grob@chorus.fr (Lori Grob) (01/08/91)
Usenix is pleased to present two panel sessions which we hope
you will find interesting and informative.
Panel Title: Kernel Directions
Time: Thursday 11:30 - 12:30
Micro-kernels: The latest fad or a natural evolution?
Last years's buzzword was standards, this year's is
micro-kernel. If you read the technical press it seems
that operating systems kernels are evolving from kernels
which provide all or most of the system services to
micro-kernels which provide the minimal functionality
in the kernels itself and look to system servers to
provide the rest.
The panel will consider this evolution and discuss, among
other issues, whether there really is an evolution taking
place or is it just hype and is a move toward smaller
kernels with less functionality technically desireable.
The panel will attempt elaborate the many pros and cons
involved in changes to the "architecture" of an
operating system and to resolve whether the movement
toward smaller kernels is monotonic.
The participants are Michel Gien (Chorus systemes),
Michael Karels (University of California, Berkeley),
Rob Pike (AT&T Bell Labs.), Michael Powell
(Sun Microsystems) and Richard Rashid (CMU).
The panel will be moderated by Marc Donner (IBM Research)
Panel Title: Distributed File Systems: Hopes, Myths,
and Realities
Time: Friday 11:00-12:00
The panel will consider the adequacy of existing
distributed file system solutions, focusing on AFS and
NFS as the leading contenders, and will contrast them
with leading-edge academic approaches.
The panel will try to resolve the many controversial
and provocative issues facing the file systems
community as it gropes toward near- and
intermediate-term solutions for this fundamental piece
of the distributed computing infrastructure.
The participants are Rafael Alonso(Princeton University)
Mike Kazer(Transarc), John Osterhaut (UC Berkeley),
Brian Palowski(Sun Microsystems) and Rob Pike
(AT&TBell Labs). The panel will be moderated by
Peter Honeyman (IFS University of Michigan)
Lori S. Grob
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