jab@DUKEE.EGR.DUKE.EDU (John A. Board) (09/14/89)
Following is the Tentative Program for the upcoming Second Meeting of
the North American Transputer Users' Group. This schedule is still subject
to change but should give a good indiction of the high quality and diversity
of the papers submitted. NATUG 2 registration information will follow in
a subsequent posting.
[NOTE TO AUTHORS: ANYONE SURPRISED TO EITHER SEE OR NOT SEE THEIR PAPER ON
THE PROGRAM SHOULD CONTACT ME IMMEDIATELY! - jab]
-- John Board - Duke University - NATUG 2 Chair - jab@dukee.egr.duke.edu
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NATUG 2 - Sheraton University Center - Durham, NC - October 18-19, 1989
Tentative Program
Wednesday 10/18/89:
?? - 8:45 : registration
8:45 - 9:00: opening remarks, etc.
9:00 - 10:00: First session (2 talks)
9:00 - 9:30: T. Bowen, D. Deluca, G. Herman, K.C. Lee, and
W.H. Mansfield (Bellcore) ``A High Performance Distributed
Database Using Transputers''
9:30 - 10:00: Dennis G. Shea et al. (IBM Yorktown) ``Applications of
Project VICTOR''
10:00 - 10:30: Break
10:30 - 12:00: Second session - Performance Evaluation (3)
10:30 - 11:00: N.M. Ho, S.W. Lau, and F.C.M. Lau (Univ. of Hong Kong)
``Efficient Tools for Transputer Performance Monitoring''
11:00 - 11:30: R.J. Duckworth and A.R. Michaud (Worcester Polytechnic
Institute) ``Evaluating the Transputer using The Jigsaw Puzzle''
11:30 - 12:00: Steve Turner and Wentong Cai (Univ. of Exeter, UK)
``Highly Transparent Monitoring of Real-Time occam Programs''
12:00 - 1:15: Lunch, including INMOS Update
1:15 - 1:30: Housekeeping / Announcements
1:30 - 3:30: Third session - Hardware and Applications (4)
1:30 - 2:00: Hamid R. Arabnia (Univ. of Georgia) ``Computer Input
Device for Severely Disabled People''
2:00 - 2:30: Graham K. Ellis (Virginia Tech) ``Data Acquisition
and Control Using Transputers''
2:30 - 3:00: Howard E. Motteler (UMBC) ``occam and Dataflow''
3:00 - 3:30: Daniel C. Hyde (Bucknell Univ.) and Matthew Squire
(Swarthmore College) ``Describing Hypercube Architectures in Occam''
3:30 - 3:45: Break
3:45 - 5:25: Fourth session - Communications and Network Topoligies (4)
3:45 - 4:10: Peter Jones and Alan Murta (Univ. of Manchester UK)
``Run Time Reconfiguration for the Support of Inter Processor
Communications''
4:10 - 4:35: A. Clessas, A. Dostie, and S.B. Seidman (George Mason Univ.)
``Systolic Computing on Transputer Networks''
4:35 - 5:00: Martin Shumway (INMOS Colorado Springs) ``Deadlock-Free
Packet Networks''
5:00 - 5:25: Tom Hintz (Univ. of Technology, Sydney, Aust.), John Hulskamp
(Royal Melborne Inst. of Tech., Aust.), and Wayne Moore (Mitchell
College of Advanced Education) ``Remote Access to Parallel
Computer Systems''
5:30 - 6:15: Reception
6:15 : Dinner
9:00 : Software Forum
NATUG Committee Meeting
Thursday 10/19/89:
7:30 - 8:00: Continental Breakfast
8:00 - 10:00: Fifth session - Physical and Mathematical Applications (4)
8:00 - 8:25: Wayne W. Lang (Univ. of North Carolina at Asheville)
``Modeling of a Hopfield Neural Network VLSI Design by a
Small T800 Transputer Network''
8:25 - 8:50: John A. Board, Jr. and Jeff Lu (Duke Univ.) ``Performance
of Parallel Neural Network Simulations''
8:50 - 9:15: F.H. Lee and G. S. Stiles (Utah State Univ.) ``Parallel
Simulated Annealing: Several Approaches''
9:15 - 9:40: Rodney H. Cooper (Univ. of New Brunswick), Wayne
Patterson, and Terri Richard (Univ. of New Orleans) ``Using
Multiple-Radix Arithmetic for Fast Parallel Multiplication on
a Transputer System''
9:45 - 10:15: Break
10:15 - 12:15: Sixth session - Operating Systems and Environments (4)
10:15 - 10:45: Perry J. Busalacchi (Univ. of Minnesota) ``Linda on
a Transputer-based Personal Computer''
10:45 - 11:15: Ian Hyland and M.R. Moulding (Royal Military College
of Science, Cranfield Institute of Technology, UK) ``A Graphical
Design Environment for Transputer Systems Development''
11:15 - 11:45: Manas Mandal, Prasad Vishnubhotla, Kalluri Eswar, and
Chandrasekhar Gollamudi (Ohio State Univ.) ``ALPS on a Transputer
network: Kernel Support for Topology-Independent Programming''
11:45 - 12:15: Z. Xu, O. de Vel, G. Brown, I. Graham (Univ. of Waikato,
New Zealand) ``A Graph Tool for Parallel Programming in Occam''
12:15 - 1:30: Lunch
1:30 - 1:40: Housekeeping / Announcements
1:40 - 3:45: Seventh session - Software and Algorithms (5)
1:40 - 2:05: M. Cannataro, G. Spezzano, Domenico Talia (CRAI, Italy)
``The Development of a Multi-Transputer Implementation of the
AND/OR Process Model''
2:05 - 2:30: J.-M. Adamo (Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, France)
``Exception Handling in the C_NET Language''
2:30 - 2:55: Runping Qi and Alan Wagner (Univ. of British Columbia)
``Programming for Data Parallelism using C++''
2:55 - 3:20: Daniel C. Hyde and Kathleen R. Thornton (Bucknell
Univ.) ``Wavefront (Hyperplane) Algorithms for Transputers''
3:20 - 3:45: Judith O. Berkey and Pearl Y. Wang (George Mason Univ.)
``Transputer Implementation of Heuristic Algorithms for the
One-Dimensional Bin Packing Problem''
Poster Session:
Zhang Ying (Univ. of British Columbia) ``The Design and Implementation
of a Topological Programming Environment for Parallel C++ on Transputers''
O. de Vel, Z. Xu, I. Graham, G. Brown (Univ. of Waikato, New Zealand)
``The Waikato transputer multicomputer system''
Howard E. Motteler and Charles K. Nicholas (UMBC) ``Some Experiences
with occam 2 and the TDS Environment''
Janos Sztipanovits (Vanderbilt Univ.) ``A Graphical Programming Environment''
N.M. Ho, F.C.M. Lau (Univ. of Hong Kong) ``Experiments on ALT
and Its Variations''