taylor@hplabsc.UUCP (07/08/86)
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EUUG Autumn'86 Manchester Workshop:
Preliminary Program
September 22nd thru 24th, 1986
Michel Gien
(mcvax!inria!mg)
The EUUG Autumn'86 Workshop in Manchester will be focusing on technical
presentations and discussions around one theme where a lot of energy is being
spent these days in the UNIX technical community: distributed UNIX systems and
applications. Actually the focus will be much more on the system than on the
application aspects, due to the nature of the papers submitted - this may
mean that there are many more people working on distributing UNIX than people
actually using distributed UNIXes -.
Unlike the other "big" EUUG conference, this one will not have any commercial
exhibition associated with it. It will be mostly technically oriented. There
will be a quite large number of speakers to give participants a chance to
present their work and thus propose introductory material for starting
discussions and exchange of ideas, during, or after the sessions (around a
glass of the famous but cheap Manchester Beer...:-).
Technical Program
The technical program will last three days, from:
Monday 22 September 1986 at 10.00 to Wednesday 24 September at
17.30.
As preliminary information, the program should include the
following papers:
- Networking:
+ "ROSE, EUNET and the Migration to OSI", W. Blumann (Siemens, Germany), T.
Cook (GEC, UK), J. Loveluck (Bull, France), S. Pozzana (Olivetti, Italy),
D. Power (ICL, UK), and C. Saury (Bull, France).
+ "OSI and TCP/IP Protocols on a UNIX System V", M. Fievet, Ch. Huitema, B.
Martin, A. Remille, G. Vaysseix, and J.M. Fenart (INRIA, France).
+ "Integrating APPLETALK Workstations into a UNIX Network Environment", H.T.
Smith, W. Armitage, and R.J. Duckworth (Nottingham U., UK).
- Remote file systems:
+ "Toward a Compatible Filesystem Interface", M.J. Karels and M. Kirk
McKusick, (UC Berkeley, USA).
+ "NFS on a VAX", J. Reid, (Strathclyde U., UK).
+ "Yet another port of NFS on a System V based Workstation", J. Rogado and
G. Vaysseix (INRIA, France).
+ "HARKYS: A New Network File Systems Approach", A. Baldi and L. Stefanelli
(Systems & Management, Italy).
+ "The Austec ACENET High-level Networking Software", J.A. Longo and D.W.
Scott (Austec, UK).
+ "Design and Implementation of MUNIX/NET", R. Wildgruber (PCS, Germany).
+ "Remote File Systems are not enough", L.F. Marshall, (U. of Newcastle
upon Tyne).
- Distributed File Systems:
+ "VOLUMES: A Data Structuring Primitive for Large Distributed File Systems",
B. Sidebotham, (CMU, USA).
+ "AFS, BFS, CFS,... or Distributed File Systems for UNIX", A. Barak and
D. Malki, (The Hebrew U. of Jerusalem, Israel).
+ "The GUIDE Distributed File System", G. Vandome, (Bull, France).
+ "A Model for a Virtual Database Machine", M. Farmer (Birkbeck College, UK)
and B. Robinson, (Hatfield Polytechnic, UK).
- Operation of Distributed Environments:
+ "Managing a Distributed Environment", N. Kincl, T. Jin, and R. Michaels,
(Hewlett-Packard Labs, USA).
+ "BAU: Backup and Archival for UNIX", K. Eckhoff and D. Karrenberg,
(Dortmund U., Germany).
- Heterogeneity:
+ "Interconnecting Heterogeneous Computer Systems", A.P. Black and E.D.
Lazowska (U. of Washington, USA).
+ "Automated Remote Dialog", W. Schwabl, (Technical University Vienna,
Austria).
- Art in Distributed Environments:
+ "+1 201-644-2332 or Eedie & Eddie Make Beautiful Music in a Distributed
Computing Environment", P.S. Langston, (Bell Communications Research, USA)
- Distributed Systems:
+ "The EDEN Project: Overview and Experiences", A. P. Black, (U. of
Washington, USA).
+ "MACH: A Basis for Future UNIX Development", A. Tevanian, (CMU, USA).
+ "Towards a Distributed UNIX System: the CHORUS Approach", F. Armand,
M. Gien, M. Guillemont, and P. Leonard (CNET/INRIA, France).
+ "From UNIX to a Usable Distributed Operating System", R. van Renesse,
(Vrije U. Amsterdam, Netherlands).
+ "Structure of the BirliX Operating System", H. Hartig, W. Kuhnhauser,
W. Lux, H. Streich, and G. Goos, (GMD, Germany).
+ "MANUS: an Experimental Educational UNIX Network", G. Florijn,
(IHBO "de Maere", Netherlands).
- Facilities for Distributed Systems:
+ "A New Virtual Memory Implementation for Berkeley UNIX", M. Kirk
McKusick and M.J. Karels, (U.C. Berkeley, USA).
+ "MOS: A Load Balancing UNIX", A. Barak and O.G. Paradise, (The Hebrew
U. of Jerusalem, Israel).
- User Interfaces :
+ "A User Interface for Building Distributed Programming Environments",
Z. Sun and D. Hutchison, (U. of Lancaster, UK).
+ "Maintaining the State of a Distributed UNIX Process", R. Isle,
(Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany), J. Mueller, and L. Nentwig, (U.
Bremen, Germany).
+ "Validating Parallel Language Features with XLISP", T. de Ridder, (IHBO
"de Maere", Netherlands).
+ "Approaches to Parallel Programming on Multiprocessors", L.S. Grob and
J. Lipkis, (New-York U., USA).
+ "A Dispassionate Analysis of a Couple of Existing Parallel Computers
Software Environments", N. Blachman, (RIACS/NASA, USA).
+ "SAST: a Distributed Object-Oriented Software Development Environment",
S. Gefroerer (Siemens, Germany), E. Falkenberg (U. of Queensland,
Australia), R. Schragl, (UNA-DAT, Germany).
- Multi-Processors and Parallel Computers:
+ "Multi-processing UNIX Systems: an Overview", R.T.Van Steenberg, (NCR, UK)
+ "Considerations for Massively Parallel UNIX Systems on the NYU
Ultracomputer and IBM RP3", J. Edler, A. Gottlieb, and J. Lipkis,
(New York U., USA).
+ "Computational servers in a UNIX environment", C. Castagnoli and A.
Sheppard, (Convex, USA).
Tutorials
Thursday 25 September 1986 will be dedicated to advanced
tutorials on the internals of 4.3BSD and System V, Release 3,
presented by the key wizards from Berkeley (Mike Karels and
Kirk McKusick) and AT&T (Bob Ducanson, Bruce Richards and Andy
Rifkin).
- Advanced 4.3BSD Topics
9:15-10:30 Performance Tuning Techniques
tools and techniques for measuring performance
use of these techniques to tune name translation
10:30-11:00 Break
10:45-12:15 Networking and IPC
cleanups and speedups
buffer management
mbuf allocation (M_WAIT)
Xerox NS
changes to socket/protocol interface
TCP send policy (congestion control, silly window,
delayed ack)
changes to the link/transport interface for 4.3
interface addressing, routing
protocol gets interface info with packet
Unibus buffer handling
Unix domain changes
12:30-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:30 Interface Extensions and Performace Work in 4.3
signals, model extensions and implementation cleanups
nameserver integration
syslog
file handling (no. open files, close-on-exec not dup'ed,
EXCL open on symlink, sticky directory)
scheduling and timing tuning
virtual memory optimizations
file system tweaks
15:30-16:00 Break
16:00-5:15 Future Directions
Virtual memory
interface
architecture and data structures
implementation
Remote filesystems
design criteria
implementation decisions: name translation,
symlinks,
recurs/iterative lookup, ..,
heterogeneity.
layering and internal interfaces
authentication
RPC
Streams
interface
layering
terminal protocols
- System V, Release 3 Internals:
Streams
TLS (Transport Layer Interface)
RFS
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