[comp.hypercube] OCCAM - TRANSPUTERS Conf.

traian@imag.UUCP (08/06/87)

                                 OPPT


		    GRENOBLE 14-16 September 1987


                         7th  OCCAM  USERS  GROUP
                                  & 
       WORKSHOP on PARALLEL PROGRAMMING of TRANSPUTER based MACHINES 



                         ---- PROGRAM ----- 



MONDAY a.m.  Chairman G. HARP



0830 - 0945  Registration &  Welcome

Session 1: 0945 - 1045

"Security Aspects of Occam2", R. Shepherd, Inmos

"The TDS Occam2 debugging system",  C. O'Neill, Inmos

1045 - 1115   Coffee




Session 2: 1115 - 1245

"On Guards",   G. Jones, PRG, Oxford 

"Mathematical Models of Distributed Computation",

D.Pritchard, Southampton University 

"Occam Transformation at Oxford", M. Goldsmith, PRG, Oxford

1245 - 1400   Lunch

 

MONDAY p.m.  Chairman T. MUNTEAN

   

Session 3: 1400 - 1530



"Routing Messages Through Networks: An Exercise in Deadlock Avoidance"

A W Roscoe, PRG, Oxford

"LATIN - A language for Transputer Networks", 

D. Crookes,  P. Milligan, N S Scott, PL Kilpatrick, P J Morrrow,

Dept. of Comp. Science,University of Belfast

"Experiments with a Transputer-based Diffusion Architecture"  

D McBurney, MR Sleep,  University of East Anglia, Norwich 

1530 - 1600  Coffee



Session 4: 1600 - 1730



"Multilayer Perceptrons on Transputer Networks", 

N. Dodd RIPR/RSRE/ Smiths Industries & P J Beynon  RIPR/RSRE /Thorn-EMI 

"A Transputer based Neurocomputer"  

A Johannet, G Loheac, L Personnaz, I Guyon, G Dreyfus, ESPCI, Paris

"Parallel Implementations of a Molecular Dynamics Program for Lennard -
Jones Particles on transputer network" 

V Martorana, M Migliore,SL Fornilli, Physics Dept. University of Palermo



1730 - Special Interest Groups



TUESDAY a.m. Chairman C. Whitby-Strevens 



Session 5: 0900 - 1030



"Managing Hard Real-Time Demands on Transputers"  

P Welch, Computing Laboratory,  University of Kent at Canterbury

"Occam's Priority Model and Deadline Scheduling"  

A Burns, University of Bradford  &  A Wellings, York University

"Monitoring Occam Channels by Program Transformation"  

P C Capon,A J West, Dept of Computer Science,  University of Manchester 

1030 - 1100    Coffee



Session 6: 1100 - 1245



"Operating Models for (reconfigurable) Transputer networks", 

T Muntean, C Tricot, IMAG-LGI, University of Grenoble 

"An Analysis and Reconfiguration Tool for Mapping Parallel Programs onto
Transputer networks" 

D Ch Meier, A Wespi, J E Boillat, PG Kropf, University of Bern

"An Occam Architecture for Reconfigurable Systems", 

M H Barton, N J Edwards, University of Bristol, Dept. EEE

"Transputer and Parallel Computation at the GMD" 

M Mevenkamp, S Streitz GMD   

1245 - 1400    Lunch 




TUESDAY  p.m. Chairman R. Sleep



Session 7: 1400 - 1530



"Transputers and Parallel Prolog",  J Reynolds, Univ. of Essex 

"A real time Prolog Compiler for Multi-transputer Architectures for
Knowledge Based Systems Applications", 

D Bosley, J Mortimer, The Bristol Transputer Centre,  Bristol Polytechnic

"Data Structures for Parallel Architectures in Artificial Intelligence", 

A Dixon, Info. Tech. Research Center,  University of Bristol  

1530 - 1600 Coffee 



Session 8: 1600 - 1730



"Image processing on the Reconfigurable Transputer Procesor"  

J G Harp, H C Webber  RSRE   

"DRAT- A Proposal for a Dynamically reconfigurable Array  of Transputers
to Support database Applications"  J Kerridge, Sheffield City Polytechnic   

"GRAIL  - Graphical Representation of Activity,  Interconnection and
Loading",  S Stepney, GEC Research Ltd. MRC 



1730 -   Table Ronde:  On virtual machines models for Transputer based
machines.



1930 : CONFERENCE DINNER




WEDNESDAY a.m.  Short communications



0900 - 0915  OUG Open Forum



Session 9: 0915 - 1030  Chairman P. Welch



"Presentation of Parsytec Systems", F.D. Kbler 

"A Transputer Network Simulator", Y Kermarrec, ENST, Brest

"Une application graphique sur Transputer", 

M Meriaux, E Lepretre, A Atamenia, Univ. of Lille

"A Distributed Architecture for Simulating microprocessor Systems" 

I Gorton,  Univ Sheffield

"The design of a real  transputer front-end for control applications",

 A Bakkers &al, Twente Univ.

1030 - 1100   Coffee



Session 10: 1100 - 1240 Chairman:  A. Hey



"Use of Occam and the Transputer Architecture for Matrix Inversion"

S Tian, X Genshen, Y-H Pao,W L Schultz,  Dep. of Electrical Engineering and
Applied Physics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland 

"Computational Statistics on a Multi-transputer Architecture" 

 D Lafaye de Micheaux, A Maurin  LISAN, Univ. Nice 

"A Parallel Processing Architecture for the Solution of ODEs" 

 J M Favre, CS Coray, Utah State University

"Experiences numriques sur ITEM400", A Cosnuau, O Poirel, ONERA, Paris

"Using Transputers in Finite Elements Calculations: A first Approach"

 J S R Alves Filho (Brazil)  & DRJ Owen, Univ. College of Swansea   

"Calcul Formel, Parallelisme et Occam" 

JL Roch,P Senechaud, F Siebert, G Villard,  IMAG-TIM3, Univ. of Grenoble   

1230 - 1400 Lunch 

  

WEDNESDAY p.m.  Chairman R. Peel



1415 - 1430 Announcements Session



Session 11: 1430 - 1600



"The development of a parallel C compiler",K. Wybrans, Twente University

"HELIOS - An Operating System for the Transputer"

N H Garnett,Perihelion Software Ltd 

"The Occam processes of the N_ARCH kernel" 

S Niar, G Goncalves, MP Lecouffe,  B Toursel   University of Lille France







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