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" ----- 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