>From owner-simulators Fri Nov 24 10:58:00 1995 Received: from meitner.cs.washington.edu (meitner.cs.washington.edu [128.95.2.104]) by june.cs.washington.edu (8.7.1/7.2ju) with ESMTP id KAA02237 for ; Fri, 24 Nov 1995 10:58:00 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by meitner.cs.washington.edu (8.7.1/7.2ws+) with SMTP id KAA12863 for ; Fri, 24 Nov 1995 10:57:59 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199511241857.KAA12863@meitner.cs.washington.edu> To: simulators@cs Subject: Conference: MASCOTS '96 Program Date: Fri, 24 Nov 1995 10:57:58 PST From: " pardo@cs.washington.edu" From: samir@ringer.cs.utsa.edu (Samir Das) Newsgroups: comp.simulation Subject: Advance Program (MASCOTS'96) Date: 21 Nov 1995 22:38:04 GMT Organization: University of Texas at San Antonio Lines: 456 Approved: dowd@eng.buffalo.edu (Patrick Dowd) Message-ID: <48tkcc$15r@azure.acsu.buffalo.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: spiny.eng.buffalo.edu Originator: dowd@spiny.eng.buffalo.edu Advance Program International Workshop on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS'96) Co-sponsored by the IEEE (Computer Society, TCCA, TCSIM) In Cooperation with the ACM (SIGSIM, SIGARCH, SIGMETRICS), IFIP WG 7.3, and SCS February 1 -- 3, 1996 San Jose, California, USA Thursday 1 February 1996 ========================= Continental Breakfast (7:30 -8:00) MASCOTS'96 Welcome Address from General and Program Chairs Dharma Agrawal (NC State) and Xiaodong Zhang (UTSA) Invited Session Chair: Xiaodong Zhang (8:00AM - 10:00AM) Building Parallel Simulations from Serial Simulators P. Heidelberger IBM T.J. Watson Research Center; and D. Nicol, College of William and Mary I/O, Performance Analysis, and Performance Data Immersion D. A. Reed, University of Illinois Coffee Break (10:00AM - 10:30AM) Session 1a: Networks I Chair: Philip Heidelberger, IBM T.J. Watson Researcg Center (10:30AM - 12:00PM) Performance Analysis and Simulation, Validation Tests: A Comparative Case Study About FDDI for Network Management S. Meunier and O. Sercan, Universite Paul Sabatier, France Tuning the Performance of Fast Resource Management for Bursty Traffic in ATM-based Networks H. Augsten, M. Mateescu and A. Wolisz, GMD, Germany Zone-Bit-Recording-Enhanced Video Data Layout Strategies S. Chen and M. Thapar, HP Research Labs Session 1b: Instrumentation and Trace Chair: Evangelos P. Markatos, Foundation for Research and Technology, Greece (10:30AM - 12:00AM) The Inaccuracy of Trace-Driven Simulation Using Incomplete Multiprogramming Trace Data J. K. Flanagan, Brigham Young University Bridge: A Retargetable Extensive Profiling Tool J. Chen, M. Rabb and V. Taylor, Northwestern University Annai/PMA Instrumentation Intrusion Presentation A. Endo and B. J. N. Wylie, NEC European Supercomputer Systems, Switzerland Lunch on Own (12:00AM - 1:30AM) Session 2a: Distributed Systems I Chair: Dan Reed, University of Illinois (1:30PM - 3:00PM) Simulation of Heterogeneous Networks of Workstations Z. Xu, University of Wisconsin at Madison Performance Modeling of Heterogeneous Distributed Applications Cosimo Anglano, Universita di Torino, Italy Using Remote Memory to Avoid Disk Thrashing: A Simulation Study E. P. Markatos, Foundation for Research and Technology, Greece Session 2b: Performance Modeling I Chair: Peter Wilke, University of Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany (1:30PM - 3:00PM) A Multinomial Formulation for Monte Carlo Simulation Using Importance Sampling J. A. Freebersyser and J. K. Townsend, North Carolina State University Two New Fair and Efficient Algorithms for Slot Reuse in DQDB Mans M. A. Marsan and F. Saluta, Politecnico di Torino, Italy Two New Algorithms to Compute Steady-state Bounds for Markov Models with Slow Forward and Fast Backward Transitions J. A. Carrasco, A. Calderon and J. Escriba, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain Coffe Break (3:00PM - 3:30PM) Session 3a: Parallel Systems I Chair: Keith Townsend, North Carolina State University (3:30 - 5:00PM) Performance Estimation in a Simultaneous Multithreading Processor M. J. Serrano, IBM Santa Teresa Lab A Simulation Platform for Multi-threaded Architectures V. Vlassov, H. Ahmed, L-E Thorelli and Rassul Ayani, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Measurement and Modeling of EARTH_MANNA Multithreaded Architecture A. A. Nemawarkar and G. R. Gao, McGill University, Canada Session 3b: Network Simulation Chair: Patrick Dowd, State University of New York at Buffalo (3:30PM - 5:00PM) A Comparison of Methodologies for the Stationary Analysis of Data Gathered in the Simulation of Telecommunication Networks A. Francini and F. Neri, Politecnico di Torino, Italy Design and Implementation of an Object-Oriented Network Simulator W-S. E. Chen, C-H. Lin and Y-T. Chen, National Chung-Hsing University, Taiwan Object Oriented Simulation of Multimedia-On-Demand Services over ATM Network A. Srivastava, A. Singru, A. Kumar and K. A. Kamel, University of Lousville Workshop Reception (6:00PM - 8:00PM) Friday 2 February 1996 ========================= Continental Breakfast (7:30AM - 8:AM) Session 4a: Networks II Chair: Nita Sharma, Hitachi Data Systems (8:00AM - 9:30AM) Analysis of Buffer Design for Adaptive Routing in Direct Networks A. Lagman and W. A. Najjar, Colorado State University On the Design of Efficient Multistage Interconnection Networks Y. R. Potlapalli and D. P. Agrawal, North Carolina State University Performance Analysis of WDM Networks with Wavelength Conversion, J-C Chen and P. W. Dowd, State University of New York at Buffalo Session 4b: Workloads and Benchmarks Chair: Anup Kumar, University of Louisville (8:00AM - 9:30AM) Transaction Processing Workloads - A Comparison to the SPEC Benchmarks Using Memory Hierarch Performance Analysis B. E. Nelson and G. D. Thompson, Brigham Young University The Design and Simulation of the PACE Prototype Architecture F. Z. Ieromnimon, T. J. Reynolds and M. E. Waite, University of Essex, UK A Quantitative Method for Design of Benchmark Suites J. J. Dujmovic, San Francisco State University Coffe Break (9:30AM - 10:00AM) Session 5a: Parallel Simulation I Chair: Samir Das, University of Texas at San Antonio (10:00AM - 11:30PM) A Model for Parallel Simulation of Mobile Telecommunication Systems M. Liljenstam and R. Ayani, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Parallelizable Execution-Driven Simulation of Threaded Distributed Memory Parallel Computations D. N. Nicol and J. X. Liu, College of William and Mary A Model for Parallel Simulation of Distributed Shared Memory L. Barriga, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden; M. Brorsson, Lund University, Sweden; and R. Ayani, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Session 5b: TOOL -- Performance Analysis Chair: Thomas Braunl, University of Stuttgart, Germany (10:00AM - 11:30PM) The Annai/PMA Performance Monitor and Analyzer A. Endo, B. Wylie, Centro Svizzero di Calcolo Scientifico, Switzerland Vista: A Framework for Instrumentation System Design for Multidisciplinary Applications Abdul Waheed, Diane Rover, Michigan State University Building Models for Performance Analysis Doug Neuse, SES, Inc. Workshop Lunch and Invited Session Chair: Dharma Agrawal (12:00PM - 2:00PM) Fair Queueing Architectures for High Speed Networks Albert Greenberg, AT&T Bell Labs Session 6a: Distributed Systems II Chair: Mark Squillante, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center (2:30PM - 4:30PM) Analyzing and Tuning the Distributed Coordination Function in the IEEE802.11 DFWMAC Draft Standard J. Weinmiller, H. Woesner, J-P Ebert and A. Wolisz, Technical University Berlin, Germany Issues of Reliable Network Memory Paging E. P. Markatos, Foundation for Research and Technology, Greece Performability Management in Distributed Database Systems: An Adaptive Concurrency Control Protocol A. T. Tai, University of Califirnia at Los Angeles; and J. F. Meyer, University of Michigan Performance Analysis and Optimization of Search and Selection Algorithm for Highly Parallel Associative Memories B. Parhami, University of California at Santa Barbara Session 6b: TOOL --- Networks and Parallel Systems Chair: Guenter Mamier, University of Stuttgart, Germany (2:30PM - 4:30PM) VISTA: A Configurable Visualization and Simulation Tool for ATM Switches N. Tummala, K. Robbins, University of Texas at San Antonio TimeNET - A Toolkit for Evaluationg Non-Markovian Stochastic Petri Nets R. German et. al., Technische University Berlin, Germany MVPE: Visual Design of Parallel Simulation Models R. Meyer, R. Bagrodia, University of California at Los Angeles Simulation of Data-Parallel Programs in Parallaxis-III T. Braunl, H. Keller, and J. Stippa, University of Stuttgart, Germany Saturday 3 February 1996 ========================= Continental Breakfast (7:30AM - 8:00AM) Invited Session Chair: Santosh G. Abraham, HP Lab (8:00AM - 9:00AM) Evaluation of Cache Consistency Algorithm Performance Alan Smith and J. D. Gee, University of California at Berkeley Coffee Break (9:00AM - 9:30AM) Session 7a: Parallel Systems II Chair: Alan Smith, University of California at Berkeley (9:30AM - 11:30PM) A Performance Debuger for Eliminating Excess Synchronization in Shared-Memory Parallel Programs R. Rajamony and A. L. Cox, Rice University Event-based Study of the Effect of Execution Environments on Parallel Program Performance S. R. Sarukkai and J. C. Yan, NASA Ames Research Center Modeling and Analysis of Task Migration in Shared-Memory Computer Systems R. D. Nelson, OTA Limited Partnership; and M. S. Squillante, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center Performance Evaluation of an Integrated Instrumentation System A. Waheed and D. T. Rover, Michigan State University Session 7b: Performance Modeling II Chair: Dipak Ghosal, U of California at Davis (9:30AM - 11:30PM) Comparing the Performance Parameters of Two Network Structures for Scalable Massively Parallel Processors D-M. Kwai and B. Parhami, University of California at Santa Barbara Well-defined Stochastic Petri Nets G. Ciardo, College of William and Mary; and R. Zijal, Technical University of Berlin, Germany A New Methodology for Performance Evaluation J. Martins and J.-P. Hubaux, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Response time analysis of two server fork-join systems E. Varki and L. W. Dowdy, Vanderbilt University ====================================================================== R E G I S T R A T I O N F O R M International Workshop on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS'96) Co-sponsored by the IEEE (Computer Society, TCCA, TCSIM) In Cooperation with the ACM (SIGSIM, SIGARCH, SIGMETRICS) IFIP WG 7.3, and SCS February 1 -- 3, 1996 San Jose, California The early registration fee for IEEE/ACM members is $275, $345 for non-members, and $175 for full-time students by January 10. Late and on-site registration for IEEE/ACM members is $330, $410 for non-members, and $210 for students. This includes the Proceedings published by the IEEE CS Press, continental breakfasts, the workshop reception, the workshop lunch, and coffee breaks. Additional copies of the Proceedings may be purchased at the conference. In order to publish a paper in the proceedings, one of the authors must register for the workshop by November 20. Please send your registration to: Professor Anup Kumar EMACS Dept University of Louisville Louisville, KY 40292 Tel: 502-852-0471 e-mail address: a0kuma01@starbase.spd.louisville.edu Name: ................................................................* Affiliation: .........................................................* Address: .............................................................* ......................................................................* ......................................................................* ......................................................................* ......................................................................* Email Address: .......................................................* Telephone: ...........................................................* Fax: .................................................................* ============================================================ GENERAL CHAIR Dharma Agrawal Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering North Carolina State University Raleigh, NC 27695-7911 PROGRAM CHAIR Xiaodong Zhang High Performance Computing and Software Laboratory University of Texas at San Antonio San Antonio, Texas 78249 TOOLS FAIR CHAIRs Thomas Braunl and Gunter Mamier IPVR University of Stuttgart, Breitwiesenstr. 20-22 D-70565 Stuttgart, Germany PUBLICITY AND PUBLICATION CHAIR Samir R. Das University of Texas at San Antonio San Antonio, Texas 78249, U.S.A. LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS CHAIR Tse-Yu Yeh Intel Corporation Santa Clara, CA 95052-8119 TREASURER AND REGISTRATION CHAIR Anup Kumar University of Louisville Louisville, Kentucky 40292, USA PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS Santosh Abraham (HP Lab, USA) Ian Akyildiz (Georgia Tech, USA) Thomas Braunl (U Stuttgart, Germany) Giovanni Chiola (U Genova, Italy) Gianfranco Ciardo (College William and Mary, USA) James M. Conrad (U Arkansas, USA) Chita Das (Penn State, USA) Sajal Das (U of North Texas, USA) Samir R. Das (UTSA, USA) Patrick Dowd (SUNY-Buffalo, USA) Larry Dowdy (Vanderbilt U, USA) Paul Fishwick (U Florida, USA) Richard Fujimoto (Georgia Tech, USA) Erol Gelenbe (Duke U, USA) Dipak Ghosal (UC Davis, USA) Albert Greenberg (AT&T, USA) Guenter Haring (U Vienna, Austria) Philip Heidelberger (IBM, USA) Guy Juanole (LAAS, France) Bob Jump (Rice U, USA) Jason Lin (National C.K. University, Taiwan) Darrell Long (UCSC, USA) Guenter Mamier (U Stuttgart, Germany) M Ajmone Marsan (Poly Torino, Italy) Richard Muntz (UCLA, USA) David Nicol (College William and Mary, USA) Ken Sevcik (U Toronto, Canada) Nita Sharma (Hitachi Data Systems, USA) Alan J. Smith (UC Berkeley, USA) Keith Townsend, (NCSU, USA) Satish Tripathi (U Maryland, USA) Kishor Trivedi (Duke U, USA) Peter Wilke (U Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany) Yong Yan (HuaZhong U, P. R. China) STEERING COMMITTEE MEMBERS Dharma Agrawal (NC State, USA) Kallol Bagchi (Consultant) Giovanni Chiola (U Genova, Italy) Doug DeGroot (Texas Ins., USA) Patrick Dowd (SUNY-Buffalo, USA) Herb Schwetman (Mesquite, USA) Kishor Trivedi (Duke U, USA) Jean Walrand (UC Berkeley, USA)