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)
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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
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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.
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If so, please specify here:
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Please send information about membership of
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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.
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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
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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
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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