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	Symposium on Experiences with Distributed
	     and Multiprocessor Systems
		       (SEDMS) II

		   March 21-22, 1991
		   Atlanta, Georgia

TABLE OF CONTENTS


Session I  System-Building & Experience		

Experience Developing the RP3 Operating System .....................1
	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.........................................................19
	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................................................35
	Marc F. Pucci (Bellcore)

Building a Semi-Loosely Coupled Multiprocessor System Based
on Network Process Extension.......................................51
	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.............................................................69
	Enrique Mafla and Bharat Bhargava  (Department of Computer
	Sciences, Purdue University)

Experience with Threads and RPC in Mach............................87
	Dan Duchamp (Computer Science Department, Columbia University)

Kernel-Kernel Communication in a Shared-Memory
Multiprocessor....................................................105  
	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...................133  
	Vincent F. Russo (Department of Computer Sciences, Purdue
	University)

A Hybrid Approach to Load Balancing in Distributed
Systems...........................................................149
	Prabha Gopinath (Philips Laboratories), and Rajiv Gupta
	(Department of Computer Science, University of Pittsburgh)

FALCON: A Distributed Scheduler for MIMD Architectures............149
	Andrew S. Grimshaw  (Department of Computer Science, University
	of Virginia) and Virgilio E. Vivas (Department of Informatics,
	LAGOVEN, S.A., Venezuela)



Session IV  Debugging and Analysis 	

Performance Evaluation of the Sylvan Multiprocessor
Architecture......................................................165
	Forbes J. Burkowski, Charles L. A. Clarke, Gordon J. Vreugdenhil
        (Department of Computer Science, University of Waterloo) and
        Crispin Cowan (Computer Sciences Department, University of
	Western Ontario)

Debugging Multiprocessor Operating System Kernels.................185
	Noemi Paciorek, Susan LoVerso and Alan Langerman 
	(Encore Computer Corporation)

Debugging the Time Warp Operating System and Its Application
Programs..........................................................203
	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.....................221
	Mark D. Campbell, Russ Holt and John Slice 
	(NCR Corporation, E&M Columbia)
Measured Performance of Caching in the Sprite Network File 
System...........................................................229 
        Brent Welch (Xerox-PARC CSL) 


Session VI  Distributing Memory and Data 

Using Kernel-Level Support for Distributed Shared Data...........247
	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..............................................261
	Douglas Comer and James Griffioen (Department of Computer
	Sciences, Purdue University)

Early Experience with Building and Using the Gothic
Distributed Operating System.....................................271
	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......................................283
	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?...........................................301
	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...........................................321
	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)