grob@cmcl2.NYU.EDU (Lori S. Grob) (07/14/88)
Call for Papers
Workshop on UNIX and Supercomputers
Westin William Penn Hotel
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
September 26-27, 1988
Sponsored by the USENIX Association
NON-PRESENTERS WELCOME!
A large number of supercomputers are now or will in the future be running
UNIX as their primary operating system. This is the first workshop to
consider the general problems of running UNIX on supercomputers, and will
cover topics both practical and abstract. Areas of specific interest
include but are not limited to:
Systems administration
Archiving
Scheduling
File systems
Networking and network protocols
Job batching systems
Monitoring Performance/parallelism
Programming languages and environments
Fast file I/O
Shared memory management
IPC
Very large files
Checkpoint-restart
The workshop will include both shorter presentations and full-length
papers, and there will also be tours of Pittsburgh Supercomputing
Center and Westinghouse Energy Center facilities and a reception at
the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center. Workshop proceedings will be
available at the Workshop.
iF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN PRESENTING EITHER A FULL PAPER OR A BRIEF
DISCUSSION OF YOUR CURRENT WORK, PLEASE SEND AN ABSTRACT OF YOUR PAPER
OR PRESENTATION TO MELINDA SHORE BY July 15, 1988 . If you are sending
your submission by US Mail, please send three copies. All submissions
will be acknowledged.
YOU NEED NOT BE A PRESENTER TO ATTEND!
Program Co-chairs:
Lori Grob
NYU Ultracomputer Research Lab
715 Broadway, 10th Floor
New York, NY 10003
(212)998-3339
grob@lori.ultra.nyu.edu
Melinda Shore
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
4400 Fifth Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
(412)268-5125
shore@reason.psc.edu