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IEEE P1596 Scalable Coherent Interface Extensions Study Group Meeting
CERN, 5-7 June, 1991, Geneva, Switzerland
AGENDA
Wednesday, 5 June (public tutorial day, Council Chamber, Main Building)
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Morning: Tutorials of general interest
09:00-10:30 SCI tutorial: SCI elements and general status
D. Gustavson, SLAC, Chairman of the SCI Working Group
10:30-11:15 Coffee break
11:15-11:45 SCI node chips, SCI-VME bridge
E. Kristiansen, Dolphin, Oslo
11:45-12:15 SCI Fiber
H. Wiggers, Hewlett Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto
12:15-14:00 Lunch
Afternoon: Continuation
14:00-15:45 Protocols, packets, fair and priority allocation,
forward progress guarantees, queue acceptance protocols
(busy-retry), locks, queues.
David James, Apple, Vice Chairman
15:45-16:15 Coffee break
16:15-18:00 Cache Coherence Introduction, review and extensions.
Forward Progress guarantees. Fault recovery.
David James, Apple, Vice Chairman
Thursday, 6 June SCI Extensions Study Group
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Morning: Extensions
09:00-10:30 P1596.w, SCI Cache Coherence Extensions
Ross Johnson, Univ. of Wisconsin, Chairman
Tree-structured coherence structures and request combining.
Optimizations needed for kiloprocessor systems.
10:30-11:15 Coffee break
11:15-12:15 Processor Load/Store requirements for supporting SCI
efficiently
David James, Apple, Study Group Chairman
12:15-14:00 Lunch
Afternoon: Realtime, Data Acquisition, Visit of a CERN experiment
14:00-14:15 Triggering and Data Acquisition at LHC, S. Cittolin, CERN
14:15-14:45 SCI-based Data Acquisition Architectures
A. Bogaerts, CERN
14:45-15:15 Data Acquisition of the DELPHI experiment
Frank Harris, DELPHI
15:15-17:00 Visit of the Delphi experiment
17:00-18:00 SCI for Realtime, study group discussions
Friday, 7 June SCI Extensions Study Group
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Morning:
09:00-10:30 P1596.y, Fast small signals, low-cost narrow links
Gary Murdock, National Semiconductor, Chairman
This is the second meeting of a new working group (approval
pending) that is developing a standard for small signal swing
(0,25V?) differential signals suitable for Si and GaAs VLSI
devices and defining 8-bit and 4-bit SCI links using those
signals.
10:30-11:15 Coffee break
11:15-12:15 SCI memory-chip-interface study group
Hans Wiggers, Chairman
12:15-14:00 Lunch
Afternoon: P1596.1 SCI/VME Bridge
14:00-15:45 Working Group Meeting
E. Kristiansen, Chairman
15:45-16:15 Coffee break
16:15-18:00 Continuation
Evening:
20:00 Dinner in a French restaurant
Other possible topics, potentially in parallel sessions
More SCI Fiber details
Hans Wiggers
Implementing LANs with SCI
P. Fenner
Switch and Switch Fabric Designs using SCI
K. Baty, J. Goodman, D. James
P1596.x, SCI/Futurebus+ Bridge
Jay Cantrell, Texas Instruments, Chairman (starts Sept. '91)
Hotel information for CERN in June:
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The Cern hostel quotes 34.- FS for single rooms incl. shower and 54.- FS
for double rooms. They need your home address for the reservation.
Reservations should be made through:
Mme A.Perrelle
ECP Division
CERN
1211 Geneva 23
Switzerland
Telephone: +41 22 767 2406
Facsimile: +41 22 767 7155
Electronic mail: perrelle@cernvm.cern.ch
Confirmations will be returned after 22 May.
There is a restricted number of rooms available.Convenient on-site
housing, no TV.
Other recommended hotels are:
Switzerland:
Movenpick hotels: (close to airport, good food): Hotel RADISON building)
single room 195-235.- FS, for a 2nd person add 40.-FS (car or taxi) phone:
+41 22 798 75 75 fax: +41 22 791 02 84
Hotel Airport (close to Meyrin and shopping) 100.- FS (shower) with 2nd
person 130.- FS 110.- FS (bath) with 2nd person 140.- FS, connection to
CERN via bus from Meyrin phone: +41 22 785 02 03 fax: +41 22 785 02 55
Hotel Luserna (closer to Geneva, quiet, bus connection)
1 person 102.- FS, 2 persons 120.- FS
phone: +41 22 45 46 76 fax: +41 22 44 49 36
France:
(no public transport, car rental required, roughly 15 mins drive normally)
Hotel de France in center of Ferney Voltaire, nice restaurants around
(need a car, some 10 km to CERN), around 240.- FF (60.-FS)
phone +33 50 40 63 87
Novotel, Ferney Voltaire, close to airport, Delphi pit, and Ferney
Voltaire, 400,- FF phone: +33 50 40 85 23 fax: +33 50 40 76 33
Motel International St.Genis around 185 - 215 FF, lively place, tennis,
dance, including 2nd person, (need a car, some 5 km to CERN )
phone: +33 50 42 02 72
Hotel Sofia, St. Genis around 200.- FF single, 250.- FF double, closest
to CERN (3 km). phone: +33 50 42 19 86
Next SCI Extensions Meeting:
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August 7-9, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin.
Jim Goodman hosting. 608-262-0765
For help during the meeting, you may contact:
Mme. Anne Perrelle phone (from within CERN)
CERN, ECP division 2406
building 31, room 1-003 or beep 13 - 55 31
In case of problems, contact Hans Mller, Hans@sunshine.cern.ch,
phone +41 22 767 3533, fax +41 22 783 0600.
-- David B. Gustavson, Computation Research Group, SLAC, POB 4349 MS 88,
Stanford, CA 94309 tel (415)926-2863 fax (415)961-3530
-- What the world needs next is a Scalable Coherent Interface!
-- Any opinions expressed are mine and not necessarily those
of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, the University, or the DOE.