From: elc@world.std.com  (Edward Council)
Subject: Seminar - Intro to Distributed Transaction Processing - Dr. Jim Grey
Followup-To: elc@world.std.com
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
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Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1992 19:01:24 GMT


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		ANNOUNCING THE FALL 1992 SERIES

		PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT SEMINARS

		GREATER BOSTON CHAPTER OF THE ACM






	INTRODUCTION TO DISTRIBUTED TRANSACTION PROCESSING
	with Dr. Jim Gray
	Saturday, November 14th



		Held at: 
			Snell Engineering Center
			Northeastern University
			Boston, MA





  <details and registration form follow>


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Saturday, November 14
Introduction to Distributed Transaction Processing

Dr. Jim Gray, Digital Equipment Corporation
Session chair: Jay Conne

OVERVIEW

To work in a distributed environment, your product requires that every
transaction tolerate a broad range of software and hardware faults.
You must guarantee reliability from the transaction's request to the
safe delivery of its result. In this seminar, Dr. Gray focuses on the
key issues producing highly available transaction processing systems.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

This seminar is designed for application developers who are looking to
develop systems that can survive failures. Familiarity with database
and operating system concepts is recommended.

SEMINAR TOPICS

This seminar will present simple concepts in simple ways. The
transactional techniques to be discussed convert complex and subtle
errors into simple all-or-nothing errors. This is particularly
important for the construction of distributed systems, in which error
states are so complex. Topics will include

- Concepts for high availability, such as fault containment
  and n-plex math
- Transaction processing monitors
- Two-phase commit protocol
- Techniques for recovery from serious failures, including
  archive recovery and disaster recovery
- Optimization for recovery, such as presumed abort, group
  commit and one-phase commit

LECTURER

Dr. Jim Gray works at Digital's San Francisco Systems Center on
enhancements to Digital's database systems, transaction processing,
distributed computing, fault tolerance and performance. Prior to
joining Digital he worked at Tandem, on projects including a system
dictionary and a distributed SQL system. Dr. Gray also worked at IBM
on projects including System R, SQL/DS, DB2, IMS-Fast Path and VM/370
enhancements. He is the editor of "The Performance Handbook for
Database and Transaction Processing Systems", as well as a co-author
of "Transaction Processing: Concepts and Techniques".

Special Offer: "The book Transaction Processing: Concepts and
Techniques", by Jim Gray and Andreas Reuter, will be available for
$45.00. This is a savings of $20.00 off the suggested retail price.
This offer is good only when payment is included with your PDS
registration fee.


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                        General Information

LOCATION

All seminars are held at Northeastern University's Snell Engineering
Center, Boston, within walking distance of the MBTA Green Line (Arborway/E
Train) Northeastern station and the Orange Line Ruggles station. Free
parking is available, but limited.

SCHEDULE

     8:30 -  9:00 am - registration/continental breakfast
     9:00 - 12:15 pm - morning session, break at 10:30 am
    12:15 -  1:30 pm - lunch (provided on-site)
     1:30 -  4:30 pm - afternoon session, break at 2:30 pm

FEES

Included in the $70 fee are seminar materials, lunch, and refreshments; the
book for the November 14 Gray seminar is not included.  Registrants not
already members of the Greater Boston Chapter of the ACM are charged an
additional $10, and become members of the chapter for the year.  Surcharge
for on-site registration is $10.  Purchase orders cannot be accepted. 
Enrollment is limited, and is on a first-come, first-served basis.

REFUND POLICY

The full fee will be refunded if the PDS Chair receives written
notification before the day of the seminar, addressed to GBC/ACM, PO Box
465, Lexington MA 02173. Refund requests received after the seminar date
will be subject to a $15 administrative fee. The $10 membership fee will
not be refunded.

ANY QUESTIONS?

You may register using the form below; all GBC/ACM members should
also have received a PDS brochure, which contains a registration
blank. To obtain additional brochures, or if you need more
information, phone (617) 862-1181.

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Professional Development Seminar registration:

Fundamentals of Computer Graphics
October 3, 1992             $70              ____________

Product Usability: Survival Techniques
October 24, 1992            $70              ____________

Intro. to Distributed Transaction Processing
November 14, 1992           $70              ____________

Book for above seminar      $45              ____________

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