J.Wexler@edinburgh.ac.uk (04/11/91)
Announcing the Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre 1991 Seminar Monday 23rd September, 9.30am to 5pm James Clerk Maxwell Building, University of Edinburgh Keynote speaker: Professor Gregory McRae (Carnegie-Mellon University) This year's seminar, the fourth in the series, is enlarged to three parallel streams, on Applications, Methods and Tools, and Coordinated Programmes. It offers an overview of the Centre's activities, and an opportunity to hear in more detail about specific projects exploiting its facilities. There will also be presentations on major coordinated programmes of parallel computing at other centres in Britain, and a review of European Community programmes. The keynote speaker is the recipient of numerous prizes and awards for his research in environmental and computational science. Fee: #70 including lunch and tea/coffee breaks; #55 for members of sponsoring organisations. Admission free for registered academic users of EPCC services, and for representatives of affiliated companies. Prices include VAT. For further information, contact: EPCC Seminar Secretariat, CEP Consultants Ltd 26-28 Albany Street Edinburgh EH1 3QH Phone 031 557 2478 [+44 31 557 2478] Fax 031 557 5749 [+44 31 557 5749] _________________________________________________________________________ Programme 08.30 Registration and coffee 09.30 EPCC Overview: D J Wallace 10.00 Keynote speaker: Professor G J McRae, Carnegie Mellon University 11.00 Coffee 11.30 Parallel sessions 13.00 Lunch and demonstrations 14.00 Parallel sessions and demonstrations 17.00 Close Coffee and tea will be available between 15.00 and 16.00. There will be three parallel streams of thirty minute talks: COORDINATED PROGRAMME REVIEWS: European Community programmes in parallel computing; the DTI and SERC supported Parallel Applications Programme and Novel Architecture Computing Centre activities at Edinburgh, London, Manchester, Oxford and Southampton; the DTI/SERC Transputer Initiative; Collaborative Computational Projects and parallel computing at Daresbury Laboratory; the EPCC Summer Scholarship Programme. TOOLS AND METHODS, including research and Key Technology Programmes in EPCC, spanning load balancing, monitoring, message passing, networked visualisation, parallel utility libraries, Linda environments and performance, and browsers for aiding parallel compilation. APPLICATIONS, including UK Grand Challenge collaborations, the UK Met Office on weather prediction, chemical engineering, and the Royal Observatory Edinburgh on instrument control and real-time image analysis. CONTRIBUTIONS ARE INVITED on these and other topics from users of EPCC facilities, for the remaining slots. A one-page summary of the proposed talk should be sent to D.Wallace@ed.ac.uk, to arrive by 15 May 1991. Proposers will be informed of decisions by 10 June. __________________________________________________________________________ Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre is an interdisciplinary focus for parallel computing projects involving research groups within the University of Edinburgh, industrial partners and academic users throughout Europe. It has strong links with industry and commerce through its affiliation scheme, to which companies subscribe from around the world. The Centre is also supported by the University of Edinburgh, Lothian Regional Council, and the Department of Trade and Industry, with major recurrent funding from the Science and Engineering Research Council and the Computer Board. EPCC has recently been selected as one of four centres for the DTI/SERC Parallel Applications Programme, which aims to catalyse the effective introduction of parallel computing into real, economically important application areas. The Centre provides service on a range of major facilities including AMT DAPs, Transputer-based systems and a multi-i860 configuration.