Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!emory!hubcap!spaf From: spaf@cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford) Newsgroups: comp.parallel Subject: Symposium on Experiences with Distributed and Multiprocessor Systems Message-ID: <12922@hubcap.clemson.edu> Date: 5 Feb 91 03:11:31 GMT Sender: fpst@hubcap.clemson.edu Reply-To: spaf@cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford) Followup-To: comp.usenix Organization: Department of Computer Science, Purdue University Lines: 177 Approved: parallel@hubcap.clemson.edu SEDMS II Symposium on Experiences With Distributed and Multiprocessor Systems 21--22 March 1991 Atlanta, Georgia Sponsored by: The Usenix Association and The Software Engineering Research Center (SERC) In cooperation with: ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication (SIGCOMM) ACM Special Interest Group on Operating Systems (SIGOPS) IEEE-CS Technical Committee on Distributed Processing (TCDP) IEEE-CS Technical Committee on Operating Systems (TCOS) IEEE-CS technical Committee on Software Engineering (TCSE) Registration and Travel Support To receive a brochure and registration information contact: Ms. Judy DesHarnais USENIX Conference Office 22672 Lambert Street, Suite 613 El Toro, CA 92630 Phone: +1 714 588-8649 FAX: +1 714 588-9706 E-mail: judy@usenix.org A limited number of grants are available for FULL-TIME students, to help defray travel, lodging, and registration expenses. Full time students interested in these grants should contact: Ms. Ellie Young, Executive Director USENIX Association 2560 Ninth Street, Suite 215 Berkeley, CA 94710 E-mail: ellie@usenix.org Travel grant applications must be RECEIVED no later than February 22. Papers and Speakers Opening remarks: George Leach, General Chair (ATT Paradyne, Largo, FL) and Eugene Spafford, Program Chair (Software Engineering Research Center Department of Computer Sciences, Purdue University) Invited Keynote Presentation: "How to Move Parallel Processing into the Mainstream?" Professor H. T. Kung (School of Computer Science, Carnegie-Mellon University) Session I --- System-Building Experience "Experience Developing the RP3 Operating System" Ray Bryant, Hung-Yang Chang and Bryan Rosenburg (IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Rsearch Center) "Experiences with Distributed Data Management in Real-time Systems" Paul J. Fortier (Naval Underwater Systems Center), David V. Pitts, John C. Sieg, Jr. and C. Thomas Wilkes (Department of Computer Science, University of Lowell) "The Ion Data Engine" Marc F. Pucci (Bellcore) "Building a Semi-Loosely Coupled Multiprocessor System Based on Network Process Extension" Helen S. Raizen (Prime Computer Inc.) and Stephen C. Schwarm (Digital Equipment Corporation) Session II --- RPC and Communications "Implementation and Performance of a Communication Facility for the Raid Distributed Transaction Processing System" Enrique Mafla and Bharat Bhargava (Department of Computer Sciences, Purdue University) "Experience with Threads and RPC in Mach" Dan Duchamp (Computer Science Department, Columbia University) "Kernel-Kernel Communication in a Shared-Memory Multiprocessor" Eliseu M. Chaves, Jr. (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Thomas J. LeBlanc, Brian D. Marsh and Michael L. Scott (Computer Science Department, University of Rochester) Session III --- Scheduling Synchronization "Process Scheduling and Synchronization in the Renaissance Object-Oriented Multiprocessor Operating System" Vincent F. Russo (Department of Computer Sciences, Purdue University) "A Hybrid Approach to Load Balancing in Distributed Systems" Prabha Gopinath (Philips Laboratories), and Rajiv Gupta (Department of Computer Science, University of Pittsburgh) "FALCON: A Distributed Scheduler for MIMD Architectures" Andrew S. Grimshaw (Department of Computer Science, University of Virginia) and Virgilio E. Vivas (Department of Informatics, LAGOVEN, S.A., Venezuela) Work-in-Progress Session Moderator: Mike O'Dell (Bellcore) Optional discussion/panel session: "Orthogonal Optimization Languages in Distributed Systems" organized by A. Lester Buck (IBM Federal Sector Division). Other discussion and topics as the audience suggests. Session IV --- Debugging and Analysis "Performance Evaluation of the Sylvan Multiprocessor Architecture" Forbes J. Burkowski, Charles L. A. Clarke, Gordon J. Vreugdenhil (Department of Computer Science, University of Waterloo), and Crispin Cowan (Computer Science Department, University of Western Ontario) "Debugging Multiprocessor Operating System Kernels" Noemi Paciorek, Susan LoVerso and Alan Langerman (Encore Computer Corporation) "Debugging the Time Warp Operating System and Its Application Programs" Peter L. Reiher (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), Steven Bellenot (The Florida State University), and David Jefferson (UCLA) Session V --- Performance Tuning "Lock Granularity Tuning Mechanisms in SVR4/MP" Mark D. Campbell, Russ Holt and John Slice (NCR Corporation, EM Columbia) "Measured Performance of Caching in the Sprite Network File System" Brent Welch (Xerox-PARC CSL) Session VI --- Distributing Memory and Data "Using Kernel-Level Support for Distributed Shared Data" David L. Cohn, Paul M. Greenawalt, Michael R. Casey and Matthew P. Stevenson (Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Notre Dame) "Virtual Memory Xinu" Douglas Comer and James Griffioen (Department of Computer Sciences, Purdue University) "Early Experience with Building and Using the Gothic Distributed Operating System" Isabelle Puaut, Michel Banatre and Jean-Paul Routeau (IRISA--INRIA, France) Session VII --- Distributed Systems "Supporting an Object-Oriented Distributed System: Experience with Unix, Mach and Chorus" F. Boyer, J. Cayuela, P. Y. Chevalier, A. Freyssinet, and Daniel Hagimont (Unite Mixte Bull-IMAG/Systemes, Gieres, France) "Can We Study Design Issues of Distributed Operating Systems in a Generalized Way?" G. W. Gerrity, A. Goscinski, J. Indulska, W. Toomey and W. Zhu (Department of Computer Science, University College, University of New South Wales) "Language and Operating System Support for Distributed Programming in Clouds" Partha Dasgupta (Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Arizona State University), R. Ananthanarayanan, Sathis Menon, Ajay Mohindra, Mark Pearson, Raymond Chen and Christopher Wilkenloh (Distributed Systems Laboratory, College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology) Alternate Paper, Not scheduled for presentation: "Experiences with the Liason Network Multimedia Workstation" Howard P. Katseff, Robert D. Gaglianello, Thomas B. London, Bethany S. Robinson and Donald B. Swicker (ATT Bell Laboratories) A full proceedings will be distributed to all attendees. Extra copies of the proceedings will be for sale after the symposium. Contact office@usenix.org for details. -- Gene Spafford NSF/Purdue/U of Florida Software Engineering Research Center, Dept. of Computer Sciences, Purdue University, W. 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