J.Wexler@edinburgh.ac.uk (06/23/89)
EDINBURGH CONCURRENT SUPERCOMPUTER SECOND ANNUAL SEMINAR Wednesday 27th September 1989 James Clerk Maxwell Building, The King's Buildings, University of Edinburgh General Information The Edinburgh Concurrent Supercomputer Project is based on a very large Meiko Computing Surface funded primarily by the Computer Board for the Universities and Research Councils, the Department of Trade and Industry, the Science and Engineering Research Council, and Industry. It provides multi-user access to an electronically configurable compute resource of some 400 T800 Transputers and 1.7Gbytes of memory, with five display systems, video input and distributed filestore. This offers a national facility for academic and research applications, and also supports an industrial affiliation scheme with currently some 18 members. The commissioning and development of the facility is a collaborative project between Meiko Limited and the University of Edinburgh. There are active user projects in many different disciplines. The project's own staff, as well as managing the facility, provide courses, documentation and user support, and are engaged in software development and acquisition and in-house research. The Project's second annual seminar provides an overview of the project, the hardware configurations and the software environment, and presents a selection of research projects in science, engineering and artificial intelligence from the expanding community of more than 200 users. It also offers demonstrations of the Meiko system and the AMT DAP, and software developed on them. The seminar is open to anyone with interests in the development and application of parallel computing. This seminar is sponsored by: The Scottish Development Agency DTI/SERC Transputer Initiative and co-sponsored by: The British Computer Society (Parallel Processing Specialist Group) The Institute of Physics (Computational Physics Group) Throughout this notice, please read "#" as "pounds sterling". Programme The first session begins at 09.30 with a status report on the project. The second morning session consists of a presentation by Meiko and a report on our summer scholarship programme. The afternoon sessions contain 12 brief reports of projects selected from the broad spectrum of activities in the large ECS user community. In parallel with the afternoon sessions, demonstrations will be provided on the ECS and AMT DAP systems in the James Clerk Maxwell Building. Lunch will be provided, and refreshments will be available throughout the meeting. 08.30 Registration, coffee and demonstrations 09.30 Edinburgh Concurrent Supercomputer Project status: Introduction: D.J. Wallace Service and utilisation: M.W. Brown Software environment: M. Davoren Project Manager's report: D.B. Mercer 10.45 Coffee 11.15 Meiko perspectives: N. Burnett and D. Roweth Summer scholarships report: G.V. Wilson 12.15 Lunch and demonstrations 14.00 ECS Project reports: Session Chairman, R.N. Ibbett Parallelising tools: D. Prior Topology-independent harnesses: L.J. Clarke D3 - Parallel graphics: M.G. Norman Machine-independent image processing language - APPLY: H. Wang (Leeds University) Linda - shared memory emulation: R. Trehan Communications performance in occam programs: Q. Luo 15.30 Tea 16.00 ECS Project reports (continued) A distributed black-board system for vision applications: M. Brown Neural net work: D.J. Wallace Chemical process simulation: J. Ponton Oil reservoir modelling: M. Baker Variational wave functions for high temperature superconductors: W. Yeung (Queen Mary College) Lattice field theory: K.C Bowler 17.30 Close Venue The seminar will be held in the James Clerk Maxwell Building, where the Supercomputer is housed, at the King's Buildings, the University's "science campus" in South Edinburgh. This is some 10 miles from Edinburgh Airport, and two and a half miles South of the city centre. Fees The seminar fee is unchanged from 1988 at #55.20, with a reduced rate of #34.50 for early booking (inclusive of VAT). This includes admission, lunch, refreshments, and a Directory describing system, utilities and application developments in the ECS project. Fees must be paid in Sterling, by cheque or banker's draft or credit card (Access/Eurocard/Mastercard/Visa can be accepted). If you are also coming to the Occam User Group technical meeting (see below), please make your payments separately for the two meetings. Their organisation and payment arrangements are different. Registration Please make your application in advance on the Registration Form. Payment of the seminar fee should accompany your application. Delegates should arrive between 08.30 and 09.30 on Wednesday 27th September for completion of registration at the James Clerk Maxwell Building, The King's Buildings, Mayfield Road. Arrival by Air/Train/Road Delegates arriving by air on early morning flights on 27th September are advised to take a taxi from Edinburgh Airport to the James Clerk Maxwell Building at the above address (approximately 10 miles). A taxi rank is also available within Waverley Station for travellers arriving by overnight sleeper. Parking near the James Clerk Maxwell Building is available on the King's Buildings site only for cars displaying permits: free one-day permits may be requested on the Registration Form. Transport will be provided to Edinburgh (Waverley) Station and Edinburgh Airport at 17.45. Accommodation Delegates who are also attending the 11th Technical Meeting of the Occam User Group (see below) can book accommodation for the night of 26th September through the Occam User Group. Others requiring accommodation on that night, and anyone needing accommodation for the night of the 27th, should contact the Seminar Secretariat at the address below. Other events The 11th Technical Meeting of the Occam User Group takes place immediately before the Seminar, on Monday and Tuesday 25/26th September, allowing delegates to combine both events in a single visit. The venue for the Occam User Group will be the University's Appleton Tower, with accommodation at the Pollock Halls, both sites being about two miles North of the King's Buildings and half a mile South of the city centre. Delegates may also wish to note that a course on Occam 2 and the Meiko Computing Surface will be held on September 20th-22nd; further information can be requested on the registration form. Industrial Affiliation The ECS facility is run and managed by Edinburgh University Computing Service, for academic and industrial users. An Industrial Affiliation Scheme has been established to foster collaboration with industry and to promote awareness and exploitation of the INMOS Transputer and the Meiko Computing Surface. This has attracted some #750K in commitment in 'cash-and-kind' to date. The Project's annual seminar forms part of a 2-day meeting organised for Industrial Affiliates. Members and Partners should complete and return the separate form which is being sent to them. Secretariat For further information, or additional copies of the programme, please contact Seminar Secretariat CEP Consultants Ltd 26-28 Albany Street Edinburgh EH1 3QH (Telephone 031-557 2478) ________________________________________________________________________________ EDINBURGH CONCURRENT SUPERCOMPUTER SECOND ANNUAL SEMINAR Wednesday 27th September 1989 James Clerk Maxwell Building, The King's Buildings, University of Edinburgh REGISTRATION FORM Please complete and return as soon as possible to: Seminar Secretariat, CEP Consultants Ltd, 26-28 Albany Street, Edinburgh EH1 3QH Name ................................................. Organisation/company .................................. Address ................................................. ................................................. ................................................. ................................................. Telephone ......................................... Registration fee By 1st September: #34.50 (including #4.50 VAT) After 1st September: #55.20 (including #7.20 VAT) Please enter amount here ............................ Cheques should be made payable to ECS Seminar (VAT registration number 271 7967 20) ACCESS/EUROCARD/MASTERCARD/VISA accepted Please indicate which you wish to use .............. Credit card number .................................. Expiry date ......................................... Address to which card account is sent ................................................. ................................................. ................................................. ................................................. Signed ................................................. Date ................................................. Parking permit required (please tick)........ Please send further information on the Occam User Group meeting (please tick)........ 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J.Wexler@edinburgh.ac.uk (08/30/89)
A reminder about the EDINBURGH CONCURRENT SUPERCOMPUTER SECOND ANNUAL SEMINAR Wednesday 27th September 1989 James Clerk Maxwell Building, The King's Buildings, University of Edinburgh which follows immediately after the 11th Technical Meeting of the Occam User Group, also in Edinburgh. This is an open seminar reporting the progress and results of the year's work in the Edinburgh Concurrent Supercomputer Project, with a selection of research projects in science, engineering and artificial intelligence from the expanding community of more than 200 users. It also offers demonstrations of the Meiko system and the AMT DAP, and software developed on them. * The opening session will be chaired by Dr Iann Baron. The day's guest * speaker, on "Concurrent supercomputing: international perspective", will be * Dr Paul Messina, Director of concurrent supercomputing facilities at Caltech. Full details were posted earlier to this newsgroup/bulletin board. If you missed that, please contact either of the addresses below. Programme: 08.30 Registration, coffee and demonstrations 09.30 Edinburgh Concurrent Supercomputer Project status: Session chairman, Iann Baron Introduction: D.J. Wallace Service and utilisation: M.W. Brown Software environment: M. Davoren Project Manager's report: D.B. Mercer 10.30 Coffee 11.00 Concurrent supercomputing - international perspective: Paul Messina Meiko perspectives: N. Burnett and D. Roweth Summer scholarships report: G.V. Wilson 12.30 Lunch and demonstrations 14.00 ECS Project reports: Session Chairman, R.N. Ibbett Parallelising tools: D. Prior Topology-independent harnesses: L.J. Clarke D3 - Parallel graphics: M.G. Norman Machine-independent image processing language - APPLY: H. Wang (Leeds University) Linda - shared memory emulation: R. Trehan Communications performance in occam programs: Q. Luo 15.30 Tea 16.00 ECS Project reports (continued) A distributed black-board system for vision applications: M. Brown Neural net work: D.J. Wallace Chemical process simulation: J. Ponton Oil reservoir modelling: M. Baker Variational wave functions for high temperature superconductors: W. Yeung (Queen Mary College) Lattice field theory: K.C Bowler 17.30 Close Cost: #34.50 for prompt booking Contacts for more information: John Wexler Edinburgh University Computing Service The King's Buildings Edinburgh EH9 3JZ Great Britain phone: +44 31 667 1081 ext 2635 / 031 667 1081 ext 2635 fax: +44 31 662 4712 / 031 662 4712 e-mail: J.Wexler@uk.ac.edinburgh (JANET) CEP Consultants Ltd 26-28 Albany Street Edinburgh EH1 3QH Great Britain phone: +44 31 557 2478 / 031 557 2478 fax: +44 31 557 5749 / 031 557 5749