From: purush@guardian.cs.psu.edu (S Purushothaman)
Subject: Workshop on Realistically Dependable Parallel Computing (READPAC)
Distribution: comp
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 18:14:27 GMT


       WORKSHOP ON REALISTICALLY DEPENDABLE PARALLEL COMPUTING
			      (READPAC)
				   
				   
	August 28--29, 1992 (immediately following CONCUR '92)
		    Stony Brook, New York, U.S.A.
				   

			    Final Program

Friday, August 28

1.30 pm:  Session I

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 pm: Coffee Break

4.00 pm: Session II

Markov Analysis of Multiple-Disk Prefetching Strategies for External
Merging, V. Pai, A. Schaffer and P. Varman (Rice University)

A Large Number of Processors with Intermittent Failures and Failsafe
Computation, E. Gelenbe (NJIT and EHEI, Univ. of Paris V) and Z.
Kedem (Courant Institute, New York University)

Design of Performance Predictable Systems, R. Bagrodia and C.-C.
Shen (University of California at Los Angeles)

Saturday, August 29

9.00 am: Session III

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

11.00 am : Session IV

Performability Analysis, Kishor Trivedi (Duke 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.


			  Program Committee

Erol Gelenbe,  Chair,  (EHEI, Paris)
Zvi Kedem (Courant Institute, NYU)
Isi Mitrani (University of Newcastle upon Tyne)
Richard Muntz (UCLA)
Krishna Palem (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center)
Scott Smolka (SUNY at Stony Brook)
Satish Tripathi (University of Maryland)


	      Location, Registration, Hotel Reservation

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.  All
participants are invited to have dinner together on Friday evening.

The special CONCUR rate for the hotel has been extended through August
30.  Even if you are not attending CONCUR, you can obtain the special
conference rate by contacting Danfords Inn at +1 516 928 5200 and
stating that you are attending a workshop affiliated with CONCUR '92.
All interested participants must contact the hotel as soon as possible
to make the reservations.  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 or if you need additional information,
please contact: Zvi Kedem, New York University, 251 Mercer Street, New
York, NY 10012-1185; phone: +1 212 998 3101; Internet:
readpac@cs.nyu.edu.