J.Wexler@edinburgh.ac.uk (06/23/89)
OCCAM USER GROUP 11TH TECHNICAL MEETING Monday/Tuesday 25-26th September 1989 Appleton Tower, University of Edinburgh General information The OCCAM User Group invites all those interested in concurrent systems using Transputers to attend its 11th Technical Meeting at the University of Edinburgh. The meeting includes lectures, an exhibition, a panel session with key speakers, and meetings of the Special Interest Groups. This is an international forum for current research and developments in concurrent computing and in particular the exploitation of Occam and Transputers. It is the eleventh in a series of biannual meetings organised by the Occam User Group as a focus for interest and discussion on concurrent computing. Non-members of the Occam User Group are welcome at its technical meetings. Membership of the group is open to anyone with interests in the development and application of parallel computing, and its current international membership numbers over 2000, including many of the most active researchers and industrial users in the area. Throughout this notice, please read "#" as "pounds sterling". Programme The meeting will begin on Monday 25th September at 09.00, and the final session - Special Interest Group meetings - will end at 18.30 on Tuesday 26th September. The meeting will also include a panel session with key speakers. Other sessions will include a presentation of Inmos' latest plans for new products and developments, and a session of short announcements. Papers to be presented will include, among many others: Dynamicity through occam and TDS D.Millot, J.Vautherin (Laboratoire de Recherche en Informatique, Universite Paris-Sud) TROS: A real time kernel for a fault-tolerant multiprocessor computer based on argument flow Eric Verhulst, R.Lauwereins, R.Cuyvers, J.Peperstraete (Intelligent Systems International, Belgium) ICR: Intelligent character reader Koh Liang Seng, Francis Wong, Fut Suan (National University of Singapore) Simulating neural networks in distributed environments Jukka Vanhala and Kimmo Kaski (Tampere University of Technology, Finland) Solving partial differential equations via cellular automata: a binary and statistical approach F.Desbois, A.Cosnuau, Y.Morchoisne (ONERA Centre de Calcul, France) Investigation of communication patterns in occam programs Rosemary Candlin, Qiangyi Luo, Neil Skilling (University of Edinburgh) A generally configurable multigrid implementation for Transputer networks Osama El-Giar and Tim Hopkins (University of Kent) Attribute evaluation on a network of transputers Matthijs F.Kuiper, Atze Dijkstra (University of Utrecht) A comparison of parallel implementations of flux corrected transport codes J.M.Jong and G.S.Stiles (Utah State University) Real-time transputer models of low-level primate vision Andrew B.Smith and Peter H.Welch (University of Kent) There will be an exhibition of commercial Transputer-related products at the same venue. The conference dinner will take place on Monday 25th September. Venue The meeting will take place in the Appleton Tower of the University of Edinburgh, George Square, in the University area of central Edinburgh. This is some 10 miles from Edinburgh Airport, and half a mile South of Waverley railway station. Registration Please make your application in advance on the Registration Form, and send it to the meeting secretariat at CEP Consultants Ltd, together with your remittance. Payment of all fees, in sterling, must accompany your registration. The number of places at this meeting is limited to 250, and places will be allocated in order of receipt of the booking form. You are particularly requested to complete a separate booking form for each delegate: please make extra copies of the blank form if necessary. Multiple bookings on a single form are very difficult for us to process correctly. Fees The conference fee of #50 includes admission to all sessions, one copy of the published proceedings, the conference dinner, and tea and coffee during intervals. Accommodation, lunches, and parking are all charged separately so that you can take only those options which you need. Those who prefer to make their own arrangements have the choice of Edinburgh's many hotels, restaurants and pubs, several of them close to the Appleton Tower. Bed, breakfast and evening meal cost #23.60 per night; bed and breakfast without an evening meal cost #18.00. Lunch will be provided on both days for a combined charge of #10.70. The parking fee for two days at the Appleton Tower will be #2.30. These prices are not subject to VAT. Payment Registrations can only be accepted if accompanied by payment in full, in Sterling. Payments may be by banker's draft, cheque (drawn on a UK bank), or credit transfer. Credit cards cannot be accepted. Cheques should be payable to Occam User Group 11th Meeting and transfers should be directed to Bank number 83-19-18 Account number 233810 For credit transfers, please ensure that your payment is accompanied by adequate identification so that we can associate it with your registration request. For international transfers, we ask you also to cover any charges made by the sending bank. No refunds can be made for cancellation or any other reason. If you are also coming to the Edinburgh Concurrent Supercomputer Seminar (see below), please make your payments separately for the two meetings. Their organisation and payment arrangements are different. Accommodation This will be in the University's Pollock Halls, a student residence close to the Queen's Park and Arthur's Seat, about a mile South of the city centre and half a mile from the Appleton Tower. Rooms will be available for the nights of the 23rd, 24th, 25th and 26th of September. Each night is bookable separately, so that you can take accommodation to suit your own travel plans, or you can make your own booking in one of Edinburgh's many hotels. No Occam User Group events are planned for the weekend 23rd/24th September, so delegates who arrive early can enjoy Saturday and Sunday exploring the City of Edinburgh. For each night you have the choice of bed and breakfast with evening meal or (for those who would like to sample Edinburgh's wide range of restaurants) without evening meal. On the 25th, when the conference dinner will take place (included in the conference fee), no other evening meal is offered. Meals Breakfast is included in the charge for overnight accommodation at the Pollock Halls; evening meals are optionally included also. The conference dinner, on Monday 25th, is included in the basic conference fee, as are tea and coffee between sessions. A single charge covers lunches, if required, on both 25th and 26th. No lunch is provided on 23rd or 24th. Parking A single charge covers parking at the Appleton Tower on both the 25th and 26th. N.B. Parking at the Pollock Halls is free, but space is limited. Parking elsewhere is severely restricted. Other events The 2nd Annual Seminar of the Edinburgh Concurrent Supercomputer Project takes place immediately after the meeting, on Wednesday 27th September, allowing delegates to combine both events in a single visit. The venue for the seminar will be the James Clerk Maxwell Building at the King's Buildings, the University's science campus, about two miles South of the Appleton Tower and 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. Secretariat For further information, or additional copies of the programme, please contact the conference secretariat: CEP Consultants Ltd 26-28 Albany Street Edinburgh EH1 3QH (Telephone: 031-557 2478) (Fax: 031-557 5749) The meeting organiser is John Wexler Edinburgh University Computing Service James Clerk Maxwell Building The King's Buildings Mayfield Road Edinburgh EH9 3JZ (Telephone: 031-667 1081 ext. 2635) (Fax: 031-662 4712) (E-mail: J.Wexler@uk.ac.edinburgh) ________________________________________________________________________________ OCCAM USER GROUP 11TH TECHNICAL MEETING Monday/Tuesday 25-26th September 1989 Appleton Tower, University of Edinburgh REGISTRATION FORM Please complete and return as soon as possible to: CEP Consultants Ltd, 26-28 Albany Street, Edinburgh EH1 3QH Name ................................................. Organisation/company .................................. Address ................................................. ................................................. ................................................. ................................................. Telephone ......................................... E-mail ......................................... Fax ......................................... Meeting fee: #50.00 Please circle the items which you require, for the days when you require them: Accommodation: Saturday 23 Sept dinner, bed and breakfast #23.60 bed and breakfast only #18.00 Sunday 24 dinner, bed and breakfast #23.60 bed and breakfast only #18.00 Monday 25 bed and breakfast only #18.00 Tuesday 26 dinner, bed and breakfast #23.60 bed and breakfast only #18.00 Lunches #10.70 Parking #2.30 TOTAL .......... Payment method: please indicate one of - Bank transfer to Occam User Group 11th Meeting Royal Bank of Scotland (52, Minto Street, Edinburgh) Bank number 83-19-18 Account number 233810 or a banker's draft, in sterling, or a cheque, drawn on a UK bank. For a bank transfer, please give enough information for us to identify your payment: No refunds can be made for cancellation or any other reason. Do you have any special dietary needs? YES / NO If so, please specify here: I will be travelling by AIR / TRAIN / CAR Please send information about membership of the Occam User Group (please tick)........ Please send further information on the Edinburgh Concurrent Supercomputer Seminar (please tick)........ Please send further information about the Occam course (please tick)........ Signed ................................................. Date .................................................
J.Wexler@edinburgh.ac.uk (08/29/89)
Occam User Group 11th Technical Meeting Edinburgh, Monday/Tuesday 25&26 September 1989 See below for (1) the full PROGRAMME (2) contacts for registration and further information (3) a list of exhibitors at the exhibition accompanying the meeting. ________________________________________________________________________________ PROGRAMME Monday September 25th 0830-0915 Registration 0915-0945 Opening session 0945-1015 TROS: A real time kernel for a fault-tolerant multi-processor computer based on argument flow Eric Verhulst, R.Lauwereins, R.Cuyvers, J.Peperstraete (Intelligent Systems International, Belgium) 1015-1045 Dynamicity through occam and TDS D.Millot, J.Vautherin (Universite Paris-Sud, France) 1045-1115 Coffee 1115-1145 Announcements/commercials 1145-1215 A CASE tool for designing deadlock-free OCCAM programs W.D. Crowe, R. Hasson, P.E.D. Strain-Clark (The Open University, UK) 1215-1245 A Deadlock Detection Tool for Occam Ir. Wouter Joosen (University of Leuven, Belgium) 1245-1400 Lunch 1400-1430 Solving partial differential equations via cellular automata: a binary and statistical approach F.Desbois, A.Cosnuau, Y.Morchoisne (ONERA Centre de Calcul, France) 1430-1500 Towards a software architecture for solid modelling systems on processor networks D.P.Mallon, N.S.Holliman, P.M.Dew, J.R.Davy and A.de Pennington (University of Leeds, UK) 1500-1530 ICR: Intelligent character reader Koh Liang Seng, Francis Wong, Fut Suan (National University of Singapore) 1530-1600 Coffee 1600-1630 An Irregular Distributed Simulation Problem with a Dynamic Logical Process Structure Ming Q. Xu, Stephen J. Turner, Nie Pin (University of Exeter, UK) 1630-1700 A generally configurable multigrid implementation for Transputer networks Osama El-Giar and Tim Hopkins (University of Kent, UK) 1700-1800 Panel session/forum discussion 1930 Conference dinner Tuesday September 26th 0900-0930 Self-adjusting Mapping: A Heuristic Mapping Algorithm for Mapping Parallel Programs onto Transputer Networks Hong Shen and Ralph-Johan Back (Abo Akademi University, Finland) 0930-1000 Investigation of communication patterns in occam programs Rosemary Candlin, Qiangyi Luo, Neil Skilling (University of Edinburgh, UK) 1000-1030 System configurations for very large database problems Alan G.Chalmers, Derek J.Paddon (University of Bristol, UK) 1030-1100 Coffee 1100-1130 A comparison of parallel implementations of flux corrected transport codes J.M.Jong and G.S.Stiles (Utah State University, USA) 1130-1200 Simulating neural networks in distributed environments Jukka Vanhala and Kimmo Kaski (Tampere University of Technology, Finland) 1200-1230 Inmos presentations 1230-1400 Lunch 1400-1430 Attribute evaluation on a network of transputers Matthijs F.Kuiper, Atze Dijkstra (University of Utrecht, Netherlands) 1430-1500 An object-oriented style for the Meiko Matthew Chalmers (University of East Anglia, UK) 1500-1530 C_NET A C++ based language for distributed and real-time programming Jean-Marc Adamo (Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, France) 1530-1600 Coffee 1600-1630 Real-time transputer models of low-level primate vision Andrew B.Smith and Peter H.Welch (The University of Kent, UK) 1630-1700 Closing session 1700-1900 Special Interest Group meetings ________________________________________________________________________________ BOOKING: Details of this EXCITING and IMPORTANT meeting have already appeared on this bulletinboard/newsgroup, but the essential facts are - basic cost (including proceedings and the conference dinner, but excluding other meals and accommodation) is a mere FIFTY POUNDS. There are places still available, but the capacity of the meeting is limited to 250. Contacts for further information and registration are: 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 ________________________________________________________________________________ EXHIBITION The meeting will, as usual, be associated with a small exhibition at which you will be able to see - 3L Apollo Caplin Cybernetics Deductive Systems Gemini Hewlett-Packard Inmos Meiko National Engineering Laboratory Parsys Parsytec Perihelion Quintek Sension Strand Technologies T2 Systems Transtech U-micro among others