CGL Meeting Agenda

Wednesday, December 4th, 1996

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Location:
DC 1304
Time:
11:30 AM
Chair:
Itai Danan

1. Adoption of the Agenda - additions or deletions

2. Coffee Hour

Coffee hour this week:
Teresa Yeung
Coffee hour next week:
To be determined

3. Next meeting

Date:
December 11th, 1996
Location:
DC 1304
Time:
11:30 AM
Chair:
Matthew Davidchuk
Technical presentation:
Itai Danan

4. Forthcoming

Chairs:
  1. Chris Davies
  2. Ed Dengler
  3. Glen Evens
Tech Presenters:
  1. Matthew Davidchuk
  2. Chris Davies
  3. Ed Dengler

5. Technical Presentation

Presenter:
Bill Cowan
Title:
Unknown at this time
Abstract:
Unknown at this time

6. General Discussion Items

  1. CGL Christmas party -time -location
  2. Lab meeting next term - time

7. Action List

  1. Navid Sadikali and Richard Bartels:
    UofT visit in April
  2. CSGSA is inviting speakers

8. Director's Meeting

9. Seminars

DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE
UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO
SEMINAR ACTIVITIES

MASTER'S THESIS PRESENTATION

                    -Monday, December 9, 1996

Jun  Shih,   graduate  student, Dept. Comp. Sci., Univ.
Waterloo,   will   speak   on   ``Debugging  Concurrent
Programs''.

TIME:                11:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon

ROOM:                DC 1304

ABSTRACT

Debugging  concurrent  programs  is  difficult  because
concurrent   contain   both   sequential   errors   and
additional  concurrent errors.  It is essential to have
a  symbolic debugger that truly understands concurrency
to improve concurrent debugging capabilities and reduce
debugging   time.   KDB  was  designed  to  be  such  a
concurrent debugger, however it was far from complete.

This thesis presents extensions to KDB's functionality,
usability,  and  portability.   Restricted  conditional
breakpoints,   attachment   of   KDB   to   a   running
application,     behavioural    groups,    programmatic
interface,  and improved user interface have been added
to  KDB  to  extend  its  functionality.   KDB has been
modified  to  understand  uC++  programs better so that
inserted code is hidden from users improving usability.
Finally,  KDB  has been ported to the i486 architecture
on the Linux OS increasing portability.

If possible, the talk will demonstrate these extensions
through a KDB terminal session.




MASTER'S ESSAY PRESENTATION

                    -Wednesday, December 11, 1996

Scott  D.  Taylor,  graduate student, Dept. Comp. Sci.,
Univ.  Waterloo,  will  speak  on ``Distributed Systems
Management Architectures.''

TIME:                2:30-3:30 p.m.

ROOM:                DC 1304

ABSTRACT

As  the  size  and  number of distributed computing and
telecommunications systems increase, it becomes evident
that  the  key  to  efficient  and  reliable  operating
environments  depends  on  our  ability  to monitor and
control  devices, services and applications. While some
monitoring   of   systems   is   conducted   today  for
distributed  systems, an integrated approach is needed.
A  necessary  condition for an integrated management is
that  components  to  be  managed  in  a  heterogeneous
environment  should  provide  information  which may be
interpreted  in  a manufacturer-independent manner, and
this  information should be accessible via well-defined
interfaces    and    protocols.    In    other   words,
manufacturer-independent  integrated management is only
possible  on  the  basis  of  recognized  standards.  A
framework  for  standards of relevance to management is
called a management architecture. This essay presents a
generic  model  of  today's  management  architectures.
Several  management  architectures are then examined in
relation to this model.

10. Lab Cleanup (until 12:30 or 5 minutes)