SOS-Please I Symposium: List of Accepted Papers

Day 1

Storage Tricks

MDLFS: Exploiting Information To Improve Performance
Timothy Denehy and Nilofer Motiwala
University of Wisconsin

Block Asynchronous I/O - A Flexible Infrastructure for User-Level File Systems
Muthian Sivathanu and Venkateshwaran V
University of Wisconsin

Reducing Disk Latency Through Replication
Gordon Bell and Morris Marden
University of Wisconsin

Expressing File System Reorganization Policies with the ClassAd Language
Nicholas Coleman and Vinod Yegneswaran
University of Wisconsin

Web Proxies (That Never Forget)

Flexible Page Retention With Pachyderm: The Web Proxy That Never Forgets
Junfeng Yang and Xin Li
University of Wisconsin

Using A Database To Implement Pachyderm: The Web Proxy That Never Forgets
Haonan Tan and Fujun Zhang
University of Wisconsin

Pachyderm: A Java-based Web Proxy That Never Forgets
Alison Krautkramer and Jing Li
University of Wisconsin

Java Performance

An In-Depth Examination of Java I/O Performance and Possible Tuning Strategies
Hongfei Guo and Kai Xu
University of Wisconsin

Performance Evaluation and Optimization of the Jini Lookup Service
Xidong Wang, Su Zhang
University of Wisconsin

A Performance Study of Java File I/O
Nathan Burnett and Deepak Jindal
University of Wisconsin


SPACE

Day 2

Clusters and Virtual Machines

Virtual Machines for Grid Computing
Erik Paulson
University of Wisconsin

Network Performance Analysis in Support of Virtual Clusters
Pacia Harper and Brian Fields
University of Wisconsin

Informed Load Balancing
Shengda Hu
University of Wisconsin

Cluster Resource Management: A Scalable Approach
Ning Li and Jordan Parker
University of Wisconsin

Stonebraker Was Wrong (Or Was He?)

Evaluating Windows NT Support for Databases
Daniel Fellig and Olga Tikhonova
University of Wisconsin

A Survey of Operating System Support for Databases
Li Yang and Jin Li
University of Wisconsin

A Microbenchmark-based Evaluation of Operating Systems Support for Database Systems
Junfeng Zhang and Demai Ni
University of Wisconsin

File System Performance

Optimizing Disk Performance for a Multimedia Storage Server
Ian Alderman and Mamdou Diallo
University of Wisconsin

Linux File Streaming
Ahmed Ayad and Nermeen Bassiouny
University of Wisconsin

Addressing Large Sequential Read Performance In The Linux Ext2 Filesystem
Kevin O'Connor and Greg Tracy
University of Wisconsin

Performance Measurements of Networked File Systems
Winfred Byrd and John Moser
University of Wisconsin