Location of Alain Roy's Defense (Feb. 13)

[Margaret Jaffey]

Here is some detailed information about the location of Alain Roy's 
dissertation defense, which will be held tomorrow (Tues. Feb. 13) at 
12:00 noon, in RI 464.  A copy of the announcement also appears below.

Margaret Jaffey
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>Subject: Location of Alain Roy's Defense
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>Unlike most computer science talks, this defense will be NOT be in 
>Ryerson, but will be in the Research Institutes, Room 464.
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>To get there from Ryerson, walk over to the corner of Ellis and 57th 
>Streets. This is the southwest corner of the Reginstein Library. The 
>Research Institutes are on the west side of the street. There are 
>two entrances, but one of them (closer to 57th Street) is closed.
>
>Go through the open entrance. Walk in, go past the cross corridor, 
>and there will be an elevator on your right. Go to the fourth floor. 
>Exit the elevator, and turn left into the main hallway. A few doors 
>down on your left is Room 464. The door may be closed, but come on 
>in.
>
>-alain

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>	Department of Computer Science/The University of Chicago
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>		      1100 E. 58th Street, Ryerson Hall
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>		DISSERTATION  DEFENSE  ANNOUNCEMENT
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>Candidate:  Alain Roy
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>Defense Date:  Tuesday, February 13, 2001
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>Time:  12:00 Noon
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>Location:  Research Institutes, Room 464.
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>Dissertation Title:  "End-to-end Quality of Service for High-End Applications"
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>Abstract:
>Applications demonstrate increasingly voracious appetites, consuming 
>ever more resources. When high-performance applications are required 
>to share networks, computers, and disks with other applications, 
>their performance suffers. When the resources can not be increased, 
>applications must either adapt or the resources must be able to 
>guarantee better performance to some applications. This latter 
>solution is known as Quality of Service, or QoS.
>
>I will present my work on providing QoS for applications that 
>require high-performance. The QoS is called end-to-end QoS because 
>it involves not only the traditional network QoS, but various types 
>of CPU and disk QoS. My work has three important contributions: I 
>have added to the understanding of the mechanisms used to provide 
>QoS, I have developed an innovative and extensible architecture to 
>provide uniform access to QoS, and I have created new methods to 
>simplify using QoS, to enable people to take easily advantage of 
>these new technologies.
>
>Candidate's Advisor:  Prof. Ian Foster
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>The dissertation may be viewed at: 
>http://www.cs.uchicago.edu/~alain/dissertation.pdf, and is also 
>available in paper form in Ry 161A.
>
>The defense will be held in an "access grid node" with video 
>conferencing.  Mr. Roy has provided this URL for more information: 
>http://www-fp.mcs.anl.gov/fl/accessgrid/
>
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>Everyone is welcome to attend  Mr. Roy's defense.  A revised announcement will
>be available soon with the location and abstract.
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Department of Computer Science
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