SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE monthly posting <1-Aug-2000> More information about SIGOPS can be found at the SIGOPS web page: http://www.acm.org/sigops Contents -------- 1. Announcements Distributed Systems Online (new e-journal) SIGMETRICS (CFP) SOSP (CFP) HotOS (CFP) IEEE TOC Special Issue: Asynchronous Real-Time Distributed Systems" (CFP) 2. Sites-of-the-month (Web sites that OS researchers and practitioners may find useful) Parallel IO Archive WebBib 3. About this list (How to subscribe, unsubscribe, and submit requests for announcements) 1. Announcements ---------------- Title: Distributed Systems Online URL: http://computer.org/channels/ds/ Summary: DS Online is a new electronic magazine which aims to serve the distributed systems community. Click on the keywords to find continually updated information on subareas, edited by specialists in cluster computing, distributed agents, distributed databases, distributed multimedia, grid computing, middleware, mobile and wireless, operating systems, real time and embedded systems and security. Dependable systems is coming soon. We welcome feedback and volunteers for other areas. Articles, columns, book reviews and research profiles will be posted approximately monthly. Submitted articles are peer reviewed, each issue will be archived in the IEEE Digital Library and a bound volume will be prepared annually for libraries. We encourage you to use and contribute to this new service. Jean Bacon, EIC Title: SIGMETRICS/Performance 2001 Deadline: 26 Oct 2000 Conference: 17-20 June 2001 Web page: http://www.cs.umd.edu/conference/sigmetrics2001 Synopsis: The joint SIGMETRICS/Performance conference solicits papers (and proposals for tutorials and hot topics) on the development and application of state-of-the-art, broadly-applicable analytic, simulation, and measurement-based performance evaluation techniques. Title: 18th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP01) Deadline: 26 March 2001 Conference: 21-24 October 2001 Web page: http://www.cs.ucsd.edu/sosp01/ Synopsis: We seek submissions of high quality that significantly further the knowledge and understanding of the systems community. In keeping with SOSP tradition, we will favor work that explores new territory, continues a significant research dialog, or reflects on experience with practical applications of the community's knowledge. Title: Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS-VIII) Deadline: 1 December 2000 Conference: 20-22 May 2001 Web page: http://i30www.ira.uka.de/conferences/HotOS/ Synopsis: We solicite OS-related papers on hot or emerging areas such as disconnected and nomadic computing, tiny and ubiquitous computers, middleware services, safe extensibility, speculative caching or execution techniques, distributed storage management, high performance servers and networking, special-purpose and embedded systems, etc. Topics of interest also include the more classic OS areas such as distributed computing, virtual memory, networking, file systems, process management, performance evaluation, real-time systems and security. Title: IEEE Transactions on Computers Special Issue on Asynchronous Real-Time Distributed Systems Deadline: 31 March 2001 Web page: http://www.ee.vt.edu/~tocsi/ Synopsis: This special issue focuses on the state-of-the-art in research and practice in the emerging field of real-time distributed systems that are "asynchronous" in the sense that processing and communication latencies do not necessarily have known upper bounds, and event and task arrivals and failure occurrences may be non-deterministically distributed. 2. Sites-of-the-month --------------------- Please contribute. The sites-of-the-month list in the SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE monthly posting features web sites that OS researchers and practitioners may find useful. This list depends on contributions from members: if you know of a site you think other members should know about, please nominate it by following the instructions at http://www.acm.org/sigops/SOTM/ This month's sites: Title: Parallel I/O Archive URL: http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/pario/ Maintained by: David Kotz Summary: This site contains information about parallel I/O research. It includes pointers to major projects, resources, past and upcoming events, disk simulator software, a mailing list, and a FAQ. Title: The WebBIB Project URL: http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~webbib Maintained by: Craig Wills Summary: This project is to create an online bibliography of literature relevant to studying distributed systems topics as they relate to the World Wide Web. Previous months' sites are listed at http://www.acm.org/sigops/SOTM/sites.html 3. 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