alix@athena.mit.edu (Alix Vasilatos) (09/02/88)
Folks, note the deadline for submissions is September 15!!! Keep those cards
and letters coming! - Alix
Call for Papers
Workshop on Large Installation Systems Administration
Monterey, California
November 17-18, 1988
Sponsored by the USENIX Association
In light of last year's successful workshop on Large Installation
Systems Administration, Alix Vasilatos will again be chairing a workshop
on this subject in Monterey, CA on Thursday and Friday, November 17th
and 18th, 1988. There is demonstrable benefit in bringing together
system administrators of sites with 100 or more users (on one or more
processors) to compare notes on solutions that they have found for a
variety of common problems. These include but are not limited to:
Large file systems (dumps, networked file systems)
Password file administration
Large mail system administration
USENET/News/Notes administration
Heterogeneous environments (mixed vendor and/or version)
Load control and batch systems
Monitoring tools
Software release to multiple systems
Output device management
We are particularly interested in technical solutions to problems
involving changes which directly affect users.
The workshop will focus on short papers and presentations. Please
submit (electronically, to alix@athena.MIT.EDU) a one or two page
single-spaced summary describing the solution to a problem. Include
a description of the unique characteristics of the site, an outline
of the problem, and a description of the solution (detailed enough
that fellow administrators can implement it). Workshop proceedings
will be available at the workshop.
The deadline for submissions is September 15, 1988. For further details
about the workshop, contact:
Alix Vasilatos
MIT Project Athena
E40-357
1 Amherst Street
Cambridge, MA 02139
alix@athena.MIT.EDU
617-253-0121
For further details about registration, contact:
USENIX Conference Office
P.O. Box 385
Sunset Beach, CA 90742
213-592-1381
213-592-3243
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