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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)