paris@cs.uh.edu (Jehan-Francois Paris) (08/18/89)
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WWOS II is full, this announcement is for information only. If you are
interested in the Techincal Committee on Operating Systems, contact:
Luis-Felipe Cabrera
Chairman of the Program Committee
IBM Almaden Research Center
Mail Code K55/803
650 Harry Road, San Jose, CA 95120-6099
Internet: cabrera@ibm.com
Proceedings can be ordered from:
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Vice-Chair, IEEE Computer Society
Technical Activities Board
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Articles can be submitted to the Technical Committee newsletter by
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SLCBR-SE
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(301) 278-6808
Internet: tcs@brl.mil
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Program for the Second IEEE Workshop on Workstation Operating Systems.
Asilomar, September 27-29, 1989.
Luis-Felipe Cabrera
Chairman of the Program Committee
IBM Almaden Research Center
Mail Code K55/803
650 Harry Road, San Jose, CA 95120-6099
Internet: cabrera@ibm.com
Wednesday, September 27:
12:00-13:00 Registration
13:00-13:20 Opening Remarks
13:20-17:40 Topic I: What is to be the role of workstations? Do we
understand it yet?
13:20-15:55 Position Statements:
13:20-13:40 Efficient Shared Memory for Testing Parallel Algorithms
on Distributed Systems
M. Stella Atkins
School of Computer Science, Simon Fraser University,
Burnaby, B.C. V5A 1S6, Canada
13:40-14:00 Supporting Large Scale Applications on Networks of
Workstations
Robert Cooper and Ken Birman
Computer Science Department, 4124 Upson Hall, Cornell
University, Ithaca, NY 14853
14:00-14:20 Workstations and the Virtual System Model
B. Clifford Neuman
Department of Computer Science, University of Washington,
Seattle, Washington 98195
14:20-14:40 A Prototype Information Environment
Bruce R. Schatz
The University of Arizona, Department of Computer
Science, Tucson, AZ 85721
14:40-14:55 Break.
14:55-15:15 The Workstation as Global Communication Interface
David P. Anderson
Computer Science Division, University of California,
Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720
15:15-15:35 The Workstation on the Network: Performance Considerations
for the Communications Interface
K. K. Ramakrishnan and William R. Hawe
Distributed Systems Architecture and Performance, Digital
Equipment Corporation, LKG1-2/A19, 550 King Street,
Littleton, Massachusetts 01460-1289
15:35-15:55 What is the Right Amount of Statelessness in a File
Server?
Jeffrey C. Mogul
Digital Equipment Corporation, Western Research
Laboratory, 100 Hamilton Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94301
15:55-16:10 Break.
16:10-17:40 Panel I.
Are workstations just front ends or are they also good
for real work?
17:40-20:30 Dinner and sunset.
20:30-late Work in progress and hospitality room.
Thursday, September 28:
08:30-12:10 Topic II: What services should the workstation OS kernel
support?
08:30-11:00 Position Statements:
08:30-08:50 Sprite Position Statement: Use Distributed State for
Failure Recovery
Brent B. Welch, Mary Baker, Fred Douglis, John Hartman,
Mendel Rosenblum, and John Ousterhout
Computer Science Division, University of California,
Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720
08:50-09:10 Plurix: A Multiprocessing Unix-Like Operating System
Newton Faller and Pedro Salenbauch
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Av. Niemeyer 925
Ap. 503-A, 22450 Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil
09:10-09:30 Should Workstation Operating Systems Do Virtual Memory?
Robert Hagmann
Xerox Corporation, Palo Alto Research Center, 3333 Coyote
Hill Road, Palo Alto, CA 94304
09:30-09:50 AIX 3 Technology
Jack C. O'Quin and Charlie H. Sauer
IBM Advanced Workstation Division, 11400 Burnet Road,
Austin, TX 78758-2502
09:50-10:00 Break.
10:00-10:20 Coda: A Resilient Distributed File System for a
Workstation Environment
M. Satyanarayanan
School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University,
Pittsburg, Pennsylvannia 15213-3890
10:20-10:40 Ubik: Replicated Servers Made Easy
Michael Leon Kazar
Information Technology Center, Carnegie Mellon
University, Pittsburg, Pennsylvannia 15213-3890
10:40-11:00 Availability and Consistency Tradeoffs in the Echo
Distributed File System
Andy Hisgen, Andrew Birrell, Timothy Mann, Michael
Schroeder, and Garret Swart
Digital Equipment Corporation, Systems Research Center,
130 Lytton Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94301
11:00-12:10 Panel II.
Throwing out VM: the tip of the iceberg. Should VM really
go? What new functions should be added?
12:10-13:40 Lunch.
13:40-15:30 Topic III: How can OS support Open Systems?
13:40-15:30 Position Statements:
13:40-14:00 The Connector and Active Devices Mechanisms for
Constructing Multimedia Applications
W. H. Leung, L. F. Morgan, M. J. Morgam, and B. F. Wong
AT&T Bell Laboratories, 200 Park Plaza, P. O. Box 3050,
Naperville, Illinois 60566-7050
14:00-14:20 Mach: A Foundation for Open Systems. A Position Paper
Richard Rashid, Robert Baron, Alessandro Forin, David
Golub, Michael, Jones, Daniel P. Julin, Douglas Orr, and
Richard Sanzi
School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University,
Pittsburg, Pennsylvannia 15213-3890
14:20-14:40 The x-Kernel: An Open Operating System Design
Norman C. Hutchinson, Larry L. Peterson,and Herman Rao
Department of Computer Science, University of Arizona,
Tucson, AZ 85721
14:40-15:00 A Multi-User, Multi-Language Open Operating System
Michael L. Scott, Thomas J. LeBlanc, and Brian D. Marsh
University of Rochester, Department of Computer Science,
Rochester, New York 14627
15:00-15:10 Break.
15:10-15:30 A File Storage Implementation for Very Large Distributed
Systems
Rafael Alonso, Daniel Barbara, and Luis L. Cova
Department of Computer Science, Princeton University,
Princeton, N. J. 08544
15:30-17:50 Topic IV: Is Object-Oriented the way to go?
15:30-16:30 Position Statements:
15:30-15:50 Experience With Object-based Distributed Computation in
the Guide Operating System
R. Balter, D. Decouchant, A. Duda, A. Freyssinet, S.
Krakowiak, M., Meysembourh, C. Roisin, X. Rousset de
Pina, R. Scioville
IMAG, BP 53X, 38041 Grenoble Cedex, France
15:50-16:10 Operating System Support for an Object-Oriented
Environment
Paulo Jorge Guedes and Jose Alves Marques
INESC, R. Alves Redol 9-60, 1000 Lisboa, Portugal
16:10-16:30 The Raven Project
Gerald Neufeld and Samuel T. Chanson
Department of Computer Science, University of British
Columbia, 2075 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver, British
Columbia, Canada V6T 1W5
16:30-16:40 Break.
16:40-17:50 Panel III.
Should we build OS Shells to be suitably specialized?
17:50-20:30 Dinner and sunset.
20:30-late More work in progress, general discussion, and more
hospitality room.
Friday, September 29:
08:30-11:10 Topic V: A Second look at some mechanisms and policies.
08:30-09:30 Position Statements:
08:30-08:50 WWOS-II Presentation of PROST
Thomas Patzelt
SIEMENS AG, E MWB TM4, PO Box 140, 1000 Berlin 13, West
Germany
08:50-09:10 Architecture of Fault-Tolerant Multiprocessor
Workstations
J. P. Banatre, M. Banatre, and G. Muller
IRISA/INRIA-Rennes, Campus de Beaulieu, 35042-Rennes
Cedex, France
09:10-09:30 Efficient At-Most-Once Messages Based on Synchronized
Clocks
Barbara Liskov, Liuba Shrira, and John Wroclawski
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Laboratory for
Computer Science, 545 Technology Square, Cambridge,
Massachusetts 02139
09:30-09:40 Break.
09:40-10:40 Panel IV.
What are "must provide" network services? What constitutes
server state and how should it be managed?
10:40-11:40 Wrap-up session.
Six questions to think about:
(1) What has changed since the last workshop?
(2) What is the hardware outlook?
(3) What is the software outlook?
(4) What have we agreed on this workshop?
(5) What have we disagreed on this workshop?
(6) What shall we be looking at in the next workshop?
11:40-12:00 Check out and vacate rooms.
12:00-13:00 Lunch.