USENIX Annual Technical Conference 2000: San Diego, CA, USA

Instrumentation and Visualization

• Bill Cheswick, Hal Burch, Steve Branigan:
  Mapping and Visualizing the Internet. 1-12
  
• Karim Yaghmour, Michel Dagenais:
  Measuring and Characterizing System Behavior Using Kernel-Level Event Logging. 13-26
  
• Simon Patarin, Mesaac Makpangou:
  Pandora: A Flexible Network Monitoring Platform. 27-40
  

File Systems

• Drew S. Roselli, Jacob R. Lorch, Thomas E. Anderson:
  A Comparison of File System Workloads. 41-54
  
• Erez Zadok, Jason Nieh:
  FiST: A Language for Stackable File Systems. 55-70
  
• Margo I. Seltzer, Gregory R. Ganger, Marshall K. McKusick, Keith A. Smith, Craig A. N. Soules, Christopher A. Stein:
  Journaling Versus Soft Updates: Asynchronous Meta-data Protection in File Systems. 71-84
  

Old Dogs, New Tricks

• Rob Pike:
  Lexical File Names in Plan 9, or, Getting Dot-Dot Right. 85-92
  
• Andrew Hume, Scott Daniels, Angus MacLellan:
  Gecko: Tracking a Very Large Billing System. 93-106
  
• Glenn S. Fowler, David G. Korn, Kiem-Phong Vo:
  Extended Data Formatting Using Sfio. 107-116
  

Distribution and Scalability: Problems and Solutions

• John Reumann, Ashish Mehra, Kang G. Shin, Dilip D. Kandlur:
  Virtual Services: A New Abstraction for Server Consolidation. 117-130
  
• John S. Heidemann, Dhaval Shah:
  Location-Aware Scheduling with Minimal Infrastructure. 131-138
  
• James FitzGibbon, Tim Strike:
  Distributed Computing: Moving from CGI to CORBA. 139-148
  

Tools

• Diomidis Spinellis:
  Outwit: UNIX Tool-Based Programming Meets the Windows World. 149-158
  
• Rob Pike:
  Plumbing and Other Utilities. 159-170
  
• Robert C. Miller, Brad A. Myers:
  Integrating a Command Shell into a Web Browser. 171-182
  

Kernel Structures

• Alexander Ya-li Wong, Margo I. Seltzer:
  Operating System Support for Multi-User, Remote, Graphical Interaction. 183-197
  
• Godmar Back, Patrick Tullmann, Leigh Stoller, Wilson C. Hsieh, Jay Lepreau:
  Techniques for the Design of Java Operating Systems. 197-210
  
• José Carlos Brustoloni, Eran Gabber, Abraham Silberschatz, Amit Singh:
  Signaled Receiver Processing. 211-224
  

Run-Time Tools and Tricks

• Albert Serra, Nacho Navarro, Toni Cortes:
  DITools: Application-level Support for Dynamic Extension and Flexible Composition. 225-238
  
• Ralf S. Engelschall:
  Portable Multithreading-The Signal Stack Trick for User-Space Thread Creation. 239-250
  
• Arash Baratloo, Navjot Singh, Timothy K. Tsai:
  Transparent Run-Time Defense Against Stack-Smashing Attacks. 251-262
  

Measurement and Stability

• Aaron B. Brown, David A. Patterson:
  Towards Availability Benchmarks: A Case Study of Software RAID Systems. 263-276
  
• Yannis Smaragdakis, Paul R. Wilson:
  Performing Replacement in Modem Pools. 277-292
  
• Gaurav Banga:
  Auto-Diagnosis of Field Problems in an Appliance Operating System. 293-306
  

Servers: Load Balancing and Scheduling

• Khalil Amiri, David Petrou, Gregory R. Ganger, Garth A. Gibson:
  Dynamic Function Placement for Data-Intensive Cluster Computing. 307-322
  
• Mohit Aron, Darren Sanders, Peter Druschel, Willy Zwaenepoel:
  Scalable Content-aware Request Distribution in Cluster-based Network Servers. 323-336
  
• David G. Sullivan, Margo I. Seltzer:
  Isolation with Flexibility: A Resource Management Framework for Central Servers. 337-350