Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ucbvax!hplabs!hplabsc!taylor From: taylor@hplabsc.UUCP Newsgroups: news.announce.conferences Subject: CFP: Workshop on Workstation Operating Systems Message-ID: <1888@hplabsc.HP.COM> Date: Wed, 27-May-87 00:34:12 EDT Article-I.D.: hplabsc.1888 Posted: Wed May 27 00:34:12 1987 Date-Received: Thu, 28-May-87 06:09:10 EDT Expires: Thu, 5-Nov-87 03:00:00 EDT Sender: taylor@hplabsc.HP.COM Distribution: world Organization: Custom Software Systems; Natick, MA Lines: 114 Approved: taylor@hplabs Location: Cambridge, MA, USA This is a reposting -- If you are interested in attending and/or presenting a paper, please contact either myself or Luis-Felipe Cabrera (address in article). Joseph Boykin Custom Software Systems ...necntc!custom!boykin -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ANNOUNCEMENT and CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Workshop on Workstation Operating Systems November 5-6, 1987 Royal Sonesta Hotel Cambridge Massachusetts The availability of inexpensive and powerful hardware has brought personal workstations into offices and laboratories. As we move towards integrating these systems, mainframes and PCs can communicate with each other to share data. Similarly, CPU and I/O loads can be distributed onto a machine most suited to a particular task. To date, the operating systems used on most of these new systems have been ported versions of those used by timesharing minicomputers; e.g. UNIX and VMS. As the hardware continues to evolve, the operating system, being tightly coupled to hardware technology, must also evolve. This workshop will concentrate on issues which must be addressed in order to develop an operating system specifically tailored to the workstation environment. Such issues include: 1) Do workstations provide an environment which differs from minis and super-minis in ways that should be reflected in the operating system? 2) What lessons from the mainframe world can be applied to this new hardware? 3) What is the impact and importance of the workstation interconnection functionality and technology? 4) How does operating system methodology need to evolve to accommodate new generations of hardware? 5) How should applications make use of a workstation-based environment? 6) How should recovery be dealt with in these extended environments? 7) What are the appropriate software abstractions that should be presented to both users and applications so that synchronization and sharing can be best accomodated? Program Committee: Luis-Felipe Cabrera (Chairman) - IBM Almaden Research Center Kenneth Birman: Cornell University Joseph Boykin: Custom Software Systems Sam Chamson: Univ. of British Columbia Robert Hagmann: Xerox PARC Paul Leach: Apollo Computer Paul McJones: DEC SRC John Ousterhout: Univ. of California Richard Rashid: Carnegie Mellon Willy Zwanaepoel: Rice University To facilitate the dialog that is so valuable in a workshop setting, attendance will be limited. Preference will be given to papers that have not been previously published or presented. Authors will be evolve to accommodate new generations of hardwsecure releases from employers and to present the papers. All attendees, including authors, are expected to bear all costs including the registration fee. This is $180 for IEEE members; $225 for non-IEEE members. On-site registration fees will be $200 and $250 for IEEE members and non-members respectively. Potential participants should prepare a concise position statement describing specific related experience and the participant's interest and future directions related to the workshop topic. Deadline for submissions will be July 27, 1987. Notification of acceptance will be sent by August 21, 1987. Ten copies of the position statement should be sent to the program committee chairman: Luis Felipe Cabrera Phone: 408-927-1838 IBM Almaden Research Center ARPANET: cabrera@ibm.com 650 Harry Road UUCP: ...!ucbvax!cabrera San Jose, CA 95120-6099 BITNET: cabrera at almvma For registration information, contact the workshop chairman: Joseph Boykin Phone: 617-653-2555 Custom Software Systems UUCP:...!decvax!necntc!custom!boykin P.O. Box 678 Natick, MA 01760 For any additional information please contact: Marvin Theimer Phone: 408-927-1759 IBM Almaden Research Center ARPANET: theimer@ibm.com 650 Harry Road BITNET: theimer at almvma San Jose, CA 95120-6099 SPONSOR: Technical Committee on Operating Systems Joseph Boykin, Chair - - -