[Queue-developers] Call for co-authors on LISA paper

[Werner G. K. <wer...@ya...>]

Hi all,

We have been invited to submit a paper on GNU Queue to the LISA
conference, http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2001 .

This is supposed to be a formal Computer Science paper about computer
science techniques for system administration.

At this point, we can just introduce the GNU Queue system as a new tool
for system administration (both for load-balancing intensive jobs and
also as a tool for system administrators.) This is basically my plan.

If anyone has any good "scientific" data (for example, a table of
datapoints showing latency of job execution on a real cluster) or has
made "scientific" coding modifications (i.e., you modified the protocol
to make GNU Queue Internet-scalable, or you modified the protocol to add
cryptographic certificates to make the protocol Internet-scalable).

Those of you have done significant protocol modifications (e.g., Monica
Lau) may want to write something up. The final paper won't be due until
October 1, but if you want your work included (and your name on the
paper), I'll need to have a good draft in appropriate scientific English
w/ tables and figures by May 20, 2001 so that I have time to draft an
"extended abstract" by the deadline.