UKUUG Linux 2001 — Linux Developers' Conference 29 June - 1 July 2001, Renold Building, UMIST, Manchester

Programme

Speakers, timings and running order subject to change. Talks shown with a green background form an alternative stream.

Friday, 29 June
12:00	Registration - Exhibition
13:15	Linux Clusters in the XSP Environment	David McAllister
14:00	Design and Management of a Brute-Force Cluster: Use of a 64-node Beowulf Cluster in Bioinformatics	Robert J Gautier, Ateb Ltd.
14:45	Recent & Future Linux Developments at IBM	Nick Davis - EMEA Linux Solutions Marketing Manager, IBM
15:15	Coffee break
16:00	Porting Linux to AMD x86-64 (sledgehammer)	Bo Thorsen - SuSE Labs
16:40	vsyscalls	Andrea Arcangeli - SuSE Labs
17:10	Break
17:25	The Birth of Computing in Manchester - Part One	Professor Frank Sumner
17:45	Walk to Manchester Museum of Science and Industry
18:30	Demonstration of The Baby
19:30	Walk to Restaurant
19:45	Banquet at Yang Sing sponsored by AMD - subsidised delegate price £20; guests £30.

Saturday, 30 June
09:00	Doors open - Exhibition
09:30	The Birth of Computing in Manchester - Part Two	Professor David Aspinall
10:00	Linux on Laptops	Werner Heuser
10:45	Coffee Break
11:30	Samba TNG Architecture and Design	Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
12:15	DCE is alive and well in a data-centre near you - Why Linux Developers need to know about DCE (Distributed Computing Environment)	Chris Benson - Treepax
12:15	KDE Architecture and Development	David Faure - MandrakeSoft
13:00	Lunch (sandwiches provided)
14:15	Heartbeat and Linux Virtual Server	Martin Hamilton - JANET Web Cache Service
15:00	The Journalling Flash File System	David Woodhouse - Red Hat Inc.
14:15	GNOME Architecture and Development	Michael Meeks
15:00	Rapid Application Development with GNOME and Python	Christian Egli
15:45	Coffee Break
16:30	NUMA support and O_DIRECT	Andrea Arcangeli - SuSE Labs
17:15	Zero Copy, Hidden Dragon	Steve Whitehouse - Sistina Software
16:30	Fractal generation using GIMP MathMap	Tom Rathborne
17:15	Pymmetry - Python Trust Metrics	Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
18:00	Break
18:15	Linux on PDAs	Werner Heuser
19:00	General Discussion
19:45	Close of day two

Sunday, 1 July
09:00	Doors open - Exhibition
09:30	Benchmarking the Linux Kernel	Randy Appleton
10:15	Linux Tuning with Powertweak	Dave Jones - SuSE
11:00	Coffee break
11:30	Dynamic Probes - A trace mechanism for both user and kernel space	Richard J Moore - IBM Linux Technology Centre
12:15	Generalised Kernel Hooks Interface - A High Speed Call-back Mechanism for the Linux Kernel	Richard J Moore - IBM Linux Technology Centre
11:30	Zope - The Open Source Web Application Server	Stephan Richter
12:15	www.gimp.org - Simplifying dynamic websites with mod_perl and The GIMP	Tom Rathborne
12:45	Break
13:00	The FlightGear Flight Simulator - Realism through Adaptability	Alex Perry
14:00	End of conference

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IBM - Main Sponsor	Astaro Network Firewall	Sistina