STILES@cc.usu.edu (Dyke Stiles) (03/07/90)
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.
Those using transputers and similar parallel processing systems
realize that developing programs to run on specific topologies can
be a tedious and time-consuming chore. The problem is greatly
magnified when the user must be able to adapt to changing
topologies or to completely different machines. We have all been
waiting for the day when program development becomes independent
of the specific details of the hardware.
Several research organizations and software firms have been
working to develop packages to ease the task of developing
programs for a variety of parallel processing platforms. Some of
these are now on the market. NATUG has invited representatives
to discuss nine of these projects at the Spring meeting. Those
appearing, and their topics, include:
Prasad Vishnubhotla, Ohio State: Alps
Adam Kolawa, Parasoft: Express/Cubix
Jim Engle, MIMD System: Helios
Wm Leler, ex-Cogent: Linda
Jan Graat, Parsec: PAR.C
John Florentin, Birkbeck College Strand
Paul King, Real Time Systems: transIDRIS
Dave Fielding, Cornell: Trollius
The Spring NATUG meeting will provide an excellent opportunity
for old and new users to become acquainted with the latest tools
for developing parallel programs.
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Tentative Program
(First authors' affiliations shown)
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
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
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
TCP/IP Networking using transputers
Roger M.A. Peel
Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering
University of Surrey
Revised simplex method on a network of T800 transputers
J. Luo, F. Bruggeman and G.L. Reijns
Faculty of Electrical Engineering
Delft University
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
The fast multipole algorithm on transputer networks
John A. Board, Jr. and James F. Leathrum, Jr.
Department of Electrical Engineering
Duke University
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
Molecular dynamics simulations on a systolic ring of transputers
K. Boehncke, H. Heller, H. Grubmuller, and K. Schulten
Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
University of Illinois
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
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
Hardware voting of transputers in real-time nMR fault-tolerant
systems
J. Standeven and M.J. Colley
Department of Computer Science
University of Essex
A real-time task scheduling scheme for loosely coupled systems
Ghasem S. Alijani and Shyn-Chang Su
Computer Science Department
University of Wyoming
Transputer-based multi robot simulation
Hubertus Franke, D. Shea, and L.C. Zai
Department of Electrical Engineering
Vanderbilt University
Partitioned, replicative neural networks for cooperative robot
systems
Martin J. Dudziak
Inmos Corporation
Multigraph for the transputer
Ben Abbott, Csaba Biegl, and Janos Sztipanovits
Department of Electrical Engineering
Vanderbilt University
Graphical visualization of distributed algorithms
Oliver Vornberger and Klaus Zeppenfeld
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
University of Osnabruck
A visual programming system for the transputer
M. Roberts and P.M. Samwell
Centre for Information Engineering
City University, London
An efficient and flexible implementation of ALT
S.W. Lau and F.C.M. Lau
Department of Computer Science
University of Hong Kong
A dynamic distributed system using remote procedure calls in a
message passing system
Tom Hintz and Mark Phillips
University of Technology
Sydney, Australia
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
Mapping search graphs onto arbitrary transputer networks (or making
PROLOG parallel)
Douglas Eadline
Paralogic, Inc.
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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