boykin@custom.UUCP (Joseph Boykin) (10/16/87)
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8:45-9:00 Welcome
9:00-12:00 Experience from Existing Systems: What Have We Learned?
Chair: Richard F. Rashid, Carnegie-Mellon University
Workstations and the Cronus Distributed Operating System
M. Dean, BBN Laboratories
Amoeba as a Workstation Operating System
S.J. Mullender, Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science
The QuickSilver Distributed System
L.F. Cabrera, M. Goodfellow, R. Haskin, M. Theimer, J. Wyllie,
IBM Almaden Research Center
The Topaz System: Distributed Multiprocessor Personal
Computing
P. McJones, A. Hisgen, DEC SystemsResearch Center
Sprite: The File System as the Center of a Network Operating
System
J. Ousterhout, University of California, Berkeley
The Synthesis System
C. Pu, H. Massalin, J. Ioannidis, Columbia University
An Experience on a Parallel Processing Engine and its
Operating System for a Workstation
Y. Okawa, Osaka University
12:00-1:00 Lunch (buffet)
1:00-5:50 The Role of Workstations in a Computing Environment:
Limitations of Current Approaches.
Chair: Robert Hagmann, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
The Workstation as Terminal
A.P. Black, DEC Littleton
The Workstation: Computing Resource or Just a Terminal?
R. van Renesse, A.S. Tanenbaum, G.J. Sharp, Vrije
Universiteit
Workstation Operating Systems: Invoking Remote Services
M.L. Kazar, ITC Carnegie-Mellon University
Position Paper for Workshop on Workstation Operating Systems
P.J. Leach, N. Mishkin, G. Wyant, T. Dineen, E. Martin,
Apollo Computer Inc.
3:00-3:30 Coffee Break
Position Paper for IEEE Workshop on Operating Systems
R. Pike, K. Thompson, AT&T Bell Laboratories
Position Paper for the Workstation Operating System Workshop
P. Levine, E. Shienbrood, L. Allen, Apollo Computer Inc.
The Future Workstation Operating Systems: A Personal View
Point
R. Agrawal, AT&T Bell Laboratories
Coupling in Workstation Operating Systems
G.J. Popek, Locus Computing Corporation and UCLA
7:30-End Hospitality Suite
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Friday, November 6, 1987
8:00-9:00 Coffee & Tea
8:30-12:00 Network Services: What Should be Available?
Chair: Paul Leach, Apollo Computer Inc.
Performance Considerations for Distributing Operating System
Services over Networks
J.S. Emer, K.K. Ramakrishnan, DEC Littleton
Position Statement: Workshop on Workstation Operating Systems
A. Borg, J.C. Mogul, DEC Western Research Laboratory
Protocols in Large Workstation Networks: A Position Statement
A. Gopal, K. Birman, Cornell University
Experimental Results of a Fault-Tolerant Synchronized Time
Service on a Cluster of SUN Workstations
S. Toueg, Cornell University
Coda: A Resilient Distributed File System
M. Satyanarayanan, J.J. Kistler, E.H. Siegel, Carnegie
Mellon University
RNFS - A Highly Available Network File Service
S. Armstrong, K. Marzullo, E. Morrison, F. Schmuck, K.Birman,
T.A. Joseph, Cornell University
Concatenation of Sparce Clone Trees
R. Fitzgerald, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
12:00-1:00 Lunch (buffet)
1:00-4:00 The Role of Technology in Tomorrow's Computing: Where
Should We Be Going?
Chair: Luis-Felipe Cabrera, IBM Almaden Research Center
Large Memory Workstations
P. Yan-Tek Hsu, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
2:30/3:00 Coffee Break
Workshop wrap-up: Topics in which we agree and those on which
we disagree.
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