Workshop '89 University of Alberta, Edmonton AB, Canada
Schedule Sunday, 4 June 1989
1600 Main floor
Registration A.2 Community Matters
Directors' meeting part I
Adhoc Discussions z^\
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Wine & Cheese Reception
1900 VIP Room Miller/Crawford 2000 Ship
Workshop '89 University of Alberta, Edmonton AB, Canada
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Schedule Monday, 5 June 1989
A.2 Community Matters
Directors' meeting part II
As of 9 fune 1989 0715 CAB 365 Miller/Crawford
Updates IFS Description
A.l Community Matters
Welcome
0900 CAB 269 Miller & Tartar
Logistics Welcome
A.l Community Matters
Opening Session
Directors' perspectives on computing at the various sites (panel discussion)
0915 CAB 269 Crawford / Bowler
Written Site Reports A-l Simon Fraser University Computing Services —Sarah Stephens (SFU) A-2 UQV Status Report—Vaughn Bowler (UQV) A-3 Site Report for the University of Durham—John Lindley (DUR) A-4 Site Report for Newcastle University—Terry Ratcliffe (NCL) A-7 UBC Site Report—Carol Bird (UBC) A-8 RPI Site Report—Bob Gallagher (RPI) 1020
Coffee Break A.2 Community Matters
Directors' Meeting part III
1040 CAB 365 Miller/Crawford
Licensing B.3 Application Environments B-1
Graphics
CAB 369 Buttuls/Leenders Graphics Conversions—What's New in 1989—Nadine Leenders (UQV)
C I Client Services C-l C-2 C-3 C-4
C-7 E.2a Technology
E-4 E-5 E-6
Documentation part I
CAB 339 Runnals/Bowler The Future of Documentation—Angela Runnals (UBC) U-M Computing. Center.Documentation Reorganization—Topol(UM) Documentation Group Status Report—Susan Topol(UM) The TTD Style Guide—Jin* t e e Haswell(UM) Strategies for reducing documentation cost—Susan Topol (UM) UCS Documentation Layout & Style Guide—Vaugh Bowler(UQV) Current MTS projects
CAB 289 Webster/Verheijen Status of Resource Manager at UM—Brian Moore (UM) Status of AK (accounting) routines at UM—Charles Engle (UM) The New MTS Loader—Brian Moore (UM) Disk Utilities—Brian Moore (UM) FSHELP, the Final Paper—Ray Davison (SFU) Asynchronidty at the MTS Job Program Level—Chuck Lever (UM) 1200
Lundi -re " A.2 Community Matters
Directors' Meeting part IV
UNIX D.l Electronic Services D-l
1300 CAB 365 Miller/Crawford
E-mail part I (The Big Picture & Service Issues) CAB 289 Rothwell/Nagorski How We Postmaster at U-M—Laura Bollettino (UM) Campus mail strategies—Steve Rothwell (UM) Campus wide directories—Steve Rothwell (UM) 1420
Coffee Break .'i_!
Directors' Meeting part V
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1440 CAB 365 Miller/Crawford
Injersystem project Workshop future C.3 Client Services C-8 E.3d Technology E-10
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Fine Arts 1-7 Sharon/Castillo The~Unn>rofM&hVC
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Tuesday, 6 June 1989 A.2 Community Matters
As of 9 June 1989 0900 GAB 269 Miller/Crawford
Open Directors' Meeting
Report on Directors' meetings Status of Intersystem A.3d MTS license update A.3c Future of the MTS Community
1020
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Coffee Break C.4 Client Services
1040 ••CAB 349 Do-it yourself showings in workshop office Video—Laurie Burns (UM) • '•' Promotion
D.4c Electronic Services
D-14
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Institutional File System
Presentation on IFS needs and motivation leading to project, description of the system architecture^ implementation plans, an assessment of progress-to-date, a look at the upcoming schedule—Ted Hanss (UM-IFS) IFS presentation overhead foils—Ted Hanss (UM) " •
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Lunch C.5 Client Services
CAB 289 Reinhart
Hypertext Tutorial Hypertext tutorial —Sister Georgette Lamy (SFU)
1300 FineArts 1-7 Kates
E3b Technology E-13
Authentication Talk about Kerberos —John Kohl (MIT) Kerberos talk overheadfoils—JohnKohl (MIT)
CAB 269 Supynuk
Follows Kohl's presentation and coffee E2c Technology E-1
Hierarchical File System
CAB 289 Webster/Senda Proposed MTS Hierarchical File System—Snyder,Swartz&Valerio(UM) Micro Networks
BOF
CAB 365 Sedgwick
Localtalk/Phonenet networks—Sarah Stephens (SFU)
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Wednesday, 7 June 1989 A.3a Community Matters
A-5 E-9 E-12
As of 9 June 1989 0900 CAB 269 Webster/Couture
UNIX Strategies (panel discussion)
UM's proposal for UNIX support—Ted Hanss (UM) UBC's proposal for UNIX support—Dave Brent (UBC) UQV's proposal for UNIX support—Allen Supynuk (UQV) SFU's experience with UNIX support—Eric Kolotyluk (SFU) NCL's experience with UNIX support—Terry Ratcliffe(NCL) Proposal for UNIX Support—-Ed Saunders (UM) Pragmatic Support of Distributed Computing—Mark Fox (UBC) Academic Computing Platforms & Services for the 1990s—Task Force (UBC)
1020
Coffee Break A.3b Community Matters/ B.8 Application Environments B-2
Migration from MTS
1040 CAB 269 Supynuk/Urquhart
Applications Support in a Distributed Environment—John Coulthard Comments on NCL's New Open Systems Project—Ron Kerr(NCL) NCL's New Open Systems Project (NOSP) Conference (NCL) NCL's NOSP forum item 2128 "Demise of various languages" (NCL) NCL's NOSP forum item 2133 "NOSP FORTRAN Group" (NCL)
Tours
Client & Micro Demonstration Centre
GSB 302 1200 Faculty Club
Luncheon
1330 CAB 365 Schwartz/Urquhart C87 Compiler and Runtime Library—Chitra Ramanujan (UM)
B.l-2 Applications Environments B-3 C.7 Client Services
FORTRAN and C
Service Management issues
CAB 369 Bums/Francis
C-9 C-10 D.2 Electronic Services D-8
Supporting external clients—Laurie Burns (UM) Managing user input effectively—Laurie Burns (UM) Strategies for charging for user support services—Susan Topol (UM) Daily operations and design of public computing sites — Deb Masten.(UM). Departmental Planning at the Univ. of Mich.—Laurie Burns (UM) Mission Statement - User Relations—Laurie Burns (UM) Printing
CAB 339 Zablosky/Thierman
D.2a Networked facilities LPD in MTS—Jon Finke (RPI) D.2b Xerox D.2c PostScript 1450
Coffee Break C.6 Client Services C-5
E.3a-c Technology
E-8
BOF
Product Support
1510 CAB 369 Cousins/Francis
Product selection and support—Liz Sweet (UM) Product Support Changes at U-M—Suzanne Schluederberg (UM) Sharing lists of currently "supported" products—Elaine Cousins (UM) Endorsed versus supported— Maureen Kates (UQV) Evaluating software—Elaine Cousins (UM) Authentication, Access Control E.3a Security E.3b Authentication and access control Network Authorization at UM—Kathy Aupperle (UM) E.3c Accounting SMPTSERV
CAB 289 Webster/Amdt
1930 Lister Hall Ault
Workshop '89 University of Alberta, Edmonton AB, Canada
Schedule Thursday, 8 June 1989 As of. 9 June 1989 E.la Technology
0900 CAB 269 ': Supynuk/Couture
The UNIX Platform
RPI's Experience with UNIX—Jon Finke (RPI) WSU's Plans for UNIX Support—Tom Stevenson (WSU) 1020
Coffee Break r r
D.l Electronic Services D-6 D-7 D-9 D-2 D-4 D-3 D-13
D.3 Electronic Services
D-ll
Tours
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1040 CAB 339 " - Eliot/Nagorski Messagefile Disaster Recovery Tools^-Zoe Gurevich (UM) "PURGE" New and Improved—Zoe Gurevich (UM) SMTPSERV-UM Status Report—Steve Rothwell (UM) SMTPSERV and Email at RPI—Jim Ault (RPD User-Directory Routines (Changes since D5.0)—Bernard Tiffany (UM) The EAN XAOO Archive Server—John Coulthard (UBC) Automation of Mail Monitoring—Neda Gholizadeh (UM) Coordinating work—Dave Brent (UBC) Text Processing
CAB 369 Reinhart/Cousins
Status of TeX support—Debbie Reinhart (UQV) Problems stabilizing TEXTFORM—Debbie Reinhart (UQV) TEXTFORM-RTF—Margaret Sharon (SFU) Text processing support for UNIX—Debbie Reinhart (UQV) Teaching materials and outlines for TeX Workshops — Elaine Cousins (UM) What microcomputer text processing packages do we support and why —Elaine Cousins (UM) Teaching materials and outlines for microcomputer word processor tutorials—Margaret Sharon (SFU) Client & Micro Demonstration Centre
GSB 302 1200
Lunch B.4-7 Applications Environment
B-4 B-5
Remaining applications
B.l Graphics Overflow B.4 Statistics B.5 Data Bases B.6 Teaching & Teaching support Computer Literacy at Durham—Clive Bowery (DUR) PC Classroom at Durham—Clive Bowery (DUR) B.7 Computer assisted instruction
1300 CAB 369 Buttuls/Ross
E.2b & E.3d Technology
E-7 E-2 E-3
Stabilizing MTS & Networks part II CAB 339 Webster/Verheijen Distribution 6.1—Kathy Aupperle (UM) Tracking & fixing bugs across sites—Chuck Lever (UM) Overflow from session E.2a (see Monday 1040) MTS servers—Jon Finke (RPD $New MTS Commands—-Jon Finke (RPI) MTS Pipes—Jon Finke (RPI) UBCNef Statistics Tools—Jon Finke (RPI) _ _
Coffee Break 1420 CAB 339 LeBlanc/Castillo Consultant Training at the Univ. of Mich.—Michael Nowak (UM) C-6 Using experts and problem escalation —? (UM) - Departmental planning/consulting—Laurie Bums (UM) Network-like host services (BITNET, FTP, telnet)—Laura Bollettino
C.2 Client Services
Consulting
A. Community Matters
Perspectives on Computing
A-6
Banquet BOF
CAB 269 Webster Networked Workstation Technology Report —Kolotyluk (SFU) 1830 Bus leaves Lister Hall at 6:00 pm Fort Edmonton Park Async Implementation Discussion
2100 Lister Hall Lever
Workshop '89 University of Alberta, Edmonton AB, Canada
Schedule Friday, 9 June 1989 C.l Client Services
Documentation part II
As of 9 June 1989 0900 breakfast BOF Runnals/Bowler
(continuation of topics listed in part I see Monday 1040) BOF
VM/XA Issues
BOF
InfoDisk at UM CAB 365 Infodisk Version 2.0 at UM-Ben Vernia (UM) • Macintosh Stuff Micro Issues Miller & Eadie & Sedgwick
D-10
CAB 339 •• Lever
1020 Coffee Break D.4 Electronic Services D-12 BOF
File Systems
1040 CAB 369 Urquhart/Reinhart
D4.a Archives/backups MTS File Archive-Cord Urquhart (UQV) D4.b Servers CAB 365 Supynuk
Fibre Optic Backbones
1200 Lunch E.lb-d Technology
E-ll
Other platforms
1300 CAB 339 Webster/Culham
E.lb Migration from MTS to other platforms E.lc Interoperation of MTS with other platforms Commercial Interoperability Products-Bill Baines (SFU) E.ld Other platforms
BOF
LAN Administration and Trouble Shooting
CAB 365 Baines
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WORKSHOP '89 PAPERS
June 13,1989
A. Community Matters A-l
Simon Fraser University Computing Services
Sarah Stevens (SFU)
A-2
UQV Status Report
Vaughn Bowler (UQV)
A-3
Site Report for the University of Durham, England (DUR)
John Lindley (DUR)
A-4
Site Report for Newcastle University
Terry Ratcliffe (NCL)
A-5
Proposal for UNIX support
Ed Saunders (UM)
A-6
Networked Workstation Technology Report
Eric Kolotyluk (SFU)
A-7
UBC Site Report
Carol Bird (UBC)
A-8
RPI Site Report
Bob Gallagher (RPI)
B. Application Environments B-1
Graphics Conversions - What's New in 1989
Nadine Leenders (UQV)
B-2
Applications Support in a Distributed Environment
John Coulthard (UBC)
B-3
C87 Compiler and Runtime Library
Chitra Ramanujan (UM)
B-4
Computer Literacy at Durham
Clive Bowery (DUR)
B-5
PC Classroom at Durham
Clive Bowery (DUR)
C. Client Services C-l
The Future of Documentation
Angela Runnals (UBC)
C-2
U-M Computing Center Documentation Reorganization
Susan Topol (UM)
C-3
Documentation Group Status Report
Susan Topol (UM)
C-4
The ITD Style Guide
Jimi Lee Haswell (UM)
C-5
Product Support Changes at U-M
Suzanne Schluederberg (UM)
C-6
Consultant Training at the University of Michigan
Michael Nowak(UM)
C-7
UCS Documentation Layout & Style Guide (paper not numbered)
Vaughn Bowler (UQV)
C-8
The University of Michigan Computer Education Program (paper misnumbered as C-3)
Elaine Cousins (UM)
C-9
Departmental Planning at the University of Michigan
Laurie Burns (UM)
C-10
Mission Statement - User Relations (paper not numbered)
Laurie Burns (UM)
Workshop Papers
D. Electronic Services D-l
How we Postmaster at U-M
Laura Bollettino (UM)
D-2 D-3
SMPTSERV and Email at RPI The EAN X.400 Archive Server (paper misnumbered as D-4)
Jim Ault (RPI) John Coulthard (UBC)
D-4
User-Directory Routines - changes since D5-0
Bernard Tiffany (UM)
D-5
User-Directory Routines - subroutine descriptions (only distributed on request)
Bernard Tiffany (UM)
D-6 D-7
Messagefile Disaster Recovery Tools "PURGE" New and Improved
Zoe Gurevich (UM)
D-8
LPD in MTS
Jon Finke (RPI)
D-9
SMTPSERV - UM status report
Steve Rothwell (UM)
D-10
Infodisk Version 2.0 at UM
Ben Vernia (UM)
D-ll
Textform-RTF
Margaret Sharon (SFU)
D-12
MTS File Archive
Gord Urquhart (UQV)
D-13
Automation of Mail Monitoring
Neda Gholizadeh (UM)
D-14
IFS presentation overhead foils (paper not numbered)
Ted Hanss (UM)
Zoe Gurevich (UM)
E. Technology E-1
Proposed MTS Hierarchical File System
Snyder, Swartz & Valerio (UM)
E-2
MTS Pipes
Jon Finke (RPI)
E-3
UBCNet Statistics Tools
Jon Finke (RPI)
E-4
The New MTS Loader
Brian Moore (UM)
E-5
FSHelp - the final paper
Ray Davison (SFU)
E-6
Asynchronicty at the MTS Job Program (paper misnumbered as E-2a)
Chuck Lever (UM)
E-7
$New MTS commands
Jon Finke (RPI)
E-8
Network Authorization at UM
Kathy Aupperle (UM)
E-9
Pragmatic support of distributed computing
Mark Fox (UBC)
E-10
Implementing SFU-LAN
Kolotyluk & Davey (SFU)
E-ll
Commercial Interoperability Products
Bill Baines (SFU)
E-12
Academic Computing Platforms and Services in the 1990s (paper not numbered)
Task force on Service Platforms (UBC)
E-13
Kerberos talk overhead foils (paper not numbered; one copy per site)
John Kohl (MIT)
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Workshop '89 University of Alberta, Edmonton AB, Canada
Workshop '89 Attendees University of Durham (DUR) Mike Ellison Bob Williams University of Newcastle Upon Tyne (NCL) Elizabeth Barraclough Ron Kerr Terry Ratdiffe Dave Sedgwick Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) James Ault Brian Eliot Jon Finke
Robert Gallagher Mark Miller Gary Schwartz
Simon Fraser University (SFU) Bill Baines Doug Davey Worth Johnson Eric Kolotyluk
Margaret Sharon Sarah Stephens Peter Van Epp Ian Williams
University of British Columbia (UBC) Bob Bajwa Alan Ballard Carol Bird Dave Brent John Coulthard Ron Hall
Paul Hilchey Bruce Jolliffe George Lindholm Angela Runnals Ralph Sayle Paul Zablosky
University of Michigan (UM) Kathy Aupperle Carolyn Autrey-Hunley Laura Bollettino Laurie Burns
Greg Marks Deborah Masten Brian Moore Chitra Ramanujan Workshop Attendees 1
Elaine Cousins Gavin Eadie Zoe Gurevich John Hankins Ted Hanss Dan Hyde Chuck Lever
Steve Rothwell Dave Snyder Fred Swartz Liz Sweet Susan Topol Tom Valerio
University of Alberta (UQV) Vaughn Bowler Irene Braun Peter Buttuls Carey Castillo David Couture Grant Crawford Earl Culham Marilyn Francis Betty Hung Garry Jackson Maureen Kates Olga Kolar
Nadine Leenders Bruce Miller Roily Noel Debbie Reinhart David Ross Allen Supynuk Keith Switzer Chris Thierman Gord Urquhart Antoine Verheijen Daryl Webster Ralph Young
Wayne State University (WSU) Tom Stevenson
