WORKSHOP ANNOUNCEMENT

[Ellie Young]

Workshop on Experiences with Distributed and Multiprocessor Systems*

October 5-6, 1989, Marriott Hotel, Ft. Lauderdale, FL

     The goal of this workshop is to bring together individuals who have built,
are building, or will soon build distributed and multiprocessor systems, espe-
cially operating systems.  The workshop will feature full presentations and
work-in-progress presentations on aspects of building and using these systems.
The workshop will provide a forum for individuals to exchange information on
their experiences, both good and bad, in designing, building, and testing their
systems.  This includes experiences with coding aids, languages, distributed
debugging tools, prototyping, reuse of existing software, performance analysis,
and lessons learned from use of such systems.

Tentative Schedule

Thursday, Oct. 5

8:30   Opening remarks.  George Leach, Workshop Chair

8:45   Session I:  Objects and Virtual Memory

       A Distributed Implementation of the Shared Data-Object Model
       Henri E. Bal, M. Frans Kaashoek and Andrew S. Tanenbaum (Vrije Univer-
       siteit, Amsterdam)

       An Implementation of Distributed Shared Memory
       Umakishore Ramachandran and M. Yousef A. Khalidi (Georgia Institute of
       Technology, Atlanta)

       An Object-Oriented Implementation of Distributed Virtual Memory
       Gary M. Johnston and R. H. Campbell (University of Illinois at Urbana-
       Champaign)

10:45  Session II:  Process Control

       Experience with Process Migration in Sprite
       Fred Douglis (University of California, Berkeley)

       Dynamic Server Squads in Yackos
       Debra Hensgen and Raphael Finkel (University of Kentucky, Lexington)

       Fine-Grain Scheduling
       Henry Massalin and Calton Pu (Columbia University, New York)

1:30   Session III:  Performance Considerations

       The Parallelization of Mach/4.3BSD:  Design Philosophy and Performance
       Analysis
       Joseph Boykin and Alan Langerman (Encore Computer Corporation, Marlbor-
       ough)

       Efficient Implementation of Modularity in RAID
       Charles Koelbel, Fady Lamaa, and Bharat Bhargava (Purdue University,
       West Lafayette)

       Making libc Suitable for use by Parallel Programs
       Julie Kucera (Convex Computer Corporation, Richardson)

3:30   Session IV:  Concepts

       Revolution 89 -or- Distributing UNIX Brings it Back to its Original
       Virtues
       Francois Armand, Michel Gien, Frederic Herrmann, and Marc Rozier (Chorus
       systemes, En Yvelines)

       A Network File System Supporting Stashing
       Luis L. Cova, Rafael Alonso, and Daniel Barbara (Princeton University)

4:20   Work-in-Progress presentations.

Friday, Oct. 6

8:30   Session V:  Multiprocessors

       TUMULT-64:  a real-time multi-processor system
       Pierre G. Jansen and Gerard J. M. Smit (University of Twente, Enschede)

       Experiences with a Family of Multiprocessor Real-Time Operating Systems
       Prabha Gopinath and Thomas Bihari (Philips Laboratories, Briarcliff
       Manor)

       Implementation Issues for the Psyche Multiprocessor Operating System
       Michael L. Scott, Thomas J. LeBlanc, and Brian D. Marsh (University of
       Rochester)

10:30  Session VI:  Tools

       Experience with P/Mothra:  A Tool for Mutation Based Testing on A
       Hypercube
       ByoungJu Choi and Aditya P. Mathur (Purdue University, West Lafayette)

       Debugging and Performance Monitoring in HPC/VORX
       Howard P. Katseff (AT&T Bell Laboratories, Holmdel)

       CAPS - A Coding Aid used with the PASM Parallel Processing System
       James E. Lumpp, Jr., Samuel A. Fineberg, Wayne G. Nation, Thomas L.
       Casavant, Edward C. Bronson, Howard J. Siegel, Perre H. Pero, Thomas
       Schwederski, and Dan C. Marinescu (Purdue University, West Lafayette)

       The Implementation of Aide:  A Support Environment for Distributed
       Object-Oriented Systems
       Rodger Lea and Johnathan Walpole (University of Lancaster, Bailrigg)

1:30   Session VII:  Object-oriented Construction

       Experience With Implementing and Using An Object-Oriented, Distributed
       System
       D. Decouchant, M. Riveill, C. Horn, and E. Finn (Bull-IMAG, Gieres)

       Prototyping a distributed object-oriented OS on UNIX
       Marc Shapiro (INRIA, Le Chesnay)

       The Clouds Experience: Building an Object-Based Distributed Operating
       System
       C. J. Wilkenloh, U. Ramachandran, S. Menon, R. J. LeBlanc, M. Y. A.
       Khalidi, P. W. Hutto, P. Dasgupta, R.C. Chen, J. M. Bernabeu, W.
       F. Appelbe, and M. Ahamad (Georgia Institute of Technology,
       Atlanta)

3:30   Session VIII:  Communications, Heterogeneous Systems, and the A-word

       Experiences with Efficient Interprocess Communication in Dune
       Marc F. Pucci and James Alberi (Bell Communications Research, Morris-
       town)

       Using Transputer Networks to Accelerate Communication Protocols
       Horst Schaaser (Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Bristol)

       ARCADE:  A Platform for Heterogeneous Distributed Operating Systems
       David L. Cohn, William P. Delaney, and Karen M. Tracey (University of
       Notre Dame)

       A Decentralized Real-Time Operating System Supporting Distributed Execu-
       tion of Ada Tasks
       Roger K. Shultz (Rockwell International-Collins Divisions, Cedar Rapids)

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Please register in advance to attend this limited enrollment workshop.

REGISTRATION FEE:		$225.00
REGISTRATION DEADLINE:		September 18, 1989


For information on registration, please contact:
		USENIX Conference Office
		22672 Lambert St., Suite 613
		   El Toro, CA  92630
		    Tel: 714-588-8649
	            FAX: 714-588-9706

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* Sponsored by the USENIX Association and the Software Engineering Research
Center (SERC), in cooperation with ACM SIGOPS and ACM SIGSOFT, and with the
IEEE-CS TC on OS and IEEE-CS TC on Distributed Systems.