revolution in Computer Architecture and Its OS Implications
Forrest Basket, CTO & Sr. Vice President of R&D, Silicon Graphics Inc

File System Security: An Integrated Model for NT and UNIX File Service
Dave Hitz, Bridget Allison, Andrea Borr, Rob Hawley, Mark Muhlestein, Network Appliance, Inc.

Pluggable Authentication Modules for Windows NT
Naomaru Itoi and Peter Honeyman, University of Michigan

Montage - An ActiveX Container for Dynamic Interfaces
Gordon Woodhull and Stephen North, AT&T Laboratories-Research

SecureShare: Safe UNIX/Windows File Sharing through Multiprotocol Locking
Andrea J. Borr, Network Appliance, Inc.

Harnessing User-Level Networking Architectures for Distributed Object Computing Over High-Speed Networks
Rajesh Sankaran, and Hemal V. Shah, Intel Corporation; Calton Pu, Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology

Implementing IPv6 for Windows NT
Richard P. Draves, Microsoft Research; Allison Mankin, University of Southern California; Brian D. Zill, Microsoft Research

A Soft Real-time Scheduling Server on Windows NT
Chih-han Lin, Hao-hua Chu, and Klara Nahrstedt, University of Illinois

Vassal: Loadable Scheduler Support for Multi-Policy Scheduling
George M. Candea, Massachusettes Institute of Technology, Michael B. Jones, Microsoft Research, Microsoft Corporation

For all attendees of the 2nd USENIX Windows NT Symposium, Windows NT Tutorials, and Large Installation System Administration of Windows NT (LISA NT) Conference.