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- From: ken@cs.cornell.edu (Ken Birman)
- Subject: Misc. errata
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.190150.3352@cs.cornell.edu>
- Organization: Cornell Univ. CS Dept, Ithaca NY 14853
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 19:01:50 GMT
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- Some errata:
-
- First, Pat Stephenson has pointed out that by posting the names of
- some of the Cornell graduates in the systems area, but not all, I
- could be putting the unlisted students at a disadvantage. This
- is not what I intended, of course -- I just don't know exactly who
- is finishing up and when, outside the immediate area in which I work.
- Pat mentioned that Navin Budhiraja (fault-tolerance through primary/
- backup mechanisms; navin@cs.cornell.edu) and Wei Li (parallel compilation,
- wei@cs.cornell.edu) are finishing, but the best thing to do, if you
- want a full list, it to email to
- gfr@cs.cornell.edu (Sam Toueg)
- and request a list of graduating students, indicating whether you are
- doing a search for an academic position, an industrial position, or if
- you are a "head-hunter".
-
- NB: if people want to post job offerings here, I have no problem with
- the idea as long as it is not too common and the positions are in the
- distributed systems area.
-
- Second:
-
- I should have mentioned the Manetho system in discussing the n-n programming
- model; Manetho is certainly relevant prior work. This was done at Rice
- University; email to motaz@cs.rice.edu for a pointer to papers.
-
- Last comment:
-
- I estimate that I am getting an average of 10-20 messages a day and that
- my group gets 30 or more per day, perhaps half of which are technical
- questions about Isis or related software that might interest this group.
- These range from performance problems people have run into, to questions
- like the ones about how Isis compares with Lazy Replication, to questions
- about why we don't support one feature or another. Some are bug reports
- but even these might interest readers of the newsgroup.
-
- Now, I repost some of these, but I really do want to urge people to
- post to comp.sys.isis rather than email to me if the question might be
- one others would find interesting. This way, I don't get asked the same
- thing by 3 different people, and the newsgroup would be more interesting,
- too.
-
- I, for one, would also like to hear more about other systems, like the
- recent work on adding group mechanisms to Orca/Amoeba, the Transis project,
- and the Inesc activities, to name just a few.
-
- Since we have this newsgroup, and there really isn't a better place to
- just discuss distributed computing issues, we might as well use it!
-
- --
- Kenneth P. Birman E-mail: ken@cs.cornell.edu
- 4105 Upson Hall, Dept. of Computer Science TEL: 607 255-9199 (office)
- Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (USA) FAX: 607 255-4428
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