Ken Shirriff's Papers

REFEREED OPERATING SYSTEMS PUBLICATIONS

K. Shirriff, J. Bernabeu Auban, Y. Khalidi, V. Matena, ``Single System Image: The Solaris MC Approach,'' Proceedings of PDPTA '97, July 1997, pp. 1097-1105.
K. Shirriff, ``Building distributed process management on an object-oriented framework,'' Proceedings of Usenix 1997, January 1997,pp. 119-131.
Y. Khalidi, K. Shirriff, et al, ``Solaris MC: A Multicomputer Operating System,'' Usenix 1996.
K. Shirriff, J. Ousterhout, ``Sawmill: A High-bandwidth Logging File System,'' Proceedings of Summer Usenix, June 1994, pp. 125-136.
A. Drapeau, K. Shirriff, E. Lee, J. Hartman, E. Miller, S. Seshan, R. Katz, K. Lutz, D. Patterson, P. Chen, G. Gibson, ``RAID-II: A High-Bandwidth Network File Server,'' International Symposium on Computer Architecture, Computer Architecture News, 22(2), April 1994, pp. 234-244.
P. Chen, E. Lee, A. Drapeau, K. Lutz, E. Miller, S. Seshan, K. Shirriff, D. Patterson, R. Katz, ``Performance and Design Evaluation of the RAID-II Storage Server,'' Journal of Distributed and Parallel Databases, 2(3), July 1994, pp. 243-260. Also appeared in International Parallel Processing Symposium 1993 Workshop on I/O.
K. Shirriff, J. Ousterhout, ``A Trace-driven Analysis of Name and Attribute Caching in a Distributed File System,'' Proceedings of Winter Usenix, Jan. 1992, pp. 315-331.
M. Baker, J. Hartman, M. Kupfer, K. Shirriff, J. Ousterhout, ``Measurements of a Distributed File System,'' Proceedings of the Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, Oct. 1991, pp. 198-212.

REFEREED GRAPHICS PUBLICATIONS

K. Shirriff, ``Voronoi Fractals,'' In The Pattern Book, C. Pickover, 1995.
K. Shirriff, ``The RBW Color Model,'' Computers & Graphics, 17(5), Sep. 1993, pp 597-602.
K. Shirriff, ``An Investigation of z -> 1/z^n+c,'' Computers & Graphics, 17(5), Sep. 1993, pp 603-607.
K. Shirriff, ``Generating Fractals from Voronoi Diagrams,'' Computers & Graphics, 17(2), Mar. 1993, pp 165-167.
K. Shirriff, ``Fractals from Simple Polynomial Composite Functions,'' Computers & Graphics, 17(6), Nov. 1993, pp 701-703.

OTHER REFEREED PUBLICATIONS

K. Shirriff, ``Differential Cryptanalysis of Madryga,'' in preparation.
K. Shirriff, ``Differential Cryptanalysis of REDOC III,'' submitted to Cryptologia.
K. Shirriff, C. Welch, A. Kinsman, ``Decoding a VCR Controller Code,'' Cryptologia, 16(3), July 1992, pp 227-234.
K. Shirriff, ``Computing Replicating Fibonacci Digits,'' Journal of Recreational Mathematics, 26(3), July 1994, 191-193.
K. Shirriff, ``Comments on Double Smoothly Undulating Integers,'' Journal of Recreational Mathematics, 26(2), Apr. 1994, 104-106.
K. Shirriff, ``Unsymmetrical N-dimensional Binary Colorings,'' Journal of Recreational Mathematics, 26(1), Jan. 1994, pp 2-5.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

K. Shirriff, ``Sawmill: A Logging File System for a High-Performance RAID Disk Array,'' Ph.D. Thesis. Published as U.C. Berkeley technical report UCB/CSD-95-862.
K. Shirriff, ``Fractal Questions and Answers,'' Amygdala, 29, pp. 5-8, Nov. 1992. Also appeared in FRAC'cetera, 2(7), Oct. 1993.
C. Pickover, K. Shirriff, ``The Terrible Twos Problem,'' Theta, 6(2), Autumn 1992, pp 3-7. Also appears in Mazes for the Mind, C. Pickover, St. Martin's Press, New York, 1992.
K. Shirriff, ``Laundry and the Origin of Basic Color Terms,'' Journal of Irreproducible Results, 36(6), Nov. 1991, p. 10.
K. Shirriff, ``An Implementation of Memory Sharing and File Mapping,'' Master's Thesis, 1990.

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