These pages contain the Snowflake Work-In-Progress report slides, as presented by Jon Howell at the 1998 USENIX Annual Technical Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana.

i [Index] This Index 1 [Slide] An Approximate History of Distributed Systems 2 [Slide] 1970s: Single-System Image 3 [Slide] 1980s: Personal Workstations 4 [Slide] 1990s: Single-System Image Clusters 5 [Slide] The Problem With Clusters 6 [Slide] 2000s: User-Aggregated Clusters 7 [Slide] Modularity: Naming+Distribution=Aggregation 8 [Slide] Requirements 9 [Slide] Project Status