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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)
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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 Corporationtoni@usenix.ORG (Toni Veglia) (03/30/91)
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)