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Subject: Re: SEDMS II Proceedings Now Available
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From article <710@usenix.ORG>, by toni@usenix.ORG (Toni Veglia):
> 
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> If you couldn't join us in Atlanta, the proceedings from the Symposium
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> 
> 	Symposium on Experiences with Distributed
> 	     and Multiprocessor Systems
> 		       (SEDMS) II
> 
> 		   March 21-22, 1991
> 		   Atlanta, Georgia
> 
> TABLE OF CONTENTS
> 
> 
> Session I  System-Building & Experience		
> 
> Experience Developing the RP3 Operating System .....................1
> 	Ray Bryant, Hung-Yang Chang and Bryan Rosenburg (IBM Research
> 	Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center)
> 
> Experiences with Distributed Data Management in Real-time
> C3 Systems.........................................................19
> 	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................................................35
> 	Marc F. Pucci (Bellcore)
> 
> Building a Semi-Loosely Coupled Multiprocessor System Based
> on Network Process Extension.......................................51
> 	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.............................................................69
> 	Enrique Mafla and Bharat Bhargava  (Department of Computer
> 	Sciences, Purdue University)
> 
> Experience with Threads and RPC in Mach............................87
> 	Dan Duchamp (Computer Science Department, Columbia University)
> 
> Kernel-Kernel Communication in a Shared-Memory
> Multiprocessor....................................................105  
> 	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...................133  
> 	Vincent F. Russo (Department of Computer Sciences, Purdue
> 	University)
> 
> A Hybrid Approach to Load Balancing in Distributed
> Systems...........................................................149
> 	Prabha Gopinath (Philips Laboratories), and Rajiv Gupta
> 	(Department of Computer Science, University of Pittsburgh)
> 
> FALCON: A Distributed Scheduler for MIMD Architectures............149
> 	Andrew S. Grimshaw  (Department of Computer Science, University
> 	of Virginia) and Virgilio E. Vivas (Department of Informatics,
> 	LAGOVEN, S.A., Venezuela)
> 
> 
> 
> Session IV  Debugging and Analysis 	
> 
> Performance Evaluation of the Sylvan Multiprocessor
> Architecture......................................................165
> 	Forbes J. Burkowski, Charles L. A. Clarke, Gordon J. Vreugdenhil
>         (Department of Computer Science, University of Waterloo) and
>         Crispin Cowan (Computer Sciences Department, University of
> 	Western Ontario)
> 
> Debugging Multiprocessor Operating System Kernels.................185
> 	Noemi Paciorek, Susan LoVerso and Alan Langerman 
> 	(Encore Computer Corporation)
> 
> Debugging the Time Warp Operating System and Its Application
> Programs..........................................................203
> 	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.....................221
> 	Mark D. Campbell, Russ Holt and John Slice 
> 	(NCR Corporation, E&M Columbia)
> Measured Performance of Caching in the Sprite Network File 
> System...........................................................229 
>         Brent Welch (Xerox-PARC CSL) 
> 
> 
> Session VI  Distributing Memory and Data 
> 
> Using Kernel-Level Support for Distributed Shared Data...........247
> 	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..............................................261
> 	Douglas Comer and James Griffioen (Department of Computer
> 	Sciences, Purdue University)
> 
> Early Experience with Building and Using the Gothic
> Distributed Operating System.....................................271
> 	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......................................283
> 	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?...........................................301
> 	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...........................................321
> 	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)
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