peter@usenix.UUCP (Peter Salus) (01/23/88)
Call for Papers Workshop on UNIX and Supercomputers Westin William Penn Hotel Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania September 26-27, 1988 Sponsored by the USENIX Association 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. 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