Operating Systems of the 90s and Beyond: International Workshop, Dagstuhl Castle, Germany July 8-12, 1991. Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (563))

Architectural and hardware advances in computing design are occurring at an ever quickening rate, but it is the operating system that masters the complexity of these new computing devices to make them useful tools. Operating systems can make the difference between an interesting architecture and a useful computing environment. As more complex computational structures and more powerful communication technologies become available, we are faced with the need to develop new generations of operating systems to harness their power. This volume presents the proceedings of an international workshop intended to plot a course for design and development work on operating systems over the coming decade that was held in Dagstuhl Castle, Germany, in July 1991. Eight sessions covered: - Size, scalability and distribution in future operating systems, - The impact of future trends in hardware and communication technology, - Integrating heterogeneous operating systems, - Trends in real-time operating systems, - Fault tolerance support in futute operating systems, - Security and protection support in future operating systems, - The next generation of operating systems, - Supporting mulitmedia applications in distributed systems. An agenda for research in large-scale distributed data repositories....Pages 1-12 File system indexing, and backup....Pages 13-19 Intelligent file systems for object repositories....Pages 20-24 Using domains for specifying management policy....Pages 25-30 Session one: Discussion summary....Pages 31-32 Future operating systems: An environmental scenario and consequential challenges....Pages 33-39 Operating system support for high-performance architectures....Pages 40-43 Closely coupled systems....Pages 44-47 Are operating systems at RISC?....Pages 48-52 Operating systems of the 90's and beyond (with Emphasis on Multiprocessing)....Pages 53-55 Munin: Distributed shared memory using multi-protocol release consistency....Pages 56-60 Session two: Discussion summary....Pages 61-61 Autonomous heterogeneous computing — Some open problems....Pages 62-71 Coping with the past....Pages 72-76 The immortality of operating systems or is research in operating systems still justified?....Pages 77-83 Session three: Discussion summary....Pages 84-85 Event-triggered versus time-triggered real-time systems....Pages 86-101 Pre-scheduling for synchronization in hard real-time systems....Pages 102-108 Notes on future operating systems for real-time dependable distributed computing....Pages 109-115 Session four: Discussion summary....Pages 116-117 Basic concepts and issues in fault-tolerant distributed systems....Pages 118-149 Operating systems and fault-tolerance....Pages 150-153 Fault-tolerance in sixth generation operating systems....Pages 154-161 Fault tolerance support in future operating systems....Pages 162-166 Fast stable storage as a basis for fault tolerant architectures....Pages 167-170 Stable memory — another look....Pages 171-177 System-level support for dependable distributed applications....Pages 178-181 Session five: Discussion summary....Pages 182-182 Protection and security issues for future systems....Pages 183-201 Some issues in security arising from distribution....Pages 202-206 Security: System development in a new context....Pages 207-211 Issues in security and fault tolerance....Pages 212-216 Session six: Discussion summary....Pages 217-218 What next? some speculations....Pages 219-222 Some thoughts on systems challenges for the 1990 s....Pages 223-226 Next generation operating systems architecture....Pages 227-232 Toward computing systems for the 2000 s....Pages 233-240 Encapsulation and interaction in future operating systems....Pages 241-246 The explainable operating system....Pages 247-250 Soul: An object-oriented OS framework for object support....Pages 251-255 Operating system support for object oriented distributed systems....Pages 256-257 Session seven: Discussion summary....Pages 258-260 Towards a human memory prosthesis....Pages 261-272 Systems for the nineties — Distributed multimedia systems....Pages 273-278 The role of performance, scheduling, and resource reservation in multimedia systems....Pages 279-284 "Architectural and hardware advances in computing design are occurring at an ever quickening rate, but it is the operating system that masters the complexity of these new computing devices to make them useful tools. Operating systems can make the difference between an interesting architecture and a useful computing environment. As more complex computational structures and more powerful communication technologies become available, we are faced with the need to develop new generations of operating systems to harness their power. This volume presents the proceedings of an international workshop intended to plot a course for design and development work on operating systems over the coming decade that was held in Dagstuhl Castle, Germany, in July 1991. Eight sessions covered: - Size, scalability and distribution in future operating systems, - The impact of future trends in hardware and communication technology, - Integrating heterogeneous operating systems, - Trends in real-time operating systems, - Fault tolerance support in future operating systems, - Security and protection support in future operating systems, - The next generation of operating systems, - Supporting multimedia applications in distributed systems."--PUBLISHER'S WEBSITE Annotation Architectural and hardware advances in computing design areoccurring at an ever quickening rate, but it is theoperating system that masters the complexity of these newcomputing devices to make them useful tools. Operatingsystems can make the difference between an interestingarchitecture and a useful computing environment. As morecomplex computational structures and more powerfulcommunication technologies become available, we are facedwith the need to develop new generations of operatingsystems to harness their power.This volume presents the proceedings of an internationalworkshop intended to plot a course for design anddevelopment work on operating systems over the coming decadethat was held in Dagstuhl Castle, Germany, in July 1991.Eight sessions covered:- Size, scalability and distribution in future operating systems,- The impact of future trends in hardware and communication technology,- Integrating heterogeneous operating systems,- Trends in real-time operating systems,- Fault tolerance support in futute operating systems,- Security and protection support in future operating systems,- The next generation of operating systems,- Supporting mulitmedia applications in distributed systems