Boston/USENIX

USENIX Annual Technical Conference from June 27 - July 2, 2004
http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix04/ 
in Boston at the Marriott Copley Place.

Here are some of the sessions on this year's Linux/Open Source track:

Wendy Grubow for USENIX

Monday, June 28
Open Source and Proprietary Software: A Blending of Cultures; Alan 
Nugent, VP & CTO, Novell

As a 20-year provider of proprietary software for the enterprise 
market, Novell has built products and a culture around proprietary 
(or closed) software. Within the last 18 months, Novell has embraced 
open source development and Linux and have injected them into its 
corporate DNA. The talk examines the myths, challenges, and 
opportunities for companies attempting to understand the best of both 
worlds.

Wednesday, June 30
Is an Operating System Monoculture a Threat to Security?
Scott Charney, Microsoft Chief Security Strategist
Dan Geer, Chief Scientist, Verdasys
Avi Rubin, Johns Hopkins University, moderator

First in-person debate on this hot issue that first made headlines 
last fall when Geer and six colleagues published a paper questioning 
the potential security risk posed by running the same type of OS. The 
idea is based on a biological principal that species with little 
genetic variation are the most vulnerable to catastrophic epidemics 
such as viruses.
Scott Charney, Microsoft Chief Security Strategist
Dan Geer, Chief Scientist, Verdasys
Avi Rubin, Johns Hopkins University, moderator

Thursday, July 1 - One-Day Linux/Open Source SIG
* The FlightGear Flight Simulator, Alexander R Perry, PAMurray

* Making RCU Safe for Deep Sub-Millisecond Response Realtime 
Applications, Dipankar Sarma and Paul E. McKenney, IBM

* Making Hardware Just Work, Robert Love, Ximian

* Custom Debian Distributions, Benjamin Mako Hill, Debian Project

* Building and Maintaining an International Volunteer Linux, Jenn 
Vesperman, Author and Consultant, and Val Henson, Sun Microsystems

* Indexing Arbitrary Data with SWISH-E, Josh Rabinowitz, 
SkateboardDirectory.com

* Linux and Genomics: The Two Revolutions, Martin Krzywinski and 
Yaron Butterfield, Genome Sciences Centre

* Thin Client Linux, a Case Presentation of Implementation, Martin 
Echt, Capital Cardiology Associates, and Jordan Rosen, Lille Corp.

* Towards Carrier Grade Linux Platforms, Ibrahim Haddad, Ericsson Research

* Cluster Interconnect Overview, Brett M. Bode, Jason J. Hill, and 
Troy R. Benjegerdes, Ames Laboratory

* Infiniband Performance Review, Troy R. Benjegerdes and Brett M. 
Bode, Ames Laboratory

* A New Distributed Security Model for Linux Clusters, Makan 
Pourzandi, Open Systems Lab, Ericsson Research

* Implementing Clusters for High Availability, James E.J. Bottomley, 
SteelEye Technology, Inc.

* Scaling Linux to Extremes: Experience with a 512-CPU Shared Memory 
Linux System
Ray Bryant, John Baron, John Hawkes, Arthur Raefsky, and Jack 
Steiner, Silicon Graphics, Inc.

* Quantian: A Single-System Image Scientific Cluster Computing 
Environment, Dirk Eddelbuettel, Debian Project

* Cluster Computing in a Computer Major in a College of Criminal 
Justice, Douglas E. Salane, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
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wendy grubow