geraint@prg.oxford.ac.UK (Geraint Jones) (09/24/87)
[ I took this off comp.sys.transputer. Since occam and INMOS represent a working parallel system, I thought it might be of interest. -Steve ] || Extracted from an SERC Engineering Computing Users' Group circular, || this is probably only of interest to UK readers... || (for curious readersoutsiude the UK, the Science and Engineering || Research Council is the mechanism by which H.M.Government funds || Research in Universities and the like, the DTI is the Government's || Department of Trade and Industry. Who knows what that does.) SERC/DTI Transputer Initiative Engineering Applications of Transputers Workshop on Transputer Development Environments, Abingdon 30 Nov - 1 Dec 1987 The SERC/DTI Transputer Initiative will hold its first workshop, on the subject of Transputer Development Environments, at The Coseners' House, Abingdon, from 30th November to 1st December 1987. The workshop aims to bring together workers in industry and universities to look at aspects based on but not confined to the development of an Integrated Programming Support Environment (IPSE) for applications development using Transputers and Occam. The programme will be composed of invited presentations and discussions aimed at identifying the needs of industrial and academic users, existing facilities and developments in hand, and what suppliers can offer, with respect to the following broad categories: * Tools (eg development, debugging, diagnostic) * Performance (monitoring, modelling, simulation) * Compilers (for multiple Transputer configurations) * Higher level languages (explicit vs. implicit parallelism) * Project management (modularity, support for large projects, configuration management, version control) The workshop is intended for suppliers and users of Occam/Transputer equipment engaged either in developing tools or other support software or in substantial applications development in which progress is limited by shortage of facilities in existing tools. There will be approximately 30-40 places available, 20-30 of which will be filled by invitation. The remaining 10 places will be filled on the basis of a short positional paper in one of the above categories submitted by people wishing to attend. Copies of position papers (approx 800 words) should be submitted [address below] by 22nd October 1987. || I know no more about it than that; you should probably contact || Dr. G.M.Megson, Informatics Division, || Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, || Didcot, Oxon OX11 0QX || gj