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The First Networks of Workstations Workshop

October 4, 1994

8:30 AM Session 1: Interconnects for NOW

Instigator: John Hennessy, Stanford University

Efforts Toward a MessageWay Standard, Chuck Seitz, Myricom
Dull Networks are Interesting, Greg Papadopoulos, Sun Microsystems
ATM as an Interconnect for NOW -or- 'Who cares? It's the End Station.' Gaurav Garg, SynOptics

10:30 AM Session 2: What's the Low-Level Programming Model NOW?

Instigator: Mark Hill, University of Wisconsin, Madison

A Case for Virtual Memory Mapped Network Interface Kai Li, Princeton University
Programming Models for NOW, Anoop Gupta, Stanford University
Programming Models for NOW, Peter Steenkiste, Carnegie Mellon University
Low Level Programming Models for NOW: Active Message Perspective David Culler, University of California, Berkeley

1:15 PM Session 3: Getting the Operating System Out of the Way

Instigator: Brian Bershad, University of Washington

GLUnix: A New Approach to Operating Systems for Networks of Workstations Thomas Anderson, University of California, Berkeley
Scalable Workstations and Exokernels Frans Kaashoek, MIT
OS Support for NOWs Larry Peterson, University of Arizona

3:15 PM Session 4: Who Cares? (About Applications)

Instigator: Jim Gray

Then and NOW Bill Farrell, SAIL
Microsoft's Tiger Media Server Rick Rashid, Microsoft Corporation
Shared Memory Computing On Networks of Workstations Willy Zwaenepoel, Rice University

5:15 PM Session 5: Perspectives: Whither NOW?

Instigator: Mark Weiser, Xerox PARC

Yet Another Workstation Network, Ed Lazowska, University of Wasiiton,
A Case for Networks of Workstations (NOW), David Patterson, University of California, Berkeley