We're continuing to work with vendors such as Sun and IBM on their Linux scalability issues. We've provided several significant modifications to the Linux kernel. We attended the 2000 Usenix technical conference, and presented three papers. We'll present papers at the upcoming Atlanta Linux Symposium. We're continuing to reach out to potential sponsors.
Work continues on long-term projects.
Milestones Stephen Molloy spent his summer interning at the Austin IBM lab. Stephen is continuing earlier efforts to improve the kernel scheduler in Linux so that it scales in the number of active threads. He reports that his scheduler now runs without hanging or crashing on hardware with more than two processors, and beats the original Linux scheduler in tests involving many threads running in a Java virtual machine. Network Appliance announced a grant supporting continued work on NFSv4 on Linux, in cooperation with Sun Microsystems. A snapshot of NFSv4 for Linux 2.2.14 is now available.