[news.announce.conferences] Program of the 1989 SIGMETRICS/PERFORMANCE '89 Conference

ferrari@ernie.berkeley.edu (Domenico Ferrari) (02/13/89)

1989 ACM SIGMETRICS AND PERFORMANCE '89 CONFERENCE
International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems
Berkeley, California, U.S.A.
May 23-26, 1989

ADVANCE PROGRAM

Tuesday May 23, 1989
7-10 pm - Registration


Wednesday May 24, 1989

7:30 - Registration

8:40 - Introductory Remarks
Domenico Ferrari, General Chairman
Alan J. Smith, Program Chairman

9:00 - Session I. I/O and Data Base Systems

Joel Wolf,
IBM,
"The Placement Optimization Program:  A Practical Solution
to the DASD File Assignment Problem"

John P. Kearns,
College of William and Mary,
and Samuel DeFazio,
Mead Data Control,
"Diversity in Database Reference Behavior"

10:00 - Break

10:30 - Session II. Keynote Speaker
K. Mani Chandy,
University of Texas and California Institute of Technology,
"Performance Modeling: Past, and Potential Future"

11:30 - Lunch

1:00 - Poster Session I

2:00 - Session III.  Reliability

Joseph Hellerstein,
IBM,
"A Statistical Approach to Diagnosing Intermittent Performance
Problems Using Monotone Relationships"

Richard R. Muntz,
UCLA,
E. de Souza e Silva,
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro,
and Ambuj Goyal,
IBM,
"Bounding Availability of Repairable Computer Systems"

3:00 - Break

3:30 - Session IV. Systems

Rick Bubenik and Willy Zwaenepoel,
Rice University,
"Performance of Optimistic Make"

Thomas E. Anderson, Edward D. Lazowska and Henry M. Levy,
University of Washington,
"The Performance Implications of Thread Management
Alternatives for Shared-Memory Multiprocessors"

John B. Carter and Willy Zwaenepoel,
Rice University,
"Optimistic Implementation of Bulk Data Transfer Protocols"



Thursday May 25, 1989

8:30 - Session V. Memory Systems

Craig B. Stunkel & W. Kent Fuchs,
University of Illinois,
"TRAPEDS:  Producing Traces for Multicomputers via
Execution Driven Simulation"

Kyle Gallivan, Dennis Gannon, William Jalby, Allen Malony and Harry Wijshoff,
University of Illinois,
"Behavioral Characterization of Multiprocessor
Memory Systems:  A Case Study"

A. Dain Samples,
University of California at Berkeley,
"Mache:  No-Loss Trace Compaction"

10:00 - Break


10:30 - Session VI. Keynote Speaker
John Hennessy,
Stanford University,
"Some Measurements of Parallel Programs and Their Implications
for Multiprocessors"

11:30 - Lunch

1:00 - Poster Session II

2:00 - Session VII. Networks

Amarnath Mukherjee, Larry H. Landweber & John C. Strikwerda,
University of Wisconsin at Madison,
"Evaluation of Retransmission Strategies in a Local
Area Network Environment"

Peter B. Danzig,
University of California at Berkeley,
"Flow Control for Fast Multicast"

Biswanath Mukherjee,
University of California at Davis,
"Performance of a Dual-Bus Unidirectional Broadcast Network Operating
under a Probabilistic Scheduling Strategy"

3:30 - Break


4:00 - Session VIII. Queueing Systems I

Albert G. Greenberg & James McKenna,
AT&T Bell Laboratories,
"Solution of Closed, Product Form, Queueing Networks via the RECAL
and Tree-RECAL Methods on a Shared Memory Multiprocessor"

Martin Paterok,
University of Erlangen-Nuernberg,
and O. Fischer,
Loewe Opta,
"Feedback Queues with Preemption-Distance Priorities"

David B. Wagner & Edward D. Lazowska,
University of Washington,
"Parallel Simulation of Queueing Networks:  Limitations and Potentials"

8:00 - Work in  Progress

Friday May 26, 1989

8:30 - Session IX. Parallel Systems

Debasis Mitra,
AT&T Bell Laboratories,
and Isi Mitrani,
University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne,
"Control and Coordination Policies for Systems with Buffers"

David M. Nicol,
College of William and Mary,
and James C. Townsend,
NASA Langley Research Center,
"Accurate Modeling of Parallel Scientific Computations"

Kenneth C. Sevcik,
University of Toronto,
"Characterizations of Parallelism in Applications
and Their Use in Scheduling"


10:00 - Break

10:30 - Session IX. Queueing Systems II
Randolph D. Nelson & Thomas K. Philips,
IBM,
"An Approximation to the Response Time for Shortest Queue Routing"

Kimmo E. E. Raatikainen,
University of Helsinki,
"Approximating Response Time Distribution"

Debasis Mitra & Alan Weiss,
AT&T Bell Laboratories,
"A Closed Network with a Discriminatory Processor-Sharing Server"

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The Conference will be preceded by 10 90-minute tutorials, all of which
will be held on Tuesday May 23, 1989. The list and times of the tutorials
will be distributed soon. For information and registration, please contact:

Philippe DeSmedt
Hewlett-Packard Laboratories
1501 Page Mill Road, 3U
Palo Alto, CA 94304
U.S.A.

desmedt%hplabsb@hplabs.hp.com