Meeting Agenda

Wednesday, October 1^st, 1997

Location:

DC 1304

Time:

13:30

Chair:

Marryat Ma

1. Adoption of the Agenda - additions or deletions

2. Coffee Hour

Coffee hour this week:

Adarsh Mehta

Coffee hour next week:

Volunteer?

3. Next meeting

Date:

October 8^th, 1997

Location:

DC 1304

Time:

13:30

Chair:

Leo Magalhaes

Technical presentation:

Celine Latulipe

4. Forthcoming

1. Mike Hammond (10/15)
2. Steve Mann (10/22)
3. Adarsh Mehta (10/29)
4. Dan Milgram (11/5)

1. Marryat Ma (10/15)
2. Alberto Raposo (switching with Leo) (10/22)
3. Mike Hammond (10/29)
4. Steve Mann (11/5)

5. Technical Presentation

Rob Kroeger:

Interrupts: a monkey wrench in statistical scheduling?

Abstract:

Statistical scheduling provides a light-weight mechanism for supporting ultra-fine grain multiprocessing of repeated code fragments. However, it requires intra-fragment execution time similarity. Asynchronous interrupts interfere with this by altering a fragment's execution time. We discuss statistical scheduling and present a natural mechanism to handle asynchronous interrupts.

6. General Discussion Items

7. Action List

• SideEffects Seminar Series --- volunteers needed.
  Email Michael McCool
• A|W Seminar Series --- status report Michael?
  Email Michael McCool
• U of T visit --- Eric Hall
  Email Eric Hall

8. Director's Meeting

9. Seminars

10. Lab Cleanup!!!