Papers online!
During the last few years, research on consistency models, protocols and applications has allowed the software DSM field to become relatively mature. At the same time, general-purpose networks and communication packages have advanced to the point where clusters of workstations can be coupled almost as closely as hardware multi-processors.
The theme of this workshop, then, will be an attempt to answer the
following two related questions:
Authors are invited to submit manuscripts that demonstrate original and unpublished research in the area of software distributed shared memory systems. Accepted papers will be published by the ICS organization. One of the authors will be required to attend the workshop and present the work.
8:15 Opening Remarks
8:30 - 9:00 Invited Talk:
TBD
Kai Li.
9:00 - 10:20 Session 1: LRC and HLRC Protocols
A customized logical clock for timestamp-based relaxed consistency
DSM systems
Luciana Arantes, Bertil Folliot and Pierre Sens.
Reducing Message Overhead in Home-Based Software DSMs
Weiwu Hu.
Adaptive schemes for home-based DSM systems
M.C. Ng and W.F. Wong.
Home Migration in Home-Based Software DSMs
Weiwu Hu, Weisong Shi, and Zhimin Tang.
10:20 - 10:35 Break
10:35 - 12:15 Session 2: DSM Systems
Global Resource Management for High Availability and Performance in
a DSM-based Cluster
Christine Morin and Renaud Lottiaux.
Sven Karlsson and Mats Brorsson.
Design and Implementation of Proteus
Jyh C. Ueng, Ce K. Shieh, Qi C. Lin.
Thread Selection in Software DSM Systems
Tyng-Yeu Liang, Deh-Yuan Chuang, Ce-Kuen Shieh.
Study of Cache and TLB Performance in a DVSM System
V. Sricharan and R. Govindarajan.
12:15 - 1:45 Lunch
1:45 - 2:15 Invited Talk:
The Plight of Software Distributed Shared
Memory (talk)
Kourosh Gharachorloo.
2:15 - 3:35 Session 3: Object Orientation and Communication Support
Harnassing the Power of Fast Low-Latency Networks for Software
DSMS
Ayal Itzkovitz and Assaf Schuster and Yoram Talmor.
SciOS: An SCI-based Software Distributed Shared Memory
P. T. Koch, J. S. hansen, E. Cecchet, X. Ronsset de Pina.
BOPS: Balancing objects and pages in a shared space
C. Rehn and M. Pizka.
An Object-Based Software DSM for the NIP Parallel System
Savas Parastatidis and Paul Watson.
3:35 - 3:50 Break
3:50 - 5:30 Session 4: Run-time, Compiler and Formal Language Support
Distributed Shared Memory: Bridging the Granularity Gap
Ayal Itzkovitz and Assaf Schuster.
CAS-DSM: A compiler-assisted DSM
Manoj, N. P. and R. Govindarajan.
Towards designing SVM coherence protocols using high-level
specifications and aspect-oriented translations
David Mentre and Daniel Le Metayer and Thierry Priol.
A Hierarchy of View Consistencies and Exact Implementations
Hon F. Li and Gabriel Girard.
A New Approach to Multi-User
Environments Using Software Distributed Shared Memory
Erich R. Schmidt and Cristian Tapus and Joseph Kiniry and Daniel M. Zimmerman.
April 15, 1999: Papers due. April 25, 1999: Automatic extension. April 30, 1999: Notification sent to authors. May 18, 1999: Camera-ready papers due.
Liviu Iftode (iftode@cs.rutgers.edu ) -- Co-Chair