From: ellie@usenix.ORG (Ellie Young)
Newsgroups: comp.org.usenix
Subject: USENIX Microkernel Workshop
Keywords: UNIX, USENIX, Micro-kernel
Date: 13 Apr 92 23:52:28 GMT
Organization: Usenix Association Office, Berkeley


 
	Microkernels and Other Kernel Architectures Workshop 
		Sponsored by the USENIX Association

		     April 27 - 28, 1992
		Sheraton Seattle Hotel and Towers
		     Seattle, Washington

The pre-registration dealdine is approaching and this workshop
presently has only 15 more openings for registrants (due to the
facilities, we will not be able to accomodate any more attendees
beyond this).

f you wish to attend and have not already pre-registered, please
do so immediately by contacting:

	USENIX Conference Office
	22672 Lambert Street, Suite 613
	El Toro, CA  92630
	Telephone # (714) 588-8649
	FAX # (714) 588-9706
	Email address:  conference@usenix.org
  

IMPORTANT WORKSHOP DATES & SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

SUNDAY, APRIL 26	6:00pm - 9:00pm		Registration/no host
						reception
MONDAY, APRIL 27	8:30am - 6:00pm		Workshop
			6:30pm - 8:30pm		Workshop Reception

TUESDAY, April 28	8:30am - 6:00pm		Workshop

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Register in advance to receiving the lowest registration rates.

			REGISTRATION FEES
	*Member Fee			$225
	 Non-member Fee			$290
	 Full-time Student Fee		$ 75
    (must provide copy of student ID)

*The member rate applies to current individual members of the USENIX
 Association, Sun User Group, EurOpen and AUUG.

Enjoy the Benefits of Becoming a USENIX Member - If you are not a
current USENIX member and wish to join, pay the non-member fee on the
registration form and check the special box requesting membership. 
$65 of your non-member fee will be designated as dues in full for a
one-year individual USENIX Association membership.

Full-time students please note: A limited number of scholarships are 
available for full-time students.  Contact the Conference Office for
details.
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You may pay by check (MAKE CHECK PAYABLE TO USENIX CONFERENCE) or use
your VISA, MasterCardX or American Express charge card.  Payment MUST
accompany registration form.  Purchase orders and vouchers are NOT
accepted.       

NOTE: You may FAX your registration form if paying by VISA, MasterCard
or American Express.  (to avoid duplicate billing when faxing your
registration, do not mail an additional copy to the Conference Office.
You may telephone our office to confirm receipt of your fax.)

REFUND/CANCELLATION POLICY:  If you must CANCEL, all refund requests
must be in writing and postmarked no later than April 17, 1992.  Direct
your letter to the USENIX Conference Office.

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS: One copy of the proceedings is included with
your registration fee.  If you wish to order additional copies, you may
contact the USENIX Association at Telephone (510) 528-8649, or direct
you email to: office@usenix.org.

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			HOTEL INFORMATION

The Workshop headquarters will be:

Sheraton Seattle				    
Hotel and Towers
1400 Sixth Avenue			
Seattle, Washington 98101 			
Telephone # (206) 621-9000			 

There are presently no more rooms available at this hotel, since
USENIX has already filled its room block as of the April 1 deadline. 
There are, however, three additional hotels that are just one or two
blocks from the Sheraton Seattle Hotel,  and as of this writing have
sleeping rooms available.

THE ROOSEVELT HOTEL - one block from the Sheraton
1531 - 7th Street, Seattle
Telephone # 206-621-1200
$76 single or double room rate -  You must state that you are a
 USENIX attendee to get this rate

HOLIDAY INN CROWN PLAZA - Two blocks from the Sheraton
1113 6th Avenue, Seattle
TELEPHONE # 206-464-1980
$109 single rate 

HILTON HOTEL - One block from the Sheraton
1301 6th Avenue, Seattle
TELEPHONE # 206-624-0500
$123 single, $128 double

SEATTLE-TACOMA AIRPORT: Transportation from the airport to the Sheraton
Hotel & Towers is simple.  Go to the passenger loading/unloading area
outside the baggage claim area and look for the Seattle Airporter Bus
sign.  This bus runs every 1/2 hour and makes stops at each of the major
hotels.  Fare is $7.00 one way and takes approximately 30 minutes.
Taxi service is also available at an approximate cost of $25.00 one way.
TECHNICAL PROGRAM

MONDAY, APRIL 27
The first day of the workshop will be largely devoted to talks of a
tutorial nature on currently important microkernels and other kernels.


8:30 - 8:35 Opening Remarks (Lori Grob)

8:35 - 9:35 	Amoeba
		Robbert van Renesse, Vrije University/Cornell University

9:35 - 10:35 	Mach
		Richard Draves, Carnegie Mellon University

10:35 - 11:05	Break

11:05 - 12:05	Plan 9
		David Presotto, AT&T Bell Laboratories

12:05 - 1:30 	Lunch

1:30 - 2:30	Chorus
		Marc Rozier, Chorus systemes

2:30 - 3:30	NT
		David Cutler, Microsoft Corp.	

3:30 - 4:00	Break

4:00 - 5:00	Microkernels Panel Session 
		Moderator: Peter Honeyman (CITI University of Michigan)
		What is a microkernel? Are there really any differences?

5:00 - 6:00     New Architectures
                -----------------
		Chair: TBA

                Modularity and Interfaces in Microkernel Design and
		Implementation:

		A Case Study of Chorus on the HP PA-Risc
			Jonathan Walpole, Jon Inouye, Ravindranath
		Konuru
			Department of Computer Science and Engineering
			Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and
			Technology

		A Micro Kernel Architecture for Next Generation
		Processor
			Toshio Okamoto, Hideo Segawa, Sung Ho Shin,
			Hiroshi Nozue, Ken-ichi Maeda, Mitsuo Saito
			Toshiba Corporation Research and Developmen
			Center Information Systems Lab.


TUESDAY, APRIL 28
---------------
8:30 - 10:30	New Systems	

		--------------
		Chair: 	Robbert van Renesse	

		The KeyKOS(R)  Nanokernel Architecture
			Allen C. Bomberger, William S. Frantz,
			Ann C. Hardy, Norman Hardy, Charles  R. Landau,
		        Jonathan S. Shapiro, Key Logic Corp

		An Architectural Overview of QNX
			Dan Hildebrand, Quantum
			
		An Architectural Overview of Alpha: A Real-Time,
		Distributed Kernel
			Franklin Reynolds, Open Software Foundation
			To be presented by E. Douglas Jensen

		The BirLix Operating System and Its Performance
			P. Schuller, H. Hartig, W.E. Kunhauser
			German National Research Center For Computer
			Science (GMD)


10:30 - 11:00 	Break 

11:00 - 12:30	Lessons Learned	 	
		--------------------
		Chair: Edward Lazowska	

		Multimedia/Realtime Extensions for Mach 3.0
			Jun Nakajima, Masatomo Yazaki, Hitoshi Matsumoto
			Human Interface Laboratory #1 Fujitsu
			Laboratories Ltd.

		Reimplementing the Synthesis Kernel
			Henry Massalin, Calton Pu
			Department of Computer Science
			Columbia University

		A Model and Prototype of VMS Using the Mach 3.0 Kernel
			Cheryl A. Wiecek
			Digital Equipment Corporation


12:30 - 2:00	Lunch

2:00 - 3:30 	Experience and Observations I	
		--------------------------------
		Chair: Lori S. Grob

		The Increasing Irrelevance of IPC Performance for
		Microkernel-Based Operating Systems
			Brian Bershad
			School of Computer Science
			Carnegie Mellon University

		Fast Thread Management and Communication Without
		Continuations
			Jochen Liedtke
			German National Research Center for Computer
			Science (GMD)

		Experience with SVR4 Over Chorus
			Nariman Batlivala, Barry Gleeson, Jim Hamrick,
			Scott Lurndal, Darren Price, James Soddy
			Unisys Corporation, San Jose, California
			Vadim Abrossimov Chorus Systemes, Paris, France


3:30 - 4:00	Break

4:00 - 6:00	Experience and Observations II	
		--------------------------------
		Chair: Avadis Tevanian


		Data Movement in Kernelized Systems
		Randall W. Dean, Francois Armand
		CMU, Chorus systemes

		Distributed Abstractions, Lightweight References
			Marc Shapiro, Mesaac Makpangou
			INRIA

		Reliable Multicast between Micro-Kernels
			Robbert van Renesse,  Ken Birman, Robert Cooper,
			Bradford Glade,  Patrick Stephenson
			Cornell University

		Clustering Micro-Kernels for Scalability
				Michael Stumm, Ronald Unrau, and Orran
				Krieger
				Department of Electrical Engineering
				University of Toronto


  Program Committee:

        Program Chair
        Lori S. Grob    
        Chorus systemes
        grob@chorus.fr/grob@usenix.org

        Edward D. Lazowska
        University of Washington
        lazowska@cs.washington.edu

        Robbert van Renesse
        Cornell University/Vrije Universiteit
        rvr@cs.cornell.edu

        Avadis Tevanian, Jr.
        NeXT Computer, Inc.
        avie@next.com