USENIX Annual Technical Conference 2007: Santa Clara, CA, USA

Keynote Address

• Mendel Rosenblum:
  The Impact of Virtualization on Computing Systems.
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Tricks with Virtual Machines

• Jan Stoess, Christian Lang, Frank Bellosa:
  Energy Management for Hypervisor-Based Virtual Machines. 1-14
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• Anh-Quynh Nguyen, Kuniyasu Suzaki:
  Xenprobus, a Lightweight User-Space Probing Framework for Xen Virtual Machine. 15-28
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• Pin Lu, Kai Shen:
  Virtual Machine Memory Access Tracing with Hypervisor Exclusive Cache. 29-43
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Network Monitoring and Management

• Peter Desnoyers, Prashant J. Shenoy:
  Hyperion: High Volume Stream Archival for Retrospective Querying. 45-58
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• Pere Barlet-Ros, Gianluca Iannaccone, Josep Sanjuàs-Cuxart, Diego Amores-López, Josep Solé-Pareta:
  Load Shedding in Network Monitoring Applications. 59-72
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• William Enck, Patrick Drew McDaniel, Subhabrata Sen, Panagiotis Sebos, Sylke Spoerel, Albert G. Greenberg, Sanjay G. Rao, William Aiello:
  Configuration Management at Massive Scale: System Design and Experience. 73-86
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Programming Abstractions for Network Services

• Maxwell N. Krohn, Eddie Kohler, M. Frans Kaashoek:
  Events Can Make Sense. 87-100
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• Daniel S. Myers, Jennifer N. Carlisle, James A. Cowling, Barbara Liskov:
  MapJAX: Data Structure Abstractions for Asynchronous Web Applications. 101-114
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• Daniel Peek, Edmund B. Nightingale, Brett D. Higgins, Puspesh Kumar, Jason Flinn:
  Sprockets: Safe Extensions for Distributed File Systems. 115-128
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Distributed Storage

• Ramakrishna Kotla, Lorenzo Alvisi, Michael Dahlin:
  SafeStore: A Durable and Practical Storage System. 129-142
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• Mark W. Storer, Kevin M. Greenan, Ethan L. Miller, Kaladhar Voruganti:
  POTSHARDS: Secure Long-Term Storage Without Encryption. 142-156
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• Michael Sirivianos, Jong Han Park, Xiaowei Yang, Stanislaw Jarecki:
  Dandelion: Cooperative Content Distribution with Robust Incentives. 157-170
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Data and Indexing

• Sam Shah, Craig A. N. Soules, Gregory R. Ganger, Brian D. Noble:
  Using Provenance to Aid in Personal File Search. 171-184
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• KyoungSoo Park, Sunghwan Ihm, Mic Bowman, Vivek S. Pai:
  Supporting Practical Content-Addressable Caching with CZIP Compression. 185-198
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• Bo Han, Peter J. Keleher:
  Implementation and Performance Evaluation of Fuzzy File Block Matching. 199-204
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System Security

• Boniface Hicks, Sandra Rueda, Trent Jaeger, Patrick Drew McDaniel:
  From Trusted to Secure: Building and Executing Applications That Enforce System Security. 205-218
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• Michael E. Locasto, Angelos Stavrou, Gabriela F. Cretu, Angelos D. Keromytis:
  From STEM to SEAD: Speculative Execution for Automated Defense. 219-232
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• Manuel Egele, Christopher Kruegel, Engin Kirda, Heng Yin, Dawn Xiaodong Song:
  Dynamic Spyware Analysis. 233-246
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Close to the Hardware

• Alma Riska, James Larkby-Lahet, Erik Riedel:
  Evaluating Block-level Optimization Through the IO Path. 247-260
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• Xiaoning Ding, Song Jiang, Feng Chen, Kei Davis, Xiaodong Zhang:
  DiskSeen: Exploiting Disk Layout and Access History to Enhance I/O Prefetch. 261-274
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• Xin Li, Kai Shen, Michael C. Huang, Lingkun Chu:
  A Memory Soft Error Measurement on Production Systems. 275-280
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Networked Systems

• Sharad Agarwal, Venkata N. Padmanabhan, Dilip Antony Joseph:
  Addressing Email Loss with SureMail: Measurement, Design, and Evaluation. 281-294
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• Patrick Verkaik, Dan Pei, Tom Scholl, Aman Shaikh, Alex C. Snoeren, Jacobus E. van der Merwe:
  Wresting Control from BGP: Scalable Fine-Grained Route Control. 295-308
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• Vivek Vishnumurthy, Paul Francis:
  A Comparison of Structured and Unstructured P2P Approaches to Heterogeneous Random Peer Selection. 309-322
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Kernels

• Oren Laadan, Jason Nieh:
  Transparent Checkpoint-Restart of Multiple Processes on Commodity Operating Systems. 323-336
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• Andrew Baumann, Jonathan Appavoo, Robert W. Wisniewski, Dilma Da Silva, Orran Krieger, Gernot Heiser:
  Reboots Are for Hardware: Challenges and Solutions to Updating an Operating System on the Fly. 337-350
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• Francis M. David, Jeffrey C. Carlyle, Roy H. Campbell:
  Exploring Recovery from Operating System Lockups. 351-356
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Short Papers

• Jun Sun, Dong Zhou, Steve Longerbeam:
  Supporting Multiple OSes with OS Switching. 357-362
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• Cullen Bash, George Forman:
  Cool Job Allocation: Measuring the Power Savings of Placing Jobs at Cooling-Efficient Locations in the Data Center. 363-368
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• Umut Topkara, Mercan Topkara, Mikhail J. Atallah:
  Passwords for Everyone: Secure Mnemonic-based Accessible Authentication. 369-374
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• Grant Wallace, Kai Li:
  Virtually Shared Displays and User Input Devices. 375-380
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Invited Talks

• Werner Vogels:
  Life Is Not a State-Machine: The Long Road from Research to Production.
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• Gary McGraw:
  Exploiting Online Games.
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• Rob Lanphier, Mark Lentczner:
  Second Life.
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• G. Winfield Treese:
  Specializing General-Purpose Computing: A New Approach to Designing Clusters for High-Performance Technical Computing.
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• Paul Ducklin:
  Live Malware Attack!
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• Brad Fitzpatrick:
  LiveJournal's Backend Technologies.
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• Jeffrey Dean:
  MapReduce and Other Building Blocks for Large-Scale Distributed Systems at Google.
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• Daniel V. Klein:
  Perfect Data in an Imperfect World.
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• Luis von Ahn:
  Human Computation.
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• Luiz André Barroso:
  Warehouse-scale Computers.
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The Guru is in

• Guido van Rossum: Python Programming Language. BibTeX
• Tom Christiansen: Advanced Perl. BibTeX
• Stephen C. Johnson: Programming Languages. BibTeX
• Marshall K. McKusick: Building and Running an Open-Source Community: The FreeBSD Project. BibTeX
• Cary Roberts: Datacenters. BibTeX
• Rudi van Drunen: Wireless Networks. BibTeX
• John Arrasjid, Shridhar Deuskar, Irfan Ahmad: VMware Virtual Infrastructure Tools and Techniques. BibTeX
• Rik Farrow: Security Is Broken. BibTeX
• Gerald Carter: UNIX/Linux and Active Directory Interoperability. BibTeX

Plenary Closing Session

• Mary Lou Jepsen:
  Crossing the Digital Divide: The Latest Efforts from One Laptop per Child.
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