---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Florida SunFlash Sun User Group Ninth Annual Conference And Exhibit SunFLASH Vol 35 #6 November 1991 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- San Jose Convention Center San Jose, California DISTRIBUTED APPLICATIONS AND MULTIPROCESSOR TECHNOLOGY Program Chair: S. Lee Henry, CIA Sunday, December 8, 1991 TUTORIALS- 9:00 am - 5:00 pm (Sign-up is separate from Conference) T-1 Perl- Tom Christensen, Convex T-2 Writing Distributed Applications Using the ONC Platform- John Corbin, University of Texas-El Paso & Sun Microsystems T-3 Micro-Kernel Technology- Loris S. Grob & Marc Rozier, Chorus Systemes T-4 Basic X Concepts- Berry Kercheval, Intelligent Decisions T-5 Introduction to the Domain Name System- William LeFebvre, Northwestern Univerisity T-6 UNIX Administration for VMS System Managers or, VMS + UNIX = Oil + Water? Ruth Milner, NRAO/VLA T-7 X and the Administrator- Dinah McNutt, Pencom Software T-8 Topics in UNIX Security- Eugene Spafford, Purdue University Monday, December 9, 1991 CONFERENCE- 9:00 am - 5:30 pm EXHIBITS- 10:00 am - 6:00 pm TIME SESSION - *SPEAKER 9:00 am KEYNOTE: Distributed Applications in the 90s- SunSoft's Object Oriented Vision *Richard Probst, SunSoft 10:15 am IMIS: A Distributed Query and Report Fromating System- *T. Anthony Allen, The World Bank Low Cost IP Connectivity *Robert A. Sutterfield,Morning Star Technologies SunRAI--Sun Remote Application Interface *Barbara Ferber, Sun Microsystems BSD on Suns *Chris Torek, LBL, * Van Jacobson, LBL Embedded SPARC Applications *Albert Y. Leung, Force Computers 11:30 am LUNCH Speaker: The HP/SunSoft Joint Development Agreement *Joseph Sventek, Hewlett Packard 1:45 pm PANAMA: a Gateway Generator from OSI-ROS to Sun RPC *Michel Besson, Cerics Suns and Others: Accommodating Heterogeneity in a Sun Network *Steven M. Romig, Ohio State University & Elizabeth D. Zwicky, SRI GNU & You, Building a Better World *Howard Chu, JBL Creating New Widgets in XView 3.0 *Steve Tufty, Protocol Systems IBM/DEC Connectivity- Directions from SunConnect *Barbara Coll, SunConnect Numerical Experimentation by Computer: Answering Scientific Questions by Modeling Systems of Different Equations *Alan Heirich, CalTech 2:30 pm Experiences in Porting to SunOS MT and the Sun Threads Library *Robert Hagmann, Xerox PARC Case Study of a Moderately Complex /usr/local File Server Approach to Support Localization in a Multi-Vendor UNIX s/w *Alek Komarnitsky, Spatial Technology Experience in Porting an FTAM Implementation from Sun/UNIX to VAX/VMS *Hua Chang, Fed. Dept. of Communications (Canada) LAN Integration and Product Solutions from SunConnect * Mike Marotta, Sun Connect Parallel IC Design Verification in a Distributed Sun Environment *Diane R. Shook, AT&T Bell Labs 3:30 pm Process Scheduling Systems for Distributed Applications *Jim Rosborough, Great-West Life Assurance MINI-TUTORIAL= Network Debugging *Smoot Carl-Mitchell, Texas Internet Consulting Hierarchical File Systems and Sparcus Strategy *P. Michael Haffley, Purdue University, Indianapolis Application Development Environments for the 90s *Alfred Correira, UniSQL PANEL: High Performance SPARC Technology *Stan Hanks, Technology Transfer Associates, Moderator 4:45 pm A Distributed Operator Interaction System *Steve Shumay, SunSoft You and Your Compiler *Keith Bierman, SunPro FDDI to the Desktop: The Missing Link in Distributed Computing *Noel Lindsay, Crescendo Communications Tuesday, December 10, 1991 9:00 am KEYNOTE: SVR4 Part 1 -- An Overview of Solaris 2.0 *Norman Eaglestone, SunSoft 10:15 am Management of Distributed Applications *Jim Rosborough, Great-West Life Assurance A Next Step in Backup and Restore Technology *Rob Kolstad, SunSoft Technology Directions: UniSQL: A Unified Relational and Object Oriented Next-Generation Database System *Won Kim, UniSQL Coarse-Grained Parallelism Applied to a Finite-Difference Algorithm *David Heatley, LLNL Intelligent Monitoring & Control of Complex Systems *Scott Weitzenkamp & Tom Laffey, Talarian Corporation 11:30 am LUNCH Speaker- A Vision of Sun in the Mid-90s *David S.H. Rosenthal, SunSoft 1:45 pm Parallel Deductive Databases: Design & Implementation of a Parallel Algorithm for Computing Recursive Queries *A. Hameurlain, IRIT Hybrid Performance Monitor for the MSPARC Mulicomputer *James Harden, MSU SVR4 Part II *Norman Eaglestone, SunSoft Distributing Your Application on CD ROM *Bill Petro, Sun Microsystems Systems Security: A Case Study of Syracuse University's Growing Computer Security Problems *John Stewart, Syracuse University 3:00 pm Real-Time in SunOS 5.0 *Norman Eaglestone, SunSoft Introduction to Disk Drives: Practical Info for the Systems Admin *Dinah McNutt, Pencom Software The NeWS Briefing System: Programming with the NeWS Toolkit *Steven Fritzinger & Neil Groundwater, Sun Microsystems Ask AnswerBook--A Session with the Developer *Tom A. Sun Microsystems Data Security in the SunOS Environment *James Geary, Security Dynamics 4:00 pm Redefining RealTime *Michael Peck, Berkeley Camera Engineering A VITec Multi-Processor Based Image Processing System *Robert C. Johnson, ESL Analyzing Backup Systems *Elizabeth D. Zwicky, SRI International Project Athena on the Sun Platform *James H. Haynes, UC Santa Cruz PANEL: The Commercial Use of Freeware *Rich Morin, Canta Forda Computer Lab, Moderator SimplifySQL: A Graphical Interface for DB Access? *Frederick Tou, Sun Tech Enterprises Improving System Price/Perf. with Fast Solid State Swap Storage *Bill Miller, CERAM Security in the SunOS Environment *Howard I. Solomon, Sun Microsystems Wednesday, December 11, 1991 9:00 am KEYNOTE: Scott McNealy, Sun Microsystems 10:15 am SunSoft's Project DOE-Distributed Objects Everywhere *Richard Probst, SunSoft Bachelor of Occult Sciences in System Administration *Peter Zadrozny, CQG Engineering a Commercial Backup System *Jeff Polk, SunSoft PC NFS: Experiences & Directions *Geoff Arnold, Sun Tech. Enterprises A Distributed S/W Platform for Supporting Large Mission-Critical Decision-Support Applications *Dale Skeen, Teknekron The ARTSE Process Control Executive *Curt S. Kuhn, SPARTA, Inc. 11:30 am LUNCH Speaker: The Desktop Microprocessor Standards Battle: Down to Four Primary Contestants *Michael Slater, Microprocessor Report 1:45 pm Case Study of a Distributed Application for System and Network Management *Larry Garlick, Remedy Corporation A Database for UNIX Backup *Jim Engquist Sun Microsystems PANEL: IBM Connectivity Solutions *Kevin Kalajan, SunConnect, Moderator Virtual Partitions; An Effective Disk Storage Administration Tool *Raphael Frommer, Auspex The C-Linda Language for Networks of SparcStations *Timothy Mattson, Scientific Computing Associates 2:45 pm Object Oriented System *Michael Shurman, Fibronics Limited Backup Strategies *Donald Trimmer, Delta Microsystems System Admin's Perf. Monitor for Tuning NFS Net Servers *Brad Peterson, Auspex A Message Passing Library for Distr & Parallel Computing *Raju Karia, INTEVEP S.A. 3:30 pm Distributed Printing and Viewing of Mainframe Reports *Terry Beyer, Sun Microsystems Issues in On-Line Backup *Steve Shumway, SunSoft Developing Multi-Threaded Applications *Karl Danz, SunSoft and Denise Leahy, SunPro How and Why SCSI is Better than IPI for NFS *Bruce Nelson, Auspex Parallel Applications Using Linda/RTM on Networks of SparcStations *Timothy Mattson, Scientific Computing Associates %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% SUN USER GROUP NINTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE & EXHIBIT 1991 EARLY-BIRD REGISTRATION INFORMATION San Jose Convention Center - December 9-11, 1991 Distributed Applications and Multiprocessor Technology Pre-registration fee: $375.00/person On-site registration fee: $450.00/person NAME: _______________________________________________________________ TITLE: _______________________________________________________________ COMPANY: _______________________________________________________________ ADDRESS: _______________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________ PHONE: _______________ FAX: _________________ EMAIL: ___________________ _____$275.00 SUG and or USENIX Member. _____$315.00 Non-Member. _____Please make me a member. 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