Symposium on Experiences with Distributed and Multiprocessor

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		       SYMPOSIUM

                         on

	    Experiences with Distributed and
	    Multiprocessor Systems (SEDMS) II 
  
Preliminary Program
  
March 21--22, 1991, Atlanta, GA
  
   
 Thursday, March 21 
  
   
 8:30 am  Opening remarks
  
 8:45      Keynote presentation: How to Move Parallel Processing into
           the Mainstream?
           Professor H. T. Kung , Carnegie-Mellon University
  
 10:15    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
Research Center
  
Experiences with Distributed Data Management in Real-time C3 Systems.
Paul J. Fortier , Naval Underwater Systems Center,  David V. Pitts,
John C. Sieg, Jr.  and C. Thomas Wilkes , 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 and Stephen C. Schwarm , Prime
Computer Inc.
  
 1:30 pm    Session II --- RPC and Communications
  
Implementation and Performance of a Communication Facility
for Distributed Transaction Processing.    Bharat Bhargava and
Enrique Mafla , Purdue University
  
Experience with Threads and RPC in Mach.   Dan Duchamp,
Columbia University
  
Kernel-Kernel Communication in a Shared-Memory Multiprocessor.
 Eliseu M. Chaves, Jr., Thomas J. LeBlanc, Brian D. Marsh and
Michael L. Scott , University of Rochester
   
 3:45   Session III --- Scheduling  Synchronization
  
Process Scheduling and Synchronization in the Renaissance
Object-Oriented Multiprocessor Operating System.  Vincent F. Russo,
Purdue University
  
A Hybrid Approach to Load Balancing in Distributed Systemsr.
Prabha Gopinath , Philips Laboratories, and  Rajiv Gupta,
University of Pittsburgh
  
FALCON: A Distributed Scheduler for MIMD Architectures
Andrew S. Grimshaw and Virgilio E. Vivas , University of Virginia
  
 5:30   Work-in-Progress Session.  Moderator: Mike O'Dell, Bellcore
  
 8:30   Optional discussion/panel session: Orthogonal Optimization
Languages in Distributed Systems.  (plus other discussion, debates, etc.)
  
 Friday, March 22 
  
 8:45 am  Session IV --- Debugging and Analysis
  
Performance Evaluation of the Sylvan Multiprocessor Architecture
Forbes J. Burkowski, C. L. A. Clarke, S. C. Cowan and
G. J. Vreugdenhil ,  University of Waterloo
  
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,
Florida State University,  and  David Jefferson , UCLA
  
 11:00   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
  
 1:30  Session VI --- Distributing Memory and Data
  
Using Kernel-Level Support for Distributed Shared Data
David L. Cohn, Paul M. Greenawalt, Micheal R. Casey and
Matthew P. Stevenson ,  University of Notre Dame
  
Virtual Memory Xinu.   Douglas Comer and James Griffioen,
Purdue University
  
Early Experience with Building and Using the Gothic
Distributed Operating System.    Isabelle Puaut, Michel Banatre
and Jean-Paul Routeau ,  IRISA-INRIA
  
 3:30  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 ,  Bull-IMAG/Systemes
  
Can We Study Design Issues of Distributed Operating Systems
in a Generalized Way?   G. W. Gerrity, Andrzej Goscinski, J. Indulska,
W. Toomey and W. Zhu , University of New South Wales
  
Distributed Programming Environments in the Clouds Operating System
Partha Dasgupta, R. Ananthanarayanan, Sathis Menon, Ajay Mohindra,
Mark P. Pearson, Ray Chen and Chris Wilkenloh ,  Georgia Institute
of Technology
  
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