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- Subject: READPAC: Dependable Computing Workshop
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- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 13:37:43 -0400
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- REVISED PROGRAM
-
- Workshop on Realistically Dependable Parallel Computing
- (READPAC)
-
- August 28, 29 (immediately following CONCUR '92)
- Stony Brook, New York
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- Program Chair:
- Erol Gelenbe
- EHEI
- Universite' Rene' Descartes
- 45 rue des Saints-Peres
- 75006 Paris
-
- Program Committee:
- Erol Gelenbe (EHEI, Paris)
- Zvi Kedem (Courant Institute, New York University)
- Isi Mitrani (University of Newcastle upon Tyne)
- Richard Muntz (U.C.L.A.)
- Krishna Palem (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center)
- Scott Smolka (S.U.N.Y. at Stony Brook)
- Satish Tripathi (University of Maryland)
-
-
- Twenty to thirty minutes are set aside for each presentation, followed by a
- ten to fifteen minute discussion.
-
-
- Friday
- ------
- ------
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- Session I; 1.30 pm
-
- "Commercial Dependable and Parallel Computing -- An Industrial Perspective,"
- A. Goyal (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center)
-
- "On the Performance Prediction of Parallel Applications on Massively
- Parallel Machines," D. Menasce (University of Maryland, S. Noh (George
- Mason University), and S. Tripathi (University of Maryland)
-
- "Fault Tolerance in Real-Time Systems," D. Mosse and A. Agrawala
- (University of Maryland)
-
- 3.30 Coffee Break
-
- Session II; 4 pm
-
- "Markov Analysis of Multiple-Disk Prefetching Strategies for External
- Merging," V. Pai, A. Schaffer, P. Varman (Rice University)
-
- "A large number of processors, with intermittent failures and failsafe
- computation," E. Gelenbe (NJIT and EHEI, Univ. of Paris V), Z. Kedem (Courant
- Institute, New York University)
-
- "Design of Performance Predictable Systems," R. Bagrodia and C.-C.
- Shen (University of California at Los Angeles)
-
-
- *** All participants are invited to have dinner together on Friday evening ***
-
-
- Saturday
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- --------
-
- Session III; 9 am
-
- "Some Reliability Measures and their influence on Algorithm Design for
- Large Concurrent Systems," S. Rangarajan and S. Tripathi (University
- of Maryland)
-
- "On the Complexity of Parallel Computation Using Fail-Stop Processors
- and Contaminated Memory," A. Shvartsman (Digital Equipment
- Corporation) and P. Kanellakis (Brown University)
-
- "Optimum Virus Testing," E. Gelenbe (NJIT and EHEI, Univ. of
- Paris V) and M. Hernandez (Univ. of the Andes, Venezuela)
-
- 10.30 am Coffee Break
-
- Session IV; 11 am
-
- "Specifying Fault-Tolerant Systems in Process Algebra," F.S. de Boer,
- J. Coenen, R. Gerth (Eindhoven Technological University).
-
- "Limits of Parallelism in Dependable Computers," A. Goyal and V. Nicolau
- (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center)
-
- "Composite Performance and Dependability Modelling by TIPP", U. Herzog
- (Univ. of Erlangen) et al.
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
- LOCATION, REGISTRATION, HOTEL RESERVATION, and TRANSPORTATION
-
- READPAC will be held immediately following CONCUR '92 at Danfords Inn in Port
- Jefferson, New York. There will be no registration fee for the workshop and
- registration will take place on-site. The CONCUR rate for the hotel has been
- extended through Saturday night. If you are not attending CONCUR, you can
- contact Danfords at (516) 928-5200 and say that you are affiliated with CONCUR
- '92. Further details on hotel reservation and transportation to Port Jefferson
- can be found in the announcement for CONCUR '92; An electronic copy of which,
- in LaTex format, can be obtained via anonymous FTP from sbcs.sunysb.edu. The
- file is located in pub/CONCUR92/cfr.tex.Z and is in compressed format. The
- internet address of sbcs.sunysb.edu is 130.245.1.15
-
- If you plan to attend READPAC of if you have any questions regarding the
- workshop, please contact:
-
- Prof. Zvi Kedem
- Department of Computer Science
- Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
- 251 Mercer Street
- New York, NY 10012-1185
-
- kedem@csd36.nyu.edu (internet)
- +1 212 998-3101 (office)
- +1 212 995-4124 (fax)
-
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
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