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0. Calendar Manager Info:

        Date:   20 MAY 1996
        Start:  1600
        End:    1700
        What:   ANU DCS Seminar - Steve Blackburn
		Multicomputer Object Stores.  Room 101. 
                
1. Speaker: Steve Blackburn
            Department of Computer Science
	    Australian National University

2. Time:    4:00pm - 5:00pm, 20th May 1996 (Monday)

3. Place:   Room 101 CSIT building, ANU

4. Title:   Multicomputer Object Stores

5. Target Audience: general audience

6. Abstract:
	This talk reports on research directed towards a longer term
	goal of creating a software environment which will facilitate
	the integration of high performance distributed memory
	computers (multicomputers) into networked computer systems.

	Object stores are central to the envisaged environment, and
	distributed memory multicomputers are an important key to
	scalable high performance computing.

	The development of object stores for distributed memory
	multicomputers raises many interesting challenges.  A wide
	range of issues come into play, including: concurrency
	control, memory management, recovery mechanisms, type safety,
	garbage collection, and many more.

	The talk will report on two experiments -- Multicomputer Texas
	and the AP1000 DataSafe, as well as addressing the question of
	the direction of future work in this area.

7. Biography:
	Steve Blackburn is a PhD candidate at the ANU Department of
	Computer Science.  This talk forms part of his mid-term review
	process.

8. Contact:
	For more information contact Steve.Blackburn[at]cs.anu.edu.au