andrea@usenix.ORG (Andrea Galleni) (11/03/90)
If you couldn't join us in Colorado Springs, CO, the proceedings from the Large Installation Systems Administration IV Conference are now available for $15 to USENIX members, and $18 to non-members (add $8 for foreign postage). You can place an order by phone or email using your VISA or Mastercard. Telephone: 415-528-8649 Email: office@usenix.org Above price includes domestic shipping and handling charges. You can also mail a check or purchase order to: USENIX Association 2560 Ninth St., Suite 215 Berkeley CA 94710 The USENIX Association Staff --------------------------------------------------------------- Conference Program: Users, Users, Users Thursday Chair: Steve Simmons ACMAINT: An Account Creation and Maintenance System for Distributed UNIX Systems David A. Curry, SRI International, Samuel D. Kimery, Kent C. De La Croix, and Jeffrey R. Schwab, Purdue University UDB -- User Data Base System Roland J. Stolfa and Mark J. Vasoll, Oklahoma State University GAUD: RAND's Group and User Database Michael Urban, The RAND Corporation newu: Multi-host User Setup Stephen P. Schaefer, MCNC Satyanarayana R. Vemulakonda, formerly of Duke University Computer Science Dept. Uniqname Overview William A. Doster, Yew-Hong Leong, and Steven J. Mattson, The University of Michigan Managing Outside Software Thursday Chair: Nick Simicich The Depot: A Framework for Sharing Software Installation Across Organizational and UNIX Platform Boundaries Kenneth Manheimer, NIST Barry A. Warsaw, Century Computing, Stephen N. Clark, NIST Walter Rowe, NIST Guidelines and Tools for Software Maintenance Kevin C. Smallwood, Purdue University Computing Center Keeping Up With the Manual System Kevin Braunsdorf, Purdue University Computing Center The Answer to All Man's Problems Tom Christiansen, Convex Computer Corporatioin Life Without Root Steve Simmons, Industrial Technology Institute Tools For The Administrator Friday Chair: Kevin Smallwood Trouble-MH: A Work-Queue Management Package for a >3 Ring Circus Tinsley Galyean, Brown University Trent Hein and Evi Nemeth, University of Colorado A Console Server Thomas A. Fine and Steven M. Romig, The Ohio State University Network Monitoring by Scripts Katy Kislitzin, Computer Sciences Corporation Using expect to Automate System Administration Tasks Don Libes, National Institute of Standards and Technology Gaithersburg, MD libes@cme.nist.gov Policy as a System Administration Tool Elizabeth D. Zwicky, SRI International Steve Simmons and Ron Dalton, Industrial Technology Institute Mail and Backups -- Old Problems With New Faces Friday Chair: Elizabeth Zwicky, SRI International Integrating X.500 Directory Service into a Large Campus Computing Environment Timothy Howes, University of Michigan A Domain Mail System on Dissimilar Computers: Trials and Tribulations of SMTP Helen E. Harrison, SAS Institute, Inc. Backup at Ohio State, Take 2 Steven M. Romig, The Ohio State University The AFS 3.0 Backup System Steve Lammert, Transarc Corporation
andrea@usenix.ORG (Andrea Galleni) (02/05/91)
If you couldn't join us in Dallas, the proceedings from the Winter USENIX Conference 1991 are now available for $28 for USENIX Members and $32 for Non-Members (add $18 for foreign postage). You can place an order by phone or email using your VISA/MC. Telephone: 415-528-8649 Email: office@usenix.org Above price includes domestic shipping and handling charges. Shipment will be made within the week! You can also mail a check or purchase order to: USENIX Association 2560 Ninth St., Suite 215 Berkeley CA 94710 The USENIX Association Staff _______________________________________________________________________ TABLE OF CONTENTS Processors, Priority, and Policy: Mach Scheduling for New Environments............................................. 1 David L. Black, Carnegie Mellon University A Second-Generation Micro-Kernel Based UNIX; Lessons in Performance and Compatibility............................ 13 Marc Guillemont, Jim Lipkis, Doug Orr, Marc Rozier, Chorus systemes Partitioned Multiprocessors and The Coexistence of Heterogeneous Operating Systems.......................... 23 Nick Vasilatos, Concurrent Computer Corporation Extent-like Performance from a UNIX File System............. 33 L. W. McVoy, S. R. Kleiman, Sun Microsystems, Inc. Smart Filesystems........................................... 45 Carl Staelin, Hector Garcia-Molina, Princeton University Lessons Learned Tuning the 4.3BSD Reno Implementation of the NFS Protocol............................................. 53 Rick Macklem, University of Guelph SunOS Multi-thread Architecture............................. 65 M. L. Powell, S. R. Kleiman, S. Barton, D. Shah, D. Stein, M. Weeks, Sun Microsystems Inc. Bringing the C Libraries With Us into a Multi-Threaded Future................................................... 81 Michael B. Jones, Carnegie Mellon University A Tree-Based Packet Routing Table for Berkeley Unix......... 93 Keith Sklower, University of California, Berkeley An X11 Toolkit Based on the Tcl Language....................105 John K. Ousterhout, University of California at Berkeley User Interface Construction Based On Parallel and Sequential Execution Specification..................................117 Toshiyuki Masui, Center for Machine Translation, Carnegie Mellon University $HOME MOVIE - Tools for Building Demos on a Sparcstation....127 Stephen A. Uhler, Bellcore Awk As A Major Systems Programming Language.................137 Henry Spencer, University of Toronto Program Loading in OSF/1....................................145 Larry W. Allen, Harminder G. Singh, Kevin G. Wallace, Melanie B. Weaver, Open Software Foundation Compiling from Saved State: Fast Incremental Compilation with Traditional UNIX Compilers..........................161 Alastair Fyfe, Ivan Soleimanipour, Vijay Tatkar, Sun Microsystems A New Hashing Package for UNIX..............................173 Margo Seltzer, University of California, Berkeley; Ozan Yigit, York University Evolutionary Path to Network Storage Management.............185 Robert K. Israel, Antony W. Foster, Arun Taylor, Tracy M. Taylor, Neil Webber, Epoch Systems, Inc. A Highly Available Network File Server......................199 Anupam Bhide, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center; Elmootazbellah N. Elnozahy, Rice University; Stephen P. Morgan, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center The OSF/1 Unix Filesystem (UFS).............................207 Susan LoVerso, Noemi Paciorek, Alan Langerman, Encore Computer Corporation; George Feinberg, Open Software Foundation Advancing Files to Attributed Software Objects..............219 Andreas Lampen, Technische Universitt Berlin Organizing Tools in a Uniform Environment Framework.........231 Axel Mahler, Technische Universitt Berlin The Process File System and Process Model in UNIX System V..243 Roger Faulkner, Sun Microsystems; Ron Gomes, AT&T Bell Laboratories Limitations of the Kerberos Authentication System...........253 Steven M. Bellovin, Michael Merritt, AT&T Bell Laboratories UNIX Password Encryption Considered Insecure................269 Philip Leong, University of Sydney; Chris Tham, State Bank of Victoria An Authentication Mechanism for USENET......................281 Matt Bishop, Dartmouth College An Experimental Implementation of Draft POSIX Asynchronous I/O......................................................289 A. Lester Buck, Robert A. Coyne, Jr., IBM Federal Sector Division, Houston The Parallelization of UNIX System V Release 4.0............307 Mark Campbell, Richard Barton, Jim Browning, Dennis Cervenka, Ben Curry, Todd Davis, Tracy Edmonds, Russ Holt, John Slice, Tucker Smith, Rich Wescott, NCR Corporation-E&M Columbia A NonStop UNIX Operating System.............................325 Peter Norwood, Tivoli Systems, Inc. DRUMS: A Distributed Statistical Server for STARS...........335 Andy Bond, John H. Hine, Victoria University of Wellington Experience Building a Process Migration Subsystem for UNIX..349 Dan Freedman, University of Calgary A Modular Architecture for Distributed Transaction Processing...............................................357 Michael Wayne Young, Dean S. Thompson, Elliot Jaffe, Transarc Corporation
toni@usenix.ORG (Toni Veglia) (03/30/91)
If you couldn't join us in Atlanta, the proceedings from the Symposium on Distributed and Multiprocessor Systems II (SEDMS) are now available for $30 for USENIX members, and $36 for non-members. This price includes postage for domestic and Canadian shipping. Please add $20 for overseas postage (air printed matter). You can place your order by phone or email using your VISA or Master- card, or you can send a check or purchase order to our office. USENIX Association 2560 Ninth St., Suite 215 Berkeley, CA 94710 415-528-8649 office@usenix.org The USENIX Association Staff ______________________________________________________________________ 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)