[comp.parallel] Symposium on Experiences with Distributed and Multiprocessor Systems

spaf@cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford) (02/05/91)

			       SEDMS II

	      Symposium on Experiences With Distributed
		      and Multiprocessor Systems

			  21--22 March 1991
			   Atlanta, Georgia

			    Sponsored by:
			The Usenix Association
				 and
	   The Software Engineering Research Center (SERC)

			 In cooperation with:
      ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication (SIGCOMM)
       ACM Special Interest Group on Operating Systems (SIGOPS)
     IEEE-CS Technical Committee on Distributed Processing (TCDP)
       IEEE-CS Technical Committee on Operating Systems (TCOS)
      IEEE-CS technical Committee on Software Engineering (TCSE)


Registration and Travel Support
  
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    A limited number of grants are available for FULL-TIME students, to
    help defray travel, lodging, and registration expenses.
    Full time students interested in these grants should contact:
	Ms. Ellie Young, Executive Director
	USENIX Association
	2560 Ninth Street, Suite 215
	Berkeley, CA 94710
	E-mail:	ellie@usenix.org
    Travel grant applications must be RECEIVED no later than February 22.


Papers and Speakers

    Opening remarks:
       George Leach, General Chair (ATT Paradyne, Largo, FL) and
       Eugene Spafford, Program Chair (Software Engineering Research
       Center Department of Computer Sciences, Purdue University)

    Invited Keynote Presentation:
       "How to Move Parallel Processing into the Mainstream?"
       Professor H. T. Kung (School of Computer Science,
       Carnegie-Mellon University)

    Session I --- System-Building  Experience
       "Experience Developing the RP3 Operating System" Ray Bryant,
       Hung-Yang Chang and Bryan Rosenburg (IBM Research Division,
       Thomas J. Watson Rsearch Center)

       "Experiences with Distributed Data Management in Real-time
       Systems"  Paul J. Fortier (Naval Underwater Systems Center),
       David V. Pitts, John C. Sieg, Jr. and C. Thomas Wilkes
       (Department of Computer Science, University of Lowell)

       "The Ion Data Engine" Marc F. Pucci (Bellcore)

       "Building a Semi-Loosely Coupled Multiprocessor System Based on
       Network Process Extension" Helen S. Raizen (Prime Computer Inc.)
       and Stephen C. Schwarm (Digital Equipment Corporation)

    Session II --- RPC and Communications
       "Implementation and Performance of a Communication Facility for
       the Raid Distributed Transaction Processing System" Enrique
       Mafla and Bharat Bhargava (Department of Computer Sciences,
       Purdue University)

       "Experience with Threads and RPC in Mach" Dan Duchamp
       (Computer Science Department, Columbia University)

       "Kernel-Kernel Communication in a Shared-Memory Multiprocessor"
       Eliseu M. Chaves, Jr. (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro,
       Brazil), Thomas J. LeBlanc, Brian D. Marsh and Michael L. Scott
       (Computer Science Department, University of Rochester)

    Session III --- Scheduling  Synchronization
       "Process Scheduling and Synchronization in the Renaissance
       Object-Oriented Multiprocessor Operating System" Vincent F.
       Russo (Department of Computer Sciences, Purdue University)

       "A Hybrid Approach to Load Balancing in Distributed Systems"
       Prabha Gopinath (Philips Laboratories), and Rajiv Gupta
       (Department of Computer Science, University of Pittsburgh)

       "FALCON: A Distributed Scheduler for MIMD Architectures" Andrew
       S. Grimshaw (Department of Computer Science, University of
       Virginia) and Virgilio E. Vivas (Department of Informatics,
       LAGOVEN, S.A., Venezuela)

    Work-in-Progress Session
       Moderator: Mike O'Dell (Bellcore)

    Optional discussion/panel session:
       "Orthogonal Optimization Languages in Distributed Systems"
       organized by A. Lester Buck (IBM Federal Sector Division).
       Other discussion and topics as the audience suggests.

    Session IV --- Debugging and Analysis
       "Performance Evaluation of the Sylvan Multiprocessor
       Architecture" Forbes J. Burkowski, Charles L. A. Clarke, Gordon
       J. Vreugdenhil (Department of Computer Science, University of
       Waterloo), and Crispin Cowan (Computer Science Department,
       University of Western Ontario)

       "Debugging Multiprocessor Operating System Kernels" Noemi
       Paciorek, Susan LoVerso and Alan Langerman (Encore Computer
       Corporation)

       "Debugging the Time Warp Operating System and Its Application
       Programs" Peter L. Reiher (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), Steven
       Bellenot (The Florida State University), and David Jefferson
       (UCLA)

    Session V --- Performance Tuning
       "Lock Granularity Tuning Mechanisms in SVR4/MP" Mark D. Campbell,
       Russ Holt and John Slice (NCR Corporation, EM Columbia)

       "Measured Performance of Caching in the Sprite Network File
       System" Brent Welch (Xerox-PARC CSL)

    Session VI --- Distributing Memory and Data
       "Using Kernel-Level Support for Distributed Shared Data" David L.
       Cohn, Paul M. Greenawalt, Michael R. Casey and Matthew P.
       Stevenson (Department of Computer Science and Engineering,
       University of Notre Dame)

       "Virtual Memory Xinu" Douglas Comer and James Griffioen
       (Department of Computer Sciences, Purdue University)

       "Early Experience with Building and Using the Gothic Distributed
       Operating System" Isabelle Puaut, Michel Banatre and Jean-Paul
       Routeau (IRISA--INRIA, France)

    Session VII --- Distributed Systems
       "Supporting an Object-Oriented Distributed System: Experience
       with Unix, Mach and Chorus" F. Boyer, J. Cayuela, P. Y.
       Chevalier, A. Freyssinet, and Daniel Hagimont (Unite Mixte
       Bull-IMAG/Systemes, Gieres, France)

       "Can We Study Design Issues of Distributed Operating Systems in
       a Generalized Way?"  G. W. Gerrity, A. Goscinski, J. Indulska,
       W. Toomey and W. Zhu (Department of Computer Science,
       University College, University of New South Wales)

       "Language and Operating System Support for Distributed
       Programming in Clouds" Partha Dasgupta (Department of Computer
       Science and Engineering, Arizona State University), R.
       Ananthanarayanan, Sathis Menon, Ajay Mohindra, Mark Pearson,
       Raymond Chen and Christopher Wilkenloh (Distributed Systems
       Laboratory, College of Computing, Georgia Institute of
       Technology)

    Alternate Paper, Not scheduled for presentation:
       "Experiences with the Liason Network Multimedia Workstation"
       Howard P. Katseff, Robert D. Gaglianello, Thomas B. London,
       Bethany S. Robinson and Donald B. Swicker (ATT Bell
       Laboratories)


A full proceedings will be distributed to all attendees.  Extra copies
of the proceedings will be for sale after the symposium.  Contact
office@usenix.org for details.
-- 
Gene Spafford
NSF/Purdue/U of Florida  Software Engineering Research Center,
Dept. of Computer Sciences, Purdue University, W. Lafayette IN 47907-2004
Internet:  spaf@cs.purdue.edu	phone:  (317) 494-7825