STILES@CC.USU.EDU (Dyke Stiles) (04/12/90)
NORTH AMERICAN TRANSPUTER USERS FALL CONFERENCE
Sheraton Sunnyvale, CA
April 26 & 27, 1990
Organized by: Program and General Chair
Brian Raines, CIC, CMP Alan S. Wagner
Executive Meeting Management Dept. of Computer Science
P.O. Box 434 University of British Columbia
Camp Hill, PA 17001 E-Mail: Wagner@cs.ubc.cdn
(717)731-9295
(800)828-7494
Contributions from North America and around the World will discuss the latest
research and applications in transputers.
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A special session devoted to systems for topology and machine independent programming
will be held during the meeting.
Tentative Program
(First authors' affiliations shown)
April 26 - 27, 1989
Thursday, April 26
8:00 Introduction
8:15 TransAcq: real-time data acquisition and analysis system for
optical spectroscopy
Brad V. Duncan, Linda S. Powers, G.S. Stiles
Department of Electrical Engineering
Utah State University
8:40 The development of a visual telephone for the deaf: using
transputers for real-time image processing
Scott Galuska
Department of Computer and Information Science
University of Delaware
9:15 Using transputer in the design of high performance
architectures dedicated to the implementation of OSI
transport protocol
Christophe Diot and Michel Ng.X.Dang
LGI Laboratory, IMAG
Grenoble
9:40 TCP/IP Networking using transputers
Roger M.A. Peel
Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering
University of Surrey
10:05 - 10:30 Break; Poster Session set-up
10:30 Revised simplex method on a network of T800 transputers
J. Luo, F. Bruggeman and G.L. Reijns
Faculty of Electrical Engineering
Delft University
10:55 Transputer implementation of the EM algorithm for PET image
reconstruction.
Fred U. Rosenberger, Gerald C. Johns, David G. Politte, and
Charles E. Molnar
Institute for Biomedical Computing
Washington University
11:20 The fast multipole algorithm on transputer networks
John A. Board, Jr. and James F. Leathrum, Jr.
Department of Electrical Engineering
Duke University
11:45 A parallel-processing subsystem for the generation of 3-D
cardiac images from CT
Scott R. Cannon and Stephen J. Allan
Department of Computer Science
Utah State University
12:10 - 1:30 Lunch; Short commercial and non-commercial
announcements
1:30 Molecular dynamics simulations on a systolic ring of
transputers
K. Boehncke, H. Heller, H. Grubmller, and K. Schulten
Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
University of Illinois
1:55 Simulation of self-organizing neural nets: a comparison
between a transputer ring and a connection machine CM-2
K. Obermayer, H. Heller, H. Ritter, and K. Schulten
Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
University of Illinois
2:20 Parallelizing using process-and-data-decomposition (PADD)
approach on a multi-ring transputer network-- an example
Hamid R. Arabnia and Mary R. Robinson
Department of Computer Science
University of Georgia
2:45 Hardware voting of transputers in real-time nMR
fault-tolerant systems
J. Standeven and M.J. Colley
Department of Computer Science
University of Essex
3:10 - 3:35 Break; Poster Session
3:35 A real-time task scheduling scheme for loosely coupled
systems
Ghasem S. Alijani and Shyn-Chang Su
Computer Science Department
University of Wyoming
4:00 Transputer-based multi robot simulation
Hubertus Franke, D. Shea, and L.C. Zai
Department of Electrical Engineering
Vanderbilt University
4:25 Partitioned, replicative neural networks for cooperative
robot systems
Martin J. Dudziak
Inmos Corporation
4:50 The H1
Tony Gore
Inmos Corporation
6:30 Reception
7:15 Conference Dinner
9:00 Steering Committee Meeting (All Welcome)
Friday, April 27
Special Session on topology Independent Programming Systems
7:50 Introduction
8:00 Alps
Prasad Vishnubhotla
Ohio State
8:25 Express/Cubix
Adam Kolawa
Parasoft
8:50 Helios
Jason Cockroft
MIMD Systems
9:15 Linda
Wm Leler
Formerly with Cogent
9:40 PAR.C
Jan Graat
Parsec
10:05 - 10:30 Break; Poster Session
10:30 Strand
John Florentin
Birkbeck College
10:55 transIDRIS
Paul King
Real Time Systems
11:20 Trollius
Dave Fielding
Cornell
11:45 Panel Discussion
12:15 - 1:45 Lunch; Short commercial and non-commercial
announcements
1:45 Multigraph for the transputer
Ben Abbott, Csaba Biegl, and Janos Sztipanovits
Department of Electrical Engineering
Vanderbilt University
2:10 Graphical visualization of distributed algorithms
Oliver Vornberger and Klaus Zeppenfeld
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
University of Osnabrck
2:35 A visual programming system for the transputer
M. Roberts and P.M. Samwell
Centre for Information Engineering
City University, London
3:00 An efficient and flexible implementation of ALT
S.W. Lau and F.C.M. Lau
Department of Computer Science
University of Hong Kong
3:25 - 3:50 Break; Poster Session wrap-up
3:50 A dynamic distributed system using remote procedure calls in
a message passing system
Tom Hintz and Mark Phillips
University of Technology
Sydney, Australia
4:15 A virtual architecture for investigating dynamic load
balancing on transputer networks
I.A. Horton and S.J. Turner
Department of Computer Science
University of Exeter
4:40 Mapping search graphs onto arbitrary transputer networks (or
making PROLOG parallel)
Douglas Eadline
Paralogic, Inc.
Poster Session:
The Poster Session will be held in the same area as the
breaks and vendor displays. Authors are requested to be near
their posters during the Thursday afternoon and Friday
morning breaks.
On the performance of ALT in Occam
K.M. Shea and F.C.M. Lau
Department of Computer Science
University of Hong Kong
A transputer-based motion detection/tracking algorithm
Andrew P. Bernat and James Rupel
Department of Computer Science
University of Texas at El Paso
Transputer fault-tolerant processor
Jorge L. Ortiz, Willie L. McCoy, and Michael M. Thomas
Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
University of Puerto Rico
Applications of transputer interface to DSP vector processor
Richard L. Tutwiler
Pennsylvania State University
Object oriented modeling for sensor-guided real-time robot control
Ying Zhang
Department of Computer Science
University of British Columbia
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