fielding@THEORY.TN.CORNELL.EDU (David L. Fielding) (09/01/90)
NORTH AMERICAN TRANSPUTER USERS FALL CONFERENCE
Ithaca Ramada Inn and Divi Executive Tower, Ithaca, NY
October 11-12, 1990
Organized by: Program and General Chair
Brian Raines, CIC, CMP David L. Fielding
Executive Meeting Management Advanced Computing Research Institute
P.O. Box 434 Cornell University
Camp Hill, PA 17001 e-mail:fielding@theory.tn.cornell.edu
phone: (717) 731-9295 phone: (607) 254-8872
(800) 828-7494 fax: (607) 254-8888
fax: (717) 731-9295
Contributions from North America and around the World will
discuss the latest research and applications in transputers.
The Fall NATUG meeting will provide an excellent opportunity
for old and new users to become acquainted with the latest tools
for developing parallel programs. An exhibit will feature the latest
offerings from transputer-based developers.
Please note that the NATUG Steering Committee Meeting will be
held on the evening of October 10. All attendees are welcome to assist
in planning future meetings.
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Tentative Program
Wednesday, October 10
7:00-9:00pm Pre-Registration
8:00pm Steering Committee Meeting (open to all attendees)
Thursday, October 11
8:50 Introduction
9:00 Key Note Address - Dr. Geoffrey C. Fox
Northeast Parallel Architectures Center
10:00 Fluid Dynamics on Express: An Evaluation of a Topology-independent
Parallel Programming Environment
Lon-rong Hu and G. S. Stiles
Department of Electrical Engineering
Utah State University
10:25 Topology-Independent Mapping for Transputer Networks
Mahendra Ramachandran, Manas Mandal, and Prasad Vishnubhotla
Department of Computer and Information Science
The Ohio State University
10:50 Break - Vendor/Research Exhibits
11:15 Evaluating Communication Overhead in Helios
Wouter Joosen
University of Leuven
11:40 Mapping Rings Onto Arbitrary Transputer Networks
Raju Karia and Alejandro Teruel
Departamento de Computacion
Universidad Simon Bolivar
Caracus, Venezuela
12:00 Lunch
(Thursday Afternoon)
1:15 Tmon: A Real-Time Performance Monitor for Transputer-based
Parallel Systems
J. Jiang, A. Wagner and S. Chanson
Department of Computer Science
The University of British Columbia
1:40 A Distributed Algorithm for the 3D Compressible Navier-Stokes Equations
Kwan-Liu Ma and Kris Sikorski
Department of Computer Science
University of Utah
2:05 Real-Time Preprocessing Of Multiple Images Using An Unconventional
Pipeline Approach
Hamid R. Arabnia
Department of Computer Science
The University of Georgia
2:30 TransLogic : A transputer based brute force digital logic simulator
G J Porter, B M Hutson and S N Lonsdale
Department of Electrical Engineering
University of Bradford
2:55 Break
3:25 A generalized FFT algorithm on transputers
Herman Roebbers
University of Twente
Peter Welch
University of Kent at Canterbury
Klaas Wijbrans
Van Rietschoten & Houwens
3:50 Finite Element Analysis on a Transputer System
William T. Carter, Jr.
GE CRD
4:15 An Application of Transputers to a Metal Milling Machine
James C. Irrer
Control-O-Mation Inc.
Friday October 12
8:00am Transputers at Work: Real-Time Distributed Robot Control
Louis L. Whitcomb
Yale Robotics Laboratory
Department of Electrical Engineering
8:25 Interrupt Driven Transputer File Server
R.M.H. Cheng, S.C.L. Poon, Ramesh Rajagopalan
Center for Industrial Control
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Concordia University
8:50 A Parallel Implementation of Robot Control Equations on
IMS T414 Transputers
Ruiguang Zhang, Eduardo B. Fernandez, and Jie Wu
Department of Computer Engineering
Florida Atlantic University
9:15 Software Controlled Shared Virtual Memory Management on a
Transputer Based Multiprocessor
Sanjay Raina
Dept. of Computer Science
University of Bristol
9:40 A Dataflow Implementation of Functional Language FP on Transputers
L. Yang and L. Jin
Department of Computer Science
California State University -- Fresno
10:05 Vendor/Research Exhibit Break
10:35 A Parallel Genetic Algorithm for the Graph Partitioning Problem
Gregor von Laszewski
Gesellschaft fuer Mathematik und Datenverarbeitung
11:00 Static vs. Dynamic Scheduling in Cellular Automaton
M.S. Laghari and F. Deravi
Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering
University College of Swansea
11:25 Parallel Radiosity Methods
Alan G. Chalmers and Derek J. Paddon
Department of Computer Science,
University of Bristol
11:40 Implementation of the Dynamic Time Warping Algorithm for
Speech Recognition on a Transputer Network
Varma R. Manthena and John A. Board, Jr.
Center for Computer Systems Research
Department of Electrical Engineering
Duke University
12:05 Lunch
(Friday Afternoon)
1:15 Real-Time Turbine Engine Data Visualization
Theodore Bapty, Ben Abbott, and Janos Sztipanovits
Department of Electrical Engineering
Vanderbilt University
1:40 Interactive Dose Calculation for 3-D Radiation Treatment Planning
Fred U. Rosenberger and John W. Matthews
Washington University
Institute for Biomedical Computing
2:05 Vendor/Research Exhibit Break
2:30 Transputer Performance in Digital Signal Processing Applications
G. M Guisewite
HRB Systems
2:55 Topological Network of Vector Processors
Runping Qi and Ying Zhang
Department of Computer Science
University of British Columbia
3:20 Occam Configuration as a Task Assignment Problem
Howard E. Motteler
Dept. of Computer Science
University of Maryland, Baltimore County Campus
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proceedings, one continental breakfast, four meeting breaks, one
reception, and exhibit admission. Additional copies of proceedings
available for 20% off list price.)
Early: $150.00 (Postmarked by 5 September 90) Regular: $200.00
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