boykin@custom.UUCP (Joseph Boykin) (09/12/87)
The early registration period for the Workshop on Workstation Operating Systems (WOS) closes September 15. For those interested in attending this workshop, you should get your registration forms in ASAP as a) Late/On-site registration will cost you more and b) we may not have any space available. Briefly, for those not familiar with this workshop, WOS will concentrate on those issues which must be addressed in order to develop an operating system specifically tailored to the workstation environment. For additional information, including registration materials, contact: Joseph Boykin Custom Software Systems P.O. Box 678 Natick, MA 01760 617-653-2555 (W) 617-651-8228 (H) ...necntc!custom!boykin - -
boykin@custom.UUCP (Joseph Boykin) (10/16/87)
- - - Yet another invitation to attend a soon to be held workshop. If you are interested in attending, please contact me ASAP! Joe Boykin Custom Software Systems ...necntc!custom!boykin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Workshop on Workstation Operating Systems November 5-6, 1987 Royal Sonesta Hotel Cambridge Massachussetts The availability of inexpensive and powerful hardware has brought personal workstations into offices and laboratories. Such systems include those based on the Motorola 680XX family, the Intel 80X86 family and National Semiconductors NS32X32 family, to name a few. Networking technology has interconnected these systems with Industry and ISO standard hardware and software (IEEE 802, TCP/IP, X.25, TP/IP, GM/MAP, etc.) It is clear that we are moving towards integrating these systems. Mainframes and PCs can communicate with each other to share data and; CPU and I/O loads can be distributed onto a machine most suited to a particular task. To date, the operating systems used on most of these new systems have been ported versions of those used by timesharing minicomputers; e.g. UNIX and VMS. As the hardware continues to evolve, the operating system, being tightly coupled to hardware technology, must also evolve. This workshop will focus attention on issues such as the following: 1) Do workstations provide an environment which differs from minis and super-minis in ways that should be reflected in the operating system? 2) What lessons from the mainframe world can be applied to this new hardware? 3) Where are current and forthcoming workstation different from traditional mainframes? 4) What is the impact and importance of the workstation interconnection functionality and technology? 5) How does the operating system prototype methodology need to evolve to accommodate new generations of hardware? 6) How does the system guard itself from device obsolescence? 7) How should applications make use of a workstation based environment? 8) How should recovery be dealt with in these extended environments? 9) What are the appropriate software abstractions that should be presented to both users and applications so that synchronization and sharing can be best accomodated? The registration fee is $220 and $275 for IEEE members and non-members respectively; this includes lunch and coffee/soda breaks. For registration information, contact: Joseph Boykin, Conference Chairman, Custom Software Systems P.O. Box 678 Natick, MA 01760 617-653-2555 - -
boykin@encore (Joseph Boykin) (08/06/89)
Asilomar Conference Center, Pacific Grove, CA. September 27-29, 1989 A CFP for the Second Workshop on Workstation Operating Systems was distributed several months ago. The program committee has selected 25 papers for presentation; the titles and authors of these papers appear below, as does the original CFP. This workshop is very interactive and concentrates on new research areas pertaining to workstations and workstation operating systems. There are still some seats left. If you are interested in attending, please contact me as quickly as possible. ---- Joe Boykin General Chair, WWOS-II Encore Computer Corp Vice-Chair, IEEE Computer Societies' Technical Activities Board Internet: boykin@encore.com UUCP: encore!boykin PHONE: 508-460-0500 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Sprite Position Statement: Use Distributed State for Failure Recovery. Welch, Baker, Douglis, hartman, Rosenblum. Efficient Shared Memory for Testing Parallel Altorithms on Distributed Systems M. Stella Atkins Plurix: A multiprocessing UNIX-like Operating System Newton Faller and Pedro Salenbauch What is the right amount of statelessness in a file server? Jeffrey Mogul. Should Workstation Operating Systems do Virtual Memory? Robert Hagmann Experience with object-based distributed computation in the Guide Operating Systems Balter, et. al. Supporting Large Scale Applications on Networks of Workstations Robert Cooper, Ken Birman. MACH: A foundation for Open Systems Rashid, et. al. The x-Kernel: An Open Operating System Design. Norman Hutchinson, Larry Peterson, Herman Rao. PROST. Thomas Patzelt. Workstations and the Virtual System Model B. Clifford Neuman. A Multi-User, Multi-Language Open Operating System. Michal Scott, Thomas LeBlanc, Brian Marsh. AIX 3 Technology J.C. O'Quinn and C.H. Sauer The Connector and Active Devices Mechanisms for Constructing Multimedia Applications. Leung, Morgan, Morgan and Wong. A Prototype Information Environment. Bruce Schatz. A Workstation as Global Communication Interface. David Anderson. Coda: A Reslient Distributed File System for a Workstation Environment. M. Satyanarayanan. Ubik: Replicated Servers Made Easy. Michael Kazar. Operating System Support for an Object-Oriented Environment. Paulo Guedes and Jose Alves Marques. Availability and Consistency Tradeoffs in the Echo Distributed File System. Hisgen, Birrell, Mann, Schroeder and Swart. Architecture of Fault-Tolerant Multiprocessor Workstations. J.P. Banatre, M. Banatre, and G. Muller. A File Storage Implementation for Very Large Distributed Systems. Rafael Alonso, Daniel Barbara, Luis Cova. The Raven Project. Gerald Neufeld and Samuel Chanson. The Workstation on the Network: Performance Considerations for the Communications Interface. K.K. Ramakrishnan and William Hawe. Efficient At-Most-Once Messages Based on Synchronized Clocks. Barbara Liskov, Liuba Shrira, John Wroclawsk. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Second Workshop On WORKSTATION OPERATING SYSTEMS Sponsored by: The IEEE Computer Society - Technical Committee on Operating Systems Asilomar Conference Center, Pacific Grove, CA. September 27-29, 1989 The Second Workshop on Workstation Operating Systems (WWOS-II) will bring together a number of researchers and developers to discuss their work and experiences in workstation operating systems. As workstation technology and man-machine interfaces advance, the operating system must evolve. Potential topic areas include: o New workstation operating systems o OS changes for the workstation environment (e.g. graphical interfaces) o Scheduling and resource management o Workstation architectures o Multi-processor considerations To facilitate the dialog that is so valuable in a workshop setting, attendance will be limited to 60 active workers in the field. Registration requests should be addressed to Joseph Boykin, the General Chair. General Chairman: Joseph Boykin Encore Computer Corp. 257 Cedar Hill Street Marlborough, MA 01752 (508) 460-0500 x2720 ARPA: boykin@encore.com UUCP: encore!boykin Program Chairman: Luis Felipe Cabrera IBM Almaden Research Center 650 Harry Road San Jose, CA 95120 (408) 927-1838 ARPA: cabrera@ibm.com UUCP: ucbvax!cabrera Registration, including a copy of the proceedings: Pre-registration On-site Computer Society Member $160 $215 Non-member $210 $275 Student Member $95 $125 Lodging: $55 per night for double occupancy room, breakfast, lunch, and dinner. $110 per night for single occupancy. -- Someday has arrived